The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-04-01
PENSION FOR CONFEDERATES.
Bill introduced in Congress to Grant
Southern Pensions.

FOllO"lnS is copy VI sPeIlai
dispatch recently TO the State from
its Washington correspondent:
Gen. Albert Estopinal, OF Loulsi-
ana, a gallant Confederate soldier,
has introduced in the house the
Works bill" to aid disabled Con-
federate veterans, their wives and
widows, identical with the bill OF
Senator Works. who for the past five
years has been anxious to aid in
digent and afflicted Confederate vet
Grams. Senator Works is Republ-
can and a Union veteran: Gen. Es-
topinal is a Democratic and South
ern veteran. So the bill can be ap-
tly styled the bill of the blue and
gray"
The government has ten homes,
costing s16.000.000, and has appro-
priated to date between SlOO.O0O,-
600 and s125,000,O00 to support
them. Death has been so busy that
there is now room for about 5000
more inmates than they have. The
inspector general of the army hav-
ing charge of homes recommends
their consolidation so as to save un-
necessary expense. Two of them,
the Johnson City, Tenn, home and
the Togus, Maine, home, are not half
full. Every inmate to the first can
be placed. in the Hampton, Va, home
and the inmates Of the second in the
Central home. Dayton, Ohio: so II the
Johnson City home is given over to
the Confederates it vii not cost the
government a penny for shelter or
sav $500 men and women. to pro-
vide for whom 100000 is asked
a very small sum. as nearly St.o"o.-
0e0 is appropriated this year TO sup
port the national homes.
The government has appropriated
nearly S25, 100000 since the war TO
aid the Northern State homes; this
year S1.l0O.000.
The Works bill provides for S3QO.-
900 to the 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 ask
ed to establish a home in the District
of Columbia for INDECENT and affillct-
ed veterans of the district and those
living in States having no homes,
like West Virginia, New York. and
others. These men are all debarred
from entering any Southern State
home by reason Of non-resldence,
and the only refuge for district vet
erans 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, president.
The bill carries also $4,000 for sal
aries of clerks and officers against
s560,O00 appropriated for this pur-
pose for Northern homes; also 500
600 to transport INDECENT veterans.
their wives and widows to Johnson
City, etc.
The South has paid since 1865 her
pro rata OF So, 5,000,000,00 to pay the
pensions of Union veterans and sup
port homes. The taxpayers OF the
South, to the extent Of at least 50 or
81 per cent, are not in any way re-
sponsible for the war, as they were
not born or we're children when the
conflict occurred.
The taxpayers of the South, there
fore, have to bear the double burden
of providing their pro rata for Union
pensions, etc., besides having to try
to provide properly for their own vet
erans; which they are unable to DO
in an adequate manner.
Some of the Southern States are
the present year in arrearss Tor pen
SlO0S anu are uuduiC W ASA'N'>
sufferers until their legislatures
meet.
Again the constitutions of num-
her of States prohibit the issue OF
bonds; so the amount must be raised
by direct taxation.
The Southern veterans. being now
of an average of - or over, are not
in a position to wait until the next
session without serious suffering
and the women are even worse OFF,
no provision being made for them in
seyera! States, and none save Mlssls-
sippi and Missouri admitting them to
homes.
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