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Show Aged Pensions Memorial Bill Is Laid on Table Senator W. D. Candland possibly has not much use for old ago pensions pen-sions according to the daily press It it one cf the Mount Pleasr.nt senators fondest duties to lay on the senate table which meant in its grave the memorial to congress proposed by Representative Chris Greenhagen, of Salt Lake, asking the federal legislators to support, the Dill proposal for federal aid to old age pension states. The bill came from Senator Cand-land's Cand-land's committee with an unfavorable unfavor-able report. The chairman moved the adoption of the report. President Gardner said that would not do much good. The house had passed the bill, and the senate ought to be more courteous. The bill ought to be discussed. Senator Candland proceeded to nay it. "I think it," he said, "a most outrageous, vicious bill: designed to promote the National Order of Won't Works. It is socialism run riot; a scheme to take the hard-earned hard-earned dollar from the worker tc support the Won't Works. A scheme to discourage thrift and industry and to encourage idleness and profligacy. prof-ligacy. A scheme, which, if carried car-ried to its ultimate conclusion, would undermine civilized society and substitute a lazy, indolent class of parasites, feeding on the substance sub-stance they are too lazy to work for." The senators had not much more than caught their breath after following fol-lowing this outburst than a motion from Senator H. Fred Egan was presented to lay the memorial on the table. This passed by a standing vote, the Republicans all voting to support sup-port Senator Candland, and Senator Sena-tor T. R. Welling being the only Democrat to Join them. |