Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Interstate Commerce Act; (b) Blair Education Bill.- N. Y. Evening Post, reprint of editorials (pam.); Cong. Record, 47th Cong., 1st session, p. 4820. (c) Dependent Pension Bill.- Nation...
...Harriman delivered the opening speech on the affirmative. Mr. Cleveland is entirely right, said he, in persisting in his steady opposition to the extravagant pension grants of our national Congress. We are liberal enough with our pensions already. Had the Dependent Pension bill become a law, it would have taken at least $50,000,000 out of the national treasury, and increased our total pension list to over one hundred millions. We should have been taxed as heavily for this purpose as are many of the countries of Europe which have to support large standing armies. Many of our most...
...Reisner, on the negative, denied that the Dependent Pension bill would have involved an expenditure of $50,000,000 a year, for this would signify that there are now 300,000 Union soldiers who have sunk to the level of pauperism. It is at least as just as the Act of Congress which granted extravagant pensions to the surviving veterans of the Mexican war. It is important for us to remember that the soldiers which the Dependent Pension hill was designed to aid, have to be supported anyhow; it is merely a question whether it shall be done...
...Robert Treat Paine followed for the affirmative. It is charged against Cleveland, said he, that he is inconsistent in the matter of the pension vetoes; but so is Mr. Gladstone, who is about to confer a great blessing on the British Empire by his inconsistency! Mr. Paine then discussed the wisdom of Mr. Cleveland's vetoes of private pension bills. He declared that these bills are a most striking example of injudicious charity. It is a most extravagant waste of the nation's money, which should be reserved for more appropriate purposes...
...Mahany, who closed for the negative, maintained that the Dependent Pension bill would not have encouraged pauperism, but would have saved many of our soldiers from the disgrace of becoming paupers. Mr. Mahany then read extracts from the bill, and also from President Cleveland's message to Congress, by which the speaker showed the absolute identity between the recommendations of the message and the provisions of the bill. He further discussed the question in the three relations of economy, consistency and national honor, and demonstrated that on each ground the President should have signed the bill. He closed with...