The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-01-12
FOR LAVISH PENSIONS
Senator Maion Talks Against
Aoquiiiag Coloa.ea'
REFERS TO CIR STRUGGLES

a Bili which proposes tn Make the Per.
sinn Laws s.iIi Move Liberal and which
Brcuks Down Many og the safeguard,
Sow Existing. 4 Kansas Representative
tho Author.
Washington, Jan. 11--Now that Con-
Eress has be gun to throw down the
bars. the pension system is one which
will probably be given a large sharD
Of the benefit A sign 81 the times
may be found in bill introduced by
Representative Brodericlk, Republican
of Kansas, u legislator who has done
some vSry good work in his day, but
who feels evidently that he must yield
something 60 the pressure from his dis
trict or elsewhere for greater latitude
I'm pension matters. This bill provides,
among other things:
1. That all pension laws shall be
construed literally in the interest Of
the claimant, who shall not be requlr
ed to furnish proof excluding all rea-
sonablc doubt, but merely to establish
his claim by fair preponderance of
proof.
9 That all pensions reduced or dis
continued stree the beginning of 1S93--
n date obviously chosen for the pur-
pose of wiDi"C out Commissioner Loo
hren's recoid--shall be reconsdered
and readjud Gated upon application,
and If restored shall begin again from
the date of the reduction or dscontin-
uance.
3. That all Investigations into the
merits of pensions previously allowed
shall be cone ucted in open session, and
at the coun Y seat of the county in
which the D. rson affected resides.
4. That tie oaths of persons who
served as no commissioned officers OF
privates sha weigh as much as those
of commissi, ned officers.
5. That n rriage may be prima IA.
Gle proved by satisfactory evidence
that the parties habtually recognized
each other IS husband and wife, and
were so recc rized 10y their neighbors,
and lived to ether as such up to the
| death of eth of them or of the enlist
| ment Of the man, and that the children
| born of such a union shall be for pen
sion purposes deemed Legitimate
l. That if a claim for a pension un-
| der the dependent act is rejected on
| the ground o. no pensionable degree of
| disability, th2 applicant may have al
order for mination before another
| board of sur. cons without filing a new
or supplemei al declaration but mere
| ly on the sv orn statement of a repu-
table physician that a perslonable de-
| gree of disability does exist, and that.
| If a second examination results favor
| ably, the pension shall begin from the
date Of films the rejected application
| or from the date subsequent to such
! filing at which the disability is proved
to have beg n.
| 8. That widow whose net income
| does not amount to three hundred dol
lars year shall be considered as
without otL n means of support than
her daily lat r" for the purposes of the
| dependent p,nsion act.
| senator W lson Against Expansion.
Washington, Jan. 1.-THE fight
against the eace treaty was resumed
in the Senat yesterday. Senator Ma
son made a characteristic speech fa-
| voring his amendment to the treaty,
declarin gthat the United States shall
not govern e Philippine islands with
| out the con. mt of the inhabitants.
'It is cas- to drift with the tide"
| began Mr.. ason. But it is not al
ways safe 1t is pleasant to remain in
the harbor ', hen the storm is on, but
| sometimes t G storm within the inner
| conscience il more dangerous to peace
of mind tht the storm without the
| harbor is to human life.
i agree that you cam as Lincoln
said, in the long run trust tlse peo-
ple.'
II am willing to trust the people and
| | want the eoDle to heav both sides
of the case before the verdict is rem
dered
"Distinguis he'd editors and states
men say the Republican party favors
governing Ct tain nations without the
consent of its people. Who dares speal,
in advance for the party that speaks
only in it's conventions?
Il may APP ear to speak one word for
the Philippi. es, but two for my own
| people when lead for the broad man
hood of the IAN who wrote: AN just
| overs of government are derived from
the consent of the governed We
ought to bef n to learn the inexorable
law of compensation.
| You canr 1t govern the Philippines
without tax. e them. You have not
yet their CO. sent and the proposition
of taxation without representation is
made again. Look out for tea parties
Those little aemi-social functions are
likely to br ak out even there. for
Hail Colum la and Yankee Doodle
have been h ard in the archipelago.
mo matter how easy be the yoke of
foreign power--no matter how light
ly 1t sits uron the shoulders, IL it is
not imposed by the voice of his own
nation and OF his own country, he will
not, he can ot and he means not tc
be happy under it's burden.