Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-03-07

Senator Plumb moved to strike out tAs
word .'tstally', before the word s.incapacits-
ted, p and gave notice that If his motion pre-
vailed he would move to amend further BY
providing that the pension should be from "
to $40 per month, according to the degree Of
incapacity.
After discussion the amendment was agreed
to, and the word s'totally'' was struck out.
Senator Plumb also moved to strike out the
words '.in degree herein spicined." Agreed
to-yeas 90, hayes, %.
Senator Plumb also moved to insert the
following: "Ail pensions granted to widows
under this or any other general law shall take
effect from the date Of the death of the hus-
bands OF such widows respectively, but not
dating back of the passage Of this act" Agreed
to without division.
Senator Call moved an amendment to make
the bill apply to those who served in the
Florida war, hut accepted modification Of 1t
moved by Senator Morgan by making it apply
to those who served In the war with Mexico
and for thirty days in the wars with Indian
tribes. Without disposing Of this amendment
the bill was laid aside, and Sent tor Blair pro-
posed an amendment lin order to have 1t
printed) providing for service pension at the
rate of $40 month.
Executive business; adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-Ths entire session
of the senate was taken up today in discuss
ing the pension bill. Senators quarreled all
day over certain amendments and after all,
the bill was laid over without action.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o.-After some unim-
portant preliminary work, the senate resumed
consideration Of the bill granting pensions to
ex-soldiers and sailors IL capacacitated for the
performance of manual labor and providing
for pension to dependent relatives Of deceased
soldiers and sailors.
Senator Wilson, Of Iowa, moved as an
amendment to insert the words, 'from In
frmities Of age" SO as to pension all ex-sold-
iers suffering from the infrmities Of age, or
from mental or physical disability.
In the debate which took place Senator
Plumb deliver an eloquent eulogy on the
army.
Senator Vest hen took up the question and
said that the cry Of ex-soidiers being in aims
houses was wholly untrue, and the hypocritl-
cal cry made him tired.
The senator said that since 1865 the gov
crnment had paid out for pensions the sum of
1885,, o00, 900, liberality unparalleled in the
history of the world. Of the G.. A. R., the
senator said:
The great military and political organiza-
ton, the Grand Army of the Republic, has
thrown its lance intd the debates Of congress
and sent bills to their accredited senators for
the purpose of being enacted. When the
president Of the United States had honestly
aud bravely discharged his executive duty
and vetoed an enactment which he considered
improper, he had been threatened by the
officers of that organization with personal in
suit If he dared make his presence known in
the city where it held its annual meeting.
There was limit to human endurance.
In conclusion Senator Vest said: "Partl-
san or non-partisan, my convictions require
me to vote against the bill, and l say here
now that hope it may die the death in the
other branch of the national congress, and If
not there at the hands of the executive; If
that be unparliamentary, make the most Of
it."
After further debate the senate adjourned
without further action.