Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-23

[ four years.
 TIE House Committee on Invalid
 Pensions is considering the advisability
 ot recommending the appointment of a Pension Commission of eight persons | Co examine into the whole subject ot pensions aud report at the next session of Congress what new legislation IS desirable. The Washington National
 Tnbune says that this commission
 should not be created and gives its reasons as follows:
 l Its projectors may be actuated by the | best of motives. but, like the Tariff Com ! misiou, 1t IS simply a device tO Obstruct ! and delay Congressional action. It's l effect will be to postpone all pension and bounty legislation for another year. ----------- .---.- ..-- And what do the advocates of this ! o0EGlIssiOu propose to accomplish by 1t | that cannot be accomplished as etfectual- | b by the pension committees them | selves: What is to hinder the latter | from making any inquiry that may be | necessary They can summon the Com missioner Of Pensions before them as | often as they choose. They can secure ! expert testimony just as readily as a | commission. All the sources of infOr- | nation as to the operation of existing | pension laws, and the probable effect ot those that have been proposed. are as | accessible to them Gs they would be Co | a commission. and tu get this InfOrma- | ton is, besides, their particular busl- ness. IT they are Iu doubt as to the | merits of the various pension bills that ' have been referred to them, the proper | thing Co 60 IS not to shIrk She | resp p1usiUhty of commenting or reject | ing these measures. but to take them | ID iu their order and definitely dispose | os them one way or the other. We can very well understand that ! mauv Seuat0rs and Representatives, in | view of the fact that an election for | President to be held next November, | wouIi be glad tO avoid tine necessity Os | go.u-on the record as for or against Ius- | tice co the sold CT, but, unless We greatly ! mistake the temper Of our veterans, ] they VII not be permitted t0 dodge the issue.
 ] The truth is that there has been too l much delay already In acting on She ! claims 0f 0ur eI soldiers, and now to ] turn over the whole subject of peuslon ! lecl=IEti u tO a commission would be the ' c-awuiug act of cowardlce and neglect | Our veterans should be prompt to ex- prse- their condemnation of this scheme, { for ur0n it's adoption or rejection may dspend the issue of their long and aTdu- ous struggle for their rights The question Of how much recompense | Gilbert and Sullivan will get from The ] American Use os their new play IS, says | tha New York Sun. curlousiy cOmplica- i f.J They should have sold the right i fo- s90n0 clear, f they c1uIi nave , ,,,--..rtesI Co the purchaser protectlon | ss.-.-.st rivalry: and thls could have been ' .-.,r,r7shst nr keeping the work m | ...---,.-i-f. in which form it could De | - f-- Tod from piracy. But that course
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