Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-01
PENSIONS FOR ALL.
The House Passes MOrrillS
Measure
As a Substitute for the Senate
Bill.
Both Dependent and Service Pensions
Provided For.
AL Veterans Over Sixty Years of Age to
Receive SO Month-Also All
Disabled Soldiers.
Associated Press Dispatches.

wooden cloths passed-yeas 13S, nays
none, the Speaker counting quorum.
The text of the bill follows the Secretary
of the Treasury's instructions, and au
thorizes the classification as wooden
cloths of all imports of worsted
cloth, known under the name of worsted
cloths, or under the names Of worsted or
diagonals, or otherwise.
The committee on rules reported q
resolution for the immediate considera-
ton of the Senate Dependent Pension
bill, for which the Morrill, Service Pen
sion bill may be offered as a substitute
the previous question to be considered
ordered at O'Clock. Adopted.
Carlisle protested against the adoption
of resolutions of this character, which
took away from the committee the whole
right to consider bills, and forced the
House to vote upon them after brief
debate. 1t was not fair to the members
of the House it was not fair to the tax
payers of the country Pension esti-
mates were never liberal enough, and,
he said, the expenditures under the
Senate bill would amount to $45, 900, 900,
and under the House bill to $50,000,00O.
From this time ON he would protest
against this system, and insist upon the
rights of members to have an opportunity
for discussion and amendment.
Henderson, of Iowa, inquired whether
the gentlemen on the other side would
support measures desired by soldiers
Carlisle said he was not authorized to
speak on this subject, but in his opinion
there were gentlemen on the Democratic
side who would give the soldiers more
than the gentleman from Iowa was
willing to give them.
Henderson-Youa are liberal when you
are out of power. We took care of
the soldiers when you had the majority,
and we intend to take care of them
now.
After considerable further debate of
this nature, Mckinley said the resolu-
ton was justified under the present code
of rules and by precedence set by the
House. The Republicans wanted to do
public business; the country wanted re-
suits, not speeches.
The resolution was adopted and Nor
rill spoke in support of the bill. The
total number OF persons put upon the
pension roll under the provisions of the
bill, he said, was estimated at 0,00o,
at the annual cost of $39, ,629,OOO This
act of justice had been too long delayed.
Ii the Government was to grant service
pension, it should grant it without
delay.
Yoder, Of Ohio, spoke for per diem
pension bill, and charged the Republi-
cans with not being true to their prom
ises to the soldiers. The pending bill
inht ha hot
viding pensions to soldiers after they are
dead, and then their widows, providing
they become paupers before they die"
Tarsney, of Missouri, opposed the bill
because it made no discrimination be-
tween 3-month and 3-year soldiers; be-
cause it made no distinction between
disability resulting from service and that
resulting from the various conduct Of
the pensiOner.
Grosvenor, of Ohio, said the bill, if
passed, would make the pension roll
number $50, 900, with total expendi-
ture of $150,000,000 per annum. This
gross sum amounted to nearly forty
three per cent. of the gross income of
the Government. 1t was munifcent
generosity, such as the world had never
before witnessed, and exceeding that of
all the civilized nations combined.
Springer opposed the bill because it
made no discrimination as to length of
service. W
Sayers, OF Texas, opposed the bill in
the interest OF the taxpayers OF the
country.
After further debate an amendment
was agreed to on the Morrill, bill, re-
ducing the age of limitation from 81 to
60 years.
The Morrill, bill was agreed to as sub
stitute for the Senate bill-yeas 1888,
nays II.
YOder moved to recommit the bill
with instructions that the committee
report back per diem pension bill.
Lost-43 to 161.
The Senate bill as amended by the
substitute was then passed-179 to 10
amid applause, and the House ad-
journed.
The bill authorizes the Secretary of
the Treasury to place on the pension roll
the name of any officer or enlisted man
sixty years old or over who served ninety
days or more in the war and shall have
received an honorable discharge; said
pension to commence from the date of
application and continue during life at
the rate of eight dollars per month. All
persons who served ninety days or more
and were honorably discharged and who
are now or may hereafter be suffering
from mental or physical disability, shall,
upon due proof, be placed upon the list
of invalid pensions at SO per month.
The bill also provides a pension for the
widow of any soldier when she shall ar
rive at the age of sixty years or be with
out other support than daily labor.
Senate Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-In the Senate
today, Dolph, from the committee on
foreign relations, reported concurrent