St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-12
The Popular Branch Of Con-
gress Passes a Depend
ent Pension Bill.
It Will Cost the Country From
Thirty to Sixty Mill
ions Annually.
Senators to Shelve Their Sill
YER Bill and Pass the
House Measure.
First Conviction Of a Star
Reuter- Who Jumped
His Contract.

WASHINGTON, June 11.-In the house
to-day Mr.. Mills, of Texas, was ap-
pointed a member of the committee on
rules, and Mr.. Turner, of Georgia, a
member of the committee on ways and
means. to fill the vacancies Occasioned
by the resignation of Mr.. Carlisle, of
Kentucky The conference report on
the senate dependent pension bill was
presented and the previous question or
dered. In explanation of the report
Mr.. Morrill, stated that the conference
committee had stricken out the de-
pendent feature of the senate bill and
the service feature of the house
bill. 1t would distribute $4,000, 900
among the poor soldiers of the nation.
Mr.. Yoder, of Ohio, protested against
the conference report. holding that it
ignored the demand of the soldier and
his petitions for per diem rate of pen
sion. Protests were made on similar
grounds by Messrs. Springer and
Turner. and, after further discussion,
the conference report was agreed to-
yeas 145. nays Sc: all the Minnesota
members voting in the affirmative. Mr..
Stewart. of Vermont, presented the
conference report ON the senate anti
trust bill. He said that the effect of the
report was nOt,as had beenssupposed, to
repeal the anti-pooling provision of the
interstate commerce law. The explain
atory report on the part of the house
conferrees (Mr. Bland, of Missouri.
dissenting) says: "In the original bill
two things
Were Declared Illegal,
VIZ: contracts in restraint of interstate
commerce and the monopolization of
such trade. Its only object was the con-
troll of the trusts, so called. so far as
such combinations in their relation to
interstate are within reach of federal
legislation. The house amendment ex-
tends the scope of the act to all agree
mentS entered into for the purchase or
sale of commodities, or in the transpor-
tation of persons or property within the
illegal any agreement for relief from
the effects of competition in the
two industries of transportation
and sale of merchandise, however
excessive or destructive such COM
petition may be. The amendment re-
ports by the conferrees is the senil
clause with the added proviso thatth 9
power of the states over the subjects
embraced in the act shall not be i'm
paired thereby. 1t strikes from the
house amendment the clause relating to
contracts for the purchase and sale of
merchandise, and mOdifieS the trans
portation clause by making unlawful
agreements which raise rates above
what is just and reasonable. Mr.. An
derson, of Kansas, argued that the bill
would virtually have the effect of nulli-
flying the anti-pooling feature of the in
terstate commerce law. The report
went over until tomorrow without ac-
tion, and the house, at 80 p. M, ad-
jOurned.
Millions for Veterans.
The dependent pension bill as agreed
upon by the conference and reported to
the house, and adopted by it to-day,
after providing for the pensioning of
dependent parents, says that all persons
who served three months or more in the
military or naval service of the United
States during the war of the rebellion
and who have been honorably dis
charged therefrom, and who are now,
or who may hereafter be suffering from
mental or physical disability of per-
manent character, not the result OF
their vicious habits, which incapaciates
from their performance of manual labor
in such degree as to render them un-
able to earn support, shall be placed
upon the list of invalid pension
ers of the United States be entitled to
receive pension not to exceed s12 per
month and not less than Sc per mouth,
proportioned to their inability to earn
support, such pension to continue
during the existence of such disability.
Rank in the service shall not be consid-
cred in applications filed under this
act" Provision is made for penSioning
at the rate of So month widows of men
who served ninety days without prov
ing death the result of army service,
and likewise granting SO a month to
each child under sixteen years of age.
Ten dollars is fixed as limit of the
fee to be charged by agents in prepar-
ing cases under this act.