The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
SENATE REJECTS
 SHERWOOD BILL
Adopts Shoot Measure as
 Substitute
SENATORS HAVE TILT
Shoot Bill Will Increase the Pension Appropriation About Twenty Million Dollars
 Annually

Washington, March 2s.-The Senate to- night, by a vote of 21 to 46 rejected the Sherwood sl a day pension bill which had passed the House and then adopted 56 to 16 the Shoot general age and service pension law, which 1t is estimated will increase the pension roll by s9oooo,00o annually during the next five years.
 During the debate Senator Overman reference to the burdens of the southern people because of pension legislation brought tart reply from Senator Will liam Alden Smith of Michigan.
 "I remind the senator that this entire pension burden could have been avoided by the south if it had been loyal to the union," said he. "I cannot remain silent and hear senators from the south com plain of burdens our government has been called upon to bear because of your own unwiuingness to live with us under the same flag and in united country.
 Smiths Retort
 "Distingulshed southern men who served in wars prior to the civil war not only received with evident satisfaction, but asked the government to reward them for their military services. That list includes among others men no less con- spieuous than Robert F.. Lee and Stone wall Jackson, who were not above ask Ing this government to reward them for sacrifices made in the war with Mexico For several years I occupied a seat in the House of Representatives next to gail lant Joe Wheeler of Alabama, and I Ia. pension bill.
 You have taken care of your own sol diers in the south, but the record of sen- ators in war on either side would be more luminous and creditable if they eopld treat their foes with the same gen.
 ,sity and kindness"
 Provisions of Bill
 The bill requiries beneficaries to have served 90 days and provides pensions rangi ing from $l3 to s9 month instead of q 90 day minimum and s15 to s3o pension. as in the House measure. The bill now goes to conference with the House. The shadow of possible presidential veto hangs over the measure.
 The Senate added provisions that would prohibit attorneys fees and that would grant $9o month to former soldiers dis abled by service wounds, or disease, the latter being estimated to add s2,5oo,O00 10 the annual outlay under the bill.
 The entire negative vote on the final passage of the bill was cast by democratic senators from southern states. The north ern democrats voted with the republicans for the bill.
 The 2l senators whose vote rejected the House Sherwood bill, the real contest of the day, were: Chiffon, West Virginia: Culberson, Texas; Foster and Thornton, Louisiana; Hitchcock Nebraska; John son and Gardner, Maine: Johnston, Ala bama; Kern and Shively. Indiana; Lea, Tennessee; Maritime, New Jersey; Over man and simmons. North Carolina; owen, Oklahoma; Percy and Williams, Missis- sippi Rayner, Maryland; Swanson, vir- ginia. Smith. Georgia, and Smith, South Carolina.
 On this vote the northern democrats voted In the negative because they pre- ferred the Shoot bill and the southern democrats because they opposed both the sub and the Senate measure.