The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-03-09
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OF Water in the arid regions of the United
States.
The senate resumed consideration o.
the dependent pension bill, the question
being on the amendment offered by Mr.
Wilson, of Iowa, to insert the words "from
the intirimties of age"
First Mr.. Sherman defended himself
from the witicisIns Of Mr.. Beck in his
connection with silver decentralization. He
proceeded to show how the principle OF
the decentralization law had been reported
in a bill three years before /: went into
effect; how it had been discussed and
known to all men; how at that time silver
was a premium of 3 per cent and how for
forty years prior thereto no silver dollars
had been coined because it was not
found adapted to the wants of the people.
Nh. ingalls,, the presiding officer, hay
ing called Mr., Plat to the chair, adj
dressed th1 senate. The galleries were
croWead. He referred 10 the recent I'M
complimentary aiiusion of Mr.. Vest to
himself, intimRting that the veterans of
the republic were a mob of
p~lundeTeys. As for himself he would
say that the nomination and election Of
Sroyer Cleveland a made the preten-
sions of any American citizen to the pres
idency~ respectable. There was NO man
in the country whose utterance was so
profound, whose ~obscurity so impenetra-
bic and whose antecedents so degraded,
that he had not the right to aspire TO the
presidential nomination by the democrat
ic party. The senator from Kentucky
(Blackburn) had also referred sneeringlY
TO the superiority of the soldiers of the
union. Extraordinarily inaccurate was the
senator statements that more than half of
the union soldiers had applied for pen
sions. Such speeches as those of the SEN
ators from Missouri and Kentucky were
intended 10 catch the confederate vote n
they would catch it. The democratic OPP
position to the pension bill was not from
motives Of economy. The south did not
love the unien army, neither did the dem-
Ocratic party.
Mr. MorgS.n reminded Mr.. ingalls, that
the democratic party had nominated and
sustained a federal officer, Gen. Hancock,
for the presidency.
Yes, said Mr.. ingalls,, 1t did support
Gen. Hancock, and it also supported Hor-
ace Greeley in attempting to fool the
north. 1t also maintained and supported
that other ally of the confederacy, Gen.
Geo. Il. Mcclellan. Such ~pretensions are
altogether too diaphanous. They re-
quire to have the drapery removed for in
speetion. When he said he had no doubt
that jefferson Davis would occupy a
niche in history by the side Of Geo. Wash
ington, why was it that no senator on the
democratic side arose to repudiate and
disown it, and yet the moment any honor
able senator on the republican side talked
about the union armies, the grandeur of
their achievements, the obligations Of the
nation, they were tainted with waving
the ensanguined undergarment.
Mr.. ingalls, quoted from the speech of
Mr.. Grady, at the unyeiling of
the Hill statue at Atlanta, in
which jeff Davis was spoken of as n
whose gray hairs were crowned with
deathiess love. Coming back to the OPP.
position of southern senators to the PEN
sion bills. he said If the federal govern
ment had been overthrown he did not
think he would have felt comferted in
voting pensions to the confederate soldiers,
but he should have regarded 1t as the
climax Of e~ffrontery ii, after he had accept
ed a pardon and had had his disabilities
removed and had taken the oath
Of alleeience to the successful
southern ~confederacy, he had denounced
day after day the efforts which those con-
federates made TO reward their own soil
diers. The democratic party in those
states never had DiundeTed in sending to
congress or siecting is governor a man
who had served in the confederation in
the same capacity. That had been the
surest test. The south should be thank
full that il did not have to foot the entire
pension bill as France did after the Fran
co-Prussian war. The senator from Mis-
souri, had asked where this is going to end.
II Is going to end when all these pensions
are paid. / hope it will pass the other
house of congress and If it does, Ter the
president veto 1t at his peril.
Mr.. Blackburn said that he did not
need to be told BY the senator fEom Kan
sas that Kentucky had always been loyal.
He Blackburn) represented a constituent
~ which had sent three men into the
union army for the one man that hanoas
sent. What cause of grievance had that
warranted him IN applying language to
the chief magistrate which would not be
permissible on the musings? He did not
know of but one sin which the president
had committed in the eyes of the senator
from Kansas. II was that Of having de-
feated the senator's party at the polls.
He had given to the American peo-
pie for three years past 50 ell
Gent and 50 honest an
administration as to doom the last Of
republican aspirations to disaster. The
senator from Kansas had not spared the
sanctity Of the grave. Hancock, IN ally
Of confederatesl Was he so regarded and
believed, when weltering ia his blood on
Cemetery Heights he refused to be re-
moved from the field and presisted in Civ.
ing orders WHICH checked the last advance
0f Longstreet's irresistible ba~ttalionl
What was the Kansas senator's occupation
In a military eapacityg He WAS judge
advocate Of the Kanss4gelunteers. What
are YOU to think Of the arguments Of the
seTaaTur Hho will leave his seat as a presld-
ing officer and comet TO the door in illus'ra-
fion AZ 4 n~axtiaan yeal.whieh i am clad TO