The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04

II give you the facts as history has re-
corded them And at the word this lit
lite army, in which Lieut.. William Ioch-
ren stool laS file closerD if YOU please
steadied themselves for an onset as hope
less as the stand of the Greeks at Their
mopyiae, Here the broken fragments of
n glorious army; there the on-rush Of
victorious foe.
SAVED THE DAY FOR THE FEDERALs.
"Fhose 962 men arrayed themselves IN
line, AT the command of the colonel with
steady step, with their arms at right
shoulder shift, the command of 262
started down the hill toward the front of
the conflict. Their purpose was seen the
instant they were uncovered, and the
leaden rain fell upon them. They pushed
forward, they increased their double
quick to "A run; they brought their bayo-
heJs down, they made break in the cen
ter OF that line. which checked the ad-
vance of those victorious veterans, and
gave time for reforming of the union
commands, and saved the day at Gene
terry Ridge for the federal army. lAp-
plause. And in the center of that col
umn was this man Lochren. Renewed
applause. To-day an houored mem
Der of the loyal legion of
the United States To-day relieved
from the houored duties of Judge,
to day bearing his comrades cause IN his
heart as faithfully and as clearly as when
20 out of those 265 fell, killed and
wounded in that sinyle charge, only Il
remaining and he one of the A. He had
been a private soldier, a non commits
stoned ohicer and an officer. For three
years the tap Of the drum and the voices
OF command summoned him on forty hat
tle-heldS To tell me to-day because he
observes the laws of his country, and
honors and regards his oath, that man
"a Al lngrf fIIfsa % Vl.fg, A..
reserVlnF only what he must, is un-
friendly to the federal soldiery stamps
the whole vast procession of slanders
WIN the character which they deserve ~
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Blacks speech
he was surrounded by his political asso-
clates ON the floor and warmly congratu-
lated auid vigorous applause, the demon
straJlOu preventing, for a time, the
resumption of business.
REDUCTION OF THE APPROPRIATION.
Order being restored. Mr. Waugh, rep,
OF indiana, addressed tho committed He
asked why 1t was that the bill carried
eloOUO, 600 less than the bill for 1891
Neither the force nor expense of the ofice
had been reduced, so they were not the
reasons. Gen. Raum, in his last wears
report. said that if the Office was Contin-
ued as it was being conducted, the pen
sion expenditures would reach the high
NtteNA lA4Al Il III 100, w ny. NlFs AIdlf-
man, it struck high water mark imme-
diately upon the ascension to power of a
demo ratio administration on March a."
Mr Waugh compared the work of the
bureau under the republican and demo
cratic administrations and said he must
differ from the gentleman who had lust
spoken, and believed that the reduction
OF the amount appropriated by the pend
ing Dill was due TO the an nbag0nism of the
pension uOllrV nv tho upoaaut udu,ipfo
tratiOn.
Mr.. Waugh ridiculed the assertion that
the pension roll was honey com bed,f with
fraud and declared that the pension bu-
reau has abandoned it since il has been
able to establish but three cases
as the result of its efforts
in that direction" " Fraudulent
pensions have been granted, / admit"
continued Mr.. Waugh, but not to a
greater extent than would have occurred,
and has occurred. in the adjudication of
the same number of any class of claims
| against the government The fraud
crier is man who has no sympathy with
the boys on or off the roll, The cut Of
Sl5,O00,COO in the appropriations is only
the beginning of the end.
TO BE SMALLER NEXT YEAR.
MIR. Waugh read a Washington dis
patch TO the indianapolis Sentinel quoting
Deputy Commissioner Bell as saying that
the appropriation for pensions would be
$4,000 600 less than this year and that
before the close of the Cleveland admins
tration the expenditures for pensions
will 8be reduced TO 500, ,00O0OJ year
| They are trying to make up the deficiency
caused by the Wilson bill, by cutting OF
| pensions to old soldiers"
AT 3 80 o'clock the committee rose, and
after passing bill to pension Hannah
Lyle, daughter of a revolutionary soldier
at Sl2 per month the House adjourned
until Monday at II O'clock