The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-04
PENSION TALK IN THE HOUSE.
Ex- Commissioner Black Makes
an Able Speech.
A ReRimont Which Had Seen 100 Dsys
Service. He Said, Contributed GA Men
to tho Pension List-He Would Not
Namo tho Regiment-Piokler Made a
Clear and Impartial Argument of tho
Pensioners' Side = Private Claim,
Passed.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Seyeral pri-
vste pension bills were passed by unsn-
1mous consent, ana then the House, at
1895, went into committee of the whole
on the pension appropriation bill, and
Outhwaite, of Ohio, took the chair.
Picker tRep., s. d. spoke at length
in eulogy Of the soldiers OF the Union
army and of their great achievements,
and described the magnanimity with
which the South was treated by the
commanders and leaders OF the victo-
rious forces.
In the course OF his remarks while
quoting John R. Fellows upon the
manner in which the people of New
York rad received thu $4,000 South
erners who had gone to that city since
the war. Picker was interrupted by
Boatner (Dem., La.), who said that
many Northern men had come into
his district and had been received in
the same spirit of friendliness and
courtesy. Some of the leading real.
dents, the most influential of his dis.
trict,c came there in blue uniforms after
being mustered out of the Union army.
(Applause by Republicsns.)
Representative J. G. Black, dem
llls.,) ex pension commissioners, was the
next speaker He said that if he had
at the beginning of Pickler's speech en-
tertatned any bitterness Of feeling it
would have entirely disappeared under
the influence of the lofty sentiments
expressed by him, and he congratulated
the speaker upon the excellent temper
in which the speech was conceived and
delivered. He intended, however, Mr..
Black said, to address himself to the
three points made in the speech Of Mr..
CIRCUIT yesterday.
In the course OF mis- remarks, Black
said that the records Ct the pension
bureau, according to statement made
by the commissioner, showed that a
regiment recruited in Northwestern
State near the close Of the war, serving
100 days, contributed GA men to the
pension list, with two companies not
accounted for.
A volloy of questions was fred at the
speaker by Grosvenor (Rep. Ohio,)
w to which he replied that the regi-
mont was not General Henderson's (of
Iowa.; that he did not know that the
members OF tho regiment were We terans
who re- enlisted and were pensioned for
injuries received in that prior service:
that, on the other hand, the claims for
pensions we're based upon the oxperi-
ence of the 100 days.
Ray-Will the gentleman name the
regiment?
Black have expressly declined to
do so. The statement is made upon the
authority of the commissioner OF pom
sions and the gentleman from New York
doubtless can learn there what he wants
to know.
At the conclusion of Blacks speech 10
was surrounded by his political asso-
ciatas on the floor and warmly congrat.
ulated. amid vigorous applause, the
demonstration preventing for time the
resumption of business
Order being restored Mr. Waugh
(Rep, lnd.) addressed tho com mittee.
he asked why it was that the bill
carried fifteen millions less than the
bill for 1894. Neither the force nor
expense OF the Office had been re-
duced so they were not the reasons
General Raum, in his last year, said
that if tho office were continued, as it
was then being conducted, pension e1.
penditures would reach high water
mark in 1895. why, Mr.. Chairman.
it struck high water mark Immediately
upon the accession TO power of Demo
cratic administration on March 4, 1898"
At $3.50 o'clock the committee rose
and after passing bill to pension
Hannah Lyle, daughter of a revolu
tionary soldier. at Sl2 month. the
House adjourned until Monday at ~
o'clock.