Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-10

said. come fr )m the Mormons They pro-
tested against the provision of the consti-
tuition which dlsfranchised bigamists and
polygamlsts, and persons who are mem
bers Of an association which encourages
bigamy. After considerable debate the
bill went over till tomorrow.
FRIDAY. April 4.
Senate-ln speaking onone of the
today, Mr.. Stone V Mo- = said that a0u no
people had been so despoiled and bur
dened under the name of patriotism and
under the guise of pension laws as has the
people of the United States He denounced
the demands of the G.. A. R. and asserted
that the presidency was put up and sold to
the highest bidder There was one grand
man who had declined to be party to such
a sale. Though he had fallen. he had
fallen bearing the reputation of wise and
incorruptible craftsmanship and enjoying
the respect of every honest citizen zap
plause on the democratic side). Benja-
min Harrison had attained his
maker and disbursed by Dudley.
He (Stone) believed the government had
been generous enough to the soldiers.
Speaking for himself, and speaking, he
knew, against the Judgment of his party
associates, he declared that he had gone
as for in the direction of pensions as he
intended to go, and he represented one of
the largest ex-union soldier districts in
the country. He favored liberal system
of pension laws, but he entered his earn
est protest against indefensible extrava-
gance IL public expenditures. He favored
the granting of liberal persons to true and
brave soldiers. but he was opposed to
granting pensions to undeserving soldiers
or bounty Jumpers. Mr.. Lane Qll.) in
favoring the bill referred to a remark
made by Mr.. Stone that contest existed
between the government and soldiers, and
said that the man who would declare that
was as ignorant of the relations of the gov
eminent and soldiers as a Hottentot.
The democrats of Illinois did not en-
dorse the gentlemen from Missouri, but
believed as he (Lane) did that the govern
ment had not done justice to the men who
had defended it in its hour of peril,
Mr.. Chapman Mich. criticised and de-
nounced the speech made by the gentle
man from Missouri. 1t was not the time
to talk of the cost of pensions. He well
remembered the day whenthe government
was prodigal of money and lavish of
blood; when the motives which brought
men under the flag We're not scanned
and analyzed; when the man who en-
listed was the hero of tie hour. Then
no man was mean enough to suggest
that the men went out to risk their lives
for the paltry pay of SIG a month. The
man who made such suggestion would
have been whipped and scourged and
looked upon as a rebel. He could not
have lived in decent society The gen
tleman from Missouri (Stone) called for a
halt; but the time for halt had not
come and would not come until reason
able provision had been made for the
needs of every soldier of tae country. The
country needed a service pension; it need
ed an increased pension for the deaf and
dumb; it needed pension for Widows
and it needed law establishing the the
rule of testimony in pension cases, where
by the oath of private soldier would re-
celve as much credence as that of an Off
Ger. The pension system must continue
until the last soldier who served his coun-
try In the war was dead and gathered to
his fathers. The house then went into
committee of the whole on the private
calendar. Bills for the allowance of
certain claims for stores and supplies used
by the United States army under the
provisions of the Bowen act, were discuss
ed at length, mainly ON points of order
Pending action the committee rose and
the house took a recess. the evening session
to be for the consideration of private pen
sion bills. -
SATURDAY, April 5.
Senate.-In the senate today among
taI fro,
president of the Methodist Episcopal
church mission protesting against the
passage of, the bill providing for the dep
ortation and Imprisonment of Chinese
found in this country without certificates;
also a resolution of the board of commerce
of San Francisco against the repeal of the
Chinese exclusion act and for additional
legislation to effectually prevent Chinese
immigration. The house bill to provide
for town site entries of land in Okla
homa was amended by the insertion
of a proviso that the certificates
taken as evidence in favor of any person
claiming lots who entered them in viola
ton of the command of the PRESIDENT
proclamation, and then passed. Among
the senate bills passed were the following:
Appropriating $4,000 for an Indian in
dustrial school at Flandreau, S. D.
To provide for the disposal of the Viz VIZ
Enus a fGna APp 2e atnaf SSGno
for the National museum: After a
bills on the calendar were then taken
hour. One OF them was one giving a
pension of 800 per month to the widow of
Gen. John F. Hartranft
Houston motion of Mr.. Hen6 erson
QH.), resolution was adopted
calling on the Secretary of war for in
formation as to whether the project to
open the channel between Lake Ontario
and Irondequoit bay will be of advantage
to the commerce of the lakes. A bill was
passed increasing to eleven the mem
bership of the board of managers of
the national home for disabled volunteer
soldiers and making the following APP
pointments: Edmund Morril (Kas.) for
the unexpired term of Office of John A.
Martin, deceased; Alfred L. Pearson
Penn for the unexpired term of office OF
John +. Hartranft, deceased, and VIM. b.
Franklin Conn.,; John G. Black (Il.l;
August B. Farnham (Me. J, and George w.
Steel 0nd.) For the term of office COM
mencing A pril 21. 1890, to FILL vacancies
occasioned by the expiration of terms of
office and by the increase provided herein.
On motion of Mr.. Hopkins, the bill
passed for the erection of public build
ing at Aurora, ILL.,, to cost $4,000. At
3 o'clock all public business was sus
pended, and the house proceeded to pay a
tribute to the memory of Newton W. VI
ling, of New York. After eulogistic