St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-24
BENNY WILL SIGN II.
Senators Adopt the Confer
ence Report on the De-
pendent Pension Bill.
It Is Sent to the Eminent
Hoosier for His Ap-
prevail.
A Wide Difference Of Opinion
as to the Amount It
Carries.
Idaho's Test Oath for Nor
mons to Be Applied to
Utah.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 23.-ln the
senate to-day Mr.. ingalls, offered reso-
luton, which was agreed to, instructing
the committee OH privileges and cleo
lions to inquire the date when, under
the laws and presidents, the salaries of
the senators from Montana and Wash
ington and North and South Dakota
began. Consideration of the agricult-
ural college aid bill was resumed, and
Mr.. Merrill offered substitute for the
various amendments pending on Satur-
day as to the division of the fund be-
tween colored and white schools of
state. Mr.. MorrilPs amendment was
adopted. Several formal amendments
were made to the bill and it
passed. The conference report on
the dependent pension bill was
taken up, and Mr.. Berry made speech
against it. The practical effect of it
would be, he said, to put 80 per cent of
the Union soldiers into a pension roll.
1t was really service pension bill, and
the chairman of the committee on pen
sions (Mr. Davis could not deny that.
Mr.. Davis, chairman OF the pension
committee, said the amount of the in
crease to enlisted men would be S., 4OO,-
and the total amount, Including pen
sions to children of surviving widows)
$40, 254, 900. The question of expense,
he said, was of no Importance.
Nothing Was Extravagant
that was right. Mr.. German predicted
a deficit of 100000 in 1892 if this bill
did not become law, and of 100000
600 if it were enacted. Mr.. Ingalls, said
the delay in adjusting cases in the PEN
sion office, to which Mr.. German had
referred, was not the result of made
Quate clerical force, but of the failure
of applicants to furnish requisite evil
dence. He spoke of the sacred Obliga-
ton of the government, and referred
contemptuOusly to frugal patriots;
parsimonious defenders of the treas
ury." He said he was in favor of re-
moving the limitation in the act grant
ing arrears of pensions. He did not
care whether it cost hundred or
thousand millions. He believed that
every surviving Union soldier ought to
be put on the pension roll for services.
AT the conclusion of the discussion the
conference report was agreed to-yeaS
81, nays 1S-aS follows:
Yeas-Messrs Allen, Blair, Call, Casey,
Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dixon.
Edmunds, Evarts, Farwell Frye, Hale, Haw-
ley Hearst, Higgins, Hoar, ingalls,, Mander-
son, Moody, Peddock, Pettigrew, Pierce,
Platt, Plumb, Power. Sanders, Sawyer,
Spooner, Teller, Turple, Washburn-34.
Nays-Barbour, Bates, Berry, Coke, George,
Gibson, Harris, Kenna, Mcpherson, Morgan,
Pasco, Payne, Pugh. Reagan, Vance, Vest.
Walthall-1S.
A conference was ordered on the
Notification bill, and Messrs. Dawes,
Plumb and German were appointed con-
ferrees on the part of the senate. Mir.
Evarts gave notice that the commem-
orative services in the case of his late
colleague. S. S. Cox, heretofore an
nounced for Thursday next, would take
place at 8 O'clock OH Tuesday of next
week. After short secret session the
senate at p. m. adjourned till to-mor-