The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-30
Sherwood Bill Defeated
and Shoots Plan
Approved.
ADDS 500, 600, 900 TO
ANNUAL EXPENSE
Southern Democrats Only Ones
Who Vote in Negative, and
They Arc Berated by Smith,
of Michigan, for Lack of
Generous Feeling To-
ward Former Foes.

Washington. March .e.-The Senate
tonight BY vote or q to IS reject.
ed the Sherwood dolier-a-day pension
bill, which had passed the House, and
then adopted, sc to lC. the Smoot gen
eral age and service pension bill. IN
der which the pension roll would be
increased BY $2O,OOo.ooo annually dur.
ing the next rvc years
F.! During the debate senator Over
mans reference TO the burdens of the
| southern people because OF pension
Legislation, brought tart reply from
Senator William Alden Smith, of
Michigan
u remind the Senator thet this en-
| tire pension burden could hav,. been
avoided by the South If II had been
loyal to the Union.' said he
Il cannot remain silent and hear
Senator'S from the South complain of
| burdens our government has been call
/ en upon to bear because Of your un-
/ Willingness TO live with us under the
Same flag and IN i united country.
| distinguished Southern men who
served in wars prior to the Civil War
I not only received with evident salts
faction. but asked the government TO
reward them for thci: military ser
Vices. That list includes among 9TH
crs mon no less conspicuous than Ro-
bert Il. Lee and Stonewall Jackson,
who were not above asking this gov
crnmcnt to reward them for sacrifices
made in the war with Mexico For
several years | occupied "A seat In tho
House OF representative noNt to gall
liant Joe Wheeler, of Alabama, and
never heard his vote cast against a
worthy pension bill.
| You have taken care of your own
soldiers in the South. but the record
OF Senator's In war on either side
would DC more luminous and credit
able II they could trcut their foes with
the same generosity and Kindness"
| Provisions of mi.
The bill requires heneticiaries TO
have served ninety days and provides
pensions ranging from SIS to $50 i
| month, instead of siXty-day mini
mum and SIS to $40 pension, as In the
| House measure. Tho bill now goes 10
conference with the House Tho
| shadow OF a possible presidential veto
hangs over the measure.
I The Senate added provisions that
| would prohibit attorneys fees and
that would grant $40 II month to for
mer soldiers disabled by service.
wounds or disease, the latter being
estimated 10 add. s2,5oo.1Oo TO the an
nual outlay under the till.
inc entire negative vote on the final
passage of the bill was cast by Demo
cratic Senator's from Southern States.
| The Northern Democrats voted with
tho Republicans for the bill
The twcnty-onn Senators whose vote
rejected tho House Sherwood bill the
real contest of the day. were Chiffon,
West Virginia; Culnerson. Texas;
Foster and Thornton, Louisiana I;
Hitchcock, Nebraska; Johnson and
Gardner. Maine: Johnston, Alabama.
Kern and Shively. Indiana; Lea, Ten
nessce; MARITIME, New Jersey; Ovcrman
and Simmons. North Carolina; Owen.
Oklahoma: Percy and Williams, Mis-
sissippi; Rayner, Maryiand: Swanson,
! Virginia; Smith, Georgia, and Smith,
! South Carolina.
On this vote the Northern Democrats
voted in the negative, because they
| preferred the Smout bill and the
Southern Democrats because they OPP
posed both the House bill and the
senate measure.