Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF APRIL 18, 1888.Question: "Resolved, That the Dependent Pension Bill which has passed the Senate should become...
...pension legislation of this government is not in the nature of the fulfillment of a contract, but the fulfillment of the nation's moral obligations to the men who fought for it. The magnitude of the work they accomplished deserves a reward in proportion to their needs and the resources of the nation. The Dependent Pension Bill is in keeping with this policy...
...United States pension system will be a more burdensome evil than the standing armies of Europe.- 2. Actual sufferers have been sufficiently recompensed.- 3. Proposed legislation is extravagant and wasteful.- 4. It is impossible to estimate how much will be needed to meet the demands of this bill: Nation, 44, p. 92; President's veto of Feb. 14, 1887; Public Opinion...
Question: "Resolved, That the Dependent Pension Bill which has passed the Senate should become...
...McCosh is to retain his chair of philosophy and to receive a pension of $2,500 a year...