The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-10-12

introduced the same resolution and
is ready at any time to call it up
and have it passed. There is no
trouble about getting quick &C
ton in the senate, especially if the
house will do anything. 1t was
the other day, only, that McRae,
the chairman of the house commit
tee on public lands, secured the
enactment of a relief bill for some
Arkansas man, and the case was
not as meritorious as this of the
settlers on the Mile Laos lands.
Major Baldwin had better get a
! move on if he wants to get this
resolution put through at this ses-
sion.
So far as can be learned
western interests will suffer in the
make up of the tariff bill. There
will be something of a struggle,
and the western men will make the
best fight they can, but in the end
the east and south will triumph
over the west and tariff bill will
be framed without regard to west
ern interests. Not that [ mean to
say that the west has so very much
to protect, but the west does not
want free raw materials and pro-
lection on manufactured goods.
There will be a row over It and
the slight put upon the west will
be pointed out, and it may be that
in the senate it may be corrected
to some extent, but even there the
west is very apt to get the worst
of it as the Democrats are from
the east and south. The bill must
be protective IN some of it's fea-
lures, and there will be a grand
scramble among the men who have
interests in their states and dis
tricts to have their particular in
terest protected. AS an instance
of this Representative Baldwin was
elected upon a tariff for revenue
only platform, and yet he is anx.
ious to have iron amply protected
and has already talked to Chair
man Wilson of the ways and
means committee in that strain.
The Democratic platform and the
Democratic tariff bill will not
resemble each other in any partic-
ular when the latter is completed.
Commissioners Lochren lis still
the subject of considerable com
plant among the men in congress
who receive communications from
! pensioners who have been dropped
from the rolls without any reason
being given. Occasionally the
matter crops out in congress as it
did the other day when Senator
Dolph of Oregon called attention
to the fact that the widow of the
commodore of the navy had been
dropped from pension Of $50 per
month, and she was required to
prove by two reputable witnesses
that her late husband was born in
this country. It was shown how
impossible it was for her to prove
anything of this kind, as her hus-
band was born 80 years ago. He
also pointed out that under the
law a man could not become an
officer Of the navy unless he was a
citizen of the United States and it
was the citizenship of the woman's
husband that was called in ques-
ton, and furnished the ground
upon which her pension had been
suspended. Commissioner Loeb
rem is trying to do the best he can,
but it is we'll to remember that in
every community there are mighty
few men drawing pensions that the
general public do not believe
ought to have pensions. The at
tempt to cut off pensions by whole
sale is bound to do injustice
and one case of injustice arouses
more condemnation than if there
were a. half dozen cases where
there might be some question as
to the rights of the .pensioner.
There is no doubt about Commits
sioner Lochren being honest and
uprig ht, and sincere in his desire
to purge the pension rolls, but he
was mistaken in his premises.
There never was such. wholesale
fraud as has been alleged. The
cry against the pension rolls. was
like many other Democratic cam
paign features it was not founded