The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-03-15
OPPOSING PENSIONS!
Senator Ingalls, Shows Up The
Confederate Democracy

The great speech of Senator Ingalls,,
of Kansas, in the U. S. Senate, few
days, ago stirred the Democratic states
men up in the livellest possible way.
1t is making the Democracy nervous
to realize that the country is fully
acquainted with the working of the
spirit which, in the guise of economy" !"
opposes the granting Of pensions to
worthy soldiers. It is, as the Kansas
Senator says, the old Rebel spirit, and
hatred Of the Union, that caues the
Conft derate statesman to spring to
his feet and cry out about the cost of
pensioning soldiers. We make the
following extracts from the speech of
Senator ingalls,:
The Senator from Missouri rises in
a burst Of indignant impatience and
wants to know when all this is going
to end. He says he has gone thus
far, but he shall go no further; that
he was coerced by the necessities of
his position because he was Con-
federate, OF which | do not see the
logic. He says that he was coerced
by the logic of his position to vote,
as we are bound to assume. for dis
honest and unjustifable pensions be-
cause he was a Confederate, but that,
God helping him, he is going no
further. He is going to resist
the claims Of these organized robbers
and plunderers who have banded
together for the purpose Of depicting
the Treasury, and they shall have no
single farthing more. | will tell that
Senator and every other Democratic
Senator, whether they like it or not,
what we intend to do. | will tell the
Senator from Missouri and the rest
of his associates just where it is to
stop. 1t is going to stop when the
arrears of pension are paid, when the
limitation is removed, and every
soldier upon the rolls, or who here
after gets on the rolls, is paid from
the day of his disability, or his
survivors from the day Of his death,
and when every surviving soldier of
the Union armies is put on the rolls
for service only. That is when it is
going to stop applause in the
galleries |; and if you do not like it,
make the most of it.
When is it going to end9 And on
every occasion last week as this
week the old, stale calumnies
about the arrears-of-pension act are
repeated. Mr. President, was chair
man of the Committee on Pensions
when that bill was reported and
passed. 1t was an act of great ma
tional justice. | consented to the
insertion Of the compromise date OF
July 1, 1880, because [ could not get
the principle established in any other
way, and l gave notice then and made
pledge, which | have redeemed at
every session of Congress since, that
would never desist from my efforts tc
remove that limitation and to pay
every soldier placed upon that roll
from the date of disability or dis.
charge, so that this stigma should be
wiped out and the honor of the nation
redeemed. And yet the Senator from
Kentucky farthest from me Mr.
Beck, in his speech upon the in.
firmities of the tariff on a pension
bill. said that we were told when that
bill passed in 1879 that it would take
about eighteen or twenty millions
not over thirty at the outside, to make
it operative, and that hundreds oi
millions had since been spent. MI
President, that statement has been re-
futed so often that it does not deservs
another word in reply. No such
statement could have been made.
The only statement was that tt
apply that principle to those wht
were already upon the roll would no
require at the outside oyer $50, ,OO0, ,OO'
and might not cost more than S1o,
100000. How could any one sa,
what would be the expense that woule
be due under the act thereafterP L
would depend entirely upon the mum
Der Of applications under it.. And yet
with dlsingenuousness that has n
parallel, upon every occasion tina
offers the Senators who oppose thi
bill affirm that the nation was dupe
into the adoption Of that measure b
false statements as to the amount
would cost.
Are we at last, says the Senate
from Missouri, to have service-pen
sion bill? Nothing, he said, will con
tent the soldiers and their allies bu
a service-pension bill, and are we t
have that? Yes, Mr.. President, 20
are to have that! There is not to-da
surviving soldier or the widow c
denendent relative of any survivin