Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-10
TINE 70 CLOSE INCIDENT
The Proposal to Pay Confederate
Soldiers Pensions Not to Be
Taken Seriously.
so THINKS SEAAT0RALLEA OF NEBRASKA
Says President and Senator butler
We're Carried Away by Their EN-
Observation-Disclosures Mason Intro
duces n Resolution That Declares
Against IA Colonial Policy.

Washington, Jan. 9.-When the SEN
ate convened Saturday Senator Pasco
tFla.) presented memorial from a
camp of confederate veterans at Ocala,
Fla, protesting against the adoption
OF the proposition of Senator Butler IN.
CO. TO pension eX-confederate soldiers.
In this connection Senator Allen
(Neb) said:
II believe word on this subject is due
at this point. / do not believe there was
ever serious purpose on. the part of the
senator who is the author of the proposed
amendment to pension confederate veter-
ans. think the author of the amend
Sment, like the president of the United
States, was carried away by his feelings
In my opinion altogether too much atten-
ton is being paid to it.
1T would be an injustice TO the rank and
file OF the confederate soldiers to say that
they would consider seriously any prop
osition to receive pensions. They have
cared for themselves for third of a CEN
fury. They have cared for their ceme-
teries and for their dead. 1t seems to me
that the whole matter can be closed by
saying that both the president of the
United States and the author of the
amendment were carried away by their
enthusiasm. In my Judgment, speaking
from the standpoint of northern SOL
der, it Is time to close this Incident 1t
may be closed by the happy thought that
all bitterness and sectionalism have been
wiped out by the late Spanish war;
AT the conclusion of the routine bust
ness, in accordance with the order made
Friday, the District of Columbia appro-
priation bill was taken up.
Senator Mnson's Resolution.
Senator Mason Qll.) offered the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Whereas, All just powers of government
are derived from the consent of the gov
erned, therefore, be it
Resolved, by the senate of the United
States, That the government of the United
States of America will not attempt to
govern the people of any other country
in the world without the consent of the
people themselves, or subject them by
force to our dominion against their will''
Senator Mason asked that the resolu-
ton lie on the table, announcing his in
tention of addressing the senate upon
it next Tuesday.
Thinks Law should Re Oyerbauled.
Washington, Jan. 9.-On converting
Saturday the house, in committee of
the whole, resumed consideration of
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill.
Mr.. Cromwell (rep., o. moved for
mai amendment TO the bill in order 10
ask why the appointments of emer-
gency clerks in the war department had
not been made from the eligible list
under the civil service law, and said the
connected with these
temporary appointments exposed the
manifest absurdities of the civil service
law. He thought the law should be
generally overhauled.
Mr.. Bailey replied to Mr.. Bromwell,
that if the present civil serv-
ice law continued on the statute books,
the next 20 years would see the passage
of civil service pension list, and Mr..
Cannon explained that the civil service
taking time to fill places, it
was necessary in emergencies to en-
ploy clerks outside that law.
Mr.. Bromwell withdrew his amend
ment and the reading of the bill pro-
reeded.
AT one O'clock Mr. Grosvcnor was rec
ognized to make an hours speech con-
corning the attitude of the political par
ties of the country toward-the financial
question.
Nominations.
Washington, Jan. 9.-The president
sent to the senate the nomination of
Col. William NJ. Wherry, Seventeenth
infantry, to be brigadier general in
the regular army, vice Worth, retired;
Robert II. Rolfe, late colonel First New
volunteers, to be inspector
general with rank of major. He was