Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1911 — Sulloway General Pension Bill Reported Favorably by Senate. [ARTICLE]

Sulloway General Pension Bill Reported Favorably by Senate.

The U. S. Senate Monday reported favorably on the Sulloway general pension bill, which recently passed the house. Eight members of the committee voted for it and three against it. Those casting negative votes were McCumber, of North Dakota; Gore, the blind senator of Oklahoma, and Taliafero, of Florida. An amendment was voted limiting the pensions to S3O a month instead of $36, as provided in the measure that passed the house. The senate will probably pass the bill and the house will doubtless concur in the amendment This will add about $45,000,000 to the cost of pensions, and will swell the total expenditures to $200,000,000 a year. It is a debt of honor and should become a law.