| Show UTAH industrial HOME the following is a dispatch from washington july 19 senator biye from the select committee on pacific railroads reported back the senate bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to settle the indebtedness to the tbt government and of the sioux city and pacific railroad calendar the senate resumed consideration of the auddry civil bill among the amendments reported by the committee on appropriations and agreed to by the senate were the following the appropriation for the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of military posts raised from to an amendment to add to the appropriation tion of for artificial limbs or commutation the words and in cases ot of commutation the money shall be paid directly to the soldier or compensation shall be allowed or paid t any agent or attorney tor 11 this made the text of a statement by cockerill to the effect that it had been the practice of various departments not to inform the creditors of the fact that money is due to them and that practice encouraged an increase of claim agents cockerill insisted that it is the duty of the government ment whenever its record shows indebted ness to any person soldier or citizen to hunt huat that person up and pay him the amendment was finally agreed to AN AMENDMENT was agreed to inserting an item of for ordnance and ordnance stores to be issued to the S states tates of washington in place of ordnance borrowed from the Terr territory lory of washington by the state of oregon increasing the appropriation for the maintenance of the soldiers home at santa banta monica california from aj to an amendment was adopted increasing the amount summed up as the total of appropriations of all national sold soldiery lens homes from to an amendment to add to the paragraph as to the appointment of managers of national homes the words and W L B franklin of connecticut thomas W hyde of maine john Q C black of illinois sl and george W steel of indiana for terms of otrice office commencing april 21 1870 to fill vacancies occasioned by expirations of terms of office and by the increase provided hereby gave rise to a long lon discus discuss hp hn plumb hplu ab said that hereafter he not vote to continue any manager on the board auy any longer than one term of af six years he was a believer in a renovation of the board the management of the national home was not as wise conservative or economic as it should be allison presented for hawley an amendment proposing the name of lewis B gunckel of ohio in place of general harris who recently died sherman suggested the name of 8 S 8 yoder in place of steele who had been appointed governor of oklahoma AFTER FURTHER discussion the amendment was agreed to modified by the insertion of the names of gunckel and yoder the paragraph now appoints appoint sas as managers of the national home edmund N morrill of kansas fur for the term of john A martin deceased alfred L pearson of pennsylvania for the term of john H hartranft Hartra tift deceased lewis B gunckel of ohio for the term of kofl L A harris cle deceased ceased wm win B franklin of connecticut thomas W hyde of maine john C black of illinois and samuel 8 yoder of ohio an amendment appropriating appropriating to the Induk industrial tria christian home association in utah which was established for the protection of mormon women desiring to escape from polygamy provoked a long discussion cockerill said it never had had more than twenty inmates edmunds edmundd admitted that not many mormon women took advantage of the home but it was an open institution to them vest said the government had appropriated for the home and congress was now asked to appropriate a year for no other purpose than to pay the salaries of a lot of people who had managed to obtain tai n an appropriation under pretense of philanthropy it was a curious fact he said that the women of utah were more opposed to DOING AWAY WITH POLYGAMY than the men this arose not from sensuality or from any degraded feeling but from religious sentiment senator pomeroy had had an idea that suffrage ought to be given the wory wo nr en of utah so that they could escape from polygamy they got it and every one voted the polygamy ticket edmunds admitted that the women of utah voted that way but bub it was on the same principle that the colored men voted the democratic ticket probably from religious en thu siam slam in the course of the discussion vest resented the drift of some soffie remarks of Edmund sas to his vests veeta uniform opposition to anti mormon legislation he said eaid he was as much opposed to polygamy 09 any one but be said there was a line beyond which he would riot not go plumb expressed the opinion that the home was an utter failure and said lie he had found that to be the general view in salt lake edmunds intimated that the senator from kansas lK ansas like other righteous rup men who had bad gone into strange places had fallen among persons who did not tell all the truth he knew there was a certain opposition to the home in salt lake because the property was wanted for speculative purposes this led to a WARM PERSONAL COLLOQUY between edmunds and plumb which lasted some time the amendment was finally agreed to as was also an item granting to the widow of the late chief justice waite the balance of his years yearns salary |
