The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-03

THE HOUSE.
The Day Devoted to Debate on the Pension
Appropriation Bill
WASHINGTON, March 2.-Mr. Morrill,. of Kan
sas, from the committee on invalid pensions, re-
ported bill extending until July l. 1885, the
time within which applications for arrears of
pensions may be fled, extending the provisions
of the arrears act to special pensioners and pro-
viding that in applications for pensions the per-
son on whose account the pension is claimed
shall be presumed, prima facie, to have been
sound and free from disease at the date of enter
ing the service. Referred to the committee of
the whole.
Mr.. Dunn, of Arkansas, from the committee
on shipping, reported bill relating to pilots
Placed on the House calendar
MIR. Belmont, of New York, from the commit
zee on foreign affairs, reported the consular and
diplomatic appropriation BILL and 1t was referred
to the committee of the whole.
The Speaker laid before the House the re-
spouse of the Secretary of the Treasury to the
Bland resolution calling for information con-
cernng the circulation OF the standard silver
dollar, and the policy to be pursued as to pay
ment of silver. Referred to the committee on
coinage weights and measures.
Mr.. Townshsnd, of Illinois, said that If it were
the wish of the House, he would like the morn
ing hour dispensed with. in order that considera-
ton of the pension appropriation bill might be
resumed.
Mr. Bland, of Missouri, said that he had en-
dearored unsuccessfully, yesterday to secure
recognition for the purpose of moving to fix
day for consideration of the silver bill. He
would, therefore, insist on the morning hour
every day until the committee on coinage,
weights and measures was reached
Mr. Wise, of Virginia. on behalf of the COM
mittee on manufactures, IN the morning hour
called up the bill authorizing the President to
mis- of clyf 1od
In the investigation, production and nse of me-
tRllic substances and other structural material
to execute tests on iron, steel and other materi-
ais used in the construction Of bridges, buildings
and mechanical structures, and deduee useful
rules therefrom.
After debate, the morning hour expired and
the House went into committee Of the whole
Dir. Hammond, of Georgia, in the Chair-on the
pension appropriation bill.
Mr., Cannon, of Illinois, gave his views on gen.
eral pension legislation, and warmly favored the
passage of a measure to pension soldiers who
were or were not disabled, and who were now de-
pendent on their daily labor for support. He
would also amend the laws SO as to pension
parents who would now be dependent upon their
son, had he not been killed in the war; though
they had not been dependent upon him when a
young lad, he entered the service of his country
Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia, vigorously de-
Tended Commissioner Black from the criticisms
of the gentleman from Iowa Mr.. Henderson,
and declared that the country had regarded his
appointment by the President an eminently
wise and patriotic selection. Referring to the
criticism that Commissioner Black had kept Re-
publican members of Congress waiting in the
ante-room while he was comforting with Demo-
cratic members in regard to removals from
flee, Mr., Wilson said that the country would
commend the Commissioner if he held those con-
FENCES little more often. and would
commsnd his action to other high Of
cers He regretted to hear the gen.
tleman from Maine MR. BoureIlel criticisinq
ha fharp Ia hoca, how b.d
two points, raised modest memorials to their
dead The mourners for those under those
monuments could appeal to the searcher of all
hearts to testify that they cherish no thought
wish or desire that was not in harmony with
the Union. He saw in the war the stately step
ping of that providence which used the wrath of
men TO work out its beneficial purposes. 1t had
abolished the institution of slavery which had
come down as painful heritage from the fathers
of the Republic The war had secured the pres
ervation of the Union. but it had secured re-
suit greater than the preservation of the Union
in the extinction of slavery and greater than the
extinction OF slavery was the utter humiliation
of any further cause or excuse for sectional strife
hereafter
Mr.. Wilson's speech was listened to with great
attention by both sides of the House, and he was
frequently interrupted with the applause of his
party colleagues.
Mf. Hammond, abiding to the recent speech
of Mr.. Henderson. of Iowa. said il needed no re-
ply. The spirit of the speech, not only in man
ner but in cold. printed words, carried with it
the conGemnatlon of the argument, and needed
no more reply than when he consigned the con
federates TO hell and then intensified hell by
promise to go thither with them. Laughter
and applause.
Mr.. Butterworth. of Ohio, criticised the report
of Commissioner Black, and said that it seemed
to him that there wac not an avenue of scandal
which had not been drained dry in order to reflect
upon the retiring commissioner. The report in
suited every man and woman in the employ of
the Commissioner OF Pensions, and the language
OF the report had vastly more regard for rhetoric
than for exact truth. He quoted from that por-
ton or the report which states that, under the
previous administration, tests other than those
OF the law lad been required OF pension claim
ants. and his comment upon the quotation was
that There are ears into which SANDER flows as
ii it were water, and the ear street into q
sewer" Mr. Butterworth then went into dis
eussion of the election methods in vogue in Gin
cinnati from 1876 down to the present time Wig
orousiy denouncing the Democratic party in
That city, and ending with the declaration that
CINCINNATI had been rotten for ten years. and
mat tie Democratic gang held it by the
threat ana robbed its Golfers. Referring to
Michael Mullen, OF that city, he was interrupted
Oy questions from the Democratic side of .Who
is Mixer He stated in reply that Mullen was
the Democratic leader in that city. and inquired
whether it was BY Mullens effort that such men
as Thurman. Pendleton and Ward were SET to
one side, while with money in each finger, men,
bers Of the Democratic Legislature had been
bought TO betray honest men.
Name one OF them" exclaimed Mr.. Warner
"Oh. LordT was Butterworth's ejaculation in
reply. He took it for granted that the Demo-
cratic legislators were not infamous without n
pfice, and did not betray without receiving their
thirty pieces Of silver. Everybody knew that
Allen Thurman and George Pendleton were the