Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-01-26
General w. A. Clark.
(0hio State Journal, Columbus, O., Jan.
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(Ohio State Journal, Columbus, O., Jan.
22)
General W. A. Clark Of Butler, Pa, com
mander-in-c chief of the Union Veteran Lee
gion of the United States. arrived in this
city Sunday afternoon and is stopping at
the Grand Central hotel General Clark
is figure and highly esteemed
II. Uu cles. Prs--caing the holi-
days he made an extended tour through
the New England and Eastern states and
visited a number Of encampments of the
Union Veteran Legion in many of the
cities in those states. 70 = .iow Oh a tour
Of visits3t,i;s55i1ll TO me encampments in the
1TrIpcIpal cities of the Middle and Eastern
ft4res' Tonight reception and banquet
WiU he rendered him AT the hall of Union
Veteran Legion No 81 at 8O4 North ii gh
street. Tn veterans anticipate most
enjoyable evening together Io-mnIfo"
General Clark goes to Dayt and from
that city TO the West.
General Clark is gentleman of consider
able wealth. being Interested IN the oli
business in PENNSYLVANIA and Is also OF
genial and suciable nature that .endears
him to the members Of the organization u
which he is the head 1t might be SAID
here that General Clark has known the Nc
Kinlev family from boy hood ears ago
when he was "a boy. William Mckinney, ST.
owned furnace III New wilmington
Lawrence county, Pa, where ne 1rtque
met and played with Governor MCKINNEY aS
boys together.
a reporter called on General Clark at the
~ 4 4 ~uf lat in
corded a pleasant interview. General
Clark was asked his opinion OF the service
pension bill recently Introduced into con-
gress bv Congressman GrOsvenor.
He stated that he had not yet investlgat-
ed the bill 10 his own satisfaction ana dld
not care to express bis views on the SUD
iect. However, he stated that Congress
man Sib!ey of the Frauklin-Warren dis
trict. western Pennsy lvania, had IN prepar-
alton pension bill which will be lntr0due-
ed into congress during the winter, that
meets the appreciation of the veterans oil
the late war. The proposed bill provides
that every honorably discharged soldier
shall receive a pension OF IS per month and
a per diem service pension sdded 10 It. Ii
also makes provision for sufficient funds tor
the payment of the pensions by the govern
ment issuing stamped pension money II
denominations from $50 to 500 and beaI-
ing per cent. interest, thought it is proba-
ble that the interest feature will be drop
ped. The government shall continue To
issue these certificates until the amount oi
money in circulation Is from $40 to $50 per
capita. This bill is similar in many re-
spects to the one introduced by Senator
Cameron of Pennsylvania. The proposed
Sibley bill meets the approval ot many OF
the leading members OF congress. Senator
Voorhees, and others warmly sanction the
per diem feature of the bill. a1ss
President Cleveland, at the time he veto
ed the dependent pension bill, said that he
would have signed it had it been a per
diem bill.
General Clark said he did not consider a
pension in the light of gratuity, but II
was earned, and belongs TO the soldiers.
Money ought not to be al a premium and
life and wounds al a discount under such
circumstances. A proper pension bill,
General Clark said would take the pension
question out OF politics, and il
ought To be done.