| Show l F 5 THE TUE NEW PENSION SYSTEM Pro Pre Prevent to Only Legitimate Bureau of off Relieve Pension vent Bum Bills ol of No Hendersons Con Connection f Large Amount of 01 I With I tho t 1 Reed Rules p I 5 rr 1 II 1 ii ri N u u u u u w u u ww u Special Correspondence Washington ashington Dee Deo IThe pension L committees of both bolh houses housen have haC deter dete determined mined to time the consideratiOn of pensions to t legitimate l dISCS casos and lId to pre prevent I vent ent a Hood of ot bills of ot no 00 merit being brought forward and pressed at nt each session Of ot ot Congress Congre s Both committees have hae adopted rules jules to 10 relieve rollee the time memo mem members bers bels and clerks H and the time pension o of ot an nn Immense amount of at labor ibor hero Here Heretofore elm sim simply a senator or representative ply lly Introduced a 0 bill anti and tho the committee did time the rest Under tinder the new system to secure prompt consideration of eta a n pen len penMon penIon Mon Ion bill It U will be bo necessary to have all 1111 au tact facts relating r to tho the claimant such ouch n as ns his service condition etc ale the tIme application cation and action If tr tIny any before the pen pension sian sion bureau his financial condition anti and Income all wt set t forth In a n petition and anil supported by a 1 sworn statement Th necessity tot for thew rules In Is shown by bythe bythe bythe the thousands of ot bills Introduced at each Congress without any an Information to tl guide the committees as all to 10 tine the th right of oC the lie claimant or tir Ida his military service It H Is III Ju just jUlit t a n coincidence that Senator of at Now New Hampshire la Is at time the ho head of ot the pension committee of at the Senate 1111 of at tine the same state chairman of at the in invalid valid pensions pension In the tho House The Time latter committee deals with pensions of ot the civil war anti and a pension committee with cases including those all other oilier pension h and Philippine In insurrectIon of at the Spanish war My recent paragraph about Speaker d Henderson and amid his hili connection with tho the Heed rules interested that gentleman because as nil he lie said Hall I J waR the lie nut first ivri t Cr r to 0 bring out the thim tact fact that ho Ime helped to make those timer rules rulos As A It wits was twelve years pears cura ago a o I naturally supposed the mat matter matAr ter Ar hall had been suggested before but hut the tho Inc speaker told me of oC a circumstance not known After ACter limo tho contest for tor speaker mad had been beon settled In the time Fifty first Congress Speaker Reed He eel culled called cull eel to together together gether gother In frequent consultation hue his competitors for Cor tho tim nomination Wil William liam II a McKinley Joseph Jo u 4 Cannon and David 1 B n Henderson With them lie I went vent ent over ovet the tho subject of ot rules very er erI thoroughly anti and nil agreed that filibustering I ering must cease censo anti the house ma mn majority maJority be allowed 1 to do cia business ut at of these theBe discussions wore were evolved tine tile rules now In force torce with such modifications aa ItS actual practice hiss has proved pron necessary The Tine present speaker mis rous se selected selected by Mr Reed Heed as us his hla chief lieuten lieutenant ant on the floor anti and senior floor member mOlo tf of or time the rules committee when Reed Hoed was sias elected the second home PROPOSED A WISCONSIN m I Representative Jenkins of ot Wisconsin tolls toils this one on himself It was Willi after atter he hue had been boen In Congress a short thins I and had made a n study of at the time rules rulos He lie I Wont Went up to Speaker Reed Heed and ond lold paid aid Mr II Speaker I have studied the raes carefully and antI have some II amendments here bero which I think will facilitate bust busi bustness ness aces Put them hero In the box John Joan put nut them In la the box be drawled th this the I WWW speaker Bp Indicating the box at ot the lie clerks clerics desk nil all bills blue and amid pro proposed posed IO hosed NI legislation are placed by II I mem members members bers hers Hut Mr Reed Heed I 1 would like hike to 10 have you look over those these amendment 1 I think they tile the ore are worth your our attention said Mill Mr 11 Jenkins Well to gratify you and amid as os there here Is not much going on Ill Iii look nt at your amendments After rending them over he lie handed them bock back saying In a n fatherly manner Put thorn them In your our pocket John Juhn that thatIs ls Is the tho ho best place for tor them You dont seem to understand John that these rules rulos wore were not designed d to facilitate but lImit to obstruct business this latter InU r with wIth some sarcasm Mr Jenkins nays he ime has not miot attempted to amend the time rules rulos since DENTON nrc tONT Senator Hard Bard of ot California has varied the time which he lie presented p this year urging time the payment of at a II claim o ot or Jessie le Benton Henton He lie shows that lint the tile wife of or the time great pathfinder and soldier line has a valid claim the government for tor valuable property taken but hut ho lie also adds that although this his woman Is advanced In age and amid has hili physical Infirmities necessitating re rim retirement and seclusion Reclusion she he la is I not for tor forgotten forgotten gotten gollen Ho He quotes from an address de delivered delivered livered by the tho late hate last summer ummer lit nt Los Ios Angeles In which a 0 high tribute to Mrs Fremont Is paid hilt President speaking of at her In con connection connection with her Illustrious husband Senator Bard Dud she 0 tells tell how the Fred dent called on Oil Mrs Ir Fremont Premont and paid hits his hi respects conveyed tile this regards regard of at Mrs HAS A GOOD RECORD mCCOID It wa W was I an unusual circumstance the theother other day for fill iii the time Senate to meet at U It but lut It vas Val done for Cor the limo of ot giving longer consideration to the treaty before beo th time the vats Rte wai wn taken Quite an all interesting feature of at that meetIng was waa the fact tAct that II 11 IIII IIII II U Gil JUry fry who sino has hu b been en 11 legislative clerk clork for yearn was WAil ten eli minutes late He hIs had hani forgotten tor that the time Senate root net at 11 of or 12 It time the usual hour Mi Mm h record since simmee he lie has hu been heen an ito officer Is III one day absent for tor or business ono one day for sick Mck Mcknew new flees n and once late hate that hat occasion lie he Ing Ingo the t e one Ju juat t referred to He lie came cameto to the time Senate from Crom Oregon when the body bOOy IM Democratic and amid the this State Slate had hatt a Democratic senator |
