The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-29

RADIO would tell the Senate what he thought
OF the speech of the Senator from Nebraska
MIR Manderson) as to the action of the
Grand Army of the Republic-the bene-
ticiaries under the bill--aS to what their
lodges and posts had determined that the
Senate should do, and how far that was
legitimate. The Senator from Nebraska
had told the Senate that the action of the
Committee on Pensions in reporting the bill
had grown out of the action of the Grand
Army of the Republic, which was to be it
self a beneficiary under the bill. The Sena-
tors speech, he said, was more degrading to
the Senate than any allusion to the Presi-
dents action on the bill could be.
Mr.. Blackburn said he deprecated the
violation of that very proper rule which
| prohibited a Senator or Representative
from undertaking to influence legislative
action by any reference to the presumed
course of the executive. He had heard that
rule violated by three Senators-Messrs.
Davis, Manderson and Blair These Sena-
| tors had all said that the bill had to be
framed and fashioned to avoid veto mes
sage at the hands of the executive.
A POLITICAL ARMY.
He did not know what authority they had
for the statement, but he did know that
| there was but one political organization in
| the country to-day which was in perfect
!
with knapsacks packed and all things ready.
1t was the Grand Army of the Republic,
which represented the only efficiently organ
| lied political system on the continent to-
! day. The Senator from Nebraska, who so
ably championed the bill, had told the Sen
ate and country that the bill was a demand
made by the Grand Army of the
| Republic, and had protested substan-
| TALLY against any material amendment
of it-because that organization had formu-
| lated-what! Not its petition to an Ameri-
| can Congress, but its demand on an Ameri-
can Congress for legislation, i'll which (as
! his colleague had Said) it was itself to be
the beneficiary.
IN THE FORM OF A COMMAND.
| If the Senator from Nebraska was to be
accepted as authority, the bill was not pc
tition, but demand sent to Congress by a
| great and well organized and perfectly sys.
| tematized political body, that proposed to
remove the trouble which environed both
houses, to do away with revenue bills, and
tariff revisons and additions of the internal
revenue taxation, and to dispose of the
Treasury surplus by such bills as this; and
| that was the only practical solution to be
| offered by the Republican party for the
! financial difficulties in which the country
was involved. He denied that the Senator
| from Minnesota, Nebraska or New Hamp-
|
or authority to charge, or to intimate that
| the President had made up his mind to veto
| the bill if it went to him in one shape or in
another shape.
| OVER JEALOUS.
After some remarks by Messrs. Mander-
son and Blair Mr.. Blackburn went on to
say that it was not to be wondered ct if
those Senators in their zeal should under
take to warn the SUPERFICIAL of the land
against the Edisloyal policy of the loyal ex-
ecutive If those Senators were unwilling
to submit the bill for the determination of
an American Congress, but insisted
that it should go through in stereotyped
form (after the pro-crustean fashion, be-
cause the Grand Army of the Republic so
decreed it, and if they meant to dispose of
the surplus in the Treasury in that way and
no other, they should be frank enough to
face the issue and to go to the country upon
| it.
After further debate by Messrs. Teller,
Hoar, Blackburn, Blair and Manderson, the
bill went over without action and the Sen
ate proceeded to executive business, and at
o'clock adjourned.