Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-29

 State of Georgia on account of expenditures during the Revolutionary war.
 The Mexican veteran pension bill was talzSn up after routine business. Some dis oussion arose on the amendment of MT. Logan, which allows pensions to the widows of veterans who have not remarried, but strikes out the provision inserted by the Senate committee that proof of necessitous circumstances must be given by applicants. MT. Beck called attention to the fact that the bill with this amendment would pension the widows who married the veterans after the war. "I do not believe in that principle, 7" said the Kentucky Senator. s'The older men get the younger wives they get!
 "Does the Senator refer to the Mexican vsterans2" asked Mir. Logan.
 ''1 refer to general rule, :" was Mir. Beck's reply. s'Old men seem to prefer young women. I am afraid there are some Senators here who would follow that rule" Gaugh- ter.
 some older Senator than I am," laughingly replied MT. Logan.
 MT. Beck then branched of into a discus sion of the effects of the principle which pensions widows who have married subse- quent to the wars in which their husbands fouget. Such provision WAS equivalent to given bonus of $96 year to girls of 15 to marry the veterans
 After further talk more or less humorous on this point, MT. Logan withdrew his amendment and moved to disagree on the the bill as it came from the House.
 Mr. Jackson, who said he represented as many Mexican veterans as any Senator, de- tended the pauper clause amendment and de- clared that the principle of granting service pensions was unsound. The bill was much broader ia it's provisions than any Legislation enacted for the soldiers of the revolutionary m~,l I~n l. L ing placed on the footing of a revolutionary soldier. If the principles of the bill were followed out it would lead to national ruin and bankruptcy, since it would create g standing army of pensioners more costly than the vast standing armies of Europe. He was willing to exercise the utmost iberality toward disabled soldiers, but was strongly opposed to pensions for services.
 MT. Logan spoke in favor of pensions for patriotic service. q myself" he said, Task for no pension and I will not allow anyone to say any man served in that war with more zeal than did, although mere boy at the time, but am willing to vote pensions to those who served their country not. because they are mendicants, but because they were patriots when the country needed their assistance. Applause in the galleries) There are men in this Senate who scaled the eiddy heights of Mexico under a terrible fire. speak not for myself. I ana not one of them. Will any Senator tell me that they performed less of their duty be- cause they are in health to day than the men who have been disabled by disease since the Mexican warf When you make the distinc tion you pension them because they are men, dicants and not because they were patriots hope the pauper clause will be stricken o ut and the bill pass as it came frem the House. '"
 ''Whst would be the result" asked Mir McPherson, ''of applying the principle of pensioning for service to all the soldiers of the rebellion?"
 '.If this bilI," said Mir. Logan, docs not proceed upon the theory for service it pro- cseds upon no theory at all.
 "And the Senator is supporting it upon the principle of service1" suggested MT. MePher- son.
 1T am supporting it," replied MT. Logan, tsupon principles that have stated time and again. I never cross bridge until I come to it. When other questions come up am ready to meet them but do not propose to anticipate them.'
 'FUniversal prir rciples," said McPherson, 'tadmit of no change and it does not seem to me possible that the Senator would apply that principle to all soldiers of the late war do not wish an answer if ths Senator de- clines to give one. The answer he has given is hardly proper reply to the question:
 II say to the Senator" said Mir. Logan,
 
 my reply to the question. I meet questions as they come up and the Senator is not adroit or shrewd enough to force me into discuss- ing questions that are not before the Senate. Some men may be able to do that, but that Senator is not"
 The debate was continued by Messrs. h. gals, Morgan and Sherman.
 Mr. Ingalls, moved to lay the amendment of the committee on the table; carried, 42 to 20. Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Aldrich, Blair, Cali, Camden, Cam eron of Wisconsin, Conger, Dawes, Ed munds, George Hawley, Hoar, Jackson, Lamar, Mitchell Merrill, Pike, Plumb, Pugh, Saulebury and Van Wyck.
 MT. Hoar then moved to extend the pro- visions of the bill to the soldiers of the late war. This proposition, he said, was the log icsl result of the principles embodied in the bill
 MT. Logan said this motion was evidently intended to kill the bill.
 MT. Hoar admitted that such was it's inten- ton.
 MT. Van Wyck spoke in favor of placing the Union soldiers on the same footing with the Mexican veterans
 MT. Riddleberger moved to am end the amendment to include Confederate soldiers He did this, he explained, to give the Sena- tor from Nebraska chance to discuss the whole question.
 MT Van Wyek suggested that they should go little further and pension the Mexican soldiers who fought against the United States.
 At G:1O p. m. the Senate adjourned.
 HOUSE A resolution went through for printing four hundred thousand copies of the agricultural report of 1884. This is an in- crease of one hundred thousand over the usual number and the entire cost of printing and binding is estimated at $165, ,00O.
 ha ranruian hnur cad with, the House went into Committee of the Whole on the legislative appropriation bill The amount appropriated is $20, 736, ,876, being an increase of $88 19O over the appro- pfiation for the current year.
 MT. Thompson, of Kentucky, made 8 speech in favor of a consolidation of the in ternal revenue collection districts
 Mir. Randall, of Pennsylvania said the Appropriations committee were considering snch a clause in the sundry civil bill which if the House desired could be attached to this bill.
 At 2:30 general debate was closed and the bill was read by paragraphs. Without con- cluding consideration of items relating to the expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives the committee at o'clock determined to rise.
 Mir. Dibrell, of Tennessee from the con- ference committee on the agricultural appro- priation bill, submitted report which was adopted and the bill was passed, making the second general appropriation bill that, has passed both houses.
 At 5:10 p. n. the House took 8 recess until o'clock.
 At the evening session there was fine at. tack made upon the civil service system b1 Messrs. White of Kentucky, and Bland of Missouri. The latter declared the law a humbug and said it was passed by the Re- pubiicans after they had been condemned by the people for their pol tical assessment and to prevent the Democrats whom they saw coming into power, from obtaining office.
 MT. White read letter from MT. G. R. Mckee, ex-repressntative from Mississippi, charging that the revenue officers were run ming the politics of that State and control ling the conventions and asserting that ''the whole revenue system in that State is slimy and rotten,
 Messrs. Kasson of Iowa, Willis of Ken lucky, Jones of Wisconsin, Cannon of IlIi- nois and others defended the system and the vote against striking out the clause was al- most unanimous. The debate was kept up on each successive paragraph and only cut of by motion to rise and secure an order to close the debate.
 The paragraphs relating to the salaries of collectors and other officers of internal revenue were passed over. About fifty pages ont of the ninety-six in the bill were disposed -SL he olo