Show COXUItESS ON PENSION A Lively Debate in the House Marshall louseJlar shall Will Be Confirmed WASHINGTON Jan HTho house spent today In further debate upon the pension appropriation bill Tho speakers with a single exception were all Republicans Repub-licans and all favored a liberal administration adminis-tration of the pension laws and the aaoption of the ciianges in the existing law proposed by the bill Among the speakers today was General John A Walker who served with ditunction m the contederate army from JUanassas to Appomattox Ap-pomattox He is the only Republican representative rep-resentative from Virginia His assurance assur-ance of the good feeling that existed in the south toward the Lnion soldier and tno lack of hostility to the pension system was warmly received on both sides of the house Air Cummings Dem of New York created a hUd sensation by a severe arraignment ar-raignment ol the peuoion ottwe ioi nos I tiluy to the old soldier and a strong repudiation I re-pudiation of the speech made yesterday by Mr Bartlett who is also one of the I Tammany congressmen from New York I seems prooable now that the general debate on the pension bill will continue for several days THE PENSION DEBATE Tho house took up the pension appropriation priation bH immediately on convening Northway Rep ot Ohio replied to the criticism offered by Bartlett Dent of New York yesterday It mattered not to him whether pensions were legal gratuities i I gratui-ties or constituted vested rights Morally I they were higher than vested rights could be I Pensions should be given a broad j catholic humane spirit The veteran should not be placed In a position of a I mendicant The spirit in which the pension pen-sion laws were being administered was manifestly unfriendly to the soldier In I proof of this he cited the case of a soldier who lost one arm and one leg who I was uepniveU of nis pension miner ute total to-tal disability act of VSW because he was able to earn 2 a month as a guard at a railway crossing The penSion uureau had ruled that ut > der the act of 1690 if n widows incomE exceeded 96 a year she was not entitled to a pension A soldiers widow should not be obliged to stand shivering and ODUge starving at the door of the pension office of-fice in order to obtanl a pension and the pensions committee therefore had reported re-ported an amendment to the present law requiring that fas a condition precedent to receiving 8 pension she should prove that her net Income did not exceed 500 Mr Hemingway Rep Ind favored the adoption of the Graf amendment prohibiting the of prohibitng suspension pensions until fraud had been proven In a United States court He predicted that In November I No-vember next the people would elect a Republican president who would appoint I a loyal man from the north secretary of the interior to administer the pension I laws with justice and fairness to the old I soldier Mr Arnold iRep Pa in criticising 1 the pension Atlice denounced particularly particu-larly the practice of calling on Democratic Demo-cratic postmasters to furnish information I Informa-tion as to alleged fraudulent pensions Mr Gibson Kep Tenn who was pension I I pen-sion agent at Nashville In 1SS1 devoted much time to the exploitation of particular I par-ticular cases which he claimed proved I the hostility of the pensio nofHce A I speech by Mr Walker Rep Va attracted at-tracted more than usual attention Mr I Walker was a general in the confederate confed-erate army on the staff of General Ju I bal Karly He replied particularly to the remark of Mr Hemingway to the effect ef-fect ato when a Republican again took j his place in the white house no man i from the south would preside over the I I pension office iGeneral Walker declared there was a misapprehension of feeling I and the sentiment of the southern people I peo-ple and the Southern soldiers toward I pensions for the men who fought for the union There was no sentiment against the pension policy of the government I gov-ernment In the south and he assured his Republican friends of the north that the fortunes and pensions of the union I soldiers would be safe In the hands of the soldiers of the south His remarks elicited applause from both sides of the I hall I hal Wood Rep Ill Mr Fitzpatrick j Rep Kan and Mr Poole Rep N Y II followed and then Mr Cummings Dem i N Y created the sensation of the day by a short but bitter arraignment of I the pension office and an eloquent repudiation i repu-diation of the sentiments expressed by I I I his colleague Mr Bartlett yesterday I He declared I was time some radical I action was taken to call a halt on the ncton I oenslon office At the conclusion of Mr Cummings speech the committee rose and the I speaker announced the appointment of the Chickamauga park commission as follows Messrs Grosvenor Ohio Keifer Minnesota Strong Ohio Avery Mich Bowers Cal t republicans Wheeler Ala Cox Tenn Maddox and Crisp Georgia Democrats He also announced the appointment ap-pointment of Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma i I Okla-homa to the committee on agriculture and Murphy of Arizona on coinage I weights and measures and mines and mining The house then at 42o adjourned until un-til tomorrow No Oponitlon Expected Special to The Herald WASHINGTON 14 Parley Williams Wil-liams returned today fro > m Philadelphia and after attending United States supreme su-preme court tomorrow morning will leave tomorrow night for Salt Lake He does not anticipate there will be any opposition to the confirmation of John A Marshall as judge The matter was taken up in executive session today to-day and the nomination was referred Ito I-to the judiciary committee Thurston I of Nebraska and Clark of Wyoming i are friends of Marshall and will if any i opposition is manifested befriend the < Ppion the appointee I is expected the nomination nom-ination will be confirmed In regular order or-der next Monday with the others Utah Arrivals Special to The Herald WASHINGTON Jan 141 Among the Utah arrivals are Mrs Joseph Glendinning and Miss Bessie Glendin lss esie ning of Salt Lake who are registered at the Norman ie hotel and S T I Douglas Salt Lake at Willards hotel |