The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-19

The pension bill was then laid ne |
fore the Senate. The pending amend !
ment was that OF Ssna'or Blair 10 the |
amendms MT ot Sena'or Van Myek.
Senator Van Wyck's amendment Is to
add to the bill a pioyis) that no sol
der under the act should hereafter
receive less t1an s. month. The
amendment proposed by Senator Is 10
provide, instead, that no pension paid
here after under any law to any SOL
der should be rated at less than "a a
month.
Senator Mcpherson said the Senate
was not definitely informed as to the
amount the bill would take from the
Treasury. In order TO get some inior.
nation as TO the Approximate amount
he moved the bill be recommitted to
the Committee on Pensions.
Senator Blair taid 1t would take nom
$4,000, 900 TO $25 100000 year ss far
as he had been able to estim ate, but
undoubtedly the amount was not essiy
ascertainable. He regarded the ques-
ton, however, as like that OF a man
paving his debts. The debts ought to
bs paid whether they were large CT
email. He saw no special advantage
in recommittsl, ard opposed the mo-
ton. He mentioned having read in a
Pennsylvania paper the fact that
seventy. five old soldiers OF the Union
we're now in the pauper-house oil one
county in that stsJe. 80,
Senator Teller favored the bill.
Senator Voorhees, also favored the
bill. He would not be deferred
from following the inclination Of his
heart by calculation OF how much II
would cost. The wort evil that could
anliCt the community was the aceu'
mutation Of vast amount OF money
in a few hands. The dollar that did
good was the active, busy dollar,
whether the silver dollsr or Otherwise.
The moneys that had been paid by
the government in peDtions for sew
eral years past had had large inhu-
ence ia avoiding a great financial
panic. That money went not to the
pensioners alone, bu, circulated
through all the community. AS to
the sectional aspect OF the case, there
had never been more generous nor
magnauimous spectacle in the annals
of mankind than had been presented
by the people of the South % repre-
sented by their Senators and Repre-
sentaiives in Congress in year after
year voting PENSIONS for the victors
in the great conflict. The people
OF the North, ON the other hand,
had not been illiberal to the South.
Senator Voorhees, insanced in this re-
epect the appropriations for rivers and
hSTbors and the Blair education bill,
which he hoped would become law.
| He did not want to live to zee the day
when the eoldiers who, in the bloom
OF youth, bad marched TO the fife and
drum OF the Union, should be allowed
to pass their old age in poor-house
He wanted to see them taken care OF,
whether their disability bad come on
the one hand, from saber stroke or
cannon shot, on the field Of battle, or
on the other hand, from subsequent
disease or the decrepitude OF old age.
Senator Cullom thought it the duty
Of the government TO put on the PEN
sion roll all soldiers who were unable
to take care Of themselves, without Re
curing them TO prove that their disa.
bility was incurred in the service. II
some such hill "a this was not passed
we would find the old soldiers IN the
poor houses OF the country.
Senator ingalls, fald that notwith
standing the extravagsnt tulogy paid
10 the Democratic Senators by the
Senator from Indiana (SeBator Voor
hees), he had always noticed tina
whenever a proposition TO hbtralizi
pensions was made the Senators or
that eide OF the chamber always 30
out their slatea and pencils and begaI
figuring how much the proposition
would cost. They bad not been il
haste TO ask whether the proposition
was JUST there, we're On!
veteran eoldiers OF the republi
who we're liable to becom
Inmates OF the alms-house o
dependents On public charity. IL
, (Sena'or Ingalls, did not propose t
stop to count how much II would cos
: TO relieve them. II would be a nf
tional scandal and disgrace for nAtlo
J as opuent as this, with uncounte
l millionB lying idle in the Treasury, I
permit those who had served under II
! flag to become inn es of poor-house
A discussion then arose as to III
. precise meaning of certain provision
: Of the bill, but without acting on Ser
: ator McPheis)n's motion the Senat
went into executive 81 ssioD, and whe
the doors reOpened adjourned.
4 The House.
' Mr.. Harris [Ga l. from the Commi
d tee on Ways and Means, reported
a bill amending section 1878 of the II,
n vised Statutes so Us toreduce the pen
!. sum of the bonds of cigar manulaC
. turers to $3.50, with an additional s.
= for each person proposed to be en-
1t ployed by them in making cigar
Z. Committee OF the whole
l. Mr.. Sadler Ala, !, from the Commi
d tee on Territories, reported adversel
D. a bill TO regulate the manufacture an
d sale of intoxicating liquors in the TIE
m ritories. Laid on the table.
e Mr.. Hatch Mo, ], from the Commi
a tee on Agriculture, reported bill a
+ thoring the exhibition of specimens
Is California silk in the Capitol buildin
o. House calendar
n Mr., Blount [Ga |, from the Commi
Is tee on Postoflices and Postroads, I
Id ported back the postoilice appropri
v. ton bill, " tn Senate amendment
V. and it having been referred to u
IL committee of the whole, the Hou
ct went into committee for the purpo
OF of considering the G amendments.
70, Mr. Blount addressed his remarks
le that clause which is known as q
IL Subsidy" amendment and made
a argument in opposition to it. 7