The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-16
The public should therefore withhold

uOtI the OoarQ Oh ulItClUIS Cdu ooiiSOt
lone errors and ans yer som, criu-
cisms msde by the committee In th;lr
report, which are evidently the result
Of III slutorma,ion or misuuderstsnd.
/ Of the facts =
The Joint resolution submitting
constitutional anne ndment to the PEG
pie authorizing the annual expeudl'
ture of as much as fly thousand dol
lars il necessary, for the maintenance
of the Confederate Home, was taken
up as the pending bus this morn
ing in the house. Rogan's amend.
ment provid n for the pensionng Of
such ind gent veterans as were not
inmates OF the Home, WAS adopted by
vote OF fifty hTe to forty tive, after
long struggle. The speech OF tie
morning was made 10y Moore, cf
Milan, who crosses Henderson, OF
Milan. on this measure. Henderson
Yesterday delivered m4steriul eli.
fort against the Rogsn amendment
while Moore today made a powerful
appeal 10 Its favor MIR. Moore's
speech was substantially as follow:
Il favor the amendment offered by
Il gentle man f om Caldwell aud op
pose the limitation the gent. I'm an
from Marion BalD seeks 10 place up
on it. 1t will be an insult to the
people OF Texas to submit constitu-
tutional amendment to them that will
limit their gratitude to the INDECENT
Confederate soldiers to $25, 900 year
regardless Of the boundlessness of that
gratitude or the necessities of the
veterans of the Confederate war. If
this Legislature will give the people an
opportunity to say whether they are
willing to give necessities and com.
forts to the declining days of all the
INDECENT Confederate soldiers resic ing
in Texas, | have no fears as to the
answer. Gentlemen upon this f ,or,
out OF the abundance of their affection
for the old soldier, oppose this amend
ment under the profess,d belief A,hat
the people will refuse 10 adopt the
entire amendment, and therefore leave
the Soldiers Home without the ad
provided for therein But, sirs, thi,
amendment will have run the gauntlet
when it shall pass this legislature. The
people Of Texas will adopt 1t over
whelminsly if they get the opportun-
ity. These gentlemen may be friends
Of the old soldiers, but, rs, | pray
Ged that l may never be encountered
With such friends.
Toe gentlemen in the northwest
corner of the hall appear to be imper-
vious to the shafts of sentiment. In.
deed, sir, 80 superior is their intelli-
eerce that they are only moved by
the cold calculation of reason or the
unfeeliug figures of mathematics,
and when one rises upon this floor to
speak in behalf of this amendment
their faces a,hen with scorn as they
whispered, Sentimental gusb" Sir,
| confess that am moved by senti-
ment and / hope that will never
see the day when can not appreciate
this, the nobest sentiment of mans
best nature. The people are n i
hey ond the reach or sentime mt, and
gentlemen upon this floor who will not
deign to recognize its appeal for this
amendment when they go upon the
hustings before the people Of Texas
will only dare to be as silent as the
tomb
The old soldier home, sir, is Il
blessing, a great blessing to many Of
those who shared the fortunes of the
Southern Confederacy. There is a
class of these old soldiers whom un
happy tates have pursued through life
with unrelenting vigor. Iu war i'll.
luck logged their footsteps, and in
the contest of life they have been the
sport of fortune. Habits. tempera.
ment, disposition, unhappy connec,
tons, or no connections at all, or per,
haps thousand elements. may make
this home boon of comfort for the
declining days of many Of those who
gave the best years of their life to q
cause they conceived to be JUS. and to
country, for whose liberty, indepen-
deros and welfare they were willing
to yield up their lives, their all.
There is yet another class of con-
federate soldiers who should com
mand our gratitude-,hey all should
command our gratitude-and who de
serve portion OF the benz fits Texas
proposes to give to the indigen con.