The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 2, 1887, Page 1

‘ Che Butler Weekly Table Mo. Pacific R. R. | (lexincton & SourHeRN BRANCH.) | Pommencing Sunday, May toth, and j turther notice, trains will leave ler as follows : GOING NORTH. 123—Texas Express. ® 125—K. C. Express. « 133—Accommodation.. GOING SOUTH. | 124—Texas Express........ Q:14PM “ 126—K. C. Express. oe StIS AM # 1go—Accommodation......9:55 A M | nger trains make direct con- Stor t. Louis and all points east masand all points south, Colorado, lifornia and all points west and north- For rates and other intormation to I. Lisk, Agent. Secret Societies. MASONIC: Lodge, No. 254, meets the first d ie each month, Mami Chapter Ro: 76, meets second 1 Arch Masons, hursday in each Gouley Commandery Knights Templar ts the first Tuesday in each month. * 1.0. 0. FELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- night. r Encampment No. 76 meets the and ath Wednesdays in each month Lawyers. DARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ce West Side Square, over Lans- "s Drug Store. Francisco. S. P. Francisco. CISCO BROS. Attorneys at , Butler, Mo., will practice in courts of Bates and adjoining Prompt attention given.to col- Office over Wright & Glorius’ store, a) i we we + | W. SILVERS, ITTORNEY 7 LAW Will practice in Bates and adjoining munties, in the Appellate Court at Kansas oa in the Supreme Court at Jeffer- triers North Side Square, over McBride's. zitf iy W. GRAVES, Notary -:- Public... Office with Judge John D. Parkinson, side square, Butler, Mo. Physicians. M.Curisty, W. H. BALiarp, RS. CHRISTY & BALLARD, HOMODOPATHIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ce, front room over P.O. All calls red atoffice day or night. Tele- ne communication to all parts of the y. Specialattention given to temale | Congressman Bragg Deals Out Plain | BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MARCH,2 1887 | whom they expected to buy by this | | bill. Mr. Henderson ot Iowa broke in: | **For one, | pronounce that false.’’ | | [Applause on the republican side | The President's Veto Sustained by a | and in the galleries. THE RIGHT DOCTRINE. Facts on the Pension Bull. — Good Vote. Mr. Bragg answered: **I say that | ES ns | is 1s the substratum upen which all | OLD SOLDIERS NOT PAUPERS. this action 1s based. If these men | ie 1, | whom they call paupers were tv call on them individua tor aid, they In the debate in the House on the z | would say to them: Pauper pension act, Conpresacsan You good for | Bragg, of Wisconsin, an ex-federal officer, made the following eloquent and forcible speech in support of the president's veto. Ltis traught with good, sound sense, and should voice the sentiment of every true Ameri- can: nothing scoundrels, you are as com- | petent to we are | (Laughter and applause on the re- | publican side. This bill, Mr. Bragg continued, would grant pensions to the men who had served trom December, 1864, to June, 1865. Those men | were the scum of the earth. They | were the scum—aye, and the dregs. | They stayed in their homes until they were bought—bought by men who speculated in blood; paid trom $100 to $800, with the private as- surance that they were physically so defective that all they had to do was | to go to the hospital and not endan- ger their precious carcasses. work as Mr. Bragg of Wisconsin said that the time had arrived when the pen- sion question should receive more It was time for the members of the house to get out from the roseate bubble in which they hved in Washington, prepared for them by claim agents, and look after the interests of the real soldier and the business interests ot the country. They had drifted than a casual consideration. NOT BRAVE SOLDIERS AT ALL. Gentlemen, the speaker continued, talk about soldiers being in alms houses. The men who were found there were the men who had come trom them and who, when they left the army, had lapsed into their old codition. No true, brave soldier need go to the poor house. The men who went there were native there. They tiad'no self-respect, no character; they lay down and opened their mouths for a teat to suck, Mr. Steele of Indiana interjected a remark and Mr. Bragg said that he knew that the gentleman who had just interrupted him, it he dared vote his convictions, would vote as he (Mr. Bragg) did. He knew gentlemen who had committed them- selves day after day in opposition to the principles ot the bill and were gratetul for the veto. In answer to cries of “Who are they?’ Mr. Bragg cried: ‘‘I know what I am talking about. I have heard them—fRepeated cries of ‘‘Name them!” ‘*Name your men?” **You can’t do it!’” and much noise and contusion. } “The republican congressmen, all of them,”” was Mr. Bragg’s reply, which was greeted with mingled applause, laughter and jeers. The spectators, who filled the galleries to their utmost capacity and who hstened eagerly to all that was along impelled by a species of sym- pathetic impulse, regardless of rea- son or judgment, until the period was reached which had culminated in the presentation and passage ot one of the most scandalous bills which had ever been sent to a presi- dent for his signature. The people of the country, without regard to party, had every reason to be thank- ful that this bill had been presented to an executive who had had back- bone enongh to meet the situation. In a few years, the speaker said, the soldiers of the country (not the bummers) would have arrived at an age when they could conie to con- gress and demand as a right—not ask as a charity—that proyision be made for them. Congress should not bankrupt the treasury before that time atrived by yielding to the de- mands of deserters, coffee coolers and bounty jumpers. If the gentle- man from Pennsylvania (Mr. Bayne) would read the National Tribune, published’ in Washington by men who received trom $25,000 to $45,- ooo a month as fees trom pensioners —blood money taken trom the sol- diers whom. they pretended to love —he would find in every column some abuse of the president and of those who thought differently from them as to the propriety of this meas- ure. Such newspapers as that, which professed to be the friend ot the soldiers, were such friends as governor of Maine, Chamberlain, stood by the president. | “Yes,” cried Mr. Boutelle, ‘and | he stands alone in Maine. [Applause | on the republican side.J 1 speak tor | Maine.” [Jeers ot the democrats | and cries ot ‘sorry tor Maine.”’ | Mr. Bragg continuing said thatthe | ag | great soldier, Patmer, of Llhnois, stood by the president; Governor Cox of Ohio stood by the president. | Old Dan Sickles of the Third army | corps said that the veto was a most | glorious deed. Brave men ot all parties stood by the president. It} was only the little minds that went buzzing shout like insects that op- posed him. Mr. Henderson ot Iowa broke im contemptuously: ‘*You stand by the president?” Mr. Bragg retorted fittingly: ‘‘No staff commissary can ever excite me. Tam speaking for what I consider the soldiers’ interest. The largest Grand Army post in my state voted not to ask members ot congress to go against the president. It is only the class of gentlemen wko hang around the Grand Army posts who crowd themselves in to get $5 a week and to live upon their com- rades who are making this grand hue and cry. EFFECT OF RECKLESS PENSIONING. ‘The soldier preters to stand by his record and asks not that congress shall mark him as a beggar. He wants to have it understood that he is in private lite, as he was-in the army, a soldier fighting for the main- tenance of the union, loving his country and not asking to be sup- ported by it, Why, look at the effect. The contederate soldiers, without hope, are toiling, day by day, and exhibiting a thrift, industry and energy never expected of them, while the northern man, the inde- pendent, the self reliant, the industri | sam ous, the energetic and the enterpris- ing, lagsbehind into idleness. Why? Because he is waiting for a stipend to come from the government and when that stipend comes it is spent quickly, and if he comes from a poor house he lapses back into that pog sition and waits for another stipend. Humanity only needs to be encour- aged to do nothing. We are all liable to drop into a do-nothing policy if we can get somebody to support us, and it 1s not good public policy tor us to legislate to encourage vagabondism whether among our soldiers or citizens.”” Mr. Steele ot Indiana, asked: ‘sHow about the Mexican pension bill ?”” Times, WE ARE MAKING LOW PRICES —ON OUR WINTER GOODS, —SUCH as— BLANKETS, FLANNELS,CLOAKS,| | Boots and Shoés, RUBBER GOODSOF ALL KINDS, John Deer Bradley Stirring Plows Deere? Keystone Rotary Drop Com Planters, CAPS, GLOVES, &C. Than the Same Quality of Goods Have Ever Been Sold in this Market, A word to the wise is sufficent. | RESPECTFULLY, J, M. McKIBBEN. Bennett, Wheeler & Co., Dealers in the Celebrated Bradley, Canton. Deere and Brown Cultivators; Pattee New Departure Tongueless Cultivators. With Deere All Steel Check Rower with Automatic Reel. Stalk Cutters, New Ground Plows, Harrows and Sulky Plows said on the floor,-now took part in the demonstrations of disapproval and approval, and though, without adding to the noise and contusion sufficiently to justify the speaker in ordering the clearing of the galleries, gave vent to their teelings until the close ot the debate by frequent ap- plause. : Mr. Bragg declared that the press of the country was opposed to the bill. These gentlemen who sat up aloft (pointing to the press gallery) mightfsome time or other, turn this big pension boom into a much larger boomerang—in some gentleman’s district. [Applause.] “We have fared as well in our district as the gentleman has in his,”’ exclaimed Mr. Hendersen of Iowa, and this allusion to Mr. Bragg’s failure to secure a renomination was greeted with loud and continued Iaughter on the republican side. THE PRESIDENT WELL BACKED. Mr. Bragg repeated that the press was epposed to the bill. The great republican paper of his state stood by the president. The great repub- lean papers ot Ohio sustained the president. The great republican papers of Pennsylvania stood side by side with the president. The papers of New York, almost without attention to the ambiguities of the distinction of party, stoud by the|}i1! and the misconstruction whick president. The gallant soldier, the} might be placed upon it. DRS. FRIZELL & RICE. RHYSICIANS, SURGEONS AND ACCOUCHEURS. vultures were the friends of dead bodies—because they fed and fatten- ed on them. It had been charged that he was not a friend ot the sol- dier, To that he replied that no man who had served with his troops in the field for tour years, who had followed the starry flag in fifty or sixty ‘pitched battles, would forget them. It was for that class ot sol- diers that he stood here to-day—to defend them ayainst the imputation cast upon them by the passage of a pauper pension bill. FACTS PLAINLY SPOKEN. No man, the speaker said, who had enjoyed the exquisite delight of riding down a line that was waver- ing and breaking in the presence ot the enemy and heard the cheer of the three times three go up—a Cheer of confidence an@ joy that a leader had come—could ever forget his com- rades. No one that had ever seen those men rushing into battle, thoughtless of themselves and of their homes, ready tolay down their lives for their country, could ever torget them or would be willing that they should be classed as paupers and placed on the roll with the coffee coolers of the army. The men who advocated this bill were not the and | friends of the soldier. They advc- cated this bill—manv of them—sim- BESO. tus paver. \ ply because the men could vote, | Mr, Bragg answered: “I have said that I wished she president had vetoed it. Itis intimated that the bill passed because it benefits con- federates. I ask any one ef you, bigoted as you may be, if you did not get some of the pork. You all voted for the bill and now you have discovered that it is a monstrosity.”” Mr. Warner of Ohio declared thar the bill set a premium on pauperism and improvidence. MEMBERS CHANGE THEIR MINDS. Mr. Outhwaite of Ohio said that Haish’s § Barbed Steel Fence Wire HALLADAY WIND MILLS, JRON, WOOD AND CHAIN PUMPS, WAGONS, BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES. ALL KINDS OF GRASS SEEDS, Hardware, Groceries, Iron, Nails, Wagon Woodwork, &c- oe | BENNETT, WHEELER & CO. a wee. |FRANZ BERNHARDT'S According to the construction placed | Three ounce Elgin, Waltham and the bill by the committee on : i invalid claims, no distinction was | Hampdensilver stem winding watch- made between deserving and unde- es, from $11 to higher prices. serving poverty. 9 Mr. Morrison ot Illinois —— = American ladies stem winding gold “JT yoted for the bill. I am satisfie that it does not contain what its watches from $25, up. fnends claim for it and that it ie niverware, clocks, jewelrA, fairly subject to the objections urged All . against it in the veto. Besides, the | &c, at cost prices. veto 1s so far aboye the high water are iii mark of ordinary executive inde- | Sele agent for the Rockford and Aurere watches, in Gold, Silver and Filled Cases cacy. pendence and official manhood thst JEWEL RY STO R EB, I feel like sharing and taking my warters tor little part ot the responsibility.”” é Pee Clocks, Solid Silver and ‘Plated Ware, &. [Applause on the democratic sour Sockets Mr, Springer of Illinois thought atches, . pecta all ; also fine Opera Glasses. You “ pang te eb fo visit tis establishment and examine the president would have been false dere cnc he nee his splendid display of beautitul goods and the low prices, ALL KINDS OF ENGRAVING NEATLY EXECUTED: ceovyer their drug store on North iM street, Butler, Mo. C. BOULWARE, Physician and a. Office north side square, i . Diseases of women and chil- itv. INF SUITS. ~ In every Made to Order Tgueranteed a fitin every cas : and eee me, south room grange store. }. JE. TALBOTT, Merchant Tailor j ‘wad e price and quality