Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-17
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
PENSION APPROPRIATION BILL
Under Consideration in the Senate.
TARIFF TALK IN THE HOUSE.
The Senate.

The Senate.
Among the bills reported from committees and
placed on the calendar were the following:
The House bill to provide for the allotment of
land in severalty to the united Peorias and Miams
in the Indian Territory.
The Senate bills granting right OF way to rail-
road companies through Indian reservations in
Wisconsin, Dakota and Washington.
The Senate bill for the relief OF acting assistant
surgeons in the Army (Mr. Cockren disagreeing9
The committee of conference on the House bill
IN regard to the Cincinnati centennial exposition
resolution directing the attorney general to
answer without Unnecessary telay the resolution
to ana arch as ad
Mr. wilson QOwa), gave notice that he would
ask the Senate on Monday %, to take up and act
lands
On motion Of Mr. Frye, the vote by which the
Dill hiking the compensation OF inspectors OF huls
ana boilers In certain districts was passed yester-
day was reconsdered, and the bill was amended
SO as 10 include the district Of New London Cat
$l,oOO) and again passed,
THE PENSION APPROPRIATION BILL
was then taken up, the question being on the
amendment reported by the committee on appro-
proprations to strike out the words: ''That in all
pensions TO widows payments shall be made from
the date or the death OF the husband and to insert
"Ihat all payments which have been or which may
hereafter be granted under the general laws regu-
lating pensions to widows In consequence OF death
occurring from a cause which originated In the
service since March 4, 1861, shall commence from
the date Of the death Of the husband"
Mr.. Cockrell moved to amend the amendment BY
striking out the words (which have been OF, so
He estimated that the additional cost under the
Senate amendment would be 81, ,473,OOO II his
own ,Hn. amendment We're adopted the add ddd
II, however, the House provision were agreed 10,
there was no estimating its cost; and the senate
in reference to it. The only estimate made by the
pension Offlce was as to the widows Of the war OF
1872 and OF the Mexican, Florida and other Indian
wars, and the additional cost under the House pro-
vision would be (aS TO them) $S352 In addition to
all that would have to be added the claims OF wild
ows, whose pensions were allowed by special acts
or congress, and In many Instances the arrears
would run up to many thousand dollars. But, he
repei 1t was absolutely impossible TO calculate
with any accuracy the many millions that would
be taken out OF the Treasury by reason OF the
House provision.
TO SAVE s715,OOO.
Mr.. Teller said that the amendment offered by
Mr. Cockrell would save Sis, 600; and II the Sen
ate deemed it essential to effect that saving, it
should adopt that amendment II, on the other
hand, 1t was the the purpose OF the senate to do
equal and exact justice to all classes OF widows,
the amendment reported by the committee on ap-
prOpriatiOnS should be adopted.
Mr.. Allison explained that the theory OF the
amendment reported by the committee on ap-
preparations was that 1t should apply only to
widows OF soldiers who had, themselves, received
pensions on account Of disability, and that 1t
should not apply to the widows OF soldiers who re-
ceived pension merely on account OF service
In the Mexican war and the war OF 1872.
MR.. BLAIR COMMENTED sARCAsrICALLY
on the liberality recently displayed In the House
OF Representatives toward those who had served
on the Union side in the war Of the rebelllon-com
menting particularly on the report OF the House
committee on pensions to remove the arrearages
limitations which n hapNfplla n
$250,OOO.OOO.
"a LONE HAND"
Mr.. Paddock suggested that the democratic
members OF the House committee on pensions
should be absOlved, as he understood that the
chairman Of that committee had been playing al
together "a lone hand"
In view OF that dawning reason and that sense
OF justice on the part OF the democratic majority
in the House, he thought that the Senate might
show little liberality In this matter.
Mr.. Beck inquired the meaning OF the phrase
"a lone hand, and was informed that If there was
any place In the world where that term was per-
fectly understood 1t was Kentucky.
Mr. Blair said he did not mean TO be understood
as saying that the House committee on pensions
only the bill for the removal OF the arrearages
limitation.
THE BILL PASSED.
The Senate passed the pension appropriation
BILL and then took up the calendar, under rule
providing that only unobJected measures shall be
considered.
House OF Representatives.
There appear to be just twenty-six members
who can get up early enough to hear the 10 O'Clock
prayer in the House. That number was present
this morning, but by half past 10 O'Clock had
largely increased and there was q considerable
number OF people In the gallartes
Mr.. Henderson Qowa) presented the conference
report on the Cincinnati exposition bill, and 1t
on motion Of Mr. Robertson tLa.s a bill was
passed 10 subdivfde the eastern judicial district OF
Louisiana.
IL The PROTECTIVE TARIFF IS ROBBERY TIE MILLS
BILL ONLY sRCTIoNALIZEs IT.
The House then went into committee of the
whole (Mr. Springer, Of Illinois, in the chair on
the tariff bill
Mr. Peters Kan) argued that If it was true, as
protective tarir was robbery, the Mills biil only
sectionalized that robbery. Robbery was q Dill
Laying, taking away by violence and by wrong.
people, and taking property by violence and wrong
He asked II IL was robbery to protect the WOOL
growers OF Ohio, why did the tarin reformers want
II it was robbery to protect hemp-growers, why
did they protect the sugar planters OF Louisiana?
Why, he asked, did they make the farmers pay
duty on the material with which the Western
farmer bound his sheaves OF wheat and make rree
the cotton ties for southern use? He went on TO
state the Inconsistencies from his point OF vew.in
the attitude OF the tarin rer0rmerS, and TO hold
them up TO ridicule, treating the subject In face
tiOuS way.
IF PROTECTION WAS ROBBERY,
and the democratic party was not In favor OF free
trade every democrat who supported protection
was rObber, and If the Mills bill was not free
trade measure, every democratic member OF the
ways and means committee was a robber He re-
viewed The speeches OF the members of what he
termed the robber gang, captained by Mills, who
had McMlll1n for hts lieutenant, and declared
that the absurdity Of some OF The statements
therein contained was enough to make a wooden
indiah standing In front OF cigar store smile out
loud. He then proceeded TO argue that tartfr
was not a tax unless the purchaser OF an article
had TO pay more for 1t On account OF the duty i'm
posed upon 1t, and this he contended was not the
tate.
IN SPITE OF THE TARIFF.
Mr.. Anderson QlL) antagonized the protective
system for having enriched chosen few and for
having accumulated In the Treasury o dangerous
surplus: and he cOntroverted the position that a
return 10 q revenue basis would result in q reduc-
tiOn OF the rates OF wages to labor. He Denied
That the manufacturing Industries Of Illinois had
been built up by protection and asserted that they
hao become prosperous In spite OF the tarir.
SPEECH OF MR.. BRECKENRIDGE, OF ARKANsAs
Mr.. Brecklnridge Ark.), opened his speech with
reference to and euiogy OF the Presidents an
nual message, ana declared that it had met with
great popular favOr that the political adversaries
OF the democratic party had sought some point of
attack along the democratic line, and that the
chief or the opposing forces who had rushed
vai1antly into the night had sent q letter which
was practically q letter OF resignation withdraw
Ing entirely from the contest In the course OF
10 the committee on ways and means and
that committees rpDOPfpd hhn ma