Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.

ment. At o'clock MT. McPherson not having conclude his remarks the matter went over and the psnsio ton being i the motion made by Mr McPhsrson e recomu1it the bill to the committee with irsLruG penses that would be incurred by it's passage MI Teller did not believe the government revenue demands of the present bill should it become law The motion to recommit was rejected; yeas 14 nsys ss Question then recprred on xr amend ment to MT. Van Wycks amendment Mir. Val 3yn a m adsr ae sba pension less than S8 month MT. Blair's amend ment fixed the minimum at S4 a month Mr Blail modified his amendment so as include sailors ant marines.
 Mr Logan gave noties that he would move y t; Mr, Beck took occasion to remark that the taxes pay these pensions fell heavsss o1 & ths Poor DO psop levied on large incomes for the support of thes'
 MT Blairs amendment was agreed to.
 MT Morgan then offered his amendment fxini the minimim pension hereafter payable under any
 Mr. Salisbury said the whole object of legisIa ton in these times seemed to be how we couIe hear nothing of this constantly incressed pen sIon legislation if the soldiers had no votes There seemed way to stop this class o legisaton except by providihg eGnstitgt,9na f votes, which MT. Salisbury would not favor, or tt provide that no man who had served in Congress should be eligible to the presidency of the United ed would stop these raids on the treasury. Ths country had provided should provide for all men wounded in the This bill for different purpose and went too far.
 MT Logan defended ths bill. He did not thinl the old Solders of the country should be treatsd il the manner implied by the remarks of the Senator from Delaware.
 were wounded in the war, but thought we should stop there. He would oppose service pension a
 Mir Logan's amendment was rejected; yeas. 20 nays a1.
 Van Wyck as amended by that of MT: Blair, MT Ingalls moved to lay on the the table. The motion was not agreed to. The amendment as amended
 Mr. Logan moved an amendment extending ths provisions of the bill so as to cover men who served three months which was agreed to by a viva voce
 Mr. Butler offered es an amendment provision To this MT Conger offered an amendment excluding persons under political disabilities. On motion ol Mir. Blair MT. Buffers amend ment was tabled.
 MT. Brown said that inasmuch the people oi the northern States had sent here Senators and representatives of both political parties who favor ed the passing of laws increasing the pensions he did not believe the people Of the South would ob ject it. It was to be supposed that if the people of the South had been in the Union at the time of the war and the army had been their army and the war had been with a foreign nation, the people of the South would have gone far in granting pen sions as had the people of the North He would ate the propriety and duty of pessing as soon as possible a Mexican pension bill and also bill to va. s, some of whom he said resided in Georgia Unless something were done for the Mexican sol diers Mr. Brown would have to withhold his assent from future pension bills.
 The bill was then brought to a vote and passed; yeas B. nayS A. follows:
 Yeas-Afdrich, Allison, Blair, Bowen, Brown, Gonger, cqaon. Frye, Z Gsorge' Gibson MEnL Hale Malone, Manderson, Miller, Mitchell loregon), Merrill. Payne, Plumb, Riddeberger, Sawyer, Sew thall s and Wilson, p 3Td sa A. "s'A' 00fne wa
 Nays..Beck, Berry, Blackburn. Call Gockrell, Morgan s saulsbnry, Vest and whittehorne,E14 9'''
 The bankrIptey M bill hax9g been placed before mt he mil tary academy bill. which was inst re- ported from the committee by MT. Logan. The Beck having been absent when the bill was con. sidered in scommittee and MT. German having for moment forgotten though he recolleetsd that m matter being referred 10 in the Senate urged with some spirit that the bill be reconmitted to which MT. Logan consented and the recommittal was
 The bankruptcy bill was again laid before the dieoerger to secure executive session, the Sem ate at TAO p. m adjourned.
 HoUsE-Mr Dibble, of South Carolina, reported joint resolution proposing constitutional amend ment creating and defining the office of second Vice President of the United States-calendar The House then went into Committee of the Whole on bill Messrs Miller of New York, Phelps of New Jersey, and Hiscock of New York argued in favor
 MT. Peters, of Kansas, said that in the last Con gress he had Vot d against proposition similar to ,s any thing ike a subsidy 1t was With difficulty that he had brought himself to review the question
 
 examination he convinced the cry of subsidy was unjust and put forwe-d in the interest of En- of sSe o his astre endorse and uphold the policy inaugurated crease the consuming power would free the pro ducts of soil from the control of the Liverpool trine that gave to the United States the American The time would come when Canada that by this kind oflegslation the time would come when the United States instead of Great Britain would control the trade of South America.
 Nr. Cookery. of Missouri, oppose l the amend ment because It was coereiEe Iegislationi because foreign postal service; because it held the per suasive idea of competition when in fact there was Would operate as hind-anc, to the restoration of American commerce: because it was positive vio- it was gift of the public money to private corporations, the larger part of which offi cered, owned and controlled by such Jay Gould, Russell Sage and Sidney Dillon He called strict the transportation of her mails to English vessels but placed many of them upon the ships of the North German Lloyd GO company g a, He comment @ ing the amendment in violation of it's own rules Was not, he asked, the amendment strong enough to commend itself to Congress and the country without having behind it the pressure and the pow CT of an appropriation bills The proposition came here from the Senate it's smaller twin brother had ome from the Senate last year. Glad he would be to go home to the free air of grand old w in good repair-strongly as he desired hail the hour that should witness the close of this session, he willing to stay until the snows of winter should mantle the heights of Arlington before he would be coerced into accepting legislation of this kind. Applause on the Democratic side.
 Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, spoke in support of the amendment and denied that there was any thing coercive in it or that there was any subsidy in it. He said it WAS question Of giving fair and reasonable compensation for service rendered
 Mir. Springer, of Illinois, favored the policy of compelling vessels carrying the American flag to carry the mails of the country at reasonable rate but was opposed to the proposition of voting sub. sdy into the pockets of Russell Sage. Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon
 Mr Lore favored the amendment on the ground that it's adoption would improve our commerce.
 Mir, Dingley, of Maine, in brief speech pointed out the needs of the foreign mail service and asked that members should not have their attention di verted from the issue by the term subsidy The rates now paid for foreign mail service were not fair reasonable; they were not decent. The compensation
 MT. McAdoo, Of New Jersey, opposed the proposi- tion to subsidize American ships and put forward the idea that if the United States wished to com pete with other nations by the granting of subsi- dies it must, owing to the difference in the price of labor pay twenty five per cent. higher subsidies than any other country.
 Mi, Holman, of Indiana, earnestly opposed the policy of subsidies and contended that the policy would not have the effect of building up. Amer ican commerce. This closed the general debate The committee rose and the House at p. m. ad- journed.
 Fat Offices Left UnRIled.