Show Concerning Pensions WASHINGTON May gA communication from the treasury department with reports from special agents as to the evasion of the laws against the entrance of Chinamcu coming from Canada was referred to tho committee on im migration taken The up annual the question pension being appropriation on the amendment bill was Increasing number of pension agents with a 3lelt5 saal ot fro clrhterm tn tnt uncAtreti said no was was nnmiuateaat that the committee on appropriations the fact headed by the distinguished Senator from Iowa Allison has just been ridden leen over rough shod I by thu Republican Republca majority There was I reason no whatever for the increase in the two ofllce except for the benefit of spokesmen Sherman suggested that Cockrell was suggsttd Coclrel making a very grea nnair out of a small matter and argued for an increase srnl armlor an1cr e saying the joaicn oftlce Cifmbcs was so crowded now by the in crease in pensioners that it was tmt necessary He Sherman > very seldom disputed uecessal wih com Tcitttc mite on appropriations but when a new ques tion cams the e31H up committee ought not to commiteo feel offended that its work had been inquired into Cockrcil Cockrel referred t the rumor that therewas ther a warm and lively contest lvel over the Ohio pen had sion agency been selected that the friend of an exPresident over the choice of another < distinguished citizen meaning Sherman that the Senator and tho who was Senatr so grievously disap pointed grmousl dsap was patiently waiting the creation of theta two now offices creaton Sherman said all this showed that al ths Cockrell had been looking into tlat Cockrcl small details 1001tng smal detais about that locality which localty had no n OLe connection with the amendment than the man in tho moon wil Allison said he felt grieved that the majority ivd voted an increase the majority had not examined of agencies the It question shows wih care as itshoule queston Paddock bald there were localities olf as regards the localte worse regrds necessity for i an increase of agencies necessiy Ohio He spoke on the needs of Nebraska Kansas ebrska and other western states and said if there any acton it should be a readjubtmentrand was remljustmennnd con solidation of some of the smaller agencies smaler Gorman sail that in the interests of the soldiers t Congress might bankrupt the banltrpt govern ment and probably would for in fifteen gover there ffteen years would be more spent for pensions than it hud cost to put down the rebellion In iewor all this rebeIon of economy should be practised in the ad ministration of the prctsed at least I Finally Shermans the discussion closed and ShIrans amendment was agreed to 22 to 21 Payne voted with the Republicans and AlHon Ingalls and Plumb with the Demo crats Teller did not vote The bill passed and the military bi then I taken up and mitary 1ho army academy appropriation bill was bill was taken bi up and passed Among the amendments agreed to was a paragraph propriating 510000 pargaph ap proprlatng 10 for buildings at buidings military for mitar posts libraries Hale moved an amendment gymnasiums that and canteens liquor beer or wino be sold or no alcoholic supplied to listed men in suppled en lsted any such building Cockroll moved to amend the amendment by striking out beer and wine No voted and th Senate adjourned leaving quorum Hales ane Cockrells amendments Cclrels nendmir |