Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-29
WASHINGTON NEWS
SHARP DEBATE IN THE SENATE on
PENSION BILL.
SsuaSr Faulkner Takes Hand Shsru
Banking Bills Reported Fa7oEahly-Tht
Texas Investigation Confined
General News

WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY <o.-in
Senate to-day Mr.. Sherman reported faV
ably from the Finance Committee the
to authorize the Secretary Of the Treasu
to invest in bonds 80 per cent Of the fu
held for the redemption Of National Ba'
notes. The bill was placed on the cal'
dar.
Mr.. Sherman separated from the abo
bill, and reintroduced as o separate pro-
sition, the bill 10 authorize National Bal
to issue circulation to the par value
bonds deposited. Referred to commitf
The resolution offered last week by
Hoar, to continue the investigation OF
session into certain events alleged to h.
taken place in Texas lin the petition
Stephen Hackworth and others, was
ported back from the Committee on c
tingent Expenses and agreed to.
The Senate resumed consideration OF I
bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers
sailors who are incapacitated from the !
formance OF manual labor and providi
for pensions to dependent relatives Of
diers and sailors.
Mr.. Cullom said that it seemed to /
that the farther the country got away r.
the late war the less Was being doce or
tempted to be done for the ex-soldiers.
Mr.. Manderson appealed to the Sen
to pass the bill as had been formulated
the Pension Committee of the G. A. K.
would be glad TO see bill passed in
nature Of service pension bill, but he
not think it we'll to cucumber the pend
bill with that idea. He hoped the Sci
would retrace its steps and not agree to
amendments adopted in Committee OF
| Whole
Mr.. Plumb intimated that there v
something Of q juggle concealed IN
bill. The effort seemed to be to get ~
bill, not to meet the wishes of Copgre
but to meet the wishes Of somebody el
He asserted his conviction that the G..
r. did not want this bill. He did
mean to say that the bill had not come
the Senate with the sanction Of that {
ganiz alton, but he believed thar somebo,
was going TO be cheated; either the Pensi
Committee Of she G.. A. R., or the G.
r. itself. The question was-who W.
going to be cheated?
Mr.. Manderson contIadicted the stat
m ent that the G. A. K. did not desire Il
passage of the bill, and said that the vo
IL , l7S posts had been LOG, 100 for the
to 3, COG against it.
Mr.. Plumb repeated his belief that {
G.. A. r. did not endorse the bill as
stood, but, whether it did OF not, he W.
in the Senate TO legislate and to consid.
what was due to the eX-soldiers of q
Union, and to an enlightened opinion.
Mr.. Faulkner, a member OF the Comm
tee on Pensions, said that after analys
and examination of the bill, he had Civ,
it his support in the committee, and won
give it his support in the Senate, unlt
the amendments now in il were retaine
II those amendments were retained, J
would vote against the passage OF the BIZ
amendment OF the Senator from Kan
striking out the word totally" before I
word "ircapacitated, the annual pensi
list would exceed $3.50, ,O00,OOO II {
bill were defeated the responsibility Won
not rest on the Democratic side Of u
chamber. II would rest on those Senate
who had put amendments into the bi
with
CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF ITS BEING V.
TOED,
who had done it with their eyes open al
with the understanding that not only COZ
sstency but the conscious sentiment A.,
duty even although an election was con
ing on this year would require the SAB
to be done now as was done last scssiC
with like bill.
Nr. Plumb asked Mr.. Faulkner whe,h,
under the bill a. reported by the commi
lee person who could perform any MAI
nal labor would be entitled 10 its benefit
Mr.. Faulkner replied in the negative.
Mr.. Plumb inquired whether ther
would be any grading Of pensions unde
the bill.
Mr.. Faulkner again replied in the mega
tive
Mr. Plumb asked Mr.. Faulkner whetbe
he believed the President would veto tn
bill.
The presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls, here
inter fered and said that it had been al
ways held to he breach Of order to ref.
in debate TO the action o.! the Executive.
Mr. Plumb expressed his regret that tn
Chair had not thought so when the Sens
tor from West Virginia was speaking.
The presiding officer The Chair hsd in
tended before this to say, and does tax
occasion now TO say, that IL has nev,
been held 10 be in order to debate in Il
Senate TO refer to the opinion Of Il
Executive or 10 the action Of the EIecr
tive az an argument fer against pendir
legislation.
Mr.. Faulkner said that he had
opinion whatever on the subject and h.
expressed zone.
Mr. Plumb said that he had upderstG
the Senator from West Virginia to cay III
consistency, ifnot principle, Even If the
was, perhaps, an election pending" wis
ever he might have meant by that won
require the bill 10 be vetoed, ard that tn,
had been an effort 10 get bill, which
President would Egn, otherwise the B
never would have got vote on the otf
side OF the chamber, and to that compile
ion had it come at last" The Republic
side cf the chamber had been told that
was 70 take the respons ibility Of legslstit
that might not meet the views OF the Pre-
ident. II that was not a complt'
subordination of the lsgislstiS
10 the Executive authority he did not pc
hos it could be made more 80. If the Ser
ate was going to put itself in that sttitnd
he had no objection. He proposed 10 db
cuss the question on its merits, not cor
sideripg what the President might thin
about it. The President was, in regard
the bill in its present stage, O privale cit
zsn-no more, no less.
Mr.. Blackburn-Does the Senator frol
Kansas mean TO say that the Chief ETect
tive is nothing mere than private citizsi
Mr. Plumb-No, did not say anythir
of the kind. said that, 50 far as the e
feet OF his opinion upon me "a concerned !
the exercise Of my duties as Senator, |
is Grover Cieveland-nothing moro, Dotl
ing less. "A primrose by the rivers brim.