The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-10
THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
PENSIONS and PROHIBITION THE
THIeNES OF TALK IN THE SENATE.

Amendment
Army Bin Prohibiting SAles OF Liquor
at Army Posts ProVohes = Discussion o
the Question Does Prohibition Prohibit
Tariff Talk In tho House.
WARRINGTON, May 9.-In the Senate to
day the annual Pension Appropriation bill wal
taken up. the question being on the amend
ment offered yesterday by Mr.. Sherman in
oreasinR the number OF pension agents salary
$4,000 from eighteen to twenty. TWAS agreed
to-yeas, 25: nays. ia party vote, except thai
Mr.. Payne tDem.) voted aye. and Messrs Ali.
son, ingalls,, Plumb, and Teller tReps.) voted
mo. The bill having been reported back from
tho Committee Of the Whole to the Senate. the
question OF that amendment came up again.
Mr.. oockrell Dem. Mo- confessed that he
was mortified and Inundated at the fact that
the great Committee on Appropriations. headed
by the distinguished Senator from Iowa. had
peen Just ridden over rouRhshod by the Re-
publican majority In defiance OF every profess
eion made by that party for the last twenty
years. This was reform Administration"
an economical Administration !" and yet here
was the Republican majority In the Senate Gre
htinR two offices OF no more earthly benefit
Than the man burning sticks In the moon
There was no reason whatever for the increase
OF those two useless and unnecessary Offices
except for the benefit OF two spoilsmen. He
challenged any man to show the necessity for
the creation OF those two Offices.
MIR. Plumb tRep.. Kan.) remarked that Mr..
Cockrell had used the word "spoismen" with
much JUNCTION. which indicated that he had
been using 1t long time.
Mr.. Cockrell-Yes. sir. am perfectly famil-
lar with It.
Mr. P!umb-I wanted to know whether you
use 1t now In the same sense In which you used
1t under the last Administration.
Mr. Cockrell-I use 1t In the same sense as
the distinguished Senator from Kansas and
other Senators on that side used it during the
Democratic Administration. II you know what
you meant by It then, you know what we mean
by It now.
Mr. Blair tRep.. N. H. intmated that under
the last Administration Mr.. Cockrell had been
Asroilsman himself
MIR. Cockrell-Suppose I was a spokesman.
Does that Justify the Republican party-the
great party of God and moraitY-In doing
wrong and committing crime and wickedness
in the sight Of God and man2
Mr.. Sherman Rep.. Ohio suggested that Mr..
Cockrell had been making great affair out Of
very small matter. The reason for the in
crease OF the number OF pension agents was
because tho number Of pensioners had been
vastly increased. so that 1t was now practically
impossible for the agent at Columbus Ohio. to
delegated to subordinates. In the last eighteen
months the increase OF pensioners was about
10000. The agent at Columbus paid more
than one-tenth of all tho pensioners of the
United States: he had to sign nearly 10000
checks; The Secretary. Of the Treasury had
and the Secretary Of the Interior and the Com
missioner Of Pensions recommended the In
tiee He not care who we're to Be oppointed.
mr.. Cockrell referred to a rumor that there |
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friend OF an eX-Prssident had been Selected led
over the choice Of another distinguished citi- |
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ZION. and that the Senator who had been SO
krae ths disappointed was patiently await
Mr. Sherman said that that showed that his
friend friend from Missouri who was supposed t0
details about local matters which had no more
competition with the amendment than the man
had recommended the increase OF pension
agents long before the appointment Of Gen.
Mir. faul kner IDem., W. Va, asked Mr.. sher-
d mah Whether 1t was not agreed that IN the
think that there has been any conference
prominence will be appointed. But there Is
no such agreement or arrangement that |
M. MIR. 4 Allison Rep, Iowal-Like the Senator
1oFlty has voted an Incl ease OF these agencies.
NOT examined this question with that that care are
amlnsd it.. 1t seems to me 'G that a | division lon
OF Ohio into two pension districts will
Columbus and the carrying OF one agent TO
CSinclnpati and the other to Cleveland. There
Is no ditficulty in allowing subordinates to
Sign pension checks. ] do not suppose that
there 10 large mercantile or manufacturing
establishment IN the United States in which
there are not at least two or three persons who
Nj. Paddock rep; Neb.) said that the Com
mittee on Pensions had before it the question
OF an increase OF pension agencies. There
were locations that were worse Off in that re-
ha at Q AZ IN ss T Stss T GnsGn
north or west OF IL nearer than San Francisco
~ yet ther re, was larger pcrceHtage OF OK;
North and South Dakota than in my other
states OF the Union in proportion to tho agRre-
be taken In the matter OF pension agencies it
Bhould be q reimbursement and consolidation
of some OF tho smaller agencies.
. Mr.. German Dem, Md. a member OF the
Committee on Appropriations. said that com,
mittee believed. in view of the TACT, that the
Ions year, and that another hundred mil
ions year would be added il pending legsla-
stration of tho Pension Offlce should be at
east practised, From 1891. and for some
ears e come. the pensions would amount TO
soldiers Congress might bankrupt the Govern
nent, and probably would. for in fifteen years
I would be more spent for nepsii2ns th4n
thought that the senator from Ohio ought 10
hesitate about creating useless offices. making
places for party men and only for party pur-
poses.
The discussion having closed, the vote on
Mr. ShermanS amendment was again taken.
Il Was agreed to-yeas. q: nays. 81. Mr.. Payne
again voted with tho Republicans and SON
e hors Allison, ingalls,. and Plumb with the
7.
With them on the former occasion, RETAINED
rom voting.
The bill was then, passed. and tho Military
ACADEMY Dill WAS tHkon M and passed.
Inc Army Appropriation bill was then taken
~ Among the amendments reported from
me committee on Approi rlatons and agreed
20 py the Senate was paragraph appropriat-
I'M oiHo.ooo lor buildings at military posts. for
ibIaries' Gymnasiuns amusement rooms and
Mr.; Hale tRep., Ne moved an amendment
Louaing, mat no alcoholic liquors beer or
W. shall De sold OF supplied to enlisted men
III any sucn building at any military post
mri tlornlan submitted that ~ The nara
t tn1ayo IN inserting such provso. If the
, nouSe should insist upon restoring the para
erapn then the conference COMMITTEES could
prescribe conditions. 'oN'N