Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-01
WHOLE NO. 1864.


peror OF China containing a provision that
no chinese laborers shall enter the United
States. Laid over.
Mitchell offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, instructing the Committee on
Public Lands to inquire into the propriety
and advisability of having seven or eight
townships of the public domain, surround
ing and including Mount Hood, OI egon. set
apart as national park.
The bill to provide for the compulsory
education OF Indian children, as amended
by Vest, was passed.
The Senate then resumed consideration
OF The bill granting pensions to ex.soldiers
and sailors incspacitated for the perform
ance Of manual labor, and providing for
pensions 70 dependent relations of deceased
soldiers aud slii0rS
In The debate which took place Plumb
delivered an eloquent eulogy ON the army.
Vest said they had heard q good deal
about the alns-house and veteran soldiers
IN the SlG,e uf Missouri. There were no
Federal soiGierB in the aims house, and he
was proud to say there were no Oonfed-
crates either. The South to-day was coy-
cred with manned and crippled soldiers.
who had been shot and shelled for their
honest convictions, and thev asked no pen
sion, and would not take it. God be blessed
that they were not in the aims house, and
none OF them ever have been seen begging
for bread. Whence, then, came the talk Of
Federal soldiers being in alms-houses?
They were not there. He was tired and sick
Of the inslnuations of injustice, and of pre-
tense and hypocrisy in the name of the
true and gallant soldiers OF the Union. He
would give every disabled or dependent
soldier of the Federal army and the widows
and orphans of those who have lost their
lives IN the service, the last acre of land
and the last dollar. He would have done
the same for the Confederate soldiers. :: if
God had blessed our cause Why this
talk that Congress has not done enough for
the soldiers, when the country had raid
out since 1865, 1888, 600 900 for pensiopsP~
liberality unparalleled in the history of
the world. That great military and polit-
lcal organization, the Grand Army of the
Republic, had thrown its lance into the
debates of Congress and sent bills to their
accredited Senators for the purpose of being
enacted. When the President had honestly
and bravely discharged his executive duty,
and vetoed an enactment which be eonsid-
cred improper, he had been threatened by
the officers OF that organization with per
sonal insult if he dared make his presence
known in the city where it held its annual
meeting. There was limit to human en-
durance. He Vest had voted for pension
bills, coerced by his position, because he
had been Confederate and because he
was honestly anxious for the honor
and glory OF the country. He had voted
for them because he wanted to give evi-
dence to the world that the men with
whom he had acted in the unfortunate
strife respected the soldiers of the Union
and were willing to give them even more
than they demanded. But there is a
limit and I haUn roaphaA ,r,;Il L.
driven no further by claim agents and
plunderers in the garb of soldiers
Vest went on TO say that of z, 300 600 men
enrolled as soldiers during the four years
OF the war, there were applications from
], ,2000 for pensions on account of dis
ability Such military execution had
! never been known III the history of the
World. Who believed they were honest
applicants2 Who believed these pension
bills had not degenerated into political
abuse, which cried aloud for redress3 He
bad great regard for many of his friends on
the opposite side of the chamber and in
the words which he had spoken he had
wished to give an opportunity to some of
them to throw their shining lances among
the Confederate Brigsdiers" and try to carry
of the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent. i recent dispatch from Paris had
caused political candidates to become rs
thick ''as leaves In Valombrosa." The
doors Of the Republican party were now
open, and Presidential candidates were COM
ing 10 the front without limit as to guam
| tity or locality, and the Senate had been
engaged for some days past i'll political
auction for soldiers votes.
IN conclusion, Vest said Partisan or
non-parusaD. my convictions require me
to vote against tie bill, and say here and
nov that ! nope 1t may die the death in
the other branch ct the National Congress,
and if not there, then a; the hands o. the
Executive. II that be uBparliamerta--
make the most of il"
a number Of Republicans replied shf
TO Vest, aud after long debate the
adjourned without action.
Tho Hoase.
WASHINGTON, February 29th.
House, in Committee OF the V
bill authorizing the Secretary of
ury TO purchase bonds with III
revenue was considered Mills
and Mckinley of Ohio. carried
part of the debate, McKinley
speech attacking President CT,
fusal to apply the surplns func
demption of bonds
Weaver of Iowa, followed "
on the national banking system
IN certain banks immense sun
A4io UuI4uss tlS present AuuDH
been presided over by ex-of
Treasury Department.
Reed OF Maine, Breckenrid
lucky and Randall of Pennsyl
cipated in the debate, after whic
of Kentucky offered the follow.
ment, which was accepted by
Providing that the bonds so pun
redeemed shall constitute no pa
sinking fund, but shall be cancelled
Secretary OF the Treasury"
The committee then rose, and the
was passed
The bill relating to postal crimes
passed.
bill was passed dividing the Sta
Minnesota into two collection districts,
making 81. Paul port OF entry and
Vincent a Sub-poTI.
Eulogies on the late Congressman Mot
of Michigan, were then delivered.
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