The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-01

! Confederate soldiers. Ills Dull6b must nave
hit two or more at the same time, and
struck where it was not aimed.
DISHONEST APPLICANTS.
Fifty per cent of all the lost of the Union
army were applicants for pensions on ac-
count of disability. Who, he asked, believed
that they were honest applicants Who
| believed that these pension bills had not
degenerate1 into political abuse, which
cried aloud in the faces of all honest men
for redress' He had great regard for many
of his friends ON the opposite side of the
| chamber and i'll the words which he had
| spoken he had wished to give an opportunity
to some of them who had lurked back in
the contest over the bill to throw their
| shining lances among 'the Confederate
| Brigadiers,N " and try to carry off the Re
publican nomination for the Presidency. A
recent dispatch from Paris had caused po-
litical candidates TO become as thick as
leaves in Nalambrosa. Before that dis
patch had come under the yeasty waves OF
the ocean the Republican party had been in
the condition of the man, who having gone
home some hours before his usual time in
the morning, and having been asked why
he had gone home so soon, replied that every
other place in town was shut up. The doors
of the Republican party were now open aud
| Presidential candidates were coming to the
front without limit, as to quantity or
locality.
| A POLITICAL AUCTION.
The Senate had been engaged for some
days past in a political auction for the sol
dier vote. First had come his friend from
| Nebraska (Mr Manderson), backed by the
| Grand Army of the Republic, and he Mr.
Vest had listened with real qualification to
his dulcet and modulated voice from the
| beginning to the end OF his speech Even
that Senate, S filings at the President of the
United States had detracted frorn the gen
eral merit of his bid for the soldier vote, and
when he received a floral tribute as
a token of regard from his ad-
miring constituents behind him,
he MIR. Vest) had but one single suggestion
| to make, and that was that lilies should
have been embroidered over the portals Of
the White House. That was the object Of
all the debate, of all the bidding for the
soldier vote of the country in the coming
contest When the Senator from Nebraska
took his seat he (Mr. Nest) had thought
that the bid was in his favor. But that
present occupant of the chair, the Senator
from Maine, (Mr. Frye had caught the
eve of the auctioneer"-the Grand Army of
the Republic-and had ''gone one better"
That Senator was prepared TO vote pen
sion TO every man who had served day in
the Federal army
A STILL LARGER BID.
He Mr. Vest was about to knock down
the prize to the Senator from Maine when
his friend from Kansas (Nlr. Plumb came
to the front and outbid the Senator from
Maine by an amendment TO the bill which
would increase the expenditure under it
S60O0O,0 600 or $4,000, 900. He (Mr. Vest
had then been strongly of the opinion that
the auction should close and the prize be
given to the Senator from Kansas; but
then the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Cullom)
had come to the front and made a bid from
that great prairie State which had staggered
his (Alr. Vests conviction as to the propr-
ETY. of closing the sale. Since that time he
had been in condition of anxiety waiting
to hear from other bidders i'll the great ma
tional auction. The Senate had not yet
| heard from his dulcet-toned friend from
Iowa (Mr. Allison), who has kept his seat
and merely nodded acquiescence to the most
extreme propositions for the benefit of OK
| soldiers.
sHERMAN's SILENCE.
Why had not the Senate yet heard from
the distinguished Senator from Ohio (Mr.
| Sherman), who, in such a contest, ought
certainly to come TO the front and bid some
thing for the vote which (the candidates
| thought was to determine th, contest
Neither had the Senate yet heard from the
presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls,. weo had been
nominated by the District of Columbia and
every one knew that the District of Colum-
and unselfsh motives. He (Mr. Vest
would rather have the nomination from the
| District of Columbia than from any State
in the Union, because las every one knew
it came from the heart and never from the
pocket. No man, woman or child in the
district had any other object than the pro
motion of the national honor ana prosperity
And so, when he read in a Democratic
paper of Washington last Sunday before
attending church, that the presiding officer
| Of the Senate was the nominee Of the Dis
trict of Columbia he said: Eureka, we
have found the man at last, and the ques-
ton is firally settled"
GREATLY ENJOYED.
The whole of Mr. Vests speech was lis
| tened TO with the closest attention by the
| Senators and by the audience in the CALLER
les, and his felicitous sketch Of the Repub-
| lican candidates and their supposed respect
i've bids for the soldiers vote seemed to be
enjoyed with equal zest on both sides Of the
chamber. In conclusion, Mr.. Vest said:
partisan or non-Partisan my convictions
require me TO vote against the bill aud |
say here now that / hope it may die the
death in the other branch Of the National
! Congress- and if not there, at the hands Of
the executive II that be parliamentary
make the most of it,"
TINE TO CALL A HALT.
After further brief speeches from Messrs.
Teller and Plumb, Mr.. Wilson, of Mary
land. a member of the Committee on PEN
sions, declared himself opposed TO the bill
as it now stood amended. He gave figures
Of the enormous amount paid in pensions,
and thought that the people
were opposed 10 any further extension
of the pension system. 1t was time 10
call halt. Tho bill as originally reported
would make the pension list amount (he
said 20 Sl000OO,0 600 With the amendment
put on IL the amount expended would be
| 1925, 900 900. and probably more. Without
taking a vote on the bin or the pending
amendment, the Senate proceeded TO OK
ecutive business, and at $3.50 O'Clock ad-
| journed.
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