New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-19
UNION VETERANS DEFENDED
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN REBUKE THE
ADMINISTRATION.
MR.. MARTIN AND GENERAL sICKLES MAKE RING
ING SPEECHES-THE LATTER CHEERED,
BUT NOT BY HIS OWN SIDE OF
THE HOUSE
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Washington, Dec 1S.-Two Democrats had the
courage to tell some wholesome truths IN the
House of Representatives to-day about the arbi-
trary, unjust and unpatrotic pension poncy vi
this Administration. Both Of them were gal
liant Union soldiers during the war, ana one Oh
them lost leg in battle They knew the sort
of men who composed the Union armies theh'
and they know their surviving comrades 10 DE-
as honest and respectable citizens as can oe
found outside their ranks to-day. Mr.. Martin Oh
Indiana is chairman Of the Committee on III
valid Pensions and he knows that the charges
Of wholesale fraud in the obtaining ana granting
Of pensions are as false as they are MALICIOUS
| He declared that the money and machinery VI inc
Pension Bureau would never be USED Win his
consent or approval to pay spies ana ihior''eiS ~
hunt down honorably discharged Union So'u'e''
who arr. physically disabled and DEPENDENT
perhaps II Colonel Brcckinridge OF Kentucky
who served in John Morgan's command uu'I"s
the war and who had charge OF the Urgent DS-
Gciencv bill to-day had known what so't Vi a
specch General Sickles desired to MAKE liz "ou''
not have been SO ready to give MIN ten i"ii'".o'
of his time 1t was an honest earnest anu eiu
,,cnt defence Of the veterans or the 'ion
i.t,s, IN. false and malicious aspersionS ina,
have been cast upon them by 'eiloC,aI5' a,
Mucwumps, most of whom never Sin'" I,o,ora,
,ou,lcr on either side during tH' wa, -
SiclIcs Is as anxious "a 'roNri w - siar
s,f nrofnases to be to make and Keep the pe'Iao.
roll "a roll Of honor" AMI ne assume 10 ,hn
has been and Is the de are OF tne oi,' I,nts,ra
ha,.. boon and are charged with the adinihistra-
t, - Tho nnnson laws General Sickless speech
excited repeated and enthusiaSuN ~ co,
on the Republican side. and when nv no,, S.
dnun after uttering warhlhs ~ 49, ~,
,i no rites and political rulers tnat they WI, -.
remain long in power II they shall cono'uun -
i,luIye IN wholesale san1er ana dela"aup, ~,
hATn
w ,,'a su,b a. has not been heard III the
Uomsr of Representatives. in many ua az, w,
land hearty and spontaneous as IL was, !. u'' ,o
noss the central aisle that separates u nd No,
49,, Ia Tho House Of Representatives. anu mo-
= .hcor from "A Democratic throat loiio"'u -.
& Sirkles as he hobbled away on ms CT :, >
=, ,be remote and obscure seat whch cIails ,i,
n hlindfold page aWaru'u u MN -"
- The special session. - A., o 30. M
"' ,ra,I Sickles and Mr. Martin were by no
means the only Representatives W' 10 a.
heavy and staggering blows against Wv r,an,
49,, r,,tnn's unnsion policy ana management
today Mr. Dingley. OF Maine, VINO ,,s -
the most careful Intelligent ana Col' s,a,n
legislators In the House Il man - en-
,,or,s ar. always So conservative AS ~ -,
mand attention and respect sPoNe W., ~ hoi
fore. and effect. and clearly tNpv''' .s,ogai Ia
iovncss and untruthfulncss OF 'h' ,,a,s
80, ,tors against pensioners ana appHcanlS
for PENSIONS General bingham Oh ",r,a =
Of, who is also a member 81 the Hpp'
,t,rs committee and who was Sdan, az, ~
tt,trcuisbcd soldier during the war, Ill the
SANE thing. As did Colonel Hepburn , ., i" war
,b, led a cavalry regiment durins tnr Va w.
Wm roi,,,.r ~ the same State. and Mr.. van,
voorhs. II NewYork. who TOOK tne r, sI'" ~
Ina, a pension IL vested properly ,ienl .,
vTtcb rho pcnsioner cannot be deprived except
"l ," ""' BALDWIN. OF Minnesota. who was n
.,,I soldicr took NJ the cudgels in pehaii o
Commissioner I.ochrcn. who also was ga''al'
and faithful Union soldier a fact which no
h,dv mad denied Mr.. Baldwin read ms SIeeS ~,
from manuscript and IN the course oi :. IN
s,,ghi To- convey the impression mat the HI.I''
soldier from 1861 - 1868 was really ehJ1s''s q
pl.asant. albeit rather protracted. picnic; anu
therefore unless disabled by wounds. ne is hot
entitled u special considerations MT toolr'' ~.
rndiana offered a mild and rather weak apology
FOR. rather than defence or IN" 'ieNe'"""
Unke SMITH .ochrcn pension poncy' !,
colonel Breckenridge closed the general W.
hat. in a speech that was rather apologize thah
otherwise and the partisans OF the Ndmihi~ ~
,inn hrcatacd frccr when II was over lncs
arc s,il uneasy however on account "' Il ~
mark dropI~d by General Sickles III the '"u'
~ his speech 10 the effect that ne eNprvua ="
have A good deal more 10 say on the suoJcO' VI
PENSIONS at the proper time.