Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-06-25

1t was agreed that the Senate meet at
10 o'clock the remainder of the session.
Consideration of the Mexican pension
bill was resumed.
Senator MaXey said1the intention of the
majority was to kill the bill by putting in
an amendment that would render it i'm
possible for the early friends OF the bill to
vote for it.
Senator Williams could not support the
bill, for as it now stood, it was an insult
to the old Mexican veterans. The bill
was now dead as door nail. Senator
Williams had supposed if brave and
honest man ever existed on the face OF
the earth, man not afraid of men or the
devil, it was the Senator from Illinois, Mr..
Logan, the candidate OF the Republican
party for the Vice Presidency of the re-
public. But even that Senator had shrunk
back and been driven from a sense OF duty.
"Oh," said Senator Williams, "shades of
Sumner, Morton, Stevens and other great
leaders of the Republican party in its
palmy days of its glory and power" The
Mexican soldiers, he said, must wait for
their pensions till the government should
come into the hands OF the Democrats. The
action on this bill was disgrace to the
nation.
Senator Wilson defended the amend
ments to the bill. The bill, as amended,
he said, gave us a complete system, but it
provided for Union soldiers as well as for
Mexican soldiers, and that is what we
want to have.
Senator Morgan said the present object,
OF course, was political one TO press the
Democrats to the wall, to attempt to prove
that they were opposed to pensioning
Union soldiers, while the fact was they
were not. He was satisfied it was the de-
llberate judgment OF the Northern people
that such pensions should be now paid.
In the course OF his remarks Senator Nor
gan said: Take the candidate for the
Presidency; e was a valiant talker in
the war, but he never went to the war: he
stald at home and accumulated his 81 ,000,-
600 and his substitute went to the war"
Senator Williams-No, he didn't. He
got furlough and remained at home.
Alter alluding to the bravery of the
soldiers on both sides in the late war.
Senator Morgan said: when YOU come
to speak OF that heroic man from Illinois
Senator Logan, who will stand second
on your ticket at the coming election, who
was an heroic man both in Mexico and in
the late war-when you speak about his
plume-not the white plume of Navarro,
but the red pompon of the soldier, dipped
in the blood of his adversary; when you
come to speak OF that in order that his
heroism may stand in its true colors, you
must draw in the background of the pic
ture the form of the Confederate soldier,
fighting valiautly for his cause, for if that
soldier had been unpatrio:ic, half hearted,
untrue-a man who had run from his flag,
John A. Logan's glory would have
been confined to his triumphs on
the battle fields of Mex co. We are
all Americans, Mr.. President. / am
proud OF the men that stood up against us
in the war and whatever o'her men that
did not go to the war may think of us,
these men are proud of us, too. There is
no difficulty in our fellowship, no diff
Guilty In our meeting face to face to debate
matters for the interests of the country"
At o'clock debate closed, and voting
upon the amendments then began.
An amendment was agreed to providing
that no person shall be entitled to more
than one pension at one time, under the
laws of the United States, unless that fact
be specially stated in the law.
The bill then passed-yeas, 81; nays,
%, as follows:
Yeas Allison, Blair, Bowen, Butler.
Cameron Pal Cameron Wis I, Con-
ger, Dawes, Dolph, Frye, George,
Hale, Harrison, Hill, ingalls,, Jones New. /,
I Lamar, Lapham, Logan, Mcmillan, Ma
: hone, Manderson, Miller Cal. l. Miller IN.
1 j. hitcneil, NORTH, faimer, IKE, fiatt,
Plumb, Ransom, Riddleberger. Sawyer,
Sewell, Sherman, Van Wyck and Wilson
81.
Nays.--Bayard, Beck, Brown, Call,
Cockrill, Coke, Colquitt, Edmunds, Fair,
Farley, Garland, Groome, Hampton, Haw
/ ley, Jackson, Jonas, Jones Fla. ], Maxey
Morgan. Pendleton, Pugh, Salisbury
Slater, Vance, Vest, Walker and Williams
81.
The following pairs were announced
Aldrich with German, Cullom with kenna