St. Paul daily globe., 1894-06-24
JUDGE L0CHREN SCORED,
A MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN c8i7.
fcjSES THE COMMISSIONER.
DIsAPPRovEs HIS METHODS

Hopkins and Cannon. of Illinois.
Arraign the Committee on AID
! propriations and Denounce
Lochren for Perpetrating
Fraud on the G. Il. R.-O'Nein,
EnIoe, Qockery in DefeEse.
| WAsHINGToN, June 23-The hous,
! held short session. and after consider
ing the deficiency appropriation bill
| until 3:15 o'clock it went over until
| Monday. and the house adjourned
There was very small attendance OF
members OIL the floor. and there was a
manifest lack of interest i'll the proceed
ings. The only break in the monotonl
was brief but lively debate ON the
pensions, i'll which the commissioner OF
pensions and the committee on appro
priations were severely criticised.
| Speaker Crisp returned to the capitol
| today after weeks absence on accoupl
OF sickness, ana called the house to or,
! der. his entrance into the chamber being
the signal for
BURST OF APPLAUSE.
Senate amendments to the house bill
to charter the supreme lodge of Knigh
OF Pythias were concurred in.
The senate bill making Labor day
legal holiday was ordered to lie on the
speakers table for the present
BY an order adopted several weeks
ago, this afternoon was set apart fof
eulogies on. the late Representative
George w. Houk, of Ohio. but, at the
request of MIR. Outnwaite, the date was
postponed to Saturday. July Z.
Prior to going into committee of the
whole to consider the deficiency bill,-
report was made in the contested elec.
tion case of Tom Watson against J. C.
G. Black. of the Tenth congressional
district of Georgia, deciding in favor oil
Mir. Black, the incumbent.
The first amendment made to the
DEFICIENCY BILL.
was to reduce the appropriation for the
IntercolOnial railway commission from
S22.929 to $4,000.
A discussion of the conduct of the
pension bureau was precipitated by MIR.
Coggswell (Rep., ,Mass.), who sent to the
clerks desk and had read two letters
from the pension bureau, one TO a pen
sioner in Salem. Mass, and the other
to himself in regard to the same claim,
in which different reasons were given
for not examining the case more
promptly. In one of the letters re-
Election was made on congress, alleging
tnat the appropriation for examining
! such cases was Insufficient
He asked Mr. Dockery as to the truth
of this charge, as he had had charge of
The appropriation bill in which this
item was contained.
MIR. Dockery replied that the question
involved simply difference of opinion
between the committee and the COM
missioner of pensions. "a
MIR. Coggswell desired if TO go on
record that the pension bureau was
| sending out information that on ac-
count of the insuflciency of the appro.
| priation for 1895, these cases could not
! be reached before 1886. He called at
| tention to the fact that the commissioner
| of pensions practically accused the
house of dereiiction OF duty in not pro-
vlding sufficient appropriation. He
! also criticised the commissioner for Civ
| ing different reasons for the delay in
reaching the case to himself and
THE CLAIMANT.
| The question was further discussed
by Mr.. Hopkins, and Mr.. Cannon, of
I Illinois, who arraigned the committee
I on appropriations for its partIcipancy in
the pension cases. and denounced the
| commissioner of pensions for perpetrat-
| ing fraud on the G. A. r. i'll notifying
them that their cases could not be ex-
amined on account of inSufficlency ap-
propriations. The pension appropriations
and the pension bureau were defended by
Mr.. O'Neill, of Massachusetts; Mr.. El-
! loe. of Tennessee. and MIR. Dockery, of
Missouri, the last named saying that he
believed the appropriation to be sutfi-
cient, aud he simply wanted to establish
the fact that there was no consuming
desire Oh the part of the Republicans to
increase the amount over S200. 900. An
agreement was made passing over until
, Monday the paragraph making appro-
| prIations for Indian depreciation claims.
and then leaving three amendments
and one paragraph pending until Mon
day. The committee rose and Mr..
Walker offered report from the COM
mittee on ventilation and acoustics
relative to the ventilation of the house
and making an attack upon Architect
Clark of the capitol.
The house then at 5:15 p. m. al.
journed.