| Show PENSION BILL PASSED t louse house acts on the ma measure asure without amendment DEBATE COVERED WIDE RANGE not only was the question of our molicy touched upon but civil service and governmental and expenditures on the latt latter eley r mr din dingley made an important statement saying before close of present fiscal year receipts would equal expenditures washington dec 10 the house H use to 0 lay passed the pension appropriation bill without amendment and it adjourned till 1511 monday tho the amendments offered by democrats to correct alleged exl exail at ing abdrea all ruled out on tho the point of 0 order that they were now new legislation AS passed the iho bill carries ul casso the debate today covered a wide balge it touched not only the question of our pension policy but that of civil service reform and the receipts and expenditures under the dingley law on the latter question mr dingley made sa on important statement lu in which he expressed the tha opinion that the receipts would equal the expenditures before the close of the present fiscal year and predicted a surplus of 0 next yeal yeah the die service law wa was i savagely fat tacked by several members notably ly by mr frown brown of ohio and mr linney of koith carolina and was warmly firmly defended clef ended by mr johnson of indiana all republicans Republic ams just before the close of oc the session sir isitt attempted to secure dunant I 1 am moua 0 us consent tor for the passage of the bill to pelagic sealing by Amort american citizens but objection was nas I 1 made it will under agreement how cier be consid eiel Mond monday ty at the opening of 0 the session tho the mo me volition of mr fossa foss rep ot or illinois vetting apai t saturday december esth for tribute to the memory of ct c t the aate te relm tentative K E U D cook of illinois iti ili i was agreed to lo the louse house then the consideration of the pen lion ll 11 appropriation bill n hit it was tic de baa d y berday mr mn brown bron rev ill III attacked th lil elvei ser lee law beranse ati aasc it protected el romo ot of the pein slon examining boards appointed under the hi last adjoin adman j lie ile styled it abominable and was lustily applauded by many colleagues leagues cs ile he said ald tile alie soldiers ot of his district regarded ded this law as inimitable to lo their interests inter wits and he favored its alls repeal or radical lie he declared that tho the president donl was mistaken whon when lie he affirmed linned af that the civil service law lad had the approval ampro at of the people the I 1 and ad the press of his district had denounced it the rho lawit last republican state convention of 0 ohio had declared ired sig against agrist the ole law and on that paw he be stood it if disloyalty to the law waa nas disloyalty to the republican pirth pt ltv then he was great lia in the galleries at the ui conclusion of mr browns remarks the i house douse hi bv unanimous consent agreed to close the general debate on the bill at mr rop 0 said bald lie botn n burred with rith his colleague col HaRue fr brown br irn but he insisted that true civil elee reform was a cardinal principle 0 ll 11 it Is believed bell wed he I 1 K that grover cleveland had done in B D to discredit tit the true spirit of civil P s vice reform than all alte others combi cambi d and he thought mr mckenley c ild be ach relied ld upon to bring it ft back hito its proper channel maxwell pop neb sub folts d some remarks in n favor of liberal ren pen ons ona unlisted rN LISTED AGAINST TIIE LAW mr grosvenor Grosve pop 0 0 said stant chile his colleagues from ohio B s oed nod to differ on oil tile the civil service qui nui alon lie he thought they were mere tl ti lily illy of on one mini mind so far as he be was cn c m berned lie had for the war o adlist tile the law in discussing the pen pan sl fa n mattar mr grosvenor talt said it he c 11 ild 1 abolish the pension examining ix bard ind in much of the expense of ad ilni of the pension ollice he would substitute a general pension sya ti ll IT carefully safeguarded in reply to mr nortons Nor tons criticism y T OT day mr 3 ros enor reviewed the r ads rd of the two tire nn an the n R 1091 of conr arm vat in tile aggregate 10 11 republican N tos lis li s were nere cast in congress for general p aslon examination and find and but 2 a it nalle au democratic votes i 21 lit 1 re 10 0 been in favor or of such legislation alne fua votes in opposition t r sullivan dem susa ilass in tu EU port ot of at an arr argument kalnit nal nit the payment of pensions pins lons to those thoo who were ere wealthy sad and a nd did not tufe them quoted ME ct length from on an article recently milt iten by gen IL V roynton Bo yuton whose too tc tini ony adlist abuses in the present system be said was entitled to consideration by the other side bide mr john johnson 11 rep ind in defense of calill terrice service reform which n lie he said was being attacked on this floor hy by members from the presidents own state reiterated his statement of the other day that civil service reform was n essential principle of ism lie ile referred to tile declara tlona of republican conventions convention st and read from platforms plau Conns adopted at republican i for twenty years in support of 0 ills his contention hayes ca ficia it 11 grisor and stood mood for the taw AV find and tile lie presidents lat last la t utterance in is favor brul the overwhelming wh elmIng approval of the Ile publican press of th country mr johnson do blared that tho the cn of the law lawi tere not attacking it openly they limped hl fI ais m the friends of true civil service to rp borm to tear it end do covertly abat they feared to attempt directly carmark caicob caicos and and slina sims doms ot of tennessee spoke briefly in furor favor of f retrenchment in pension expenditures tures MAXIMUM HAS ulilis II 11 I 1 VACI cached IrD these rela remarks arks drw drow in an important a statement tat ement from mr regarding ohp ill prospective and expends tures lures tor roe tho the ensuing year preliminary limi to his hia statement mr ir bintley gave a nev of tho estl eitl muted mated lit pension expenditures conton dhir that tho the maximum was maa reached in when the pension payments realD hoI si in 1894 they fell to slit HI in 1 11 in and in 1897 Hl it the expenditures tor for pensions during the next rindal year should be no nit had been estimated tile the in betease mr air dingley Dl ney said would not be QUO due to 10 new legislation but to more lapold a administration oc at the present laws it mould therefore involve no additional expenses exien ses in the end the question as to the revenue and expenditures ell for the next fiscal year proceeded mr dingley DIng tey was a practical ont one IN lich congress hail had to t 0 face the statement stai statement ement ot of the secretary sacre t ary of the treasury he SWA gold hail had caused much inne misapprehension p owing to the fact that t under inde r a new nev pro lalon ot of law lie had been obliged to include in the estimates of expenditures for public corks which neither lie nor the lie secretary ary of at war nor any other well ivell ln in conned person lie be p expended x Count Counti ln cir this tho the eti estimated mated deficit he said knull be b t oj lie loLi tid no when h he said that the secretary ot of the treasury und anil the president were confident that the receipts next year it would exceed the expenditures ex str mr dingley said bald lie he tool too it tor for granted that Cone reFt would exercise elcer elso reasonable economy tho the estimated de licit for the present year not counting the rii money ney obtained and to be obtained f from nl pacific railroads rall roods wa was i cli the anticipatory imam importations valloria had mr aldr drugley argued placed in the treasury bc july argue ast 1st thos importations had reduced tho the dencie last year from to inas ina s much us as the importations ne arre tor for con on bump tion tills this year FIGuli rs FROM DINGLEY arr dingler contended that in equity that sum should b alti properly charged to the receipts rt celata of the current lear if they were so charged instead of a deficit e ifould IN ill a surplus this year of mr dingley figured out a L surplus of exactly uial amount for the coming escal bear 3 ear lie described d taw ali steady ma manner jiller in ellich the revenues revenue a had beon been increasing at tho the rale of or ft month although dt bomber was geno eneri rully a bad munith tor for importations ho he said ald that th a 1 t it if lh in increase for the first nine 11 doin 3 is of oc this monni were continued the for the month would increase nor from amm in Nove irber ber to 3 in december when b he confidently cond dently predicted that the effect of 0 the tha antica batory revel lues would all be overcome during the year and that after a r t er I 1 may AI aar or june ISM the rev revenues nu CS aou would hl exceed th the expenditures exper Altures the republican bid bide broke out into repeated cheers mr air allen alien dem of mississippi concluded C lude d the ane general debate with it a humorous ine apet eh ch during I 1 tact hz five minute debato debate mr lanney r riep of north carolina made oj in n favor of overthrowing the si sel vac ce law IN aich set bet tho the galleries jn in IL a roar all am amendments nurnell t including those these proposed yee veel vday by mr fr allen alien dem prof of mississippi mere lere alth r voted doy n or aled ont mil on of ord r the bill aa then report d to tho the house and mr aritt chairman of fit tho the Commit committee tec 0 on n For elitt affairs asked unanimous consent for the passage of the bill reported by hl committee I 1 0 prohibit the killing of jie ile d the necessity cesa t r of pass agne affo of the act ace owing to the diplomatic now 1101 pending wa was V mailo an and nt at or boult the house adjourned until 11 monday |
