The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-01
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
Reagan Talks On silver Coinag--The y,
sion Blll Passed.

Reagan Talk. On silver Coinage Fem
sion Mn Passed
WASHINGTON, March 31.-Aftcr routine
business Reagan addressed the senate ON
thu bill for the issue of trca sury notes on
deposit OF silver bullion.
He said he intended to relieve the co,in-
try from the effects of the worse than
blundcr Of congress- in s,Ispcnding silver
coinage in 1873. He regarded il as hope
ful sign when republican senate joirs n
the great work, even though the remedy
proposed might not he the best. and il
was To I've regretted that the committee
had not reported bill for the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver as well as
gold. He favored the payment of the
bonded indebtedness Of the government
in silver as well as gold, the issue of coin
certificates receivable for public and pri-
yatc dues and taxes, and the retirement
of all legal tender and national bank
notes of less denomination than SO and
the substitution Of coin certificates.
The dependent pension bill was then
taken up. The first question bcing on
PluInb's amendment removing the limit
alton ~ To arrears of pension.
Berry asked IL any estimate had been
made ofthe cost OF removing the linita-
ton.
Plumb replied that the commissioner Of
pensions estimated il was about St7s, 90, :
GO and the chairman of tho house com
hittcc on pensions estimated IL at S10,-
10000. II would In somewhere about
these figures.
Frye regretted that the amendment
Was before the senate. There was
danger Of Overlapping in the mat.
ter % pensions. When 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 impcrilling the tr,icst interests
Of the soldiers aad creating n prejudice
against pensions.
Hawlcy spoke in "a similar vein. The
American nation had certainly not been
stinRy. The pension expenditure for the
next year would he nearly one hundred
and thirty millions Of dollars. No nation
in the world ever appropriated for soldiers
a sum compared 10 that. He begged old
soldiers 10 remember that the objection
To getting into another war would bc, not
the cost of carrying IL on. hut the conse-
q,icnces of IL, and also asked them to ~
mcunbcr that these enormous sums
came out Of the pockets very largely Of
people as poor as themselves. He relatctl
an anectotc Of General Grant on the lat.
ter's last visit to Washington, when in
conversation on pensions, he said: "If
were president, ! would sign any reason
ablc bill to relieve the DISTRESS of the
honest soldier or widow or childrcu; hut !
would not vote one dollar to the able.
bodied men," That last expression, said
Hawlcy, sank into my memory and that Is
my platform. ! don't believe my state
wants me to add SO0,Uop,0O To th, debt oi
the republic.
After further discussion Plumb's amend.
ment was rejected. yeas ., nays ~. The
yeas were Allison, Ingalls,, Manderson
Mitchell, Plumb, Quay, Sherman, Turpi,
and Voorhees,.
An amendment by Call 10 include thoss
who served i'm Indian wars prior To is1t
| was rejected.
An amendment by Vest providing that
the money to meet the appropriation un
| der the bill bc raised by income was laid
| on the table.
An amendment by Plumb to pay "A pen
| sion ~ * per month to all who served +.
days in the war who are 81 years old, ol
| as they attain that age, was rejected, ~ 3,
-. The hill was then passed yeas T.
/ nays T..