The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-06-24
DEPENDENT Pensions.
Tho Conference Reports Adopt
ed by the Senate
THlRTY-FoUR TO EIGHTEEN.
Tao Vote In Detnil-The Silver Bill
to be Taken up To.day In Com.
mittco = Editor Peterson
Gets n Consulshlp.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-The confer
enre report on the Dependent Pension
hill was taken up by the Senate and Mr.
Berry spoke against it.
lle believed that under the operation
Of tho pending measure the annual pen.
sion roll woall be S2Oo,OOO,OoO, and the
cry would atill be for more. And yet no
Northern Senator or Representative
dared to stand up in opposition to pen.
sion bill, while a southerner would be
assailea by friend and foe. lie did not
believe in that Stand and deliver" man.
nFotlesislalion.',..' -
Mr., Gorman said the bill would bank.
rupt the Treasury. II the bill became
a law there would be a deficit OF $l00,.
100000 in 1892. and that even il 1t did
not become law there wonld bs a
deficit OF s40.0o0O0O. He said the re-.
marks which he hud made were for the
purpose OF calling attention to what the
Republican leader (Mr. Blaine)-"the
greatest leader that the party had had
in his day and generation"-had said as
TO the extravaganza OF appropriations,
and as to unthoughtful and unwise
legislation in tho matter OF revenue,
Mr.. Davis, Chairman of the Commit.
tee on Pensions, said Mr.. Berry had
consistently opposed legislation for the
benefit Of Union soldiers. He denied
kaEtt t,np nj hn
said it vast IL disability bill pure and sim.
pie. He thought the Senate should fpl-
FL the promises made to the men who
had saved their country. t5-
air. ingalls, advocated the conference
report. This was n sacred obligation
and lie did not believe the Senate, or
the senator from Maryland, would care
TO take the attitude OF haggling over it.
He was in favor Of the removal OF the
Limitation in the act granting arrears Of
pensions. Tie did not care whether it
cost $lC0. COO, COO or 81 ,G00,800,Gc0.
Mr.. Teller declared that no disburse.
ments OF tho government met with
more universal favor and approval than
the paying OF pensions.
MIR. Vest spoke OF The monstrous
abuses that had grown up under the
pension bill which was being pressed
for personal and political motives. He
asserted that the pension list was unduly
awollen in the State OF Indiana, because
il YVES n pivotal State.
MIR. Turpie said that he had not heard
OF any charges in Indiana against the
administration Of the Pension Bureau.
Mr.. Hawley expressed the hope that
The soldiers would not get the idea from
what had been said to-day that the Sen.
ate was favorable to the payment Of ar.
rears OF pensions or to the equalization
OF bounties, or to the payment Of the
difference between paper money and
gold. He thought that altogether too
= much WAS said about what the Nation
owed to its soldiers. The Union SOL
dier would be very sorry and ashamed
to be called upon to say how much the
Nation owed him in dollars. The PROM
inent feeling in his State was that the
needy COLDER should not suffer, but
that nothing should be wasted on man
who did not need a pension for his sup.
port. The trne soldiers Of the republic
did not want 10 have money wasted.
Finally the discussion closed and the
vote was taken. The conference report
was agreed to-yeas 81, nuys IS, as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen. Blair, Call, Casey,
Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dixon,
Dolpb, Edmunds, Eyarts, Farwell, Fry,
Hale. Hawley, Hearst, Higgins, Hoar,
ingalls,, Henderson. Moody, Paddock,
Pettierew, Pierce, Plat, Plumb. Power,
Sanders, Sawyer, Spooner, Teller, Tur-
pie, Washburn-34.
Nays-Atess,s. Barbour, Bate, Berry,
Blackburn, Coke, George, Gibson, Har-
ris, kenna, Mcpherson, Morgan, Pasco,
Payne, Pugh, Reagan, Vance, Vest,
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