The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-10

year and down TO 800, O0o. coo before the close
of the Cleveland administration, instead of
SEC. 10000 the last fiscal year. No pension
ers were hit harder than were the Demo-
cratic soldiers in Indiana who were PEN
sioners under the act of 1890 until Lochren
was called off. Indiana soldiers will suffer
their full share in the contemplated reduc-
ton Of one-third of the aggregate expendi-
ture for pensions. Every Indiana Demo-
cratic Representative, by his silence, APP
a Cleveland-Hoke Smith Cuckoo" On the
other hand, the two Republican Representa-
tives. Johnson and Waugh, were in the
front line Of the men denouncing this pol
icy of hostility to the Union soldiers, stand
ing with such soldiers as General SickIes,
Grosvenor. Henderson, Hepburn and Pick
Ter, and assailed the official conspiracy
against pensioners. Judge Waugh. In his
remarks last Saturday, showed that during
the six months ending last November the
Pension Bureau issued S5,7 certificates and
rejected 67.2SS applications. while during the
corresponding period of 1892, under the Har-
rison administration, 1854 pension certifi-
Gates were issued. Judge Waugh went on
to say:
Since the Pension Office went into Demo
cratic hands there have been over 5000
pensioners dropped and suspended from the
roll; over 1900 by the action or the Pen
sion Office, and over 1900 by the operation
of the law passed by the Fifty-second Con,
gress; and during the same time the Toll
about 5000 more from other causes. 1t
seems that death and Hoke Smith nave
been busy getting their work in on the
boys and In many instances death has dealt
more gently with them than Hoke Smith.
This administration came into power with
utterance that there were thousands Of
neighborhoods throughout the country that
had their well-known pension frauds" The
administration has been in power a year
and has been, as we must believe, more
vigilant in hunting fraud than in granting
pensions; and it has found just three neigh
borhoods, Norfolk, New Mexico and Iowa.
The frauds in one of these neighborhoods
were. as am informed, discovered during
the Republican administration
When Judge Waugh said that there were
far less frauds N connection with pension
claims than any other Congress had under
taken to deal with he made an allusion to
the Southern war claims. both allowed ard
pending. which was so we'll understood that
applause followed. Referring to the silence
o. Indiana Democratic Senators and Repre-
sentatives, Judge Waugh said:
Some time ago 1T was heralded to the
country through the public press that GER
tain Democrats, notably from Indiana, were
going to commence a war on the admins
tration'S pension policy. 1 have been listen
ing ever since, but l have failed up to this
time to hear the opening guns of the con-
fiict Have they come to the conclusion
that they cannot deceive the old soldier any
longer? When the old soldier and the
pension roll are assaulted, as is so often
done on this floor, why is it that we scarcely
ever see Northern Democrat rise to his
feet to rebuke it? If he does he speaks
in tones so low that he cannot be heard
outside his congressional district. Oaugh-
teri Have they come TO the conclusion
that they cannot fool the old soldier any
longer; or have the assaulting forces sur
rendered to the seductive influences of the
pie counter?