Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-02
HE WILL JUSTIFY THE ORDER
Senator Cockrell of Missouri Will
Defend the Benet Circular.
Democrats Opposing the Proposition
to Establish an Industrial lnstitu-
ton AT Salt Lake City-Dorsey
Coming to Nebraska.
The Benct Circular.
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5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
WAsnISGTON, ID. c., Oct. /.
Senator Cockrcll Of Missouri, who was IA
gallant confederate soldier and fought for
the south and secession" cut off in the sen
ate this afternoon, by II single and stern Oh
lection, what promised to be one of the live
licst political debates heard in congress- for
many years. Senator Hale, as forccasted in
these dispatches on last Friday night, took
the initiative step in an investigation of the
circumstances under which the Bcnet Circu-
lar order was issued and the effect of its
operations, calling upon the secretary of war
for an Official location of the responsibility
Of the document Commenting, Mr. Hale
declared the proceedings the most outrageous
in the annals Of politics, and said that it
beggared description in administrative
depravity. He dcplored the era in
national affairs when the military branch
Of the government was prostitutcd for polit-
ical purposes; when widows and orphans of
union soldiers and sailors were discharged
from the menial positions which afforded
them daily bread, that democratic voters and
plug ugles might be given reward for their
campaign services. When he concluded his
excoriation, Senators Chandler, Cullom,
Mandcrson, and other republicans desired
the floor for the purpose of proceeding with
their expressions of disapprova of the order.
Mr.. Coclircll, Of Missouri, said that he would
enter immediate and positive objection to
further procedure on the subject; that the
rules of the senate required such resolutions
to lay an the presidents table for one
day before their merits could be dis
cussed. He added that tomorrow he
proposed to make some remarks on
the subject, and intimatcd that he
would not only justify the order, but would
show that it should have been issued long be-
fore 1t was, declaring that all OF the positions
under the government were due to the party
in power. CoclSrcll believes in turning out
not only the widows and orphans of soldiers,
but the lCglcss and armless veterans where
ever and whenever the administration
changes from republican to democratic hands
The debate promises to be lively, and there
is no doubt that an Investigation will be had,
but in the absence of Secretary EndicOtt it
may be delayed till after the campaign. The
administration does not want to meet the
issue before the election. General Bcnct
is trying 10 shift the responsibility from
Secretary Endicott to himself, but the fact
remains that General Bcnet stated to your
correspondent on last Thursday that Sccrc-
tary Endcott approved of the order and
lnstigated it.
SERIOUS DEFECT.
1t has been discovered that the act which
passed both houses nearly two years ago,
providing for better system for counting
electoral votes, has a serious defect, in that
it provides that the electoral colleges shall
meet at the various capitals on the second
Monday of January, which is month later
than formerly, but the old provision requir-
20. ng the votes of the colleges to be delivered
' to the president on or before the first
Wednesday in January, was left untouched.
Therefore, as the law now stands, the votes
arc to be counted on the second Monday in
January, but they are to be delivered to the
president of the senate on the first Wedncs-
day of the month, or about week before
they are counted. Unless some legislation
lnnlxinu N "a n this inpnnpI.IitN iG
enacted at once serious results are likely to
ensue.
AN EXCHANGE OF FAvoRs.
Greatly to the surprise of republican NOM
bers of the senate and house Committes on
appropriations the democratic members of
those committees are fighting with amazing
and determined pertinacity the proposition
in the general deficiency appropriation bill,
proposed by Senator Paddock, to make an
appropriation for an industrial institution at
Salt Lake for the wives and daughters of
polygamists who desire to escape from the
crimes of their families and lead lives of vir-
tue and christian morality. The democrats
in both houses have fought this proposition
bitterly during the past three or four years
that it has been debated, but it was not until
to-day that their object i'll doing was dis
closed. 1t was stated several weeks age
that the Mormons had made n contribution
of $50 coo to the fund of the national demo
cratic committee, and it is now believed that
the democrats in congress are trying
to reciprocate the favor. Mrs Angie f.,
Newman, who is q sister OF John Nj. Thurs
ton of Nebraska, is here working, as she has
been for years, in the interest Of the estab
lishment of refuge for Mormon women il
Utah. She said this afternoon if this appro
priaton is made for the industrial home the
MormOns believe that it will have the cfTcC
of bringing many polygamists to grief
There is defense fund raised by the Nor
mon church which goes TO the relief of the
wives who refuse to testify in the courts
against their husbands under prosecution fo
bigamy If there was a place where these
women could 90 and live after separation
from their husbands many of them would tcs
tify against their husbands and send them L
the peuitontary, and this is one of the mail
reasons why the Mormon church is opposct
10 the establishment of the industrial home
DORSEY COMING.
Representative Dorsey leaves for Nebraska
on Wednesday to enter the campaign, II
says the republicans are thoroughly aroused
and that they will not be caught mapping b.
the democrats, who are trying to captur
the legislature at the approaching election.
Nebraska and Iowa Pensions.
WAsHINGToN, oct. l.-LSpecial Tclegrar
to The BEE. Pensions granted Nebras
kans; Incrcasc-Jamos d. Warren, Jessup