St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-08
The Friends of the Bonded Whis-
ky Extension Bill Fail to Sc
cure its Consideration.
General Pleasanton Stands Slim
Chance Of Getting ON the
Retired List.
An Effort to Broaden the Pension Laws so
as to Give Totally Disabled Soldiers
500 Month.
A Provision to Prevent Star Route
Frauds--Land Grant Forfeitures--
Pay for Carrying Mails.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

bills, and hence did not atteInpt'to get up
their bill. They will make the effort to-mor-
row, when it requires only a majority vote.
1t supervenes tonight that the committee on
appropriations have instructed Mr.. Town
shend, Of Illinois, to move the con-
sideration tomorrow of the postoftice
appropriation BILL which has been
reported to the house, and if this bill be an
tagonized with the whisky bill, the latter will
fail of precedence. Mr.. Townshead strongly
supported the whisky, measure and may
dodge the instructions Of the appropriation
ommittee, but Mr. Randall who opposes
present reduction of internal revenue unless
the whole system is abolished will doubtless
aid to secure consideration of the post office
appropriation bill.
The friends of the bill are aggressive men,
and having the full sympathy OF Speaker
Carlisle and very large money interests
among the constituents pressing for de-
cision upon the coveted favor, are likely TO
geta hearing before long. The modifca-
ton of the request of the whiskey men as
presented by Morrisons substitute for the
original bonded whiskey bill has improved
the prospects of the bill so that 1t now has
good fighting chance.
MORE DUBIOUS VOUCHERS.
Henry w. Burton, a life convict in the
Albany, q. " penitentiary, has written a
long communication to Mr.. Springer's
committee. He says in substance that when
arrested for mail robbery at Denver in 1881,
United States Marshal Wilcox took from his
(Burton's) person the sum Of $500 which
was never returned to him. Burton further
alleged that while travelling
from Omaha to Detroit, Wilcox de-
sired a passenger sitting near them to
assist him in case the prisoner attempted to
escape. AT the completion OF their journey
Wilcox offered the passenger So, which the
latter refused to accept, saying that he had
performed no service which would justify
him taking it. Thereupon Wilcox persuaded
the gentleman TO sign a blank voucher.
which Wilcox afterward filled out at leisure.
Mr.. Springer says that unless Wilcox
is radically different from other United
States marshals whose accounts have been
ox lmined by his committee, he charged the
government with the service of a guard at
81 day, mileage at 10 cents mile, meals
and other expenses. The letter viii be re-
ferred to the department of justice, and Will
cox's vouchers on that occasion will be sub
iected to a rigid analysis.
NOT FOR PLEAsANTON.
In one form or another there is continu-
ally repeated here the attempt to swell the
civil or military list. A week ago the votes
and debates in the house warranted the belief
that large majority would vote to place
Gen. Alfred Pleasanton on the
retired list as colonel and by this
means pension him at a heavy cost for the
remainder of his life, although he had volun-
tarily given up his commission in the regu-
lar army to engage in business. To-day the
house recommitted the Pleasanton bill with
out instructions, which will probably be the
end of it, for if the bill should be again
reported from the military committee
it would have to take place at
the foot of an already over-crowded calen-
dar. Somebody proposed to introduce and
pass at once bill to put in Pleasanton on
the pension roll with pension of 800 a
month, but the proposition was not entertain
ed. Pleasanton now holds clerkship in the
treasury department, where he was once
commissioner of internal revenue.
BROADENING THE PENSION LAWS.
The latest organized effort to broaden the
application of the pension laws comes from
Massachusetts,. A delegation of the Grand
Army of the Republic, headed by Major Nor
rill, of that state, is here to urge upon the
commissioner Of pensions and members of
congress certain amendments to the pension
laws. Probably the commissioner will join
their appeal, for he is now a
candidate for the Republican nomination for
governor of Indiana, and it is deemed pru
dent to tickle the soldier element when an
important election is near at hand They
ask that soldiers widows shall receive s12 a
month, and that the pension shall be allowed
even when the cause of death was not from
injuries sustained in military service They
ask that all totally disabled soldiers be paid
500 a month. The delegation are opposed
to the proposition to pay ex-soldiers the
difference between green backs and gold.
wRITS OF HA3EAs CORPUS.
The house judiciary committee has agreed
to recommend the passage of Judge BANDS
bill which provides that no person in custody
under process issued upon a final judgment
or sentence of state court Of general juris-
diction shall be released by writ of habeas
corpus by any United States judge.
LAND GRANT FoRFEITUREs
Representative Anderson, of Kansas, was
anxious to have the committee on public
lands recommend the forfeiture of the whole
of the land granted to the Atlantic & Pacific
Railroad company, but Representative Shaw,
of Illinois, Was the only member
who agreed with him. The committee
was unanimous in favor of Mr. Payson's
bill for the forfeiture of the 10000, 900 acres
that lie along the incomp!eted portion of the
road The committee intends to- move t.
passage one of their forfeiture bills next
week unless other public business crowds the
committee out.
Just before the senate adjourned tonight,
Mr.. Plumb. chairman of the public LANDS
committee, representing the majority of the
committee reported with amendments the
house bill to forfeit the Texas and Pacific
land grants. The bill as amended
simply iorfeits the land grant and
declares that the status of the granted
lands shall be the same as though the grant
ing act had never been passed, and provide
that the price of the land shall be the same
as that already fixed by law for the even
sections within its limits. The act for the
relief of settlers on this land, passed in 1875,
is repealed.
TO PREVENT STAR ROUTE FRAUDS.
The plan agreed upon by the house post
Office committee to prevent the recurrence Of
frauds in star route contracts was suggested
by facts brought out in the abortive sta1