The Anaconda standard., 1890-03-22
IN THE HOUSE.
The Service Pension Biii Passed After
Considerable Debate-Other Measures.

The Service Pension Biti Passed AUcr
Considerable Debate-Other Measures.
wAsHiSGToN, March 2i.-In the house
to-day the service pension bill was taken
up. Clements took the floor In favor of
the bill. His only objection to the meas
ure was that IL appropriated less money
than the administration knew would bc
necessary TO pay the pensions for the next
year. Bynum charged the republican party
with being false 10 its promises to tile
country In the matter OF pensions. Demo
Gratis, he said, were determined that re-
publicans should carry out their pledges
to the soldiers.
Cutcheon inquired whether the demo
Gratis, while i'm control OF the house. had
passed n service pension bill.
Bynum replied that they had not but
they had not gone home and asked for
votes under false prctcnses.
Spinola said the democrats intended Ia
draw the line of battle on the service PEN
sion bill. Democrats did not intend that
| the republicans should mask themselves
as the special friends of the veterans.
| The democratic party had forced the pen
sion rolls from SD, 0OO,O00 up TO S100,m0,0m
and yet the republicans went on the
stump and told the people they were the
friends Of the men who saved the Union.
Enloe OF Tennessee, impressed upon the
house the necessity Of thoroughly invcsti-
eating the workings OF the pension
| bureau.
Allen of Mississippi. said he did not he
| little the services Of federal soldiers, To do
so would he to bclittlo his own. He had
been one of the men whom they had had
To overcome. He had "A high regard for
| the government. He WAS mighty sorry he
had tried to break IL up, but If the gentle
| men were going to carry pension legisla-
| ton to its legitimate conclusion, congress
| had better stop and have an accounting.
| IL looked To him as IL the country would
have 10 let the Grand Army Of the Repul,-
| lie take the government.
| Breckenridge of Kentucky expressed
himself i'm favor Of a liberal pension sys-
tenn and opposed To making the pension
bureau "A great political machine.
| Grosvenor said the minority had sud-
denly become wonderfully patriotic and
il il could only destroy the unpatriotic
wonderfully benefited. The gentleman
from New York ,Spinolal had said the
democratic party had run up the APP
preparations for pensions from S2s,000,O0
to Sl00,00O,00. There was not a dollar of
the money that had been appropriated
passed by the democratic party or ever
signed by n democratic president excep,
that increasing the pensions OF widows.
With this exception, every dollar OF APP
preparation was due To the patriotism ol
the republican party. Referring to Cleyc'
he said that when Cleveland was renorni
mated no man had shouted louder
i'm his behalf than had the
gentleman from Indiana ,Bynum,
And..yet Cleveland, who had hurled his
vctoes i'm the faces of the soldiers. was til,
most popular democrat i'm the United
States, and three years hence would dral
the democratic party AT his car wheels
The democrats were not to be credited
with any of the pension legislation of th.
country, but they were to be credited will
the fact that to-day there were D,O0D unioI
soldiers in the poor house. who woul,
have been comfortable under the bill
which Cleveland had vetoed.
Tarnsey inquired whether the rcpubli
cans intended To pass the dependent pen
sion bill vetoed by Cleveland.
Grosyenor replied that they would not
They would pass republican bill which
would not contain u paupcr feature, ant
would have nothing in il to degrade man
hood.
In the course Of further remarks, Spi
nola stated that the great bulk of ths
Union army was made up from the dem
ocratic legions of the North. This caused
a sarcastic laugh on the republican side
After further debate the committee rose
and the bill was passed.
The bill passed appropriating S25,UW Il
enable the secretary of war Ia purchase
2,J00 tents for the use Of the people driver
from their homes by the floods of Arkan
sas. Mississippi and Louisiana.
The house then took "a recess. the even
ing session Ia be for the consideration o
private pension bills.
Al the evening session the housc I,assc,
fifteen private pension bills and then AL
iourned.