Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-26


 lands of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad q
 cept the right of way adjacent to and e
 terminus with the uncompleted portion
 the road.
 The Senate took up the bill heretofore r.
 ported by MT. Sewell from the Committee 0
 Pensions to amend the pension laws by il
 creasing the pensions of soldiers and sailor
 who have lost an arm or leg in the service
 The bill gives $50 month to soldiers an
 sailors who lost one foot or one hand; $36 t | those who lost an arm above the elbow or leg above the knee; $45 month to those wh
 lost an arm at the shoulder joint or leg at tn
 hip joint MT. Sewell estimated that the bil l would increase the pension list by $1 ,694 | 792 "a year. An amendment offered by Mr l Miller extending the last provision to thos' l whose legs had been amputated so near th' 1 hip joint as to prevent wearing an artifcia | limb was agreed to and as amended the bil was passed.
 Private pension cases were then taken ur l for consideration, and during the debate Mr Ingalls, created a sensation by protesting 1 against Commissioner Black of the pension bureau enjoying a pension of $1O0 a month
 while he, as MT. Ingalls, contended, is en- gagged in impeding the granting of pensions to others just deserving. He declared that the pension was granted on false pre- tences and. he denounced General Black as 'that impostor," repeating the epithet seve-
 ral times and saying he fully appreciated the force and the effect of his words. He said
 that General Black conspicuous beneficiary
 of the pension system, was using all his pow
 CT and his influence to persuade the President
 to veto small pensions to deserving men.
 MT. Ingalls, asserted that General Black had slandered his predecessor. He added that one of the first acts of Commissioner Black was to stop the pension of a constituent of his named Robinson, who was totally blind from wounds, and that Secretary Lamar af- ter inquiry restored the pension.
 MT. Voorhees, defended General Black and read the report of the committee allowing the pension to show that he (Black) did not ask for $1OO month, but that sum was allowed as a recognition of his distinguished services. MT. Voorhees, said if it was any qualification to MT. Ingalls, to abuse and de- nounce crippled veteran, wreck of man, he might enjoy it.; that he (Voorhees) would not have those words on his tongue for any consideration.
 MT. Logan would not say that General Black was not entitled to the pension. He hoped, however, that the pension office would be administered in sympathy with wounded soldiers.
 MT. Cockrell defended the Committee on Pensions. He said the Senator from Kansas had gone out of his way to make personal onslaught on General Black and had tried to create the false impression that these claim ants who came to Congress for relief were persons whose claims had been rejected by the present commissioner.
 MT. Voorhees, said he had known General Black since he 8 boy of nineteen, when he broke away from college to go into the army. General Blacks military services had been exceptionally brilliant. He saw Gen eral Black when the pension was applied for and he did not conceive it possible for human being wounded as Black was to live. He then was wasted to a skeleton, bones had been cut from his arms and similar opera tion was threatened to his legs. MT. Voorhees had often left his side despairing of ever seeing him alive again. He (Voorhees) held himself responsible to an- swer for the justice and propreity of the pension anywhere and everywhere. It had not been obtained under false pretences. General Black was to-day performing his duties while open running wounds from bones were draining him of his strength. Those who know General Black best would hear with pain the remarks made by the Senator from Kansas-not that their opinion of General Black would be changed, but because a Senator used his position to thus speak of man who was helpless to strike back in his own person.
 MT. Ingalls, said he did not stand here to disparage the valor or courage of General Black, but merely asserted that that officer had received his present pension upon ale gations that did not exist to day. As to General Blacks wounds, he remarked that no pension could be too large for these wounds It was not of the largeness of the could be paid with s100 month for being torn by shot and shell. What MT. Ingalls, complained of was that having obtained that pension on those pre- texts "John Charles Black" should have sig nalized his advent into the place he now held by protest against the payment of smaller pensions to men who were as greatly 1icoIo h stood to-day cooperating with the President of the United States in vetoing little meas tres of relief at $S per month to private soldiers who could not secure sufficient evi- fence to establish their claims before the pension office He Qngalls) protested against John Charles Black enjoying 8 pension of s100 upon pretexts that did not exist, and It the same time using the efforts of his great office to prevent the payment of pensions l hat had been lawfully provided for. One of l 1is first official acts had been to suspend l payment of pension to citizen of Kansas, 1 who for nineteen years had not seen the l fight of the sun, nor the face of wife or ch id, l poor wretch doomed to perpetual dark nese l Lnd- isolation, whose pension in any | went was S2S month less that th at received l y John Charles Black, though MT. Black | ,ould write his name with his disabled hand. | ,o plain was the case however, that Secreta- V Lamar directed it to be paid in spite of
  ;alls in the name of the disabled soldiers of he republic protested against that impostor he repeated it with full knowledge of what he word meant-that impostor who was eceiving pension to which he vas not entitled by virtue of any disability nd who had used his position to slander nd revile his predecessor.
 MT. Voorhees, replied that it was we'll ,nown that MT. Ingalls, was at his best vhen extravagant, when confined by no lose or accurate lines. That Senator lad felt compelled to insist on his tatement as to General Blacks intellectual apacitv having been weakened when there vas no statement ever made to that effect lr. Voorhees in support of his statement lad the clerk read General Blacks applica- ion for a pension and the report of the senate committee. Abiding to General Blacks wounds MT. Voorhees, said that to his day these wounds had to be daily dress d by a physician. If the Senator from Kansas felt any pride in assaulting a man vho was suffering as General Black was let l hat Senator enjoy it, but it was totally and unjust.
 The urgent deficiency report was submit ed and on motion of MT. Allison agreed
 The bankruptcy bill was then taken up peaking against the bill and Mir. Hoar in it's avor.
 At 4:20 p. m the Senate went into execu- i've session and at 4:45 the doors reopened nd the Senate adjourned.
 HoUsE.--The Speaker announced the ap ointment of Messrs. Dingley, Dunn and lcMillan as conferees on the shipping bill.
 MT. Springer, of Illinois, from the Committee n Territories reported bill to enable the people of Dakota to form constitution and ;tate government; Committee of the Whole. Also reported adversely, Senate bills for the admission of the State of Dakota and for the organization of Lincoln territory; Committee f the Whole. MT. Baker, of New York, lied minority reports on both these | 
 Mr. Maybury of Michigan, from the Com nittee on Ways and Means, reported adverse y the bill to carry into effect the convention made between the United States and Mexi- 0, signed 20th of January, 1888; Commit ee of the Whole.
 MT. Hewitt, of New York, presented mi lority report.
 MT. Randall, of Pennsylvania, submitted the conference report on the urgent deficiency ,ill which was agreed to. I
 After a failure to agree upon the order of business for the remainder of the week, the