Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-12


III easures have been acted on and dis
pessd of and In all of them the demo-
Gratis have been opposed to their pas
| sage, while not republican has voted
against them. Grant vetoed five
| pension bills. No other President
vetoed any pension bills except Grover
Cleveland and he vetoed 524. That
the reader may have more informa-
ton on the subject, we print the fol-
lowing extract from speech delivered
recently In the House of Congress by
General Charles H. Grosvenor, of
Ohio, a speech in which he eloquently
and forcibly pleaded the cause OF
invalid pensioners:
In 1873, a bill was passed by the
Lower House of Congress, repeating
all limitations of time in which appli.
cations for arrears of pensions should
be made. Upon this the vote stood:
Dem ocrats for the bill, 4S; democrats
against the bill. Sc. Republicans for
the bill, 11S; Republicans against the
bill, none.
subsequently,, bill increasing the
pensions of widows from s. to $12 was
voted on. with the following result:
Democrats for the bill. 80; democrats
against the bill. So. Republicans for
the bill. lib; Republicans against the
bill, none.
The amputation bill, passed August
4, 1886: Democrats for the bill, rs;
Democrats against the bill, 81. Re-
publicans for the bill, o.; Republicans
against the bill, none.
Tie widows arrears bill Giving ar.
rears of pensions from the death of
their husbands, to widows entitled to
pensions) passed the Senate by the fol.
lowing vote: Democrats for the bill, 1;
Democrats against the bill, 90. Re-
pubicans for the bill, 20; Republicans
against the bill, none.
The disability pension bill gives
pension to all disabled soldiers and to
dependent parents and children,
passed Jure, 1890: Democrats for the
bill, %: Democrats against the bill, 56.
Republicans for the bill, III; Republi
cans against the bill, none.
Same bill in the Senate: Democrats
for the bill, 3; Democrats against the
bill, Is. Republicans for the bill, 81
Republicans against the bill, none.
In the Forty-ninth Congress "a de-
pendent pension bill was voted on in
the Senate, with the following result
Democrats for the bill, z; Democrats
against the bill, IA. Republicans for
the bill, 81; Republicans against the
bill, none.
In the same Congress. a similar bill
was voted upon in the House of Rep
resentatives, with the following result:
Democrats for the bill, Sc; Democrats
against the bill, rs. Republicans for
the bill, ia; Republicans against the
bill, none,
The next pension legislation of i'm
portance was the bill to pension
prisoners of war, and giving them each
50 for every day they were held by the
Confederates. When it came up in
the Lower House, the following vote
was had: Democrats for the bill, "a;
Democrats against The bill. rs Re-
publicans for the bill, 119; Republicans
against the bill, none.
The bill was vetoed by President
Cleveland. An effort was made in the
Lower House to pass the bill over the
veto, with the following result: Demo
Gratis for the bill, 81; Democrats
against the bill, 1875. Republicans for
the bill, 1873; Republicans against the
bill, none. Showing that 20 demo-
Gratis who had originally voted for the
bill FASTENED to avail them selves of
the opportunity availed by the Presi-
dents veto to vote against it, thus
testlfying their real sentiments, while
20 others who had lodged the first
vote came up promptly to the support
Of the veto.
The vote upon which the dependent
pension bill was finally passed by the
Republican Congress. OF which Tom
Reed was speaker, stood as follows in
the Senate: Democrats for the bill, 10;
Democrats against the bill, 12. Re-
publicans for the bill, SO; Republicans
against the bill, none.
In the Lower House, It was sought
to take up and pass the bill promptly,
but the democrats solidly opposed a
motion to suspend the rules for that
purpose, and the effort failed. Short
ly after this, however, a second effort
met with success, the vote standing:
Democrats for the bill, 3S; Democrats
against the bill, II. Republicans for
the bill, 141; Republicans against the
bill, none.
This bill was, az the old soldiers
well know, promptly approved by
President Harrison.
TIC sum up. the following gives total |