Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-17
House Still Working on the Pension
Appropriation Bill.
In Senate Mills Offers Resolution to
! Relieve Financial lIls-House Bond
Bill Taken Up.


by Mr.. Bartlett (dem., N. W Monday.
Mr.. Northway INDUCED in some crit
icism himself upon the management
Of the pension bureau, prefacing it
with the explanation that in his view
OF the question a pension was higher
than vested right. He would accept
the definition of Mr.. Bartlett, that a
pension was a gratuity and argue that
the nation had less right to withdraw
Or modify it than if it were paid in pur-
suance of a contract. Mr.. Northway
said there was in the administration Of
the pension bureau a narrow, contract
ed, unfriendly and unjust spirit, COM
polling the pensioner to approach the
bureau in a cringing, supplicating at
fitude. The spirit of the bureau COM
PEELED the soldier to assume % burden
which ought not to be put on him and
which misrepresents the sentiment of
the country to its old defenders.
In support of this general statement,
;Mr. Northway instanced rulings, es-
pecally upon the phrase "total dis
ability" by the pension bureau, which
he said should bring tingle of shame
to the cheek of every man in the nation
permitting such a policy to be pursued
Napplause).
Mr.. Northway said that the patriotic
people OF this country would visit with
eternal condemnation the policy, he
cared not with whom it originated, that
requires almost impossible conditions
upon applicants for pensions.
Orders Favorable Report.
Washington, Jan. 1.-THE house
committee on public lands Tuesday or
dered favorable report on the bill
of Mr.. Wilson, of Idaho, granting to
NIL public land states 25 per cent. of
all money paid to the United States
for mineral lands within their respect
i've borders for the support of schools
OF mines.
Senate Passes Pension Bill.
. Washington, Jan. 14.-After consid-
cradle discussion in the senate Tues
day bill granting pension of $75
month to the wife of Brig. Gen. Cogs-
well, of Massachusetts (of the volun-
teer army, was passed.
During the debate Senator Thurs
ton (rep., Neb.) mad. his maiden
speech in the senate in favor of the
measure, which Senator Allen (pop..
Neb had opposed on the ground that
higher pensions should not be given
to widows of officers than to those of
private soldiers.
Senator Allen moved an amendment
reducing the pension from so to $50
% month. It was reieo.ed-yeas, %;
nays, IS. All the republican senators
voted in the, negative, and the demo-
Gratis in the affirmative, with the ex-
cept.on of seDassor Call (Fla.), Hill
>.(N. Wy, Mitchell (Wis.), Palmer (m.),
aoa - -ttN. D. and Voorhees, Qnd.).
Mills Offers q Financial Remedy.
Senator Mills (dem., Tex offered
resolutions declaring that the out
standing legal tender notes shall not
be retired, cancelled or funded into in
terest-bearing bonds, but shall be kept
in circulation; that the whole of the
silver bullion now in the treasury shall
be coined as rapidly as possible-the
coins from the seigniorage to be paid
out in current expenses and the rest
in the redemption of treasury notes
Issued for its purchase; that whenever
there is q deficit in the treasury, legal
tender notes shall be issued to meet
current expenditures. and shall be de-
stroyed when returned to the treasur-
er; that all laws authorizing the sale
of tnterest-bearing bonds snail be re-
J,caled; that it is the established policy
Of the United States not only to keep
all kinds of money issued under it's au-
fhority at par, but to require all cred
itors, public and private, to receive gold
nnd silver coins in payment of all obi
cations where the terms OF the con-
tract stipulate for coin payment, and
that it is the duty of the secretary of
the treasury to pay United States notes
IN both gold and silver coin.
He asked that the resolution lie on
the table, and gave notice that he would
address the senate On Wednesday.
A bill granting to the Atchison &
Nebraska Railroad company and to the
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad
company the right of way over part
OF the Sac and Fox Indian reservation
WAS reported and passed.
House Bond Bill Taken Up.
AT two p. m. the house bond bill with
the finance committee silver substitute
was taken up.
3 Senator Butler (pop., N. CO. offered
an amendment to The bill prohibiting
the issue of bonds for any purpose
whatever without further action of
congress and requiring the payment of
greenbacks, treasury nores and the in
terest and principal of coin obliga-
lions in either gold coin or silver coin,
and he addressed the senate on the
amendment.
No Meeting of Finance Committee.
Washington, Jan. 14.-There was no
meeting of the senate committee on
finance Tuesday, due to the absence Of
Senator Allison and Aldrich and the in
ability of the republicans to see their
way clear to report the tariff bill with
out amendment, in accordance with the
instructions of the recent caucus.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, still holds
out that the Is per cent. additional
duty placed by the house bill on every
schedule but sugar must be made to
apply by the senate committee to sugar
OF he cannot vote with them to report
the bill to the senate.
To Investigate in Secret.
Washington, Jan. 1.-THE senate
committee on naval affairs Tuesday
morning decided to hold the hearings
on the Chandler resolution, to investi-
gate certain matters in connection with
Armor plate and other alleged frauds