The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-28
DISTRICT DAY.
III is QUITE
LIVELY I'M THE HOUSE.
PiclSler's Pension Bill Takes Up a
Great Zeal of Attention-Being
Pushed By the Friends of the Au-
thor.

WASHINGTON, April 2i.-This was
District of Columbia day in the house,
and the general pension bill was side
tracked under an arrangement to give
the district the first two hours.
Several district bills were passed.
Mr.. Henderson (Rep.) of Iowa, chair
man of the committee on judiciary,
gave notice that he would call up the
bankruptcy bill as soon as the pen
sion bill was disposed Of
Mr.. Henderson from the committee
on rules then, at 1 80 p. M, brought in
a special order for the considera tbon
! OF the Picker pension bill for one and
one-half hours this afternoon under the
tVe-mlnute rule, the previous question
then to be considered as ordered on
the plll and pending amendments, with
! a provision for a final vote tomorrow.
immediately after the reading OF the
! journal.
Mr.. Crisp Oem.) of Georgia charac-
| terized the rule as
A REMARKABLE ONE.
He said it pretended to do one thing,
but did another, as only such amend
ments as were adopted in committee
| would be voted on. The practical con
sequence of the adoption of this rule
would be to force the house to vote on
/ the Dill without amendment
Mr.. Dingley Rep) of Maine replied
that the rule was almost a literal copy
! OF the rule adopted by the last house,
when the Wilson tariff bill was pend
| ing.
/ That rule permitted the house to
| vote on the pending amendments when
i the time FOR debate had expired" said
| Mr.. Crisp. The gentleman is not can
did,
Mr.. Dingley insisted that the spirit
OF the two rules was the same.
/ Mr.. Henderson said he made no guise
OF the fact that the purpose of the rule
was to bring the bill to a vote. He
said the
SITUATION IN THE SENATE
must be taken into consideration, and
afso the president in the White House,
and urged al the friends of the old
soldiers TO stand by the bill, as the
best that could be written on the sta
tute books at this time
Mr.. Crisp reiterated his statement
that the purpose of the rule was to
destroy the right of amendments and
followed this with the charge that the
bill had been framed, not by the COM
mlttee on pensions, but by the leaders
in control of the house, who had re-
solved that the house should pass this
bill as drawn, or nothing.
The committee on pensions" said
he, spent days and weeks in perfeoting
bill, and then the gentlemen who
control legislation and who manage
the affairs of this house made this bill !
out in the speakers room. This GER |
'tainly is not the bill reported by the !
pension committee. Then those gen
tlemen brought in this rule
TO PROTECT THEMSELVES
against this $50 Republican majority. /
If you adopt the rule you must take |
this bill as it stands, or nothing" he I
concluded, sarcaStically, addressing the |
Republican side. IF you like the sit I
uation you are welcome to it."
Mr.. Henderson ridiculed the virtuous I
indignation of Mr.. Crisp. I'VE now /
hear" said he, 1.-The solemn voice Of !
the star chamber rules committee of I
the past, whose rules were clad in !
steel, appealing for more time. L have
no concealment TO make" he con-
Guided. The gentleman says he ap-
peals for opportunity to amend this
bill, presumably in the interest of the
old soldier. In the same interest ask
for action"
Mr.. Cannon (Rep), of Illinois, said
that as one of the $50 majority he
favored the rule He had voted for the
act of 1890, he said, which had placed
When the present administration as
sumed control of the pension Office,
at one stroke of the pen 10000 names
had been stricken from the rolls, and
three hundred odd thousand pension
ers had their
PENSIONS PLACED IN JEOPARDY.
This bill did not, perhaps, go as far
as he wished, but it was the best that
could ha noCCp6 until the RPnnhliH9n
party obtained full power.
Mr.. Hepburn (Rep), of Iowa, opposed
the adoption of the rule. If there was
any question on which a Republican
house could be trusted it was that of
pensions and he protested against the
interference of the committee on rules.
The bill ought, he said, to be amended.
The rule was adopted, 119 to IS.
Thirty-four Republicans voted against
the adoption of the order as follows:
Blue, Bowers, Burton, of Missouri;
Calderhead, Connolly, Cook, Cooper,
Crowther, Danford, Dewitt, Eddy, Fen
ton, Graft, Hager, Hartman, Henry,
Hepburn, Johnson, of California; Kirk
patrick, Mcclure, Mclaughlin, Miller,
Miner, of Wisconsin,; Smith, Southland,
Strong, Sulloway, Tawney, Towne,
Tracewell, Updegraff, Van Horn, Wan
ger and Wilson, of Idaho.
motion of Mr.. Cannon chairman of the
appropriation committee), the senate
to sundry civil bills were
in and the bill sent to
Messrs. Cannon, Haiuer,
W. A. Stone and Cayers were appointed
conferees. Under the rule adopted
THE PENSION BILL
was taken up for amendment under
the five minute rule.
Nj. Connolly Rep. IlI) offered an
to the section of the bill
which provided that no person entitled
pension by reason OF any prior
service IN the confederate army, SO as
to limit the provision to persons who had
performed involuntary service" in the
southern army.
Mr. Picker opposed the amendment on
the ground that it would be impossible
to prove that service in the confederate
army had been involuntary"
Mr.. Pearson Htep. n. Co appealed to
his colleague CMr. TalberD not to OPP
TO let the opposition, if it must come,
come from the copperheads" OF the
north.
Mr.. Miles Oem) Md) denounced the :
men who deserted from the confederate
army to
JOIN THE UNION RANKS
at the close of the war as mere mercen-
aries who fought Tor gold and honored no
Mr.. Layton Dem. Ohio offered an
amendment to substitute for the first sec
ton of the bill a service pension bill. a
Mr.. Picker raised point against it, ]
and Mr.. Payne VINO was in the chair :
the point OF order.
Mr.. Layton appealed from the decision {
of the chair. He urged members who