.jfatnw y^ftew TJlm Review. SEWS FROM CONGRESS. Jidtea. for ttie setaSe bill101 to 68and, PENSION VETO. 1853fOT*hei the surviving widows off previous parts of the -section. I thus "becomes passed. The senate bill prohibiting tae im-J important to consider the meaning and the Revolutionary soldiers who were married after portatiqn of opium into the United States byi scope *f these last mentioned conditions. The Jan. 1,1800. I wa estimated that they numbered mental and physical disability spoken of has a 300 at the time of the passage of the act, %nf subject of the emperor of China passed.' SESTXlB. -'.BRANDT $ WBDDENDORiF, Publishers, distinct meaning in the practice of the pension but the number of pensions allowed was 3,741 The biirto carry into effectithe international President Cleveland Returns to the Howsa bureau, and includes every impairment of bodily nd the amount paid for such pensions durin m- convention of March 4, 1884, for the protect JThe senate proceeded to fhe consideration ,*TSM Without His Approval the Dependent or mental strength and vigor. 'For such disabilities the first vear of the operation of the act wa* tion of Bub-marine cables passed. Mr. Mc4 !*EW tJLM, of pension bills on the calendar. MINNESOTA. there are how paid 131 different rates of $180,000 instead of $24,000, as had bewn estimated. Pension Bill. Creary called up the bill authorizing the lus Sixty-six biJls were passed among them pensions, ranging from $1 to $100 per I have made no search fr other il president to arrange for a conference for the month. This disability must not be trations, .and the above being at hand the following purpose of promoting arbitration and encouraging "the result of the applicant's vicious are given as tending to show that estimates Dr. John H. Douglas, Gen. Grant's The house bill granting a pension of $50 a reciprocal relations between the habits or gross carelessness." Practically this cannot be relied upon in such cases.' month to the widow of Brig. Gen. Thomas He Treats Exhaustively the Whole Question of H*Physician, is preparing a 'complete United States and Mexico, Central and South provision is not important. The attempt of the If none should ce pensioned under this bill, ex-. D^nsions and Strongly Fortifies the Francis Meagher the senate bill increasing the government to escape the payment of a pension cept those utterly unable to work, I am satisfied America and Brazil. Without action, the pension of the widow of Maj. Gen. Hunter to Si*, history .-.f i he general's case. on such a plea would, of course, in a very large that the cost stated in the estimate referred ^f| houae took a recess till 7:30, the evening Position Taken. $50 a month, and one increasing the pension majority of instances, and regardless of the to would be many times multiplied, and with a session to be for the delivery of eulogies. the widow or CommodqreSpicer to $50 merits of the case, prove a failure. There would constant increase from year to year and if When the house reassembled resolutions Mhe Indian appropriation bill was taken J*!* In a three-room house Ogden, be that strange but nearly universal willingness those partially unable to earn their support were adopted on the death of Messrs. Arnott. up and passed without a word of discussion. to help the individual, as between him and the should be admitted to the privileges of this bill, Returned Diaprove Beach and Dowdney, all of New York, and .^tJtah, live Willard Bingham,[ttvo wives, The senate bill to incorporate the Atlantic public treasury, which goes very far to insure a the probable increase of expenses would h? almost WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.The president today eulogies spoken. & and Pacific Ship Railway -company (the state of proof in favor of the claimant. "Tho appalling. I think it may be said that at 'twenty unmarried children, five mar-. sent the following message to the house disability of applicants must ba such as to incapaaitate the close of The Rebellion every Northern state, Tehuancepec bill) came up as a special order SENATE. them for the performance of labor in aud a great majority of Northern counties and i^Tied sons with their wives and fifteen of representatives: and Mr. Morgan argued in support of the '^k- The session oi the senate was devoted such a degree as to render them unable to earn cities, were burdened with xation owina: to the bilL Mr. Hale offered an amendment that I herewith return without mv approval House & Shildren, and-two hired men in the a support." It will be observed that there is no large bounties paid our soldiers: and the bonded to the delivery of memorial addresses orr Bill No. 10,451, entitled "An act for the relief except as to the guarantee of $7,500,000, limitation or definition of the incapacitating injury debt thereby created still constitutes a large the late senator Logan. The eulogists were" *H* attic. The mormons almost -equal of dependent parents and honorably discharged expressly provided in the bill, the United or ailment itself. It need onlv be such a item in the account of the tax-gatherer against soldiers and sailors who are now disabled and Chinese in economising space. Senators Collom, Morgan, Edmunds, Manduson, States should be in no respect, whatever, liable degree of disability from any cause as renders the people. Federal taxation, no less borne by dependent upon their own labor for support." Allison, Spooner, Fr ye and Sabin. for any debt or obligation of the company. the claimant unable to earn a support bv labor. the people than that levied directly upon their This is the first general bill that has been sanctioned -Adjourned. It seems tome that the "support" here mentioued property, is still maintained at the rate made by congress since the close of the late a- one which cannot be earned is a complete and necessary by exigencies of war. If this bill civil war permitting a pension to the soldievs It is reported that the attorney-, entire support with no diminution on account of should become a law, with its tremendous HOUSE. The house received Irom the and sailors who served in that war upon the the least impairment of physical or mental condition. general has 'decided that the British ground of service and present disability alone, senate the senate bill to encourage The house went into committee of the whole ADDITION TO OTJE 3PBEVIOUS OBLIGATION, If it had been intended to embrace only and in the entire absence of any injuries received I am thoroughly convinced that urtl-Ier efforts on the diplomatic and consular appropriation the manufacture of steel for modern naval those who by disease or injury were Sailing schooners captured in Alaskan by casualties or incidents of such service. to reduce the federal revenue and rastoro seme bill. Mr. Belmont said: ordnance and other naval purpose/, TOTALLY UNABLE TO LABOR, While by almost constant legislation since the part of it to our people would, aud perhaps waters by the United States revenue and to provide heavy ordnance adapted The committee on foreign affairs had considered it would have been very easy to express, that close of the war there has been compensation should be seriously questioned. It has constantly it its duty to make certain changes in the instead of recognizing, as is done, a "decree" of to modern naval warfare. Mr. awarded for everjfcpossible injury received as a cutters Corwin were unlawfully-seized. been a cause of pride and congratulation, consular service. These changes, however, were such inability. What is a supportwho is to result of military service in the Union army, Eeed asked immediate consideration ol by the to the American citizen that his country is not in conflict with existing laws. They consisted determine whether a man earns it or has it or Proper damages will be paid and while a great number of laws passed the bill, but Mr. Holman objected. After a not put to the charge of maintaining a large of transfers of certain-consuls from one has it not"? Is the government to enter the for that purpose have been administered standing army in time of peace yet we are now long discussion the bill was referred to the] government for losses by detention. grade to another, and the transfer of certain home of claimants for pension and, after an examination with great liberality, and have been living under a war tax which has been to crated other consuls from the fee list to the salary list. committee on appropriations. Thespeaker of their surroundings and circumstances, supplemented by numerous private acts to reach in peaceful times to meet the obligations incurred Another change was an increase of the salary of settle these questions? Shall the government laid before the house the senate bill providing special cases, there has not, until now, been an in war. But for years past, in ail parts the minister to China. Our relations wer-i of say to a man that his manner of for the manufacture of ordinance for) avowed departure from the principle thus far The legislature and railroad managers of the country, the demand for the reduction of such a nature as to make our mission there as subsistence by his earnings is a support and to adhered to respecting Union soldiers, that the army. purposes, and making appropriations the burdens of taxation upon our labor and production important as the mission to Russia or Germany. are considering methods of heat aootuer that the things his earnings furnish are bounty of the government in the way of pensions has increased in voinmo and urg.3i.icv. I for coast defenses. This was likewise: a support? Any attempt, however honest, to Mr. McCraiy, a member of the committee is generously bestowed when granted to am not willing to approve a measure i relenting ing cars otherwise than by fires in the referred to the committee on appropria-! administer this would necpssarily produce more on foreigu affaire, opposed the increases of those who, in the military service and the line the objections to which this bill is subj et, and tions. Eulogies were pronounced upon thej unfairness aud unjust discrimination and give of military duty, have to a greater or less extent, salaries- provided by the bilL cars, which have caused the loss of so which, moreover, will have the effect cf aisappointing more scope for partisan partiality, and would late ^Representative Price of Wisconsin. been disabled. But it is a mistake to suppose In vetoing tae bill granting a pension to the expectation of the people result in more perversion of the government's many lives, under circumstances of that service pensions such as are permitted and their desire and hops for relief Abraham T. Grigg, the president quotes from benevolent intentions, than the by the second section of the bill under consideration from war taxation in tiasc of the hospital records to show that the claimant the greatest horror. It is probable execution of any statute ought to permit. If, in are new to our legislation. In 1818, place. In my last annual message the folrowing as not sick, but "completely worthless, the effort to carry out the proposed law, the degree WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.The presiding, thirty-five years after the close of the Revolutionary that some way will be found to prevent language was used: ""Every patriotic heart responds obese and lazy." The president says: of disability as related to earnings be considered war, there were granted to soldiers engaged officer presented "resolutions of a joint convention to a tender consideration for tho-e who. for the purpose of discovering if in anyway He does not regard it as strange that this those halocausts following sometimes in that struggle, conditional upon service of the house of the general assembly having served their country long and well, are it curtails the support which the applicant claimant, encouraged by the ease with which "until tho end of the war, or for a term not reduced to destitution and dependence, not as of Indiana" (Republican members) protesting} unavailable accidents of derailment, if entirely sound would earn and to which he is special acts are passed, seeks relief by such less than nine months, and requiring every beneficiary an incident of their services, but with advancing against the validity of the election of David means twenty years after his claim had been rejected- entitled, we enter the broad field long occupied under the act to be one who is, or thereafter age or through sickness or misfortune. We are all etc. Turpie as United States senator. Referred by the pension bureau. by the pension bureau and we recognizs as the ny reason of his reduced circumstances in tempted by the contemplation of such a condition only difference between the proposed legislation to the committee on elections.5 life shall be, in need of assistance from his country privileges and to supply relief, and are often impatient SENATE. and previous laws passed for the beuefit of the Also a message from the house of representatives, for supporc." Another law of like character of the limitations of public dutv. surviving soldiers of the civil war the incurrence The Supreme Court of the United was passed in 1828, requiring service nntil the House' bills on the calendar were passed, with a substitute, for the senate Yielding to no one in the desire to indulge this in one case of disability in military service, close of the revolutionary war: and still another among them the following: Chinese indemnity bill. Mr. Edmunds said feeling of consideration. I cannot rid myself of States has decided that a life insurance and in the other disabilities existing but in passed in 1834, providing for those persons not the conviction that if these ex-soldiers are to be that the two bills amounted to the same To amend the act of Feb. 26, 18S5, to prohibit no way connected with or resulting from such Included in the previous statute, but who served company cannot claim an exemption relieved, they and their cause are entit'.ed to the purpose, except that perhaps the house substitute the importation and immigration of foreigners service. It must be borne in mind that in no two years at some time during the war, and giving benefit of an enactment under which relief may and aliens under contract to perform labor to did it in a more simple way. He case is there any grading of this proposed pension. a proponionate sum to these who had served from paying a policy on the be claimed as a right, and that such relief Should amend section 5 of the act of June 10.1880, in Under the operation of the rule first suggested, movea that the substitute be concurred in.' hot less than six months. A service pension be grauted under the sanction of law, not in evasion relation to immediate transportation of dutiable ground that the beneficiary did not, if there is a lack, in any degree, law was passed for the benefit of Agreed to. The bill to establish a subtreasury of it, nor should such worthy bjects goods. great or small, of the ability to earn at Louisville was reported adversely. of care, all eaually entitled, be remitted to the in his application, fully set forth all THE SOLDIERS OF 1812 such a support a3 the government determines Mr. Hawley moved to proceed to the consideration unequal operation or sympathy or the tender Bills introduced: In the year 1871 fitty-six years after tlft close the claimant should have, and by the application "V- tha facts and reply to all the questions of the bill to encourage the manufacture mercies of social and political influence, with of that warwhich required only sixty days' of the rule secondly suggested, if there is a By Mr. Cullom, to amend the Revised Statutes their uujust discriminations." I do I OD think service and another was passed in 18.78 sixtythree of steel for modern army ordnance reduction in any degree of the suuport which he so that no person shall be debarred from receiving required by the blank form, that the objects, the conditions and the limitations years after the warrequiring onlv fourteen might earn if sound, he is entitled to a pension armor and other army purposes, and to provide a patent for his invention or discovery, nor thus suggested are contained in the bill days' service.The service pension bill passed provided the imperfect application of $12 per month. In the latter case, and under any patent be declared invalid by reason of its' heavy ordnance adapted to modern under consideration. I adhere to the sentiments ai tlvis session of congress, thirtv-nine years the proviso of the proposed bill permitting persons having been first patented in a foreign country,' thus heretofore expressed, but the evil threatened had been-accepted. after the close of the Mexican war, for the benefit array warfare. He said:. now receiving peusions to be admitted to unless the same has been introduced into public by this bill is in my opinion such that, of the soldiers of that war, reauires either the benefits of the act, I do not see how those He had given notice several days ago that he use in the United States for more than two charged with a great responsibilitj in behalf of some degree of disability or dependency, or that now on the pension rolls for disabilities incurred would make this motion. He was pushed forward years prior to the application. By Mr. Sabin, the people, I can not do otherwise than to bring the claimant under its provisions should be The Inter-State Commerce bill applies in the service, and which diminish tjae earning to it by the committee on coast defenses, authorizing the secretary of the interior to permit to the consideration of this measure my best sixty-two years of age and in either jcase that capacity, can be denied the oension provided in the committee on military affairs, and the general persons who are engaged in cutting logs on efforts of thought and judgment and perform only to transportation from one he should have served sixtv davs or been this ibill. Of course none will apply who are now sentiment of the senate, be believed, and of small streams that flow through Indian reservations my constitutional duty in relation thoreto regardless actually eairaged in a battle. It will be seen receiving $12 or more per month but on June the country, he knew. to make such- necessary improvements in 'State to another, or between a State of all consequences except such as appear that the bill of 1818 and the Mexican pension 30, 1886, there were on the pension rolls 202,- clearing out rocks or building dams as may be The motion was agreed toyeas 32, nays to me to be related to the bes: and highest bill being thus passed nearer the close of and a foreign country. Shipments 621 persons who were receiving fifty-eight different required to float the logs through rapids or shallow interests of the.country. tho wars ia which its beneficiaries 21and the bill was taken up. Several rates of pension, ranging from $1 to places. were engaged than the others, one thirty-five made from one point to another $11.75 per month. Of th"6e 28,142 were receiving amendments reported by the committee on GROVES CLEVELAND. The house bill to provide for the location years and the other thirty-nine years after the $2 pec month 63,116, $4 per month Executive Mansion,Washington, Feb. 11,1887. coast defenses were agreed to, and after an point in the same State, when the and erection of a branch home for disabled termination of such wars, embraced persons 37,254, $6 per month: and 50.274, whose disabilities The reading- of the message was followed, who were advanced in age, assumed to be-comparatively volunteer soldiers west of the Rocky Mountains explanation on some points of the bill, it were rated as total, $8 per month. railroad over which the property passes few in number, and whose circumBtauees, (appropriating $100,000) was amended with stricter attention than is ereneraliy accorded was passed without division. EVEN ITS ADVOCATES DIFFERED. dependence and disabilities were does not lie partly in another by tfie adoption of a substitute aporopriating to such documents. At its conclusion As to the meaning of the section of the bill clearly defined and could be quite easily fixed. $150,000, and providing for ten instead of under consideration, there appears to have been Mr. Matson moved that the bill and accompanying The other laws referred to apuear to have been State, are not governed by the provisions nine managers, one of them to be a resident a difference of opinion among its advocates in passed at a time so remote from the military Under the call of states a large number of message be referred to the committee of this act.. of a state or territory west of the Rocky congress. The chairman of th9 committee on Bervice of the persons which they embraced that bills were introduced and referred, Mr. on inv:Vid pensions, promising: that they pensions in the house of representatives, who nportcd Mountains, and appointing James A. Waymier their extreme age alone was deemed to Springer moved to suspend the rules and the bill, declared that there was in it no would be reported back within the coming of San Francisco to serve as manager supply a presumption of dependency pass the senate bill witri an amendment in provision for pensioning any one who has a less "Samuel Johnson, who died recently and need. The number of enlistments up to April, 1892. The biil as thus amended week. The motion was agreed to137 to w. it the nature of a substitute supplemental to disability than a total disability to labor and made during the revolutionary war is was passed, and a conference asked. The 27. the Bowman act. referring, private claims to in Chicago, leaving a bequest of $10,- that it was a charity measure. The chiirmau of stated to have been 309,791, and in the war of house bill relating to the importing and the court of claims. He explained: the committee on pensions in the senate, having 1812, 576,622 but it is estimated that, on account 000 for the erection in Lincoln park landing of mackerel caught during the charge of the bill in that body, dissented from The bill merely provided that all private of repeated re-enlistments, the number of spawning season passed34 to 11and a the construction of the bill announced in the Ex-Secretary Windom has an office in claim bills or petitions for the payment of individuals engaged in those wars did not exceed of a bronze statue of Shakespeare, inherited conference was ordered. The Eads Tehauntepec house of representatives and declared that it not the Mutual Life building, New York, where private claims presented to congress shall be one-half of the number represented by only embraced all soldiers totally disabled, but bill was considered. great wealth from his father. these figures. In the war with Mexico the number referred to the court of claims for a judicial is pushing his Topolobam po Bay, Mex., in his judgment all who aredisabied to any considerable of enlistments is reported to be 115,230, ascertainment of the facts and for report of railroad project. *HE LOWEB HOUSE. After graduating from Harvard college extent and such a construction was Which represents a greater proportion of individuals those facts to congress. Mr. Merriman (N. Y.), was appointed a substantially given to the bill by another distinguished The hearse in which the remains of President engaged than the reported enlistments he began enjoying himself in a The motion was lost76 to 75not the member of the committee on naval affairs, semUor who, as a former secretary of In the two previous wars. The numoer of pensions Lincoln were carried to. the grave necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. the interior, bad imposed upon him the duty of to All the vacancy caused by the resignation Mr_ granted under all the laws to soldiers of systematic manner. He had an abhorrence was among the vehicles burned in Arnot's executing tho pension laws aad determining Bayne moved to suspend the rules and pass of Mr. Hewitt. Wednesday next was set the Rsvolimon is given at 62,069: to soldiers of livery stable, St. Louis. their iutent and meaning. Another condition of business, his property being H' the senate bill fixing the salaries of the the war of 1812 and their widows, 60,175 and aside for the delivery of eulogies upon the required of claimants under this act is that they the soldiers of the Mexican war and their widows, judges of the United States district courts at Mary C. Anderson, a pretty girl of 17, late Senator Logan. The speaker announced managed entirely by an agent. shall be "dependent upou their daily labor for up to June 30, 1885, 7,619. This number $5,000. Lostyeas 144, nays 109not the the appointment of Mr. Hammond as one of was found at Mount Holly, N. J., shot in support."" This language, which may be said to of pensions was granted to the soldiers of a war necessary two-thirds. On motion of Mr: Peters, the conferrees upon this anti-Mormon bill, in the head with a revolver belonging to her assume that there exists within the reach involving much hardship, for disabilities incurred the rules were suspended, and the bill place of Mr. Tucker, who has been called of the persons mentioned ""labor" -or the cousin, Barclay Peak, lying near by. Peai The annual report of commissioner as a result of such service audit was not was passed granting the right of way through away on account of the death of his daughter ability in some degree to work, is more aptly has been arrested. The girl is dying. Misf until within the last month that the tew remaining of patents, laid before congress last the Indian Territory to the Chicago, Kansas used iu a statute describing those not wholly at Natchez, Miss. The consular and diplomatic survivors were awarded a service pension. Et Anderson asserts that Peak shot bar because deprived of this ability than In one which deals & Nebraska-Railway company. appropriation bill was considered. week, recommends a complete and exhaustive she resisted his improper advances. with those utterly unable to work. I am of the Mr. Allen, a Democratic member from Mississippi, The speaker laid tjefore the house a Alfred Myers of Billings, Mont., who hat THE WAE OF THE EEBELLION opinion that it may fairly be contended that revision of the entire legislation mildly criticised the Democrats for message from the president returning without under the provisions of this section any soldier terminated uearly twenty-two years ago. The 7,000 head of cattle on his Shield river and rules governing the patent making larger appropriations for Democratic 3 his approval, a bill granting a pension whose faculties of mind or body have become number of men furnishea for its prosecution range, writes Mr. Moore, ol the Northern than Republican admin strations. Mr. Belmont impaired by accident, disease or age, irrespective Was said to be 2.772,408. No corresponding to Cuthbert Stone. In his message the 1 Pacific, that his loses will not he abovt office. The total number of applicafcions* said: of his service in the army as a cause, and who number of statutes has ever been passed to president states: the average. by his labor only is incapable of gaining the fair cover every kind of injury or disability incurred The bill was an increase over the actual filed during the the last calendar The army records show that the claimant support he might with unimpaired powers have in the military service of any war. Under these amount carried by the biil of last year of $196,- If Assistant Secretary Fairchild takes/ spent mo3t of his term of enlistment in desertion provided for himself, and who is *o well endowed statutes 561,576 pensions have been granted year, requiring investigations and r."- 000, but the increased collections to the treasury Mr. Manning's place, he" will be the ynng4 or Imprisonment for desertion. Thus is with this world's goods as to live without from the year 1861 to June 30, 1886, and more under it would, at the lowest estimate, be tioniwas 41,442 number of patents est man. except Hamilto n, who ever filled exhibited the long and faithful service and high work may claim to participate in it* bounty than 2,600 pensioners have been added to the $150,000. character of the claimant, mentioned by the that position. that it is not required that be should be without rolls by private acts passed to meet cases, many issued 24,915 total receipts, $1,154- committee as entitling him to consideration. I SENATE property, but only that labor should be of them of questionable merit/which the general The bodies of Delirna Brodeur of Nashua withhold my assent from the bill because, if the necessaryHo his support in some degree, nor is laws did not cover. On Julv 1,1866, 365,- Mr. Manderson, from the committee on 551 expenditures, $992,503, leaving N. fl., and James A. Stone of Burlington,, facts before me are true, the allowance of this it required that he should be now receiviug support 763 pensioners of all classes were upon the pension military affairs, reported a bill against the claim would be travesty on our whole scheme of V. victims of the late railroad accident/ from others. Believing this to be the rolls, of whom 305,605 were survivors of s.a balance of receipts over expenditures Salt Lake & Fort Douglas right of way pensions, and an insnlt to every decent veteran proper interpretation of the bill, I cannot but the war of the Rebellion and their widows and ha ve been identified. The figures now. across the Fort Douglas military reservation soldier. of $162,048. The amount|to the remember that the soldiers of our civil war in dependents. For the year ending June 30, stand: Total on trian. 91 accounted for,87 in Utah. their pay and bounty received such compensation 1887, $75,000,000 have been appropriated for The president also sent in messages vetoing still missing, 4: total identified) dead. credit of the patent fu nd. in the treasMiry.was The senate bill for negotiation with the for military service as has never been received the payment of pensions, and the amount expended bills granting pensions to Franklin 24. Shoshone and Bannock tribes of Indians for by soldiers before since mankind first for that purpose from 1801 to July 1 Sweet, Jesse Campbell, R, K. Bennett, Catherine $3,107,45.3. went to war that never before, on behalf of any 1886, is $808,621,811.15. While annually paying relinquishment of title to such of the lands The Independent's advices from all sections Sarlercand James Baylor, on the soldiers, have so many aud such generous laws out so vast a sum for pensions of the Fort Hall reservation as required foi of Motitana territory the their.O'tne-. ground, principally, that their claims are been passed to relieve them against the incidents already granted, it is now proposed the uses and purposes of the Utah & Northern The famous flyer "Arizona," of the ter ranges from 18 to 33"below zero. Iu still pending in the pension bureau. of war: that statutes have been passed by the bill under consideration to award a service Ui. and the Oregon Short Line passed the. northern Montana a storm has been raging pension to the soldiers of all wars in which Gruion line, came into New York tlve SENATE. senate. i'j GIVING THEM A PEFFEBENCE the United States has bean engaged, including, and the stock situation is getting more in all public employments that the really needy The house bill empowering the Fort Worth Dolph,from the committee on commerce, reported 'Other day with her fla half-masted of course, the war of the Rebellion, and to pay serious every hour. A loss of 40 per cent. and homeless Union soldiers of the Rebellion & Denver to construct and operate a railway those entitled teethe benefits of the act the sum a bill to create a port of entrance at on cattle, 25 per cent, horses and 7," pec have beeu to a large extent provided for at for i.wo seamen killed by a mighty through the Indian Territory was passed. of $12 per month. So far as it relates to the Port Angelos, in the district of Puget Sound, soldiers' homes, instituted and' suppoited by cent, on sheep is anticipated. soldiers of the late civil war, the bounty it A motion to reconsider the vote passing it wave.Twhich swept her decks in mid. the government, where they are maintained together, Washington Territory. Mr. Morrill introduced John A. Logan, Jr., will settle down, afe affords them is given thirteen years earlier than was entered by Mr. Piatt so that he might tree from the sense of degradation which it has been furnished to the soldiers of any a joint resolution for the preservation Youngstown, Ohio, where he will take aiu "5 'Ocean, -and some time thereafter many have time to examine it. attaches to the usual support of charity and other war. and before a large majority of its of official documents and other historical interest in his prospective fathsr-in-law'si that never before in the history of the country {J''\ -other-sailors were badly injured by beneficiaries have advanced in age beyond the HOUSE. documents on file in the legations and consulates business. has it bean proposed to render government aid -/being.hurled against the bulwarks. strength and vigor of the prime of life. It exacts The house has agreed to the senate amendments V*.1 toward the support of any of its soldiers based of the United States (requiring the Tfiomas McGowan, a wealthy Balloonkeeper only a military or naval service of three to the bill allowing the Manitoba alone uon a military service so recent, and papers on any subjects that have been months, without any requirement of actual of Duluth, fell from a, box in ttieTheatre This steamship is one of the most right of way through the Fort Berthold res, where age and circumstances appeared so little finally determined to be sent to the state engagement with an enemy in battle, and without Comique, Minneapolis, and was* to demand such aid. Hitherto such relief has been ervation, and, having been signed by the, a subjection to any of the actual dangers of department for filing and preservation). He powerful of the trans-atlantic fleet, and killed. granted to surviving soldiers, few in number, speaker of the house and president of the war. The pension it awards is allowed to enlisted asked that it lie on the table. The following vsueiable in age, after a long lapse of time since senate, it has gone to the president for hiq 4jj ^?her rough-usage, shows^with what fear"fulforoe Executive committee of the Chicago. men who have not suffered the least injury, house bills on the callendar passed: their military nervices, and as a parting benefaction approval. .A gentleman from Dakota sayij disability, loss or damage of anv kind, incurred Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad authorized! To prevent anv officer, agent or servant of the tendered by a grateful people. I cannot the Atlantic sears have been that the road has already been graded across in or in any degree referable to their military the road's earnings for theyear ending Dec. believe that the vast peaceful armv of Union .government contracting or hiring out the labor service, including those who the reservation, and has only awaited thi? i ^'"tunningi this winter. Steamer after 3 1, 188G, will show 8% per cent, earned forthe soldiers who, having contentedly resumed their of prisoners to amend the statutes in relation action of congress for other equipment. -steamer has made port,with her decks NEVEE BEACHED THE FRONT AT ALL, places inthe ordinary vocations of life.hold sacred to the immediate transportation of dutiabl common stock, and a surplus of $1, \$$% Those who have talked with the president and those discharged from rendezvous at the the memory of patriotic service, or who having i goods. 000,000 after paying 7 per cent, dividendson upon the subject say the bill -will be signed close of the war, if discharged three months been disabled by the casualties of war justly ^'iM't swept, her boats crushed, and some of The senate bill for securing statistics oi the preferred and 5 per cent, on common at once. after enlistment. Under the last call of the regard the present pension roll, on which appear 4 '^er injured or '..killed 'by the the extent and value of the vessel fisheries stocks. president for troops, in December. 1864, 11,303 their names as a roll of honor, desire J^*V" of the United States was passed. The house men were furnished who were thus discharged. at the time and iu the present exigency to be Depnty Sheriff Caton, assisteS by Mr.. .bill relating to the importing and landing of The "Wounded Detective Dies. tremendous,waves which shaye ifairly The section allowing this pension does, however, confounded with those who, through such a bill Cobb, attempting to levy on property of mackerel during the spawning season was require, beside a service of three months as this, are willing to be objects of simple charity, CLEVELAND, iFeb. $. ^Detective Hulligan, if taggera:d the most powerful -vessels one McElroy, in Webster county, Ky.. for unpaid taken up. During the discussion Mr. Edmunds and an honorable discharge, that those seeking and to gain a place on the pension roll one of the police officers assaulted by desperadoes taxes, was attacked by McEfroy with the benentjpf the act shall be such as "are now throngh alleged discrepancies. Recent personal presented a report from the commisfsion fa afloat. It has been a much worse seam at Ravenna, died. He leaves a wife or may hereafter be suffering from mental or observation and experience constrain me to refer an ax. Cobb received a probably fatal of fisheries as to .the complaints from and four children. :Detective Hulligan was n the ocean than in the .United physical disability not the result of their own to another result which will inevitably follow wound aud Caton shot and killed McElroy. owners of vessels of ill treatment on the forty years old,.and WAS the oldest detective vicious habits or gross carelessness, which incapacitates the approval of the bill. It is sad, bnt Canadian coast. On motion of Mr. Hoar an States. in Cleveland in point of service. Every them for the perfo. manes of labor in nevertheless true, that already in tho matter of amendment was a dotted postponing the period daily paper in the .pity 3s .receiving money such a degree as to render chem unable to earn procuring pensions there exists a wide-spread The British steamer, Wells City, from when the bill "is to take effect from a support and who are dependent upon their disregard of truth and good faith, stimulited bv for the relief of his faraily. The post mortem Bristol, was struck and sunk by an immense has passed .-a Tbill .ap- March.l, 1887, to Mareh:l. 1888. Without "!Ehe:4Benate daily labor for support." It provides further those who, as agents, undertake to establish k' examination revealed ten: terrible wounds in ice flow in the Hudson river. Tho disposing of the bill the senate adjourned.:. that "such persons shall, upon making proof of claims for pensions, heedlessly entered upon by his head. The vskull in .one place was officers and crew were rescued. The vessel propriating $8,000,000 for -a supply the fact, be placed on the list of invalid pensioners the expectant beneficiary, and encouraged, or at fractured from the left temple to the base of PEOGHESS IN'.THE HOUSE. was valued at $150,000 and her cargo, nugh turnedandtem- of the United State?, and be entitled to least not condemned, bv those unwilling to obstruct of the brain. The.coupling pip. that was used Mr.tCox (N. Y.) from the committee on principally tin roofiing and petroleum, at receive for such total inability to secure their a neighbor's plans. Iu the execution of upon him weighs seven,pounds and is covered .civil service reform, reported a bill fixing the subsistence by daily labor $12 per month this proposed law, under any interpretation, a $140,000. pered steel in forms suitable,for,heavy with a newspaper tightly wound with salaries of the civil service commissioners at aud such pension shall commence from wide field of inquiry would be opened tor the Rose Daley, a servant girl of West f-fnf. ordaanee ^adapted to modern warfare, .twine. Capt. Hoebn, the other wounded .$5,000 per annum. A senate bill was passed the date of the filing of the application in the establishment of fact largely within the knowledge pension office upon proof that the disability then of the claimants, and there can be no doubt officer, is improving rapidly,.although shot field, Conn., cut off the head of her newlyborn granting certain seal rocks to thecitvof steel finish, for armor and other Rxlsted and continued during the existence of that the pensions offered by this biil would not twice and struck with the ,coupling pin iligitimate child, and tried to burn it San Francisco in trust for the United States. the same in the degree herein provided: that only stimulate weakness ana pretended incapacity ^several timea Peter .Smith has' beou arrested .Mr. James, from the committee on coinage, array purposes and.for the canstruction in a stove and put the body in the cellar. .persons who are not receiving their pensions unde for labor, but put a further premium on at Colunibus .on suspicion of being weights and measures, reported a bill for the The young wom an will probably die. existing laws, or whose claims are pending dishonesty and mendacity. The effect of new $f an army gun factory at West one of the assailantf?. issue of subsidiary 6ilverooin. The bill rejjating He bears traces of ,in the pension office, may bv application to the invitations to apply for pensions, or of new advantages The Morrison House, Clearwater, was .having been in an affray, but. can not satisfactorily to the compensation-of :United States Troy.in.accordancevtvith the a?e.port .commissioner of pensions, in such form as he added to causes for pensions already destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,250: insurance explaiaa. ^Detectives are-after two attdrneys, marshals and commissioners was i may prescribe, be "beneficiaries under this act." existing, is of the aanffouadry board of Dee. .20, $2,950. linen who visited a store at Kensington on (discussed without action. (I abolishes the R.is'of the utmost importance that statutes SOMETIMES STABTUNG. Ithe night of the rescue, .bought court plasterand which, like pension laws, should be liberally ad-uinistered -fee system and substitutes the salary system Thus, in March, 1879. large arrearages of pensions Leander Watson, one of the oddest settlers 1883, for finishing and assembling the as measures of benevolence in behalf last night-called for more also, carbolic of compensation.) The iwuse went into were allowed to be added to all kinds filed in Zumbrotatownship, died of iirhpit's of worthy beneficiaries, should admit of no uncertainty guns adapted to modern warfate ,up acid and a probe. *ue of them .had an prior to July 1, 1880. For the year from July t araittee of the whole on the senate bill to disease. was a soldier in. the Ninth as to their (general objects and consequences. 1.1879* to July 1,1880, there were filed 110,- injured arm. The detectives think they are indemnify certain subjecos .of the Chinese Minnesota. He leaves a wife and three to and ineluding the largest approved Upon a careful consideration of the 673 claims, though in the year immediately probably on the rigbt track empise.for loss-sustained bv the violence of children. lanauHgoof the section of the bill above given, it previous there were but 36.832 filed, and in the fortifications, and 'for tie manufacture a mot at Rock Springs, Wj on *ept 2, seems to me to be uneertada and liable to such year following but 18.455. While cost should A blunder made by the judges of election, 288*5. Mr. Belmont'dwelt $:on the necessity conflicting constructions, and to be subject to of giiui carnage and ordnance not be set against a~patriotic duty or the recognition ^Uli in Vermillion, Dakota county, last fall of the United, States government .granting such Kjgust and mischievous application an to ||g|||gDenver8 Meanest Man. |H_. of a right, still, when a measure proposed equipment fer the army.. "The bill also has cost the state $1,087.50, which ia not alone furnish sufficient ground for disapproving indemnity to the losses inflicted, and is based upon generosity or motives of charity, Denser Republican:. The ^meanest mam in the total expense incurred by the sensational commended the action of the Chinese au (tbe proposed legislation. Parsons seeking to obtain it is not amiss to meditate somewhat upon the appropriates $5,000,000 for the Denver while in 'company with a. number of the pension provided fey this section mu*t expense which it involves. Experience has ihorities since this occurrence. Jtfr. Moorow contestants. friends a/ew nights ago. bet that his nose was be now or hereafter: (1) Suffering from mental demonstrated, I believe, that all estimates concerning .construction .of. fortifications and inquired whether, it 'was the purpose of the longer than the nasal protuberance of any Washington Special: '-Irudge McDonald orphyaicMisability: (2 sack disability must the probable future cost of a pension .committee, in case this bill was passed, to* other mamin the room. A young nian .who had not bs thecesult of their oi vicious hibits or ^ther works .coast defeiwe. Tlie and Judge Wilson, successors in congress, list arc uncertain and unreliable, and always .call ,up to-day the frill restrictisff Chinese a pretty jkwg beak himself took the bst, and gross caretesnes8 (3) such disability must lie fall far below actual realization. The chairman respectively of Messrs. Strait and White, immigration. Mr. ^Belmont replied in the IInnate passed a fcilil to encourage the lost.. The^stake was $10, and. thb defeated candidate such as incapacitates them for the performance fit the hous' committee on pensions calculates arrived in the city and are quartered at for ft*sal distinction handed the mean negative. of labor in sneh a degsee as to render them gss that the number of pensioners under this bill ||irftanufacture of steel for modems naval the Riggs honse. Both were on the floor of man a gold eagte. UNAKOE TO EAEN A BOTyojST would be 33,105, and tue increased annual cost I -The Chinese government did not desfu to em-, the house, and were introduced to the $4.7J7.J20 This is upon the theorv that ^4or^Uiance3, arnfor, shafting and^other Sonrth, they wpst be dependent upon thelr "Gentlemen* said the mean man, "this is the bawass thexelations between the two nations by more prominent members of the body. oniy those who are entirely unable to daily labor for .support: fifth, upon proof of first bet' I eyer made. It ehali be the last. I a continuance of hnmigratien, and there was a nav*?J purposes, and fcoprovidehfiavy They were also taken to the senate and. work would be its beneficiaries. Such was these conditione they shall be placed on the hall have a hole punched in this sold pie6e and disposition to modify thetasaty so as .to bring the principle of the Esvolutionary liBts of invalid pensioners of the United States made acquainted with many members of keepitas asouyeuir." about resnjts very much more effective than l^ordw-nceadapted to modern ovalv pension law of 1818, much more clearly .n# b3 entitled to receive for nch total inabilitr M3ne of the gathering, a mannfaetorer of njacmnery, could be secured by legislation. With this assurance that body. Mayor Ricp is still" at the King*,, stated. it seems to me. than in this. When the to procure'tfceir subsistence bv daily warfa,?*. TJhis bill i like t-be'other in the committee did not intend to tejjug volunteered to have the hole punched and Fenator-elect Davis, who is in NewYork ljw of 18L$ was upon its passage in congress labor $12 per month. It is not probable that up the matter to-day. ai-Qw shop. The leaachinist, who 1s a was in ii" expected next week. I will then ail important parts, except that t%e the number of pensioners to lie benefited thereby the words last quoted, "such total inability to his *ay. returned the jfold pi^ce on the follow* The respective merits of tfcc senate bill need but the* presence of John Lind to complete was thougiit to be 374, bnt the number of procure their sufosieten&e by daily labor," a*, all Ing night. He Had done a very good job. Ho yjgun factory is to be. at tho Wafshio: .which provides for the ascertainment of the applications un4T the act wa3 22,297. and the quality ihe conditions ppe^enbed in the preceding the presence in the city, of Minneso^ had use die which cut out the center of tho lospes incurred, and the house /biU which lawcntgeof the sreticni.. .The, "total iav number of peaswns actually siiowad 20.4a5. ta's delegation in tho Fiftieth congress. '^on n^yy /ards. coin, ]earn\g a ring not thirty-second of an toakfortbtf"plug.,' wakes a direct appropriation of $ 147,748 bllity spoken of ma be "such" inability that costing, it is reported, for the Bras year SI inch thick. The men ma was fcco astonished Congressman-elect McDonald ba& hi* wife is, the inability already dosedbofl and eonati* 847.90'lc*tr lc*tea of $4(1.000. the estimated exfor with him. irerediMusse&yfhe house bill wag /substi- *UA by the mnutitloait tilrsa&f dataiied in thepense *1* that period, A law was passed in 1