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And That the Money of the Plumed
Knight and His Special Cor
ruptiOnists Will be Of
No Avail.
The Independent Vote In New York Expected
to Reach 100,000-The Brook
lyn Contingent.
Both Parties Flooding Indiana With
Speakers and Pointed Cam
paign Literature.
"-ne and JacI;' JourneyinJ Through, Ohio
for LOre-Ciereiand at If6any-Hen-
dFiciS at Wheeling.
Who Are the soldiers Friencrse
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

WASHINGTON, ID. e., Oct. 4.-The Repu0-
lican leaders, when a political campaign is
waging, claim the benefit of all legislation
favorable to the soldier. It is an open secret
that at this time Ohio is swarming with
agents of the special examina alton division of
the pension bureau, whose duty it is TO bull
doze United States pensioners by declaring
that if the Democrats attain power no more
pensions will be granted. 1t is about time
soldiers of the late war should know who
their real friends are. An examination of
the records of congress shows that the
first bill providing arrearages of pen
sions was introduced December 9, 1874,
in the senate and referred to the committee
on pensions. This bill was reported back to
to the senate, with an adverse report, jan
uary 26, 1875. page 729 congressional Rec
ord, Forty-third congress.)i
Hon. d. D. Pratt, Republican senator
from Indiana, who was chairman of the COM
mittee on pensions, said: Il am instructed
by the committee to report adversely on SEN
ate bill 9S5, = x providing for the
payment of arrears of pensions. The com
mittee learned in correspondence with the
pension Office that it would require
upward of 100000 to meet
the acquisitions of this bill. For
economic reasons, as well as others. the COM
mittee think the bill should not be enter
tanned"
Senator Pratt moved the indefinite post
ponement of the bill, and the motion was
carried. The arrears of pension act was thus
efect,sdly killed for that congress by the RepWb-
iicae party.
The house of the Forty-fourth congress was
Democratic. Many petitions, memorials,
etc., were received from soldiers asking pay
ment of arrears Of pensions. These were
referred to the committee and
promptly and fayorably considered, and
the committee formulated bin to pay the
arrears and reported it to the house for pass
age, and Gen. A v Rice, of Ohio, Democrat
"a gallant Union soldier who had lost leg
in the service), moved to suspend the rules
and pass it. blouse bill No. 2,S03, Record
Forty-fourth congress, second session, page
1867
Gen. Rice said: "Its provisions are
eminently just and proper. No words
OF mine can appeal so strongly to the
business and propriety of this measure as
does the condition of those for whom this re-
lief is asked" Gen. Rice's motion pre-
vailed. The rules were suspended, and the
Z,
The senate was Republican by large ma
jority. Immediately upon the bill being
read Senator ingalls,, Republican from Kan
sas, moved that it lie on the table, and this
motion was agreed to, and thus the Demo-
cratic biz, to pay the soldiers arrearages of
pension pas killed by a Republican senate.
(See page 2, 16s, record. second session,
Forty fourth congressl, making the second
time the Republican senate defeated the
arrearages of pension acts.
The Democratic house of the
Forty-fifth congress again passed bill
to pay the arrears of pensions June 10, 1878.
The bill was not exactly in the form the
pension committee and Gen. Rice wanted it.
1t contained no appropriation to give it force
and effect, but, nevertheless, the Democratic
house, to save delay, passed it, and in few
| days thereafter Mr.. Sparks, Democratic,
from Illinois, reported bill to the house
from the committee on appropriations to pay
the arrearages. Of pensions, which was
passed. The amount appropriated
was tOemyJfyt millions Of dollars.
and is the act of March 3, 1879. The bill TO
pay the arreages of pensions passed the SEN
ate January 16, 1879. Among the Democrats
who voted for the bill were Senators Hill,
Butler, Macy, Cockrell, Harris, Gordon,
Thurman, Voorhees,, Herman, Wallace, Bar
mum, Dennis, Jones and Mcpherson. The
first six were officers in the confederate SER
vice.
- 1t will be seen that the Democratic house
promptly passed the appropriation to give
| life aud effect to the arrears of the pensions
act, though the amount involved was nearly
three times as great as the amount stated by
Senator Pratt in his report to the senate as
/ IN no re of no
bill, and which was the reason it was killed
| BY the Republican senate at that time. 1t
will thus be seen that soldiers are indebted
TO the Democratic party alone for the benefit
of the arrearages of pensions act, which
had been killed by Republicans during
the Forty-Third aad Forty-Fourth congresses.
The Republican congress of 1865 passed a
/ law June Of that year denying pensions to
those soldiers who held civil offices under
the United States since the war. May "a,
/ 1878, the Democratic house, on motion OF
| A. V. Rice, of Ohio, Z Democrat, passed a
bill. which became law, repeating he unjust
Republican lar Of 1865. The Democratic
house of the Forty-fourth congress passed a
| bill to equalize bounties March 30, 1876.
Gen. Banning, of Ohio, Democrat, said
in supporting the bill: It is left for this
! Democratic congress to redeem the promises
made by the other side Republican, which
have never been kept"
The bill passed the house and was tndstf-
nitely postponed ty Re ReraSb1ioan senate and
dte1s killed Record FortY-fourth congress,
| first session, page 5.439.)
The time for fling bounty claims was lin
tied TO January 80, 1875. The Democratic
house Of the Forty-fourth congress.
promptly passed bill Feb. 1876, extending
~. Il. - L
by that act from obtaining his just dues.
The house passed bill May %, 1878, in
creasing the pensions Of persons who had
lost arms below the elbow or legs below the
knee. This 5I died IN the Republican senate
for The pant Of Gction The Democratic house
OF the forty-fourth congress said s24 PEI
month was not enough for
soldiers who haG lost one leg or one
arm, so that the house passed bill giving
them $50 month"; This BIZ rent to The Rspss5-
licGa sa1dts and died 1teTs.
The Democratic house Of the Forthwith
congress, finding that only little over $50
per month Was paid soldiers who had lost
! both hands or both feet or the sight Of both
eyes, said II was not sufficient and passed a
bill increasing the pension to S72 per month.
The Republican senate tried TO amend II
against the interest Of the soldiers, but the
house insisted on the bill IS 1; was passed
and It became law.
The same Democratic house originated
and passed the bill MAJ "a, 1878, which i:
nov law. giving TO soldiers whose legs had
been amputatet at the hip joint $3.50 pei
| month
The house Of representatives Of the forty
seventh congress was RsDablioG4. Not ont
measure Of importance affecting the interes
Of Union soldiers or sailors became s Law
during that session.
The house of representatives Of the Forty
eighth congress Is DenOcTatie, and its inter
est in the soldier Is evidenced by its actions