Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question - "Resolved, That the pension policy of the Republican party is commendable...
Best general references: U. S. Revised Statutes 1878, Sects. 4692 to 4791: Pension laws in Statutes at large, Vols. 20-26; Reports of Coms. of Pensions and Sec'y of Interior, especially for 1885, 1888 and 1889, in House Exec. Docs.; Speeches of Senators Plumb, Davis, Ingalls, Hoar, and Teller in Cong. Record 1889-90 p.p. 1796 to 6385 passim; Republican Nat'l, platform for 1888 in Tribune Almanac...
...United States is under moral obligations to pension its old soldiers. - (a) The army was made up of our best and most patriotic men. - (b) The U. S. has hitherto always given service pensions to its old soldiers. - (c) Our national honor is involved, for pension legislation is really the fulfillment of a contract; Ingalls and Gorman in Cong. Record, June 23d, 1890. - (d) The U. S. is wealthy enough to afford liberal pensions...
Question: "Resolved, That the pension policy of the Republican party is commendable...
...republican party has forfeited confidence of the people. - (1) By selling "protection" to elect president. - (2) By +++ter disregard of civil service. - (3) By shameful administration of pension bureau. - (4) By stealing representation of a State in the Senate. - (5) By creating unfit states. - (6) By evicting Democratic congressmen. - (6) By speaker's usurpation of power. - (7) By making a fradulent census. - (8) By squandering surplus. - (8) By attempting to pass Force bill...