St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-04
South for 100 days. and never saw the
smoke of battle nor


smoke of battle nor
HEARD A MUSKET CRACK.
Six hundred and fourteen men in that
regiment were on the pension roll under
the act of 1890, with two companies un-
accounted for. Was that making the
pension roll a roll of honor? Demo
cratic applause. This statement of
Gen. Blacks caused great interest.
Mr.. Ray, of New York, wanted TO
know if Gen. Black was not aware that
those men had been pensioned for
gallant and meritoriouS servics in other
commands.
Ged. Black replied that he knew
nothing of the kind.
MIR. Lacey insisted on knowing the
name of the regiment, and Mr.. Black
declined to give it, saying that he was
not playing the part of detective. He
insisted that if soldier was pensioned
as member of certain regiment, he
was pensioned for service in that regi-
ment. MIR. Black then drifted into Il
discussion of the frauds unearthed at
Norfolk, New Orleans, New Mex
leo. Chattanooga and Iowa and
Minnesota by the present commits
Sioner of pensions, which. he said. since
Dec. %, had resulted in % arrests. 50
indictments and 62 convictions. lie
cited them, he said, to show that Mr..
Lochren had been active in the dis
charge of his duty as an honest man.
The repeal of Order 164 was not to be
deemed all evidence of Democratic hos
tillty to the pensioners, he said. The de-
clslon upon which that order was fur
nished was issued by Republican Sec
rotary OF the interior Gen. Bussey, in
1890 andunder lis operation the issue of
pension certificates in the last year of
GEN. RAUM'S ADMINISTRATION
fell off 100000. With reference to the
charge that the Democratic party was
hostile to the soldier, he pointed out
that since 1861 the house had originated
all pension appropriation bills, had
been eighteen years under the control
OF the Republican party, and during
that time it had appropriated s676.O0O, =
600. while during the sixteen years of
Democratic rule the house had sent to
the senate bills appropriating 1851, OOO,-
600.
(Which party originated the pension
legislation!" asked MIR. Grout.
Both parties" replied Mr.. Black.
"Has pension law ever been orig
mated by the Democratic partyo" in
quired MIR. Circuit. There are many of
them. Tie arrearage of pension is one,
replied Mr.. Black. Mir. Black stated
that the Democratic party believed that
every law enacted in behalf of pension
erS should be faithfully administered:
but 1t insisted, as 1t ought to, that the
roll of honor should not be stained bv
the payment of pensions to those who
do not deserve them. In replying to
the charge that Commissioner Lochren
was dominated by Secretary Smith, an
eX-Contederate soldier, he paid a glow
ing ana eloquent tribute to the formers
war record. With vivid words that
held the house spelibOund.
HE DREW THE PICTURE
of the second days battle at Gettys-
Durg; now after Slckles' corps had been
l"rned back by the flame and fire of the
gray-coated avalanche, Hancock, the
superb, had ordered the First regiment
ot Minnesota, with Lieut.. Lochren in
the center. to check that charge. Their
task, said Gen. Black, was as hopeless
as that of the Greeks at Thermopyl;e.
but they did their duty with a loss of
25l killed and wounded. ana the tide of
battle was turned back. Only AZ came
off the field unscathed. To attack the
friendship of such soldier for his COM
rades. concluded Gen. Black, was to
stamp the whole vast tissue of Islander
as unworthy even of the calumnators.
Cheers upon cheers from the gallery
anu the floor followed the brilliant per.
Grafton, and his colleagues crowded
around and congratulated the speaker.
MIR. Waugh Rep., Ind } declared
that no pension bill, general or private,
had ever been rejected by Republican
vote. At the conclusion of MIR. Waugh's
speeh the committee rose. On motion
OF Mr.. Cogswell, of Massachusetts, a
bill to pension Hannah Lisle was
passed. and then at $3.50 the house
adjourned.