Evening journal., 1892-04-15
spIcr pebate In thc scnnte.

WASHINGTON, April i5.-The senate had
a long and interesting debate on a bill to
increase the number of judges of the court
of claims which brought up the question OF
the expediency of giving judges retiring
salaries, and also brought on spicy refer
ence to the increase in the number OF Judges
of the supreme court just before the legal
tender act was sustained. The discussion
was still in progress when the senate adj
journed tin Monday In the earlier part OF
the day q senate bin was passed extending
the free delivery mail system to towns Of
5000 population.
When the court Of claims bill came up Mr..
Coke moved 20 strike out the clause emitting
the judges, after ten years OF continuous
service, TO retire on full salary at the age Of
seventy. Mr.. Hoar, In arguing against this
motion, made an interesting statement,
supposed 10 have reference to ex-senator
Edmunds He said that nearly every able
lawyer who accepted position on the
bench gave up three times what be got.
The person whom many thought best fitted
TO succeed Justice Bradley, being approach
ed on this subject, replied that he was
making a hundred thousand dollars year
and he could not afford TO take the place.
Mr.. Coles proposition 20 strike out the
retiring clause was defeated ~ Yeas, IL;
nays, a.
Mr.. Cockerell opposed the passage OF the
bill as creating more life officers with re-
tired pay. Mr.. Gibson (Aidl asked If there
was any objection TO conferring juiis-
diction upon the district courts Of the
United States Of many OF these cases that
now went TO the court OF claims. Mr.. Hoar
answered that he had favored the PROPOSE
ton. For himself he would be willing to
send every man with pension claim before
the district court Of his district for adjudi-
cation.
Mr. Morgan-And bankrupt the govern
ment in two years.
Mr. Hoar-My friend from Alabama says,
land bankrupt the government in two
years. Mr.. President, the government is
bankrupted already.
Mr.. Berry-By pension claimsi
Mr.. Hoar-The question of bankruptcy is
reached when the government cannot pay
its longest debts without a delay of ten or
twenty years
Mr. Berry, have been contending for
two years that If this pension business con-
tinued II would bankrupt the government,
but he did not expect the senator from
Massachusetts, TO admit it.
The Greenback Legal Tender Act.
MI Duulel oUtrtl an Alucuuutul Nuab
the two additional judges should be mem.
bers of different political parties Mr..
Hoar hoped that the amendment would not
prevail. His question as TO whether a re-
tiring congress to be succeeded by con-
gress Of a different political faith could
hamper Judicial appointments TO be made
under a law passed by it by stipulating that
part of them should be Of their own way OF
thinking upon a pending important ques.
tion brought on another exciting little
scene
Mr. Butler-Was not this done on one 90.
casion in connection with the greenback
legal tender act
Mr.. Hoar with warmthl-A viier slandei
never got out on the stump than the state
ment that those two honorable officers
Justices Bradley and Strong) were ap.
pointed for that purpose
Mr.. Butler-It was so understood.
Mr.. Hoar-Many things are understood
President Grant himself, Hamilton Fish
and the attorney general of the administers
tion all stated that these gentlemen had
been selected before the question came up.
Mr.. Hoar added that he did not think the
senator from South Carolina, who was .
lawyer Of the highest standing, would de.
sire 10 find any reason for the appointment
/ Of Justices Bradley and Strong than then
eminent fitness for the place.
Mr.. Butler-l have made no such charge