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Show SHERWOOD ,BILL ' PASSESTHEHOUSE BY BIB UJDRiTY t- WASHINGTON, Doc. li. Tho Sherwood service tension -4 bill, which would add upwards of ?40.000.000 to the govern- mont's annual expenditures by -f- granting Increased pensions to civil and Mexican war voter- - ans on the basis of length of service, was passed by the -f houso tonight despite tho de- termlned opposition of many Democratic leaders, 229 to 92. H- 4- Secretary of tho Interior Fisher has estimated that the bill would add ?75,-000.000 ?75,-000.000 to the pension rolls If all tho four hundred thousand veterans eligible elig-ible take advantage of the Increased pension. Tho Republicans who voted with the Si Democrats against the bill were Gardner, Gillette and McCall of Massachusetts; Mas-sachusetts; Hill, Connecticut; Kent, California; McCreary, Pennsylvania, Payne, New York, and Uttor, Rhode Island. Speaker Clark voted with the majority ma-jority of his party for the bill. Democratic Dem-ocratic Leader Underwood and Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald of New York, chairman of tho appropriation committee voted against It Senate Will Proceed Slow With Bill. Tho bill now goes to the senate, where there 13 a disposition to pass somo form of amended servlco pension pen-sion legislation. Senate leaders however, how-ever, will proceed slowly in the consideration con-sideration of this legislation and many houso Democrats voted for the measure in the belief that tho senato would not pass It. The Sulloway age pension bill, passed by the house last spring, failed of passage in the senate. This Republican Re-publican measure was offered unsuccessfully unsuc-cessfully In the house as a substitute for the Sherwood bill. Scores of amendments were offered and a hard but unsuccessful tight was made to have a straight $l-a-day pension established es-tablished without regard to length of service. Basis of Pensions. The Sherwood bill would establish the following basis of pensions: For sen-Ice of 90 days to six months $15 a month; from six to nlno mouths, $20 a month; from nine mouthB to one year, 25 a month; more than one year, $30 a month. Two Important changes were made in tho Sherwood bill in the course of the all-day battle. A joint amendment amend-ment by Representatives Rauch of Indiana In-diana and Cox of Ohio struck out the provision denying ontrauco to federal fed-eral soldiers' homes to veterans receiving re-ceiving more than $25 a month pension pen-sion and refusing to state home federal fed-eral aid for the support of such pensioners. pen-sioners. Tho restriction against tno payment of any pension to a veteran whoso Incomo exceeds $1,000 a yoar was voted out on the motion of Representative Rep-resentative Rucker of Colorado. Follow Political Lines. Tho fight on tho bill was waged along political lines to a considerable extent and membors of oach party charged the other party with bun-combo bun-combo In their nttltude toward tho old soldiers. Prominent Democrats attacked the bill as directly opposed to tho Democratic principles of economy econ-omy and destructive of the plans to reduco tho tariff. Chairman Fitzgerald of tho appropriations appro-priations committee fought the bill because be-cause of Us tremendous demandB on the treasury. Representative Harrison Harri-son of Now York, a leading Democrat on tho ways and means committee, declared that the bill "knocks In tho face all pretensions made by tho Democratic Dem-ocratic party in tho last campaign." Manv ills come from Impure blood. Can't "have pure blcod with faulty digestion, lazy liver and sluggish bowels. Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens stomach, bowels and liver, and purifies tho blood |