Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-01
61ST CONGRESS-.
Reagan Speaks on the Silver
Question.
The Dependent Pension Bill
Passes the Senate.
The Amendments of Plumb and Call
Rejected.
The House Passes the Army Approprl-
alton Bill After Expunging the
Prohibition Clause.
Associated Press Dispatches.


WASHINGTON, March 31.-In the SEN
ate today, after routine business, Reagan
addressed the Senate on the bill for the
issue of treasury notes on the deposit OF
silver bullion, The bill, he said, was in
tended to relieve the country from the
effects of the worse than a blunder o1
Congress in suspending silver coinage in
1878. He regarded it as hopeful sign
that the Republican Senate was about tc
Join in the great work, even though the
remedy proposed might not be the best.
1t was to be regretted that the commit
tee had not reported bill for the free
and unlimited coinage OF silver as well
as gold. He would favor the payment
of the bonded debt OF the Govern
ment in silver as well as gold
the issue of coin certificates re-
ceivable for all public and private dues
and taxes, and the retirement of all legal
tender and national bank notes of less
than $40, and the substitution OF coin
certificates.
The Dependent Pension Bill.
The Dependent Pension bill was then
taken up, the first question being on
Plumb's amendment removing the linn
itation as to arrears of pensions.
Berry asked if any estimate had been
made of the cost OF removing the llmlta-
ton.
Plumb replied that the Commissioner
of Pensions had estimated it at about
ha oh nf
House committee on pensions estimated
it at $500,000, 600. 1t would be some
where about those figures.
FRYE regretted that the amendment
had come before the Senate. There was
danger of overlapping in the matter OF
pensions. When President Cleveland
commenced to veto pension bills, not
only the Democratic party ratified what
he did, but many business men OF the
Republican party too. He warned the
Senators that they were importing the
truest interest OF the soldiers and Great
ing prejudice against pensions.
Hawley's Platform.
Hawley spoke in similar vein. The
American nation certainly had not been
stingy. .@ The pension expenditure next
wear will be nearly $3.50, 900. No
nation in the world ever appropriated
for soldiers a sum compared to that.
He begged the old soldiers to remember
that the objection to getting into another
war would be not the cost OF carrying it
on, but the consequences of it, and also
asked them to remember that these
enormous sums of money came out OF
the pockets very largely of people as
poor as themselves. He related an
anecdote of General Grant on the latter's
last visit to Washington. When i'll con-
yersation on pensions he said: eff |
were President again, l would sign any
reasonable bill to relieve the distress of
an honest soldier or his widow or child
rem. but | would not vote one dollar to
the able-bodied men,"
''That last expression" said Hawley,
sank into my memory, and that is my
platform. l don't believe my State
wants me to add $500, 100000 to the
debt of the republic"
Plumb's Amendment Rejected.
After further discussion Plumb's
amendment was rejected-yeas 8, nays
40. The yeas were: Allison, ingalls,,
Manderson, MITCHELL Plumb, Quay,
Sherman, Turpie, Voorhees,.
An amendment by Call to include
those VINO served III llCldll WAITS pIlOI
to 1879 was rejected.
An amendment by Vest providing that
the money to meet the appropriation
under the bill, be raised by income tax,
was laid on the table.
An amendment by Plumb to pay a
pension of $S per month to all who
served ninety days in the late war, who
are 81 years old, or as they attain that
Tod 70
The bill was then passed-yeas AZ,
nays II.
House Proceedings.
In the House bill was passed for the
disposal under the homestead law of the
abandoned Fort Ellis military reserva-
ton in Montana.
A bill was passed depriving United
States Judges of the authority to give
an opinion on question OF facts.
The House then went into committee
of the whole on the Army Appropriation
bill. After unimportant action, the
committee rose and reported the bill to
the House.
The action of the committee in adopt
ing an amendment providing that no
Intoxicating liquors shall be sold in any
canteen, was reversed blythe House.
The bill was then passed.
Springer introduced joint resolution
to retire General N. P. Banks, with the
rank of Major-General. Referred.
Adjourned.
Washington Notes.