The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-14
MORE PENSION STEALS.

) very busy. In less than six working
days since the present extraordinary
session OF Congress began. lie has i'm !
troduced twenty-five personal pension
bills, an average of about four bills
per diem. providing for pensions vary
ing in amount from $50 for the deserv-
ing widows OF deceased defenders OF
the country to $50 for former officers
OF considerable rank. who saved the
Union fifty years ago, and covering a
territory reaching from rogus, in the
state Of Maine, down through the fer
tile Connecticut valley whore tobacco
Us grown under cover at something
Ike s2oO the pound for protec ton
| from the Governments to Poouonoc
! Bridge, In the State OF New Jersey.
| Alonzo 9. Nen Of New London, Con
+. necticut. is among the favorites OF a
I grateful country which is asked to pay
(, him $40 the month because in the
! brave days OF old he was a musician
In the Fourteenth United States In
fantrE. All Of these men and women
| are TO be kept on the pay rolls OF tho
| Government because of services al
/ lesed 70 have been performed by them
/ When the Nation was in peril.
| We do not know what the merits of
| these several Brandegee pension bills
| may be; but We are certain that they
should not be passed simply because
/ so eminent and active a public servant
has proposed them, ana without the
most careful examination not only by
the Senators from other States, but by
the President also. before they shall
vote for them or lie shall sign them
Mr.. Taft will find In the Messages and
Documents OF the Presidents some Very
important communications made to
Congress by one Grover Cleveland
when he was Hooded with personal
pension bills, communications which we
would commend to his careful consid-
Grafton before joining Senator Brande-
gee in his present formidable raid up
on the Treasury in the name of pa
triotism. a little calculation will show
him that tho twenty i've bills intro
duced by the Senator from Connecticut.
each small matter in itself, viii
amount to not less than $4,000 the
Year
The case is even worse as presented
! by Representative Sherwood, Of Ohio
| VINO goes in for the whole hog" in
| the bill he has introduced iii the House
| providing that "any person who scrv-
cd ninety days and less than six
months shall receive a pension OF SIS
| q MONTH for n service of six months
and less than nine months, $50 a
| month; for a service Of nine months
| and less than one year, s25 a month.
and for service OF one year or over,
/ $50 month. The bill is TO take cf-
feet on it's passage and pensions dat,
| from the fling OF claim subway.
| of New Hampshire, has renewed his
bill which passed the House at the
| last session, but was held up in the
senate II is Of feather with the
| Sherwood steal. and both of these Scr
| vice bills and all the personal bills
are Of the same general character Of
| robbery in the name Of q patient ana
| long suffering and much abused coun-
try. All Of them should be defeated
I 80 80 "'iu - 'hcS
| should get by The Senators ana Repre-
se'i 'l''Ves 'hey Should be Killed by
,ne .,reS'deht lie would have vetoed
,,e 7"i'owhy. oill h"d i passed the last
1o''s fesS 'hd we believe that he will
wy lh' BENSON hesitation now pro
! posed That Is wn@t he ought 10 do
and do II like man, putting the auos.
n r.l,,
'nf o'i'h armies VINO actually render
- He'Vlce TO the country The pension
p"Fdfh oil me Government, II tho Shcr-
4 "o'o piii should be passed. would
am'un' Y not less 'han s2oo,ooo,oco
1'''H' 'houEht that 500
w ny 'he Year would he he extreme
-'''' - >'leh 'he expenditure Of the
! .N'tNpn SNpOId go on this account AMI