wt «DOLLAR-A-DAY PENSIONS” Democrats For—Taft Opposed LL the } ticia are are { gh of the ! { ygazine it was fully s : e 1 TWENTY-EIGHT 8 TATES HAD ENDORSED IT A . the giant statesman from New Hamp Bignal AS : An pind ius cil hire. had introduced and fought through, as ihe Republican ttee on Invalid Pensions, the generous $ which bore his Twenty-eight sed it It bore an crease of r to the 10,000 annual expendi government for war pensions f the D ratic House was championed herwood. of Ohio, & veteran of forty-five var. It raised the Republican offer of t) ng to the experts’ estimates—by $30, total additional annual expenditure of ! nal plan of pensions, years ago, had been War Ww ho fd been ann qd or CHAPAc)- should be pensioned by the government, { any Mma . % y had seen geTvVWE WH the ~ nd by the govern d under this last of the living veterans their dollar a day. ats and Republi. er the stimulus of the hundreds of thousands d engaged in a duel ex-Speaker Cannon, whose } nly for this not $1 after man ex- claimed at the contemptibility of count- cost in such a cause; and James ley, Boston's greatest Democratic orator, stated without contradiction on the floor the remarkable biological theory that the veteran was “a living flag, starred and searred.” Overw helmingly, the House ] and Democrats—voted the ension increase for the Civil &75 War veterans, REPUBLICAN REN A TE BUTCHERED THE BILL “There was no stopping of the meas time: but the nences that had in 1810 modified it now. The openly by Toft— $£30,0 HPA increase 10 000, The veterans hod this repression. Ev- er States, the two 1 nd s in the Congressional eirviet. and all thew friends and rela va this, ond holding attitude of William remains, as every y . wis in Washing. n, fhe first great matter of tional busi- ness having been taken so fortu y sHaRe ! Jemocraivwe ttention turned, on the very next the call of the Hebrew voters of . \ rk ha treaty under whi h Rus ox a i si fizens the that coun
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