The advocate., 1890-10-22
TWO CONGRESSIONAL LIARs.

the DILL
The falsehoods in the foregoing quota
tion from Congressman Owens speech
are: Tho United States Senate then con-
talned forty republican Senators and
thirty-siR democratic ones, and Mr.. Has
kell moved-as referred tom June 10,
1878.
But Congressman Owen goes on with
his MunChausans in the following his
toriCal strain:
Since July, $780, no arrears have been allowed
the soldiers How did this change In the law
come abOut2
WA, J. Sparks, a democratic member Of Con
gress late Cleyeland's commissioner OF lands, as
chairman OF the subcommittee having charge OF
pension appropriations, brought In the penalOn
appropriation bill and added thereto this prOyisO
provided, That the application for such PEN
sion has been or y hereafter illed with the COM
missioner OF pensOns prior TO the Isl day OF july
1880, otherwise the pension shall commence from
the date OF illing Che application"
Th.b Sparks ptDylo0 repealed the Cummings
act after July !, 1880 Under the Cummings aCt
every soldier would ho receiving bis arrears to
day, but the sparks amendment on an apprOprla-
tOn bill repealed chat law and cut him on after
July 1, $780, and that Is the reason the soldiers
have not received arrears for two years.
This former minister Of gospel, now
republican member Of Congress, Is so
much Of a falsiher in the foregoing mat
tor as TO utterly dishonor the seat that he
now holds.
The bill In question, which Hon. W. A.
]. Sparks of the Sixteenth Congressional
district of Illlnois--ln the interest Of ar
rearB Of pensions--intrOduced into the
House Of Representatives on February
II, 1879, and which passed under a sus-
pension Of rules by a vote Of yeas 1874,
nays 81; not voting 80, has no provlso
like that alleged by Congressman Owen,
nor has II anything like IL whatever
IT MIGHT BE CALLED INGALLS, PRovIso.
John j. Ingalls,, on February 28, 1879,
one month after his second election of
1879 to the Senate, then chairman Of the
committee on pensions in the Senate,
said:
The ninth section OF the amendment 20 the
Sparks bilD which have offered and which has
the sanction OF the committee on PENSIONS pro
vldesi 49,.
"ProTded, The application for such pension
has been or II hereafter filed with commissioner
Of pensions prior 10 the ist day OF January 1890,
otherwise the pension shall commence from the
date Oftlllpg She application
The committee % pensions believe chat arrears
OF peuslOuB should not be paid after the lst OF
January, 1880, chat that would leave a SUFFICIENT
long period since the termination OF the war TO
allow oil claims properly reterable TO the war to
be adludiCated without giving pensions back to
Che date OF disability or discharge.
And yet this reverend Congressman
Owen appears willing, for the purpose Of
beneftting his grand old republican
party, to falsify the record when he de-
clares: "This Sparks provlso repealed the
Cummings act after July l., $780,"
What a consummate liar, anyway
After Senator Kirkwood, Of Iowa, pro-
posed the following amendment: "Pro-
vided Che application for such pension
has been or is hereafter fled with the
comissioner of pensions prior to the 1st
day of July, $780," Senator Oglesby, Of
Illinois, proposed an amendment extend
ing the time "tO the let day Of July,
1886" but Senator Ingalls, declared that
amendment out OF order. Senator Kirk
wood would not accept the amendment
Of Senator Oglesby, remarking: 81 think
we had better make no limitation at all
rather than .fx the time so far off," So
the Kirkwood amendment was adopted;
there was no "sparks proviSO," and In
gals idea was that arrears Of pension
u ...Aa - l.. Ia 80. Ahn 1nA Inrr nR