Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-08
GEN. CIRCUIT ON PENSIONS.


son Appropriation bill:
Mr.. Chairman, the oil soldiers. with cvcry
othor class of American citizens, realiz,
.hat "the evil days. are upon us: and they
10 not expect to escape the common suffer
ms lnriIcnt to a short period of 'tnriir re-
form; they are, in fact, willing to con
Tribute thcir share toward making good thi,
deficiency. But | expect it will puzzle them
Il little to understand why they should he
called upou to contribute the whole S2G,
1000, the whole deficiency. which the pen.
sion bureau /, 50 deity Withholding from
.hcm.
! expect. also. when they recall how the
inst Congress put ON ono page of the statute
5ooI; liberal pension act and at tho same
session on another page of the very same
book a protective tariff act, declared i'm the
act Itself to ho protective, under which pen
SION, were paid to the men who on the field
pt battle won Independence and liberty for
.lll> American people: when they recall this
and recall. also, how for the last 80 years
under Il protective tariff and the friendly
legislation of the republican party thousands
Vt millions of dollars have been paid them in
pensions, and never until the gaunt spectcr
Of free trade in the gui.c Of tariff re-
'1rr atalkcd in the White House. Senate
chamber ana representative hall has there
been such thing heard Of or thought Of,
rs deficiency in the United States treas
urN. ! say / expect when they recall all this
tucN"illt tell youth they have had rnough of
"iariil REFORM that rs for them they are
satisfied with the platform on which the
fathers stood when they planted the rcpub-
lie. anal on which tho men stood vino saved
20 from dissolution when treason vas clutch
Ing Ht its throat. and on which the mon Of
D t.,ff ,-iy
tcotiNc tariff with lih.yl pensions for the
defenders Of the flag and plenty of money
with WhIrh to pay them.
; on have seen how. from the several
comparative statements submitted the al
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i.r,nrr. en- 13u. ,t tbn s,,,,o r,t. fo, tho
vh /, wear POO names And do not FORGOT
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moro tbou half - nilIi,,, OHM. tLa+ ha,.a
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Ib,Iu.oIyr. uoua Locl. tn d,,sti fo, .tn,i.ti.s
Show. that about RI ONT of n,n,,, tbor.,,,d ~,
t.o ,,ru.ion roll die o,.,,,, ,.o,,
At thn s,,u, r,t.,t an of +ri- l,,lf,,,n
lion uucor.iJ,rn1 claim. ara lni,,, .,t+i,,,
annually hy the dootb of tbo+ ,7,,,ho, If
claimants: to which if Won ,dd tha n,,,,,hor
of deaths annually. from an,on,, tI,., ,,c,.
ON fine roll o+ 1no.t 10 ,On mona ,.o,, La,.a
th, total nu,,,bar If 40 uOO u,,ris a. q, mo-,
.-nn,Iy increase T., +be ,,u ...,,,. tt,,,....,
Wbcrc tbc f,c,,,,, ,.,,,,,,, ,,,,,,
Where tine Summon never sounded.
OF the trumpet and the drum
NhIle over here, on Judge LochTcn's roll, in
M lIist HiN months OF the first year of dem
1cratlc ascendcncy there is net gain of the
ntiiul number of $50. These figures, Mr.
hartman, tell the mournful story of pen
SION reform under the present administra-
Ton, ana show how few years of this dem
ucfatlc polcy VIII forever settle the pension
problem; lew years delay and all the old
soldiers VIII have gone over to the ma iority,
"Ut never ! am sure You will agree with
me-, never to the democratic majority.
In" lhsIEnl hcant increase of the roll for
ne last six months as shown by the above
-7'''' I'm l''7 INV IH'N'l'll' W Iltl can
the pension bureaG with its army of clerks,
"Noo strong, be doing to accomplish so lit
te' when 50 much was done by the same
force III the three last fiscal years during
Nhlch inc roll was increased by almost half
II million nainc>-to be exact 42S 1873 =
ANA what answer can he made except that
TIE pension bureau, like the rest of the
country N tins unhappy time of democratic
control, has gone out of business But
they did issue few certificates they |
l-ight, however about as well have sus
ended altogether, for ON the business they |
lld 10 they paid only about 60 cents on the |
dollar. And here let me tell You wha1 ! |
mean by this.
The first payments on Commissioner |
faum SIX months work, 10, 4S3 certifi-
'ates, amounted, as we have seen, to SD
IO.T''O 81; while on Commissioner Loeb |
rem work of the same time, 81, $3.50 certi-
lcateS, the first payments were but 81, ,6Y.
jIo'ij Now if You will make calculation
rom these figures you will find that the
bid soldier received on an average Sl15.57 |
~ every one of Rtmns certificates: while
At,l,ts = l,. l,,,. C "A