The herald., 1897-12-11
MILLIONS
OF MONEY
Provided for Payment OF
Pensions
THE CIVIL SERVICE POLICY
eAvA0ELY ATTACKED By MANY
OF THE MEMBERS
THE CIVIL SERVICE POLICY
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Associated Press Special Wire
WARRINGTON, Dec. 10.-The house
today passed the pension appropriation
bill without amendment and adjourned
till Monday. The amendments offered
by Democrats to correct alleged exist
ing abuse were all ruled out on the point
Of order that they were new legislation.
A passed the bill carries $1l1, ,263, $3.50.
The debate today covered a wide range
It touched not only the question Of our
pension policy but that Of civil service
reform and the receipts and expendi-
lures Of the treasury under the Dingley
law. On the latter question Mr.. Ding
ley made an important statement in
which he expressed the opinion that the
receipts would equal the expenditures
before the close Of the fiscal year, and
predicted a surplus Of $10,000,000 next
year.
The civil service law was savagely OF
tackled by several members. notably
Brown, Republican. Of Ohio. and Lin
ney, Republican, Of North Carolina, and
was warmly defended by Johnson. Fe-
publican, Of Indiana.
Just before the close Of the session.
Hit, chairman Of the foreign affairs
committee. attempted to secure unani-
nous consent for the passage OF the bill
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citizens. but objection was made. 1t
will, under agreement, however. be con-
sidered Monday.
Saturday. December 10th, was set
apart for paying tribute to the memory
Of the late Representative e. D. Cooke
Of Illinois.
The house then resumed consideration
Of the pension appropriation bill, which
was debated yesterday. Mr.. Brown
(Rep.. Ohio) attacked the civil service
law because 1t protected some Of the
Pension Examining Boards appointed
under the last administration. He styled
1t IAN abomination," and was Justify ap-
plauded by many of his colleagues. He
said the soldiers Of his district regarded
this law as inimical to their interests,
and ne favored its repeal or radical mod
ification. He declared that the President
was mistaken when he affirmed that the
civil service law had the approval Of the
people. The Republicans andsthe press
Of his district denounced Il The last Re-
publican State Convention Of Ohio had
declared against the law, and in the
platform upon which he stood It was de-
nounced.
Maxwell, Populist. Of Nebraska. SUBJ
mitted some remarks In favor Of liberal
pensions, and was followed by Gros-
venor. Republican, OF Ohio. who said
that while hts colleagues from Ohio
seemed to differ on the civil service
question, he thought they were practi-
call.y of one mind. So far as he was con-
cerned he had enlisted for the war
against the law.
In discussing the pension matter.
Qrosvenor said II he could he would
abolish the pension examining board
and much Of the expense Of administra-
tion in the pension Office. and substitute
a general service pension system care
fully safeguarded.
In reply to Morton's criticism yester-
day, Grosvenor reviewed the records Of
the two parties on pension legislation
Of congress, showing that in the aggre-
gate 1884 Republican votes were cast in
congress for general pension examine
ton and but two against It. while 422
Democrats have been In favor Of such
legislation and S16 in opposition.
Sullivan, Democrat, of Mississippi, In
support Of an argument against the pay
ment Of pensions to those who were
wealthy and did not need them, quoted
at length from an article recently writ
ten by Gen. H. v. Boynton, whose testi-
mony against abuses In the present sys-
tenn, he said, was entitled to respectful
consideration by the other side.
johnson, Republican, Of Indiana, In
defense Of the civil service reform.
which, he said, was being attacked on
this floor by members from the presi
dents own state. reiterated his state
ment OF the other day, that civil service
reform was an essential principle Of
Republicanism. He referred to the
declarations Of state Republican con-
ventions and read from platforms adopt
ed at the Republican conventions for
twenty years in support of his conten-
tions. Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and
Mckinley all stood for the law. and the
presidents last utterance in It's favor
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I'll Of the Republican press Of the coun-
try. Mr.. johnson declared that the enc
mics of the law were not attacking 1t
openly. They hoped, as friends of true
civil REFORM" to tear 1t down piecemeal
and do covertly what they feared to at
tempt directly.
Carmack, Gaines and Sims. Demo-
Gratis, Of Tennessee spoke briefly in ia
vor Of the retrenchment in pension ex-
penditures. These remarks drew
an important statement from
Mr.. Dingley regarding the prospec-
tive revenues and the expenditures for
the ensuing year. Preliminary to the
statement, Dingley gave q new inter-
probation Of the estimated increase in
pension expenditures, contending that
the maxlmum was reached in 1893. when
the pension payments reached 59,000.-
900. In 1894 they fell to $141. 900, 900; in
1896, S1l1,00o, 900; in 1896. t1S0, 900. 900, and
In 1897, $141 200, 900. II the expenditures
Tor pensions during the next fiscal year
should be @l4S.00O,000, as had been esti-
mated, the increase, Mr.. Dingley said.
would not be due to new legislation, but
TO more rapid administration of the pres
ent law. It would, therefore, involve no
additional expense In the end. The Ques-
tion - to revenue and expenditures for
ths next fiscal year, proceeded Mr.