, 1890-06-24
FORTY MILLIONS MORE.
Pension Matters Discussed in
the Senate.
Conference Report on the De,
pendent Bill kgreed To.
What the West Will do at the
Worlds Fair.

WASHINGTON. June 20 ingalls, of
fered a resolution (agreud toy i%nstructing
the committee on privileges aud elections
to inquire as to the date when, under the
law aud precedents, the salaries of the
senators from Montana, Washington, and
North and South Dakota began.
The senate resumed consideration of
the agricultural college aid bill.
Morrill, offered a substitute for the va
rious amendments pending Saturday as to
the division of the fund between colored
and white schools.
Puph withdrew his amendment, the
Morrill, amendment was adopted and the
bill passed.
The conference report IN the depend
eut pension bill was taken mp and Berry
spoke against II.
the practical effect of it would be, Berry
said, to put 80 per cent Of the Union
soldiers on the pension rolls. 1t would
cost 5000, coo, 900. and the cry would sull
be for more. Yet no Northern senator or
representative dared to stand up in oppo-
sition to the pension bill. Northern Dem
ocrats and Northern Republicans con-
tended with each other as to which would
20 turthest to satisfy these demands. III
any Southern senator or representative
dared to oppose the pension bill he was
told On one side that he would iniure the
party and on the other he was denounced
as a traitor who had no right to announce
any opinion on the subject of pensions,
German also opposed the conference re-
port. The expenditures under the bill
aggregated $7S, ,054 and this added Ia
$l25, 900. 900 under the existing law, would
leave The treasury bankrupt in 1891.
DAVIS, chairman of the com mittee, said
Berry had been a consistent opponent oil
pension legislation for the benefit oil
Union soldiers, and what he said to day
was 10 direct line with what he had said
on other occasions. Davis denied the cor
rectness OF Germans figures and said the
expenditures under the bill would bt
abou. $40, 600. OOu. He denied that the
bill was a service pension bill and asserted
it was a disability bill pure and simple.
German said if the bill became a Law
there would be a deficit of 500, 900, 000i o
1892. and even fit did not become a Law
there would be a deficit of $40. 900, 900.
He called attention to what a Republican
leader (Mr. Blaine), the greatest leader
the party had had in his day and genera.
ton" had said as to the extravaganza Of
appropriations and unthoughtful and IN
wise legislation in the matter of revenue
He couiplimented Davis for the courage
with which he had scanned the tide Of
demagogues and claim agents, and pre-,
vented reporting a bill hat would have
cost $50 0O0. 900 a year.
ingalls, advocated the conference re
port. This was an obligation lust as sa
cred as that under which the soldier,
were paid. and yet the senate was asked
to postpone it, to higgle and haggle about
it. For himself he was in favor of a re
moval of the limitation in the act grant,
ing arrears of pensions. He did not cart
whether it cost one hundred millions or
billion.
Vest spoke of the munstrous abuse
that had grown up under the pension
system, aud declared his belief that tn,
pending bill was being pressed for per
sonal and political motives. He asserted
that the pension list was uniuly swollen
in Indiana because it was a pivotal state
and its vote was necessary to elect a pres
ident, and he ~proDhesied that the peooIt
OF the United States would revolt agalus
the pension system and its abuses.
'Gurpie said be had not heard of an,
charges In Indiana against the admins
tration of the pension bureau, and he wa
not prepared to say that political bias h4C
ANYTHING to with granting or refusing
pensions.
Hawley expressed the hope that sol
diers would not get the idea from wha
has been said today that the senate wa
favorable to the payment of arrears o
pensions, to The equalization of bountie
or the payment of the difference between
paper money and gold. He thought tina
altogether too much was said about whE
the nation owed the soldiers The prom
inent feeling in his state Was tina
the needy soldier should not suffer
but nothing should be wasted on
man who did not need a pension for sup
port. The true soldier did not wan
money wasted. They wanted their suffer
ing comrades aided. They want tn
glory of having fought for their countr
without respect to money considerations
Finally the discussion closed and a vot
was taken on the conference report
Agreed to-yeas 81, nays IS.
A conference was ordered on the forti6
cation bill and Dawes, Plumb and Cor
man appointed conteres on the part of tn
senate. After the executive session. tn
senate adjourned.