Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-01-18

Who was deprived of his pension under
the total disability act Of 1890 because
he was able to earn s25 a month as g
guard at railroad crossing.
The pension bureau had ruled that
under the act of 1890 if a widows in
come exceeded se6 a year she was not
entitled to a pension. A soldiers widow
! should not be obliged to stand shiv-
ering and starving a the door of the
pension office in order to obtain a pen
| sion and the pensions committee, there
fore, had reported to the house an
amendment to the present law requiring
| that as condition prior to that of re-
| celVlng a pension she should prove that
| her net income did not exceed $500
Mr.. Hemingway Of Indiana favored
the adoption of the Graft amendment
prohibiting the suspension of pensions
| until fraud had been proven in a United
States court. He predicted that in No
vember next the people would elect a
republican president who would appoint
loyal man from the north secretary
of the interior to administer the pen
sion laws with justice and fairness to
the old soldier.
Mr.. Arnold of Pennsylvania. in criti-
cising the pension office denounced par
tlcularly the practice of calling on
democratic postmaSters to furnish in
formation as to alleged fraudulent pen
sions
Mr.. Robinson of Tennessee who was
pension agent at Nashville in 1881, de-
voted much time to the exploitation of
particular cases which he claimed
proved the hostility of the pension Of
flee.
A speech by Mr.. Walker Cepublican)
of Virginia attracted more than usual
attention. Mr.. Walker was a general
in the confederate army on the staff
of General Jubal EARLY He replied par
ticularly to the remark of Mr. Hemin-
way to the effect that when a repub-
lican again took his place in the White
house no man from the south would
preside over the pension office General
Walker declared there was a misappre-
hension of feeling and the sentiment of
the southern people and the southern
soldiers towards pensions for the men
who fought for the Union. There was
no sentiment against the pension policy
of the government in the south and he
assured his republican friends that the |
fortunes and pensions of the Union sol |
diers would be safe in the hands of the |
soldiers of the south. His remarks |
ELECTED applause from both sides of |
the hall.
Mr.. Wood of Illinois, Fitzpatrick (re-
publican of Kansas and Mr. Poole of
New York followed and then Mr. Cum
mings democrat of New York; created |
the sensation of the day by short but
bitter arraignment of the pension Of
flee and an eloquent reputation of the
expressed by his colleague,
MI Bartlett yesterday. He declared
it was time that some radical action
office
At the conclusion of Mr. CUMMINGS
speech the committee arose and the
speaker announced the appointment OF
the Chicamauga park commission as
follows. MeSSrS. GrOSVenor of Ohio
keifer Of Minnesota, Strong of Ohio,
Avery of Michigan, Bowers of Califor-
MIA, republicans; Wheeler Of Alabama.
Cox of Tennessee, Maddox and Crisp of
Georgia. democrats.
He also announced the appointment
Of Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma to the
on agriculture and Mr.. Muir
ohy of Arizona on coinage, weights and
measures and mines and mining
The house, then, at 4 :05 p. M, adjourn
cd until tomorrow.