Show THE BOND FIGHT BEGUN senator morgan begins the bond bill debate rive five financial evils enumerated which he charged to the policy of the ohio senator let the bonds be paid lu in the money paid for them senator hill bill on the gridiron house debates on pensions W washington ashington jan 1 13 3 senator mor mo r 9 fians an s B speech on oil tile the sliver silver bond bill was wa s tile the event in the senate today although a sharp personal colloquy y between sir air hill mr air pilchard PiU chard and air duller butler enlivened the early hours mr fr morgan finally add addressed ed himself personally to mr air sherman who sat across the aisle and tor for two hours arraigned arral ened the ohio senator for the series of financial acts with which he is identified at times mr air morgan was bitterly personal in the main however the speech was a scholarly presentation c of f the silver question mr air hlll hills g colloquy with will the two north carolina senators b brought out considerable discussion of the new york senators political consistency and was amusing to the or crowded gal beiles for the sharp sallies and nil witty rejoinders rejo inders during the triangular triangular debate REGULAR proceedings mr air mitchell rep ore had passed a bill allowing settlers on forfeited railroad grants to hold land by fencing fen cling and improving it and making actual residence unnecessary mr air pritchard rep N C made an address defending himself against the charge of inconsistency on the tariff question made by mr air hill of new york last week and attacked mr air hills record tor for consistency saying he had been repudiated by the democratic c party parly mr air ill hill in reply expressed surprise at hating haing brought forth so elaborate a statement and said lie he believed that lie he was as active a member of the democratic party what there was of it as anyone lie he said it was true that he voted against the wilson allson till mil ile he had reasons tor for voting so he beloved believed in tariff reform but not in fit that way the democrats were all traveling toward the democratic haven but in different ways the other side was nas traveling in the other direction EXCHANGE or OP pleasantries PLEASANT RIES the debate at this point drifted away to john Y mckane mr air hill saying that for many years mckane had been a republican mr air pritchard retorted that john Y mckane had never got into the penitentiary until he joined the democratic party mr air butler pop AN C also took up mr air hills statements concerning the politics of tile the south and asserted that the cause of the defections from democratic cratic ranks in the south was tile the betrayal of the party on the g great reat financial question and the opposition t to 0 an income tax in which opposition lion the new york senator took a most active part mr air allen alien pop neb sought to question mr air hill whereupon the latter created a laugh by remarking still another richmond in the field I 1 mr air allen alien proceeded to say that tile the democratic i senators en tors were divided on finance on the tariff and on the income tax seventeen senators now sitting on oil the democratic side ought to be sitting on the other side said mr air allert alien mr hill jocularly responded that the nebraska senator scattered worse than an old shotgun he pointed out that it if these gentlemen allen alien and butler wanted an income tax they ought to proceed to have one let them introduce a bill THE BOND BILL DEBATE at 2 the personal controversy closed and mr air morgan took the floor on the silver bond bill ile he referred let erred to the intrigues before national conventions and the wind whid shaken platforms of these bodies in his judgment the emergency tariff and the bond mils wore were constructed merely as a part of the platform to be laid before a national convention next summer and not with any purpose to enact them as laws mr morgan criticised criticized the financial course of mr sherman while the latter at sat across the aisle giving close attention to the remarks ife he referred to mr sherman as the napoleon of fl nance but this napoleon was waa rapidly nearing his waterloo and his exile to st helena mr morgan enumerated in detail the financial burdens which the legislation urged by the ohio senator had imposed on the people they were evils which brought misery and want to the whole people it had worked more miseries than those pictured in the apocalypse apse his A mr fr shermans Sher mans garment was one of many colors in keeping with the variegated lines of the party to which lie he belonged at the present time the ohio senator and the president were together in their financial views both e qually equally oblivious to the constitutional requirements that both metals were to be on equal terms it was the ohio senator who originated the evil of selling bonds to a syndicate FIVE FINANCIAL EVILS proceeding mr morgan said the senator from ohio Is the te author of the live five new measures of finance that have given the people and t nd tile the government more trouble in handling the little remnant ot of of greenbacks green backs than it did to pay twelve billions ot of expenditures for the support ot of tile the government and more than three billions of principal and interest ot of the national debt these measures are the of silver in 1873 the sequestration of 0 the gold reserve in the treasury in 1878 the power given the secretary ot of the treasury in 1890 to preserve the parity between the metals the power to sell bonds at private sale and the power to enable private persons by contract to dispense with the legal tender laws in their transactions mr air morgan spoke of 0 the admission of the rich jews baron rothschild and lord Deacons field to tire the nobility ot of england it was the tendency the wot wor id over toward feudalism that system existed today as much as in years gone by concentrating all the power and wealth in the hands of the feudal gold barons the senator urged a declaration by congress in line with a resolution once offered by stanley matthews that the bonds would be paid in the money with which they were bought lie ile suggested also that a 10 per cent rebate on customs dut duties I 1 es to countries coining gold and silver on equal terms would make new york instead of london the clear ing house ot of the world mr morgan spoke for two hours and then at 4 the senate adjourned until tomorrow s now being enacted under the a apparent varen t of the sui sultan tan 0 of f tur turkey r ey by hecl hundreds luini hund lid redi of thou a n cis of arm niana are b beans in F authles 1 1 I fly 1 in ill old cold blood hornen 1 1 ir i veil into cap 84 alty so than d eath death anil and tho iho in inhabitants ibi i bi who bo have tied ned to I 1 the 11 e mo goutkin are arc ang of bolij arid r tar VI areas tha blood or of the th e martyred marty red dead efad cir to heaven for justice ite alved that the on lorlan affairs the expediency of re porting borling f forthwith some expression liy ay tills this i nent in n 0 of f these and it if thov find that wp we as afi a ip alon are pone riess to act that ue in ikc ice operation cooperation co of the powers to lo alpo apo the lie government off lip sue of the earth and seckie fre Hiom and for armenia a the resolution was referred PENSION appropriations two unimportant I 1 bills were reported lifter after which the house went into committee attee of the whole for the consideration of the pension appropriation bill sir air NV A stone 1 I tep hep pa in charge ot f the bill explained its provisions it carried a reduction of as 0 from the estimates the amendments to the existing law attached to the bi bill 11 provided that pensions granted under the act of ISM should date from the firt first app application li cation no matter how many times they had been rejected or dismissed tor for defect or informality in the application and repealed the provision of the act of 1890 requiring a widow to prove that she was dependent for her support on her daily labor instead by the terms of the amendment she must prove that her net income does doea not exceed per year in answer to a question mr stone said he did not know how many widows would receive pensions under the lie amendment but it mattered not whether it would result in giving pensions to one or one hundred thousand widows the government was not so poor that it could not afford to pension the widows 0 S of the defenders of the union applause mr graft graff rep gave notice of nn an amendment lie he proposed to offer inhibiting the reduction or suspension of a pension on allegation of fraud until such lucli fr fraud a ud had first been proved tit in a united slates states court the amendment was practically the same as that originally drafted by the committee subcommittee sub on pensions which was subsequently abandoned because it was thought that it trenched upon the territory of the committee on invalid pensions annb which tell purposes bringing forward a general bill to cover this ground mr air gratt graft contended that a pension was not a gratuity and congress congre s should quiet the anxiety in the min minds of old soldiers by making their pensions vested rights NOTICE OF opposition mr air bartlett dem N Y gave notice nolice that he would raise a point of order against mr air grafts amendment and also the amendment in the bill repealing the provision of 0 the act of 1890 relative to widows pensions with reference to the graft graff amendment he believed it would bo be unwise to strip the pension commissioner of legislative po power and clothe tile the machinery of united states courts with matters that properly prop eily should be left to the commissioners sio sto ners discretion mr bartlett announced himself as a supporter of 0 pensions for deserving soldiers who were wounded or contracted disease in the line of 0 duty but without quest questioning question lon ing the justice of the dependent act of 1890 lie declared his unalterable opposition to a further extension of that act such as was proposed in the pending bill in to a question from mr air johns johnson on rep ind he expressed the opinion ton that tile the sentiment in new York among the democrats and the better class of was opposed to an extension of the pension roll and the further looting of the treasury I 1 mr air bartlett called attention to the fact that the debate on oil the dependent act in ill both houses showed allowed that it was specifically stated that the test of the widows right to obtain a pension under the act should be her ter dependency on her labor for support he predicted that the adoption of the amendment louia add the names of at least widows to the rolls mr air bingham rep pa challenged mr al I 1 D bartletti bartletts Bart art letts estimate of the number numb er of widows who would be benefited by the amendment in the bill the testimony of commissioner lochren he sald said showed that but widows claims had been abandoned mr air bartlett admitted the number of beneficiaries was conjectural but said his estimate came from those best informed on pension statistics mr air willis rep del in an eloquent speech of 0 five minutes det declared lared that I 1 it t was right that every safeguard should be thrown about the soldiers pe pension aslon at the committee rose and th house adjourned |