The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-06
HOUSE STILL DISCUSSING PENSIONS
Bill Providing for tho Admission OF
New Mexico as q State Defeated.

new mexico as State Defeated,
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The House
OF Representatives began the second
year Of the Fifty-third Congress at noon
to-day with prayer by Dwight L. Moody,
the evangelist There was a good at
tendance OF members and the prayer was
listened to attentively.
On motion of MIR. Richardson fDem..
Tenn.) the Senate resolution was passed
appropriating IS. 7OU for publishing cor.
respondence submitted to Congress-
since January 1 on Hawaiian Affairs.
with an amend mont placing the publ.
cation In charge Of the Secretary of
State instead Of the committee on for.
eign relations.
The bill to enable New Mexico to
become State, which was called up
by Mr.. Joseph (Dem.. N. M, imue-
olately developed opposition. Cannon
(Rep., III demanded a second and
tellers we're ordered. The Republi.
cans refrained from voting and the
result was l26 yeas, one nav. No
quorum having appeared Joseph with
drew his motion and O'Neill Dem
Mass.) called up the regular order, the
pension appropriation bill, and Doliiyer
lkep, lowa) addressed the House on
ioS provisions, criticising the present
administration Of the pension office.
MIR. Hepburn rep, Iowa. scored the
action of 1.-THE Representatives OF the
eleven late Confederate States" for
their opposition to liberal pensions.
Livingston (Ga.) and Enloe (Tenn.O
objected to some of Hepburn's state
ments on the South's proportion OF con-
trloutlon TO the Governments expenses.
and Hepburn admitted that there was
justice in the objection.
Enloe (fenn.) took an opposite view
from the preceding speaker. He said
there was large amount of money in.
VOWED, large number OF votes in
volved in the pension question and it
opened up chance for demagogues 30
exercise their vocation. He defended
the Secretary OF the Interior and its
pension policy.
Baldwin (Dem., Minp.) had hoped that
the war had ended with the surrender
OF Lee, but he was mistaken The
gentlemen on the other side were fight.
ing 1t over again, leaving it from
generation to generation as heritage
Baldwin also wanted to know If the
gentlemen on the other side in endeayor.
ing to mako eXtravangant pension ap-
preparation to embarass tho tariff legis-
latlon for pensions must be paid out OF
'hOiof ptOFlueu ny tue L9rlu laws.
Cannon (Rep., Ills }, said tho gentle
man from Illinois (Black), the former
commissioner of pensions, had stood on
the floor OF the House and it seemed to
him, acted as the attorney OF the Dom
ocratic parry in its pension policy. In
his speech last Saturday he had told OF
tn magnificent charge OF the present
commissioner Of pensions at Gettysburg;
and 1T seemed to him that the gentle-
man was endeavoring to have the record
OF Commissioner Lochren spread over
the pension policy and the unfriendli-
ness OF the administration to tho
pensions. lie would like to- know whether
the gentleman from Illinois was in
favor OF the pension vetoes which Mr..
Cleveland made during his first admin
istr2tion.
Black said the bills vetoed came to
him from the President through tho
Secretary OF the Interior, and wore by
him referred to various divisions for
report. He then sent the cases back to
the Secretary of the Interior with the
reports, sometimes giving opinions
whether the bills should be vetoed.
More questioning by Cannon failed to
get the desired information from Black,
who declined to betray what he believed
to be confidential relations between the
Presloent and the commissioner of pen
sions (himselD.
Cannon devoted tho rest OF his argu-
ment to citing cases of deserving PEN
sioners, many of whom had received
their injuries from disease and not from
bullets, and he declared the President
was doing just as little as possible un.
dor the dependent pension acS which he
had once vetoed
AT the conclusion of Cannon's re-
marks the House at $40 O'Clock ad.
journed till to morrow.
WALTON BILL DEFEATED