The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-27
DOINGS In CONGRESS-.
Pensions for the Widows OF
Logan and Blair.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS
The Memorial of the Society Of
Friends Asking for an interna-
tfonal Arbitration Tribunal.
SENATE,

WASHINGTON, January 26.-Among
the.petitions and memorials presented
and referred, were:
Of the Chicago Board of Trade,
asking retAIiatory legislation against
France and Germany for excluding
American meat.
Several petitions from Pennsylvania,
against the admission of Utah as q
State with polygamy.f
The Senate took from the calendar.
and passed the bill increasing the pen
sion for total deafness to $50 month
from $13, and allowing a propOrtionate
rating for partial deafness. The entire
increased expense to the Treasury
under the bill will not exceed 500 900
year.
The calendar was taken up and the
bills thereon taken up in their regular
order, those being objected to being
laid aside without action. The follow
ing were passed:
Senate bill to extend the limits to the
port of Portland, Oregon, as a port of
entry.
Senate bill to amend the act of the
10th of June, $780, as to the immediate
transportation of 'dutiable goods, ex-
tending the act to Seattle and Tacoma,
W.. I.
To create port of delivery at Port
Angeles, in the District of Puget Sound,
w. r.
Granting to the State of California
5 per cent. of the net proceeds of the
cash sales of public lands in that State.
After debate, the bill giving pension
of 200 year to the widow of General
Logan, was passed by vote of 55 to 7.
The bill giving like pension to the
widow of General Frank P. Blair also
passed, after the. Senate resumed
consideration of the Blair educational
bill.
Berry opposed the bill on the ground
that it was wrong in principle. He OBJ
jected to it in the interest of the wild
oWs of other officers and private SOL
diers,
Stewart advocated the bill. He said
General Logan had been the idol of the
volunteer soIdiery. On all occasions he
had fought their battles in the Senate
and elsewhere. He believed that the
widows of all private soldiers would re-
joice in the passage of the bill. 1t was
necessary for the country to have some
conspicuous examples, something for
young men hereafter to emulate.
favor of the bill.
Reagan stated his reason for voting
against the bill. The founders of the
Government had prohibited Congress
and the States from coAferring patents
OF nobility, proceeding on the idea that
there was 20 be no privileged ella in |
the United States. For three
quarters of a century that went;
but within the last quarter
of q century these principles had been |
disregarded, and Federal judges and |
military and naval officers had been re-
tired with pensions. All this tended in |
the direction of privileged class to be !
supported by taxes levied on, other
people. Ass /
Gal said. that he would vote for the |
bill with great pleasure. There never
had been, and never would be, gov
eminent in which merit was not re-
warded. |
Berry called for the yeas and nays on
the passage of the bill, yeas 5, nays 7.
The negative votes were given by |
Messrs. Berry, Coke, Colquit, Harris, !
Reagan, Salisbury and Vance.
The name was corrected so as to |
read Mary S. Logan, not Mary a., on |
the motion of Vest.
A like bill, increasing to $1,000 a 1
year the pension Of the widow of GEN
eral FranksP. Blair was passed by a vote I
of 81 TO 6, Mr.. Salisbury not voting
In executive session the nomination |
of Martin V. Montgomery to be Asso-
ciate Justice of tie Supreme Court, d. |
c., and J. B. Hoge, district attorney
for the same place, were confirmed.
Adjourned.