The Civil-War Lack-of-System, a Four-Thousand-Million Record of Legislative Incompetence Tending to General Political Corruption
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The accompanying report especially says that the bill does not repeal or modify any existing pension law. The exclusion, therefore, of cases in which the possible recipient has a private income of ^1000 or more, would only prevent his drawing the difference between the pension provided under a previous law and a pension provided under the proposed law. The economy upon which so much 'See speech of Mr. Evans of Illinois, December 9, 191 1, Record, Sad Congress, Second Session, pp. 144-45. THE CI...VIL-WAR PENSION emphasis in the report is laid, thus amounts to nothing at all. It is an economical blind, devised to "save the face," so to speak, of a committee uneasily conscious of a mandate to reduce the public outgo^- It has already been stated that no precedent exists in the history of the human race for such indiscriminate and promiscuous giving as that already provided for under the existing pension laws of the United States, or for anything even approaching it. Of this the British Old Age Pension act is illustrative.
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