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Show CO.NGUCVMON.IL pnOCEEUINCS. A .Sen Ira Pension Dill Dlaeuwd In Haute nud raaeL Washington, April B0. The Senate returned consideration of the Customs Administrative bill. Gray moved to amend the bill by Inserting a provision giving tho Im-tiortcr Im-tiortcr who U dissatisfied a right to begin a common-law suit in the United States Circuit Court. This tes dlcustd at length and the bill finally laid aside without action. Tbe Plait resolution tor correction of tbe Oklahoma bill was passed and tbe Scnat adjourned. Houe. Washington, April 30. The committee on rules reported a resolution reso-lution far immediate consideration of the Senate Service Pension bliL CALISLE riMTESTED agaln-t the adoption of resolutions of tills character, which took away from the Committee of the Whole a right to ccpalder bills and forced tho House to vote upon them altera brief debate. It was not fair to the members of the Uoue; it was not fair to tbe taxpayers of the country. The pension estimates were never fair enough, and be said the expenditure expen-diture under Ibis pension bill would amount to 15,000,000, and under the House bill to 550,000,000. From this time on he would protest against this system aud Insist upon the right of members to have an opportunity oppor-tunity for discussion and amendment. amend-ment. Henderson(Ia.)lnquircd whether the gentlemen ou the other side would support measures by the soldiers. sol-diers. Carlisle said he was not authorized author-ized to speak on the subjcct,but in his opinion there were gentlemen on the democratic side w ho w ould give tiie soldiers more than tho gentleman gentle-man from Iowa was willing to give them. Henderson You are very Uberal wbeu jou are out of power. We took care of the kIdlcrs when you had a msjority; we Intend to take care of them now. After considerable further u 'ate of this nature McKlnley said TIIE RESOLUTION WAS JUSTIFIED under the preent code of rules and by the precedents set by the House. 1 he reiiublicans wanted to get to the public business. Tbecountry wanted results, not speeches. The resolution was adopted and Morrill si-oae In iipport of the bill. Tbe total number of persons put upon tiie pension roil under the pro visions of the bWj was estimated at 4t),000, at an annual ro-t i.f J"-G29,000. J"-G29,000. This net of ju-t.Jt had Ucn too longele' y!. Ift!iegt,-ernmcLt Ift!iegt,-ernmcLt were t'i grant a serv.e. .xmsloa it i'iiuII gran It wi'huut delay. Yoder(Oi.I i spoke f. r i -r lb nt pension I'll! and car,;c4 Iter .1 llcans wi.h ipjC being true to their prniuin-a to the soldiers. The rending rend-ing bill might be better entitled: "A bill providing pensions to soldiers after they are dead, and to their widow., providing tboy bt-com. paupers befcre they die." Tamsey (Mo.) on-0'ED THE I1IIJ. becaue It made no d!crirnluat!ou between a three-months' and a Uire-e-yeaia' soldier, and btcatr-e It made no distinction bttween disability disa-bility resulting from the service and Uiat resulting from the vicious conduct con-duct ot the rtl-ionrr. Grosvenor'Ohlo) sold the bill, If passed, would make the jvuslon roll number 9o0.m), uitu n total expenditure expen-diture of 'V"l,(kW lr annum. This gross sum amounted to nearly 13 per cent of the gross income of the government. It wasmunlficent generosity, such as tho world had never before witnessed, and exceeding exceed-ing Uiat of all the civilized nations combined. Springer oppOMjJ Uie bill because it made no discrimination as to Uie length of service. Sayers (Tex.) opposed ltb bilLs In the Interest of Uie taxpayers of the country. After further delate AN AMENDMENT was agreed to on the Morrill bill, reducing re-ducing the age of limitation from C2 to 60 years. The Morrill bill was agreed to as a suusUtute for the Senate Sen-ate bill yeas 1S3, nays 71. Yeder moved to recommit the bill, wiUt In'tructlons to Uie committee to report hack a per diem pension bill. Lost-13 to lot. TbeSenatebUll as amended by the substitute was then passed 179 to 75 amid loud applause. The House then adjourned. ad-journed. A Sborlaseorfcloa. Helena, Ark., April 30. Deputy Postmaster Lindsey lias had charge of the ofllco several months, Postmaster Post-master Grant being busy in his store. Yesterday an Inspector dropped In to look over tho postofilce and Lindsey Lind-sey said ho would step out and call in Uie postmaster. He hasn't returned re-turned yet, but a shortage of $3,500 has leen found in Uie accounts, which Mr. Grant bad to make good. A Mjrsterj- Cleared Cn. O-IIKOSII. Wis., April 30. The mystery surrounding the disappearance disappear-ance of Jocph Choate, the wealUiy Oslikosh lumberman, is cleared up. Mrs. Choate has received a letter from her husband, who, it was supposed, sup-posed, was murdered near Tomahawk Toma-hawk last July. The letter stated tbat Choate was in the lumber bu.l-I bu.l-I ness in Helena and doing well. Closlnr or Saloon.. Pierre, S.D., April 30. At midnight mid-night tonight the saloons all over South Dakota were closed, the prohibition pro-hibition law having gone Into eflrct. The fact Uiat the druggists can secure se-cure no licenses before June 1st leaves the State almost absolutely dry. VTanls an Inquiry. AUiASt. April 30. Mayor Grant, of New York, has written a letter asking Uie legislature to appoint a committee to InvesUgate Uie charges against him by Patrick McCanu before the legislature investigating committee a few days ago. Alice! Criminal Libel. New York, April 30. As briefly stated in yesterday's News, the grand Jury returned Indictments against Joseph Pulitzer, Jrhn A. Cocker!. Julius Chambers and James F. Graham of the New Yotk ircrfd, for criminal libel of ex-Judge Hilton. The H"wd for some Ume past has been publishing sensational articles regarding Judge Hilton's rrlaUocs to tho Stewart estate, and also vague Insinuations against tbe character of Mr. Stewart. On tbe 23rd Inst. Judge Hilton wrote DIs-rict DIs-rict Attorney Fellows at len gUi, calling attention to these articles and saying Uiat h would not think of dignifying them by bringing a civil suit for libel. Had they been confined to libeling he should have treated them with contemptuous silence, "but," says the letter, "when tbey malign the memory of dear friends and a benefactor bene-factor whose name was a synonym for high character, perfect Integrily and unquesUonable personal purity, I one it to his memory that such shamelesi and wanton wan-ton traduccis, beside whom the robbers of bis grave were gentlemen of refinement and character, char-acter, should be brought to answer at the bar of public Justice. It la with tbat purpose in view tbat I write this letter and send these pallet, pa-llet, that you may exhibit these libels to the grand jury for such action as they may deem proper." Messrs. Graham and Chambers gave bail this afternoon. Messrs. Pulitzer and Cockerill are out of the city cn a vacation. icons of tbe Ararrfrttil Rev olullon. Louisville, April 30. The National Na-tional Society of the Sons of the American Itevolution hold a meeting meet-ing heie today for the purpose of perfecting a national orginlxaUou. The meeting was organized with Alexander Webt, brother of President Presi-dent Webb, In the chair. A constitution consti-tution was adopted which make tbe national society an organization of the delegates from thestatesocieUes. Officers were elected as follows: President, Dr. William Seward Webb, of New York; first vice-president, General Lucius P. Denning, of New York; second, General iluckncr; third, General Arnoux, of New York; fourth, Hon. J. C. Pim-p-lly, of New Jersey; flfih, Admiral Porter, U.S.N.; secretary, Lieut. J. C. Creeap, U.S.N.: treasurer, General Gene-ral Janet Otis, ot New York. Marriage. Philadelphia, April 30. The religious cerenony which united Maximilian Albrecht. Count Pap-penhelm. Pap-penhelm. oi Bavaria, Germany, and MIs Mary Wiater Wheeler, of i'hiladtlfhla, was celebrated at St. Mark's Pro- tita it p sepal church at noon tods j w.th treat pomp. |