Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — THE ARREARAGE BILL. [ARTICLE]

THE ARREARAGE BILL.

Misstatement of a Partisan Corrected by the Official Record. A Washington special to the Indianapolis Sentinel -ays: From an interview with Charles H. Young, deputy secretary of state, recently published in The Sentinel, we see that Mr. Young charges that President Cleveland vetoed the arrearage pension bill, and for that reason he can not secure th soldie. vote of Indiana. Mr. Young is not well informed on the subject. The act depriving old soldiers of the arrears of pensions was enacted Jan. 25, 1879, and amended March 3, 1879, limiting the t’meof filing claims carrying arrears te June 30, 1880.— These acts were both approved by acting-presi ent Hayes. No act repealing th! 3 law has been passed; neither h.-s President Cleveland v-t 'ed any such measure An examination of the congressional records develops the further f ct that Senatoi -J. J. Ingulls of Kansas, who, a few days ago, denounced Gen. ancock as an ally of the southern confederacy, was ehairman of the committee on invalid pensions which recommended in 187? the passage of the bill cutting of all back pensions, and that he (Ingalls) also voted for the bill. It is a matter of record that the U. S. Senate, at its present session, refused to pass the pension bi 11 prepared bv a committee of the Grand Army, ‘but so amended the bill as to embody all the obnoxious features of the dependent bill vetoed by the president last year. The house committee on pensions, however, has amended the senate bill to conform to the

, ideas of the committee of die Grand Army. Old soldiers here, and there are thousands of them in the d partments, are emphatic in the expression that the senate committee shot Id have reported the bill without amendment. It is the general belief among them that the senate majority is ’ ot acting in good faith with the old soldiers in pension ma ters, and cite the amendment of the grand army bill as evidence of the fact. “The senate,” said one, “seems to be more interested in manufacturing political capital for the republican party in the coming campaign than in discussing honest and judicious pension legislation.”

California Hams, at Duvall’s.