Show DE Measure Arouses Wpm Discus s sion In Iii House EVANS TEAT TSAT HE HR HANDLED A MUSK Rulings of the Commissioner As Assailed sailed By Curtis of Kansas Who Declared the Office Was Not Nat Being Properly Conducted Bill However Is Finally Passed Washington Jan 19 The pension appropriation bill carrying was pursed passed by the house today It was mode made the vehicle of an attack upon tire of pensions by Mr Curtly CurtIS Rep Ran Kan who was ass seconded ascended by Mr Lentz and Mr Norton of Ohio aunt and Mr Bebian of Indiana and other Democrats All inveighed against ie lack of liberality in the ad of the pension laws Time Tha was ably defended by a i score eser of members from both boils sides of the house Mr Marion Mahon Rep Pa Parn charged that the upon him had been by the pension sharks of this city who were robbing the old soldiers AS a result of the disclosures a rider put upon the bill by unanimous moDe empowering the commis commissioner in his discretion to withhold he the fees eto of attorneys of record in pen pension eton sion oases cases where he was satisfied that the Attorneys had not prepared the cales under their personal supervision n a Influx of Clams Mr Barney Win Wis w wYo o was in charge of the pension bill made a general abatement of its contents He said eaid the of pensions estimated that the amount for pensions during the coming year would largely decrease hut but owing to the influx of claims on account of the Spanish wal wa he did not net deem it wise to ta reduce the appropriation thin tion tide year There were 2500 Span lob war claims flow pending The corn com thought or would cover these claims Mr Curtis Kan ICan assailed same of the ruling of at the commissioner of pen j Sons tracing their origin to the start ling false and fictitious charge made in that thousands of fraudulent pensioners were on the rolls Conduct of Pension Office i If the present commissioner is not conducting the office properly is not the remedy in the hands hande of the adminis asked Mr Bartlett of Geor Georgia gia giaI I dont believe the president endorses the acts of the commissioner replied Mr Curtis I dont believe he knows is going on Was not the commissioner a soldier in the Union Onion army They say he was replied Mr Cur Curtis Curtie tie I dont believe he ever carried a musket Here Mr Grosvenor O 0 Intervened to say that Commissioner Evans was a private soldier in a Wisconsin regiment and later joined the army of the Cum Cumberland berland bermand Before the close of the war he was made a clerk in the quarter quartermasters quartermasters masters office at Chattanooga Where Trouble Lies May not all the trouble be due asked Mr William Allen Alien Smith of Michigan to the employees in the pen office who are out of sympathy the old soldiers but who are pro protected in their positions by the civil service law I have been told that that was sue true Mr Curtis but the corn com of pensions has the power to remedy that condition He tie inveighed especially against the which deprived widows of the benefit of the dependent act of 1890 if they had d an income of H a year Mr fInd Ind joined in theas the as the rulings of the pension office Mr Tenn Teun argued in favor of his siene to break up trusts by de denying denying nying them the use of the mails mafia Evans Is Commended Mr Tenn commented Mr Evans Evand course as an commissioner of pen pensions penas as Mr Bay By N T Y former fonner chairman of the committee on pensions character characterized land as unwarranted and unjustifiable ble he Mr Curtis attack upon th the corn com commissioner missioner r of pensions Mr Ball Tex Ten raised the question of expansion and read a speech of Abraham Lincoln made in criticism of the Mexican war upon a bill voting supplies to our soldiers in the field Upon that occasion Mr Ball said Mr LIncol had voted that the war was unnecessary and unconstitutionally be begun gun When the bill was reported to the tuie house hope the following amendment was unanimously agreed to That the commissioner of pensions shall furnish all Rh necessary blanks to claimants and that gild ild com missioner may in his discretion refuse to pay the tie fee to the attorney of record when he lit is satisfied that said attorney failed fio th prepare the ease case under andes his or tier her personal supervision and did not his full duty to claimants The bill mu was then passed and at p m at the house adjourned |