The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-19
UNDEWOOD'S
 OBJEC1IoNS / 0teSt Against EXtraVa- gance in Pensions. A DISCUSSION PROVOKED Alabamian'S Amendment is
 Rejected. Famous order No. 7S Plays Important Part fin the Debate, and GrOsvenOr
 Pokes Some Fun at Judge
A DISCUSSION PROVOKED

| Washington, Feb. 1S.-The House l passed the pensions appropriations nili | today. The minority, led by MT. On- derwood, made an intellectual effort to reduce the aggregate of the appIopra l ton so as to exclude pensions allowed under order No. IS, which. 1t was stated, would involve about $4,500.00o. It was | contended that the order was without l authority of law. The minority insist ed that the majority should bring in a service pension bill. Mir Grosvenor defended the order and | incidentally reviewed the course or the l Democratic candidate for the Presi" dency in the last campaign. MT. Rob- 1 inson sought to add a section to the | bill giving a service pension, which MT. Grosvenor characterized as pun | combe"
 The bill was passed in the form in which 1t came from the committee. Adjournment was taken until noon | tomorrow. when memorial services In l honor of the late Senator quay or Pennsylvania will be held l When the House convened at noon Mir. Wadsworth (N. Y) chairman or | the House Committee on Agriculture. 1 stated that the Senate had withdrawn 1 the revenue clause from the agricuItu- raI bill and on his motion the House l disagreed to all of the Senate amend I | ference. Messrs. Wadsworth (N. f.l, | Henry (Conn.) and Lamb (Ya-) were appointed conferees on the part of the House. .
 The House agreed to the Senate 1 amendments to the diplomatic and con sular appointment bill and requested a conference. The Speaker named l Messrs. Hit (Ills.). Adams (Pa) and l - h House CODs
 The District of Columbia appropria- l tion biilfvsas sent to- conference, and Messrs. McgIeaFy fAinn.), Burkett | (Neb.l. and Fierce (Tenn. were named 1 as the conferees.
 The bill authorizing the President to reinstate to the United States military
 anadernv former Cadet Alexander c.
 Pendleton, Jr., of Arizona, who was found guilty of hazing and was dis missed. was passed. The Committee l on Military. Affairs did not regard the | offense in which the cadet was tried as hazing. and favored reinstatement.
 The Secretary of War indorsed the Dill.
 At p. m., the House went into com
 mittee of the whole. Mir. Graf 1ll) In 1 the chair, to consider the pension ap-
 propriation bill MT. Van Voorhls | Io5. in charge of the bill. explained | that if carries S13S.250,10O, tho amount
 recommended by tho Pension Bureau. l MT. Underwood (Ala.), minority membe rof the Appropriations commit
 tee, said this bill about reached the high-water mark on pensions. MT. | Underwood gave notice that he would
 move to strike from the bill $4.5O0,OOO, the amount which, he said. was esti- mated as required to pay pensions un- der order No. 7s which became effec-
 tive April 13 1904. He contended that ! this order was not authorized by law, and said the people who paid one-thlrn of the tax of the country were not op-
 posing the paying of pensions. but de-
 manded that pensions be paid under the law and not in violation of 1t.
 MT. GrOsvenor's Defense. MT. GrosvenVr IO.) de[ehded order
 No. IS as in line of law and in line | of justice.
 The President, he said. had taken a 1 satisfactory, wise and judicial view Of the whole matter. MT. GrOsvenor re- viewed the course Of Judge Parker in
 the late campaign, evoking laughter on the Republican side when he said
 it was not his purpose to criticize him as he had done a great service to the country, which every Republican could appreciate Mir. Grosvenor said he re-
 gretted his inability to put on can
 vass a picture of the visage of the | Democrats when they read MT. Par
 ker's reply, on being asked If he would
 revoke order No. 7S if elected Presi-
 dent.
 He referred to Esopus as "soft
 soapus" and said it had been found l to be hard sOapus" and in one in- stance he said the President had been 1 found to be 0 better lawyer than the ex-justice of the New York supreme
 court,
 MT. Underwood, in reply, regretted
 that Mir Grosvenor had made that kind
 of an argument, saying that the men
 on the minority side did not desire to drag the bill into the mire of par | tisanship.
 MT. Grosvenor asked which party
 had brought the question Of order No.
 IS in the campaign. MT. Underwood ! said If the majority wanted to give a service pension they should do it by 1 law. He declared that they should not have the President do by unwarrant- ed order what they do not dare do by l law.
 Mr. GiIlett (Mass.) defended order | No. 7S. MT. Benton CMO.) said there would not have been p votes against | the service pension bill last year. but | when it was found that 1t would re- ! quire an appropriation of S3S,O0O, 900 | the majority thought it would not be l wise to increase appropriations to that extent. Order No. 7S followed. | He said the majority should tell the 1 old soldiers that they did not pass a i service pension bill because they did | not want to pay out 3S,00O,0 ,0O0. In accordance with the notice served ! earlier, Mir. Underwood sought to 1 amend the bill by reducing the total l appropriation to $132.50O, 900 but the 1 amendment was rejected.
 | MT. Robinson (Ind.) offered as an amendment a section providing a ser 1 vice pension of SIP a month for all i soldiers who served ninety days Mfr ! Grosvenor characterized the amend ment as buncombe The amendment
 was ruled out on a point of order. The bill then was passed without amend ment.
 Among the bills passed were the fol- lowing: To authorize the President to bestow medals of honor on persons dis