New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-31
A LESSON no THE DEMOCRACY.
REBUKED AGAIN BY BoURKE COCHRAN.

WHOLESOME TRUTHS on THE PENSION QUESTION
THE BLAIR AND LOGAN BILLS PASSED.
WASHINGTON, March 30 Special. The bills
granting to the widows of General Logan ana
General Blair pensions Of $4,000 year cach
passed the House this afternoon, after four hours
of debate that at times exceedingly vigorous
One wing Of the Democrats insisted that this was
class legislation and likely to create pensioned
aristocracy" while the other wing shared the
prevailing Republican idea that it was lifting
recognition Of the services OF the dead officers
Tho vote on the Logan bill "a to 90, and
that on the Blair bill l4s to OIL. The negative
vote was of course solidly Democratic and largely
from the South.
Eloquent tributes 10 the dead commanders
were bald In the speeches of Messrs. Henderson,
Cannon, Springer and others MIR. Tarsney LED
the opposition, occupying most OF MS tlthe WIN
an effort to show how magnanmous the Dcmo-
cratic party had been to soldiers. Elaborate
tables which it had taken larsney two Ton;hs
to prepare were presente show MN h as in the
Union Army as Republicans. " How about those
pension vetoes ?" came from the other side. Yes
backbone to veto those bills" responded Tars
new He urged that this was move toward
pensonng the widows Of Senators ho ipr i logan an
o ciIH Chairman NIatson, of the Committee
on Invalid Pensions also insisted that the bills
were vicious" Soon they would be followed
by the demands Of other, widows, until Congre,sss
would be pensioning all OF them; amen en-
smphaa from a the BP PSat th %as
class legislation" The widows Of General PauI
and General Ricketts, had Just been granted 800
month"; and this was building up CLASS o.
highly pensioned persons.
When Bourke Cochran Of New-Yorl, arose
there was marked interest shown, Tor muoh ms
been expected OF him s s Martin and other
Southerners began cross fire In the rear, SooK
rnn drove in his retorts with siedgehammer olows
! iaagnes were fallaciously arguing that this was
class legislation. Class legislation was based
social sandns but in hess se saVn
t Me.' country. These commanders had rsked
everything II the war hed been failnre, wh ma
c @Tsp outiawry or something worse might have
stared them IN the face i protest" came rom ON
q Assf%s thu the fe sns
served in the Confederacy also growleo az .n IN,
srraignment by his Democratic colleague Cock.
T1p was Ss ooseS ' fR w ho s
speeches both Of them being iashing OF his
party for their pre- Wss Of virga
aeGsS A to haVe Se enactng clause Of
struck out but his party associates saw 'nat O O
position was idle and the oilis weh' 70 nnA'
| vote
Logan Pension bill: Messrs Anderson OF LII
nos; BIggs Bliss Campbell ran I 81 Ssw-
F FSr Ford Gay. Glover, Hayes no Hooker
Howard HHdd LOn Lane M LSEsS M Ms1T%an
| Mahonpy. MnnSur, mcAdOO NlcSntiic We
| nntbIvaite Randall Rayner Rice Sowden, Spring,
er Towpshend Vance; Weaver W,lk WsSo d Rs.
| Yoder Messrs Cheadle, Flood, and Waoe' he-
publicans, voted IN the negative.
A ouIET GOOD FRIDAY" IN THE HOUSE
w.su,NeroS. March 3o.-Mr. HOPKINS. Of New
work presented memorials OF citizens OF Ulster County
nrayina Congress to leave undlsturbed tho present
duty on cement. Referred .
A Joint resolution apprcprating $4,000 TO enaoie
the United States to participate in the 1nternstoha
Exhibition at Barcelona, Spain, in April, 1885, was
passed 1900. ,.oana the
Under the special order, tho business became inc
confederation Of the House bill granting pension VI
40 600 per annum to Mary 8 Logan ana me nnin
h Increasing 10 that amount The pension 10 hpPSs'
| 4 Blar For summary OF debate see ano'nei N
The evening session was devoted to private p0'''o'
bills.
ACTION ON MERCANTILE BILLS DELhiEh
washington. March 80 tspeciaD.-lt was expected
that N, House Committee on Merchant Marine would
finally dispose Of the Tonnage and the Free shp Ss
today hut action postponed uhtll heAt uJay
| Eents,n Ambrose Snow and exCongressman Cslhlhs