The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-18
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CONGRESSIONAL.

a bill was introduced in the house
chairman of the committee on pen
sions, providing for blanket pension
of $14 per month for the widow OF any
officer or enlisted man of the army
or navy who has died or shall here
after die by reason of wounds or in
jury incurred or disease contracted in
the line of duty in any Indian war or
the war with Mexico or the civil war,
provided the marriage took place prior
to or during such service.
If the marriage was subsequent to
that service, a pension of $12 per
month is provided for.
A monthly pension of $40 is provid-
ed for the widow of any officer or en-
listed man who served 80 days or
more in any of the Indian wars, or 60
days or more in the war with Mexico
or 80 days or more in the civil war
and was honorably discharged. In
this case the widow is relieved of the
necessity of proving death to have
resulted from service. A monthly pen
sion of IS is provided for widows as
last described, whose marriage ante
dated by five years the date of the
husbands death.
There were four representatives OF
large commercial interests before the
house committee on banking and cur
rency, all of them opposing the Aid
rich currency bill, which they de-
clared would do no good and might
result in much harm to the business
interests of the country. Victor Nora
wetz of New York made an extended
argument against the bill. The other
speakers were E. w. Clark of Detroit,
Frank De La Lame of Philadelphia
and Horace White of New York The
hearing will be resumed Monday.
The dove of peace lowered over the
house Friday. Instead of interminable
roll calls and clashes Of party leaders
on questions of parliamentary law,
there was an orderly session, devoted
almost entirely to the consideration of
the naval appropriation bill. Both
Chairman Foss of Illinois and Mr.
Padgetts Of Tepaessee Of the Gotsss :, +
tee on naval affairs made exhaustive
speeches, justifying the action of the
committee in reporting what they
characterized as a conservative naval
program for the next fiscal year.
Messrs. Favrot of Louisiana, McKin-
lay and Knowland of California plead
ed for a navy of such size as to be
capable of upholding at all times the
honor of the country at home and
abroad, while Mr.. Bartholdt of Mis-
souri, advocated a halt in naval in
crease and the substitution for it OF
arbitration in matters of international
disputes. Many other speeches were
made under the order of general de-
bate on the naval bill, but they were
on other subjects. The list included
Messrs. Webb of North Carolina, who
favored the regulation of interstate
traffic in intoxicating liquors; Lamar
of Missouri. who wanted stricter
Sunday observance law for the Dis
trict of Columbia; Touvelle of Ohio,
who pleaded for a monument to the
men under Generals ST. Clair and
Wayne, who fell in battle against the
Indians; Perkins of New York, who
desired free wood pulp; Kustermann
of Wisconsin, who emphasized the ne
cessity for decent American legation
buildings abroad and Mr.. Aiken of
South Carolina, who pleaded for re
fund of the cotton tax.