The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-26
THE sULLOWAY BILL.

Last Monday the Senate Committee
orc Pensions took up the sulIoway
bill in an informal way for discussion
of its merits compared with those OF
other bills II was decided that action
uIon this should be deferred until the
neest meeting of the committee, which
will be OH Monday, Jan. so. The COM
mittee is composed of the following
Senators:
Porter j, McCumber. of North Da-
kota, Chairman.
Nathan b. Scott, of West Virginia.
Henry f. Burnham, of New Hamp-
shire.
Reed Smoot, of Utah.
Samuel Fl. Piles, of Washington.
Robert NJ. La Toilette, of Wisconsin.
Charles Curtis, of Kansas.
Henry A. Du Pont, of Delaware.
James p. Taliaferro. of Florida.
Robert /. Taylor, of Tennessee.
Tom. p. Gore, of oklahoma
Charles j. Hughes. Jr., of Colorado.
Benjamin +. -Shively, of Indiana.
The first eight names are Republi-
cans, and \the rest are Democrats.
Senator Hughes. of Colorado, is dead.
Chairman McCumber is understood to
favor the Presidents policy of econ
omy, and rather favor the National En-
campment bill.
Senators Scott and Curtis are strong
ly in favor of the Sulloway bill Sena-
tors Burnham, Smoot, Piles, Dupont
and La Toilette have not yet taken any
decided position. Senator Gore, of
Oklahoma is full of fine words as to
the services and sacrifices of the SOL
diers. but consistently opposes every
pension measure. Senators Taliaferro
and Taylor are not, of course. favor
able to any liberality of pensions to
Union veterans. 1t is supposed that
Senator Shively will, however, be in
favor of liberality.
Next Monday, therefore, will be the
crisis in the matter, and everything
will depend upon whether the COM
mittee votes to report, as we earnest
ly wish it would, the Sulloway bill
precisely as it came from the House
This is the ardent desire of every vet
eran and friend of a veteran in the
United States. The passage by the Sen
ate of the Sulloway bill will carry
cheer and comfort into hundreds of
thousands of veterans homes from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes
to the Gulf. 1t will be a boon to
faithful old soldiers and their wives,
giving them security for comfortable
provision for the years that yet remain
to them, and prolonging their lives by
relief from the torturing doubts as to
how they will live thru their days Of
feeblenessf. and decay before death
overtakes them.
The question of which bill the Com
of instant and vital intensity to the
veterans and their friends everywhere
1t is the most important question in
their lives at this moment. Wherever
a qomrade sees q chance to influence
a Senator lin favor of the Sulloway bill
it TO impress upon such Senators as
heocan the overwhelming desire of all
veterans for the passage of the bill
No Senator should be left in doubt by
his constituents as to the earnestness
and unani1nity of the veterans of his
State for This grand measure. The
sutioway BIZ is the only one that we
want; it is the only one that will be
entirely satisfactory TO the veterans and
their friends, and this cannot be too
represented to the Senators
in whose hands our fate now is.
Let the comrades remember that the
crisis comes next Monday, and lose no
time in doing whatever they can to
bring about the result that we are all
for in the interest of our de-
serving comrades. The time is so short
that the telegraph should be used from
most of the country.
Do not fail to let your Senators hear
from YOU at once.