The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-01-29
INTRODUCES BILL TO AID
DISABLED CONFEDERATES
May Receive Help From Government
V --Hofne is Proposed Gov
errment Can Turn Over
Johnson City Prop
erty at Little
Cost.

EotopInal of Louisiana, gallant Con.
ieaSrate soldier, has introduced in the
mouse the Works Bill" to aid disabled
confederate veterans, their wives and
| w'Hows, identical with the bill of Sen
at0r Works, who for the past five
years has been anxious to aid m
| dlgent and afflicted Confederate vet
Grams. He is a republican and =
Union veteran, Gen. Estopinal is ,
Democrat and a Southern veteran, so
tho bill can; be aptly styled the bill
of the Blue and the Gray.
The government has ten homes.
costing 10000. and has appro-
priated 10 date between S1OO. 900 600
and $125, ,0G0,00O to support them.
Death has been SO busy that there
is now3@rSYtn for about 5000 more
inmates thfn they have. The in
spectors general of the army having
charge of homes recommends their
sol,aa tFss:. &c as to save. unneces-
sary exponse. Two of them, the
Johnson atx Tenn.) home and the
TogNs 8 Made home are not half
| fy! sxcy efR ssrst .tcsn
Be placed in the Hampton (Va.)
home and the inmates of the second
In the Central home at Dayton, Ohio,
so If the johnson City home is givel.
over to the Confederatcs it vii! not
cost the government a penny for
shelter OF, say, $500 men and womtn
90 provide for whom 100000 is ask
ed, very small sum as nearly $1,000,
600 is appropriated this year to sup
port the national homes.
The government has appropriated
nearly S2j,000,000 since the war to
aid Northern State homes, this year
81 100000 The Works bill provides
for 100000 to aid Southern homes
or less than one-fourth of that for
Northern homes, and it will be the
first aid ever extended.
Fifty thousand dollars only is
asked to establish home in the Dis
trct for INDECENT and afflicted vet
Grams of the District and those living
in States having no homes, like West
Virginia, New York, etc. These men
are all debarred from entering anv
Southern State home by, reason of
non-residence, and the only refuge for
District veterans is the poor house in
common with destitute negroes, from
which they are being saved by the
. ladies of the Southern Relief society
: Miss Mamie Randolph Heth, presi-
: dent.
The bill carries also $4,000 for
salaries of clerks and officers againS;
$4,000 appropriated for this p,.
pose for Northern homes, also $50, ,OOC
to transport INDECENT veterans, thei,
wives and widows to johnson CITY
etc.
The South has paid since 1865 ler
prorata of $5,000,OOO,OOO to pay pen.
sions to Union veterans and support
homes.
The taxpayers of the South to tbs
extent of at least 95 or 81 per cent
are not in any way responsible fol
the war, as they were not born G.
were children when the conflict oc.
Cured.
The taxpayers of the South, there.
fore, have to bear the double burden
, of providing their prorata for Unior
pensions, ETC., besides having to try
to provide properly for their own vet
Grams, V lich they are unable to do
, in an adequate manner. Some of the
, Southern States are, the present year
in arrears for pensions and are un
: able to relieve the sufferers until al
least their legislatures meet Agar
: the constitutions of number o.
: States prohibit the issue of bonds 81
t the amount must be raised by direct
taxation.
The Southern veterans, being now
of an average age Of 72 or over, are
not in a position to wait until tn,
: next session without serious suffering
5 and the women are even worse off, nj
. provision being made for them in sew
. eral states and none, save Mississippi
. and Missouri, admitting them t.
s homes.
t If Sherman had lived today HI