Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-06
FIFriErn CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, July 8. 1883.
Senate,

Senate,
On motion Of Mr.. Edmunds II was ordered
that when the Senate adjourn to-day 1t be
TIL Monday.
MIR. Cullom gave notice that he world on
Monday next ask the Senate 10 consider the
bill 10 amend the interstate commerce act.
A message from the President vetoing the
bill granting pension TO Mary Anne
poherty was presented aud read. IL states
that large share OF the report OF the Senate
Committee on Pensions adopted also by the
House committeel consists OF a petition In
which the woman says that her husband
(who had served In New Jersey regiment)
left her In 1865 aud has not been heard from
since. She had received pensions 40 the
widow Of Daniel Doherty until II was dis
covered that he was alive and living In Phila-
delphia and was himself drawing q
pension there. She had succeeded in
gettipg pension In the first in
stance by much false swearing. The POI
lice records OF Washington (whero she has
been living) showed her 10 be a woman Of
very bad character and that she had been
under arrest nine times for drunkenness,
larceny, creating disturbances, and other mis-
demeanors. The theory seemed to be estab-
lished, the President says, that no man who
has served In the army could be a subject OF
death or OF impaired health except as the re-
suit OF army service, medical theories being
set nj naught. Even suicide was traced by
devious and wonderfully curious ways TO
service In the army, aud adjudicalions
OF the Pension Bureau were over
ruled In the most peremptory fashion by
special acts OF Congress. The President
would yield 10 no man, he says, in the de-
sire 20 see those VITO had defended the
Government literally treated. The unfriend-
illness 10 veteran soldiers was the charge
exactly and sometimes dishonesty made.
The true soldier WAS q good citizen And
would be satisfied with generous treatment.
The pension list Of the republic should be
roll OF honor, NOT q matter OF indiscriminate
slmsgiying. He had attempted to stem the
tide OF improyident pension ensctments,
but he stsIi felt share OF responsibility In
letting too many Of them become laws.
The BIN and message were referred to the
Committee on Pensions; n were two other
pension yetoes-ehe on the ground that
death had no connection with service Ia the
army, and the other on the ground that the
records did not show that the soldier I'm
question lszid 70 have been an officer killed
Ia the Custer massacre, was In that expe-
dirion.
The conference report on the agricultural
appropriation bill was presented and ex-
planned in detail By Mr.. Plumb. On one
point the committee had been unable 10
sgree--that was the item inserted By the Sem
ate making an appropriation Of $l00. 900 fer
continuing the experiments 10 The manafAc-
ture Of sugar froa SORGHUM. The confer.
ence report was concurfed 10 and further
conference was asked Gu the sorghum item.
A conference vss ordered on the post
ofljce appropriation bin and Senators Plumb,
Allison, and Beck were appointed.
The Senate then, At l:40, iustesd OF adj
ionrniHg, took recess till $50 10 give time
Tor the enrolment Of certain bills rsquirins
the fIenstuses Of the presiding officers OF
both houses. After patiently but sainly