Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-05

of the interior may provide, shall be
placed upon the list of invalid pen
sioners of the United States at the
rate of $8 per month. 1t also pro-
vides for a pension to the widow of
any soldier when she shall arrive at
the age of 60 years, or when she shall
be without other means of support
than her daily labor.
Webb of the Boston Journal in
commenting on the proceedings of
the house, says:
"The republicans had determined
in their caucus that the Morrill, pen
sion bill should pass. They proposed
it as a substitute for the senate bill.
The republicans did not, however, in
tend that the democrats should use
this bill as a text of endless debate,
and as a means for prolonging the
session. Accordingly the republic
ans moved the previous question.
All that the democrats could expect
to accomplish in their efforts to de-
feat it would be to consume time.
They were unable to carry out this
programme. They found it difficult
to run a race with Speaker Reeds
gavel, and they finally, after a loud
laundering in the index, abandoned
the task. Mr.. Carlisle whispered to
his associates that they could not af-
ford, for that matter, to enter into
any controversy of that sort. He sug-
gested that as matter of politics
nothing could be more welcomed by
the republicans, and nothing ought
to be more Stunned by the democrats
than to place themselves in a filibus-
tering attitude in opposition, even to
the consideration of the pension bill !;
and so this threatened war against
the rules, against the speaker, against
the republican majority, against the
old soldier, came to naught. 1t col
Iapsed before the recruits were drawn
up in their first line of battle. Blus-
tering men rose to protest that the
soldier ought not just then to have
this day in court; but the opposition
ended, the gavel fell, the previous
question was ordered, and the House
decided to begin at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon to vote on the great pension
bill. That was the end of the war
which the democracy had threatened
against this caucus measure of the re-
publicans-which meant speedy JUS
tice to the old soldier, and which also
meant that the time has come for an
end of talk"
The bill passed by a vote Of 1873 to
II. Mr.. Morse Of Massachusetts,, in
speaking on the bill said:
''This bill redeems the promises
made to the defenders of the flag in
tl.e- t-e~-----c el--=----tivH1 deadly peril
and will undoubtedly meet the ap-
proval and receive the endorsement
of Gen. Benjamin Harrison, president
of the United States. 1t will bring
immediate relief to 1850 soldiers who
are owe 60 years of age, so many of
whom not already pensioned are suf-
fering from their army service and
increasing disability of years. This
bill will bring immediate relief to
thousands of soldiers widows, who
under the provisions of this bill will
be entitled to pension without being
required to prove and without being
required to furnish impossible evi-
dence % years old, that their hus,
band died from disability contracted
in the army. 1t will bring joy and
gladness to thousands of the classes
mentioned. It will help to brighter
the declining years of many war
worn veteran who laid his all upor
the altar of his country when traitor:
sought the life of the nation. 1t i:
estimated by the chairman of the
committee on invalid pensions tha
it will require an expenditure of $40,
900, 900 per annum to meet the pro
visions of the bill. This money is by
no means wasted. 1t is taken from
the rich in the shape of duties ant
taxation and given to the poor ant
needy. The money goes immediate
ly into circulation, promotes trad'
and enhances the prosperity of th
whole country. A universal servic
pension bill may come few year
later. This bill is a service pension
bill for men over sixty years of age
and | believe it is all that the reve
nues of the country can stand a
present, and I submit that we do no
desire to 90 so far with pension leg
istation as to endanger the who'll
, pension system of the country
Gold And Silver.
Edward O. Leach, the Director o