Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-03-05
THE CONFEDERATE HOME APPEO-
PRIATION.

THE CONFEDERADE HOME APPEo-
PRIATION.
With one act the Texas Legisla-
ture has endeared itself to the peo-
of Texas and redeemed the pledge
OF the Democratic party in conven
ton Assembled at San Antonio, by
providing home for the disabled
Confederate veterans True there
was some opposition to the bill but
it was from patriotic motives, love
of the constitution, which some mem
beers conscientiously believed pro
hibited the appropriation, and not
from a desire to shut out fron the
aid they deserved, the veterans who
were disabled in defense of the
State. To have not made this pro-
vision for the old veterans who by
reason of wounds OF exposure during
their service in defense of their home
and country, are no longer able to
fight the wolf from the door, would
have been the basest ingratitute. But
the peoples representatives were not
so ungrateful, and the appropriation,
while not muniicent, relieves the old
veterans from being pensioners upon
the public charity and will provide
them Home where their declining
years may be spent in comfort while
they await the hearts last tatto as
they like muffled drums are beating
funeral marches to the grave
SENATOR COKE said Wednesday
that the senate will not be able to
do anything more than pass the
general appropriation bills, and that
all otker business must fail to get
through. For this work an almost
continuous session will be neces-
sary.
Mr.. TUITION said emphatically re-
Gently: ':In 1862 N. S. Quay, now
United States Senator, did make
most dishonorable and corrupt
proposition to me, as Supervisor of
Internal Revenue in the interest of
certain fraudulent distillers III the
city of Philadelphia.
SENATOR BLACKBURN believes that
in the light of Clevelands recent let
ter antagonizing his party upon the
silver question, that there is not
democrat member of the Senate who
would favor his nomination for the
presidency He is not in favor of a
man not in accord with the Demo
cratic party upon the great issues
upon which the party is to be en-
dorsed or rejected
IT Is no credit to Congress that
such measures of uncertain good to
the general public as the Nicaranga
Canal Job and the Conger lard bill
should, when time presses, be al
lowed to take precedence of bills
acceptable to the country such as
the copyright bill, the United States
Supreme court relief bill and the
postal subsidy bill. The end is
drawing near and that the urgent
bills will be called up and passed
there is little hope for.
THIS congress will go down in his
tory as the most remarkable one
since the formation of the govern
ment says the Burlington Hawkeye
for the number of deaths which
have occurred among the members
Eleven representatives have passed
away since it opened, viz: Cox and
Wilbur of New York; Kelley, Ran
dali and Watson of Pennsylvania;
Burnes and Walker, of Missouri;
Townshend of Illinois; Gay of Lou
siana, Laird of Nebraska, and Phe-
Ian of Tennessee.
AT a meeting and banquet of the
cigar manufacturers of New York
on Saturday, Col. Bob Ingerson re-
sponded to the unique toasts,
Facts" He said: "What would
we all do if we had to stick to facts?
How disagreeable life would be if
every one told the truth? Imagine
yourself meeting a friend on the
street and telling him that he was
looking sickly, and that, by the way,
you didn't care to have him call at
your house again. The truth is the
weakest thing in the world. It al
ways comes into the arena naked
and there it meets a healthy young
lie in complete armor, and the result
is that the truth gets licked. One
good, solid lie will knock out a hun
bred truths. The history of the
whole world is nothing but lies.
Take the age of chivalry, that has
fed and inAamed the Imagination of
mankind; that was the age of cow