Omaha daily bee., 1890-03-22

publicans should carry out their pledges to
the svldiers.
Mr.. Cutcheon asked whether the demo
Gratis, while in control OF the house, had
passed the service pension bill
Mr.. Bynum replied that they had not, but
they mad not gone home and asked for votes
under false Dretenses.
Mr.. Spinola said the democrats intended
TO draw the line OF battle on the service pen
sion. The democrats didn't intend that the
republicans should mark themselves as
special friends The democratic party had
forced the pension rolls from S2S,000,000 up
to 500, 600, 900, aud yet the republicans went
on the stump and told the people they were
friends of the men who saved the country.
MIR. Enloe OF Tennessee impressed upon
the house the necessity OF thoroughly in
vestigating the workings Of the pension
bureau.
Mr. Allen of Mississippi said he did not
belittle the services OF federal soldiers
To do so would no to belittle his own. He
had been one of the men whom they had
had to overcome. He had 0 high regard for
the government; he was mighty sorry he
had tried to break it up, but IL the gentle
men were going TO carry pension Legislation
to its legitimate conclusion congress had
better stop and heva an accounting. 1t
looked TO him as IL the country would have
to let the Grand Army of tho Republic take
the government.
Mr. Breckenridge of Kentucky expressed
himself in favor Of liberal pension system,
and opposed to making the pension bureau u
great political machine.
Mr.. Grosvenor said the minority had std
denly become wonderfully patriotic, and IL
1T could only destroy the unpatriotic record
it had always made il would be wonderfully
benefited. The gentleman from New York
tSpinola) had said the democratic party had
run up appropriations for pensions from
S2S O0U, 900 to 500, 000, ,000 There was not a
dollar of that money that had been appropri-
ated under any general pension DILL ever
passed by the democratic party or ever
signed by democratic president except that
increasing the pension of widows With this
exception every dollar appropriated was due
to the patriotism of the republican party.
Referring 10 Cleveland's veto of the depend
ent pension, he said that when Cleveland
was renominated no man had shouted louder
in his behalf than had the gentleman
from Indiana (Bynum), and yet Cleveland,
who had hurled his vetoes in the faces of
soldiers, was the most popular democrat in
the United States, and three years hence
would drag the democratic party at his car
wheels. The democrats were not to be
| credited with any of the pension legislation,
but they were to be credited with the fact
that today there were 10000 union soldiers
in tho poor houses who would have been
comfortable under the bill which Cleveland
had vetoed.
Mr.. parsney inquired whether the repub
licans intended to pass the dependent PEN
sion. bill vetoed by Cleveland.
1TUSVeuOr TepIltu luaJ buey WOulu
not. They would pass a republican bill,
bill which would not contain II paupsr fea-
ture and would have nothing iu it 70 degrade
manhood.
In the course of further remarks Mr..
Spinola stated that the great bulk Of the
union army was made up from the demo-
cratic legions of the north.
This caused sarcastic laugh on the re-
publican side,
MIR. Struble of Iowa vigorously antag-
Oui2cl the suggestion made bI Mir Rvnum
that an income tax should be levied for the
purpose of paying pensions
After further debate the committee rose
and tho bill passed.
The bill for the retirement of General
Fremont, with the rank of major general,
passed.
The bill passed appropriatins SOS, 900 to en-
able the secretary of war to purchase $500
tents for the use of people driven from their
homes by the floods in Arkansas, Mississippi
and Louisiana
al AT the evening session the house passed
fifteen private pension bills and adjourned.