Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-28
THE NATIONS 'SCAPlTAL.
Adequate Pensions for all Sol.
dierS.
Covering the Nicaragua Canal Bib With
Amendments.
Shall the Sugar Trust be Investigated BY
the Secretary Of the Treasury?
Minute in Honor OF and Funeral Of the
Late w. w. corcoran.
WAsuiNsroN, Feb. 26.
Senate.

The bill authorizing the Secretary Of the
Treasury 10 permit the Edward Libby Post
q. A. X. to erect soldiers monument on
the vacant lands adjoining the Custom House
at Rockland, Me-, was reported from the
committee ON public buildings and passed.
On motion of Edmunds. the Senate re-
sumed the consideration Of the bill to incor-
porate the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicarauga.
Several amendments were reported from the
committee on foreign relations and agreed
TO. Edmunds offered resolution declaring
that nothing in the act should be deemed or
construed to restrict or impair in any way,
any right of the United States, under any
treaty i'll force with the Republic Of Mica
raugua. Ii was agreed to. Vest offered .
resolution declaring nothing in the act should
be held OF construed to involve in any man.
ner the United States in any pecuniary OBJ
legation except as to the payment of tolls;
also an amendment providing that no part Of
the capital stock paid in. shall be
at any time withdrawn or returned 70
the stock holders or in any manner diverted
from the popular use of the corporation;
also, an amendment that il the stock TO the
amount of ten millions be not subscribed and
ten per cent. actually paid within two years
from date, and the construction shall
not be actually commenced, and be
in progress at the expira-
ton of four years, the corporation shall be
deemed expired by limitation. Vest stated
that the first two were amendents, the same
as those made by Edmunds to the TehuAnte-
pee and Michigan bill in the last Congress.
Edmunds opposed them all, and all were re-
jected. Vance offered an amendment re-
quiring that all laborers employed in the
work be either native or naturalized citizens
Al. F.... II
bill was then reported back from the commit
tee of the whole and the amendments agreed
upon in the committee were concurred In.
Vest again offered the amendment that the
United States government have no pecuniary
obligation in connection with the work. II
was again rejected. The bill was then
passed by vote of 3S yeas, and Is nays.
The Senate took up the bill granting pen
sions to ex-soldier and sailors, incapacitated
for the performance of manual labor, and
providing for pensions to the dependent rela-
tives of the deceased soldiers and sailors.
The amendment adding to the second section
the words: And who are without other
adequate means of self support was adopt
ed. The bill was debated at length by
Plumb, Manderson, Evarts, Frye, Platt,
Blair and others. Frye said that he would
vote for the bill, but it didn't do justice to
the soldier or dependent parent No pension
er should get less than Sl2 month. The
time is not far distant when every soldier
who served the country would be pensiOned.
Platt and Blair also advocated u more liberia |
treatment of the soldiers. The word total
ly" before the incapaciated WAS stricken out
The words "in the degree herein specified"
were also struck out, and the following was
inserted: IAN pensions granted to widows
pl.r this nthar unuarul luW ahun
take effect from date of death of husbands
of such widows respectively, but not dating
back of the passage of this act.
Call moved an amendment TO make the
bill apply to those who served in the Florida
war, but the Senate agreed ~ a mOd
moved by Morgan by making it apply TO
those who served in the war with Mexico and
(for 80 days. in the wars with Indian tribes.
Without disposing of this amendment the
bill was laid aside and Blair proposed a ser
vice pension at the rate of $40 per month.
After executive business the Seuate ad-
journed.
| Breckenridge Of Arkansas, called up the
adverse report of the committee on manufac-
lures upon the resolution directing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to institute an investi-
CATION into the New York sugar trust.
Millken of Maine, the author of the reso-
luton, said that he had not offered II for the
purpose in any way of antagonizing the com
mittee on manufactures or of intrenching
upon the subject matter of the invest tigation
to be made by that committee. One OF the
complaints made against the sugar trust WAS
that the duty sugar was taken advantage
of by the trust to the harm of the small man.
ufacturers and consumers. The duty or
raw sugar was very small on low grades,
such as is not fit for consumption
without refining, while the duties
on these classes that could be made by the
people without going through the process OF
refining, were so high that 1t could not be
imported so as to compete with the refined
sugars. 1t seemed to him that II was a sub
ject that could be Investigated by the Secre
tary Of the Treasury better than by anybody
else. The resolution was laid upon the ta-
bic
Under the call Of States several bills and
resolutions were introduced and referred
among them one by Breckenridge Of Ken
lucky. for the better protection of the livei
Of fishermen engaged in deep sea fisheries
by Milliken Of Maine, requesting informa
tion as TO the expectation of sugar from tn
port of New York. and the classification o
the same.
The floor was then awarded TO the Com
mittee on the District Of Columbia. Sever
al bills affecting the District were passed
Wilson Of West Virginia, offered the follow
ing minute "Tbis being day set apart 10
the consideration Of business relating TO tn
District of Columbia, the House deems 1t nc
inappropriate to place on record a testimons
of respect for the memory Of that eminen
citizen of the District, the late W. W
Corcoran who, as munifcent patron of aT
and science and Of many public and privat
charities, both in the National Capital and !
the country at large, left memory that de
serves to be gratefully cherished not only b
residents of the district Of Columbia, but b
the people Of the country, of the workings o
whose institutions he was a conspicuous II
: lustration." The minute was unanimously
&. ordered to be spread upon the journal. tn
House then adjourned
In the police court today, cases agsini
Manager Chas Il. Locke of the Nations
Opera Company, charged with issuing check
on bank where he had no money deposits'
was dismissed.
The funeral Of the late w. W. CorcOra
: took place this afternoon from his late resi-
dende In accordance with the wish OF thu
deceased the ceremonies were simple and dc
. void of ostentation. The casket wss red ct
dar, covered without ornament. Upon tn
, top was silver plate on which was engrave
the following: "Wm Wilson Corcorsn
Born Dec. 81, 1898. Died Feb. "a, 1885,
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