Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-03-09
Consideration of the Pension Bill the
Signal for a War of Words
in the Senate.
An Internal Revenue Clause Added to
the Mills Tariff Bill by a Strict
ly Party Vote.
Cigars, Tobacco and Liquors Placed on
the Free List-The Revenue to
be Reduced S25, 700, 900.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.

JOlut T6SOluUlOu UdSStu ulTtCGlu8 tIlc SccTe'
tary of interior to investigate the practica-
bility of constructing reservoirs for the
storage of water in the arid regions of the
United States.
THE PENSION BILL.
The senate then resumed consideration
being on the amendment offered by Mr..
Wetson of Iowa to insert words "from the
infrmities of age" First Mr.. Sherman
defended himself from the criticism of Mr..
Beck in his connection with the silver de-
monitizati0n. He proceeded to show that
the principles of the denomination law
had been reported in bill three years be-
fore it went into effect; that it had been
discussed and known to all men; no " at
that time silver was at a premium of three
per cent and how for forty years prior
thereto no silver dollar had been coined
because it was not found adapted to the
wants of the people. Mr. ingalls,, the pre-
siding officer, having called Mr.. Platt to
the chair, addressed the senate. The gal
laries were crowded. He referred to the
recent uncomplimentary illusions of Mr..
Vest to himself and Mr.. Vests intima-
ton that the veterans of the republic we're
mob of sOrdid slanderers. AS to him
self, he would say that the nomination
and election of Grover Cleveland had made
the pretentions of any American citizen
to the presidency respectable. There was
no man in the country whose ignorance
was SO profound, whose Obscurity so i'm
penetrable, and whose antecedents so de-
graded that he had not the right to aspire
to the presidential nomination by the DEM
ocratic party. The senator from Ken
lucky blackburn had also referred sneer-
ingly to the super-l0yalty of the soldiers of
the union. Extraordinarily inaccurate
was the Senator's statement that more
than half of the union soldiers had ap-
piled for pensions. Such speeches as those
of the senators from Missouri and Ken
lucky were intended to catch the confed-
crate vote, and they would catch it. The
democratic opposition to he pension bill
was not from motives of economy. The
south did not love the union army, neither
did the democratic party. Mr.. Morgan
reminded Mr.. ingalls, that the democratic
party had nominated and sustained fed
eral officer, General Hancock, for the
presidency. "Yes," said Mr.. ingalls,, lit
did support General Hancock and it also
supported Horace Greeley, attempting to
fool the north. 1t also nominated and sup
ported that other ally Of the confederacy,
George B. Mcclellan. They require to
have the drapery removed for inspection.
When he said he had no doubt that Jetfer-
son Davis would occupy a niche in history
by the side Of George Washington, why
was it that no senator on the democratic
side arose to repudiate and disavow it
And yet the moment any senator on the
republican side talks about the union
army, the grandeur of their achievements,
the obligation of the nation, they are
taunted with waving the ensanguined
under garment" Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from
the speech of Mr.. Grady atthe unveil-
ing of the Hill statue at Atlanta,
in which Jefferson Davis was spoken
of as one whose "gray hairs were
crowned with deathless lore" Com.
ing back to the opposition of southern
SCudUOAo W pCllSlOu U1AlS, uC Sdlu Ullbt
E if the federal government had been over
thrown he did not think he would have
felt comforted in voting pensions to con-
federate soldiers after he had accepted
pardon and had his disabilities re-
moved and he had taken the oath OF allie
glance to the successful southern confed-
eracy. He had denounced day after day
the efforts which those confederates had
made to reward their own soldiers. The
democratic party in those states never had
blundered in sending to congress or elect
ing as governor man who had not served
in the confederate army in some capacity.
That had been the surest test. The south
should be thankful that it does not have to
foot the entire pension bill as France did
after the Franco-P -Prussian war. The SEN
ator from Missouri had asked where this is
going to end. "lt is going to end when all
these pensions repaid. lhope that it will
pass the other house of congress and if it
Z does let the president veto it at his peril.
Mr.. Blackburn said that he did not need
to be told by the senator from Kansas
that Kentucky had always been loyal. He