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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON, D. 0.f THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1888.
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ant. auras and 'tree tyihskt."
In Ute course of a speech last week before
great audience assembled in Boston, Mr.
Mills, in defense of bis tariff bill, repeatedly
declared that the opponents of bis measure
propose to give tbe country free whisky,
while he proposes free clothing, free food,
etc. He reiterated and reintroduced this
statement, clothed in various paraphrases,
at frequent intervals throughout his dis
course, holding np the so-called free
whisky proposition for special condemna
tion. It was simply the old dodge of crying
"stop thief."
Now, the fact is that the bill passed by
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WASHDJQTON, D. a, SEPTEMBER 13, 1SS&
GEN. SHERIDAN.
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YOUR WIFE.
How Did You Manage To
Get Her?
A Chance fothe Veterans
To Tell Romances.
Among as spirited awl daring a body of
young men as incased tbe Union army, there
must have been many instances of peculiarly
romantic wooing of the women who became
their wires. These stories would be very
interesting to the restof the comrades, and
The Katioxax. Tbibcke will be glad to
publish them. Oerae, boys, tell your com
rades if there was soy tiring peculiar and
romantic m tbe way yea managed to secure
yonr belovod helnmests.
ike arjLnosfAi. bkcajctment.
The groat aeons! gathering of the Grand
Armj is taking place at Colunibtis, O., as
we go to press. Its action will be awaited
with keen interest by ihe members of the
orcanbxtiea from Maine to California.
Much is involved in its doings which will
he reflected in tbe progress of the Order dur
ing the coming year. Every comrade should
read and consider felly ihe account of all
that is done, fK it k a matter of vital mo
ment to ail alike.
Oar next issue will contain a complete re
port of the proceedings, and no one should
miss it
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WHERE THS 3SXCAKFMBKTS HATE
JJRBN IIKLD.
The iSsllowiog is a list of cities in which
the National Encampments of the G.A.R.
have been held:
186, In4itmapoKe. Ind.; 1603, Philadel
phia, Pa 18W, CSnoinwaa, O4 XSTO.TFash
ington, D. O; 1671 Beaton, Mass.; 1872,
Cleveland, 0 1673, 2Sew Haven, Conn.;
1874, Harribrg, Pa 1875, Chicago, TJL;
176, Philadelphia, Pjl; 1877, Providence,
E. L; 1878, Springneld, Ma..: 187S, Albany,
K. Y 1888, Dayton, O4 188L Indianapolis,
Ind.; 1882, Baltimore, Md 1S63, Denver,
Colo, 1884, Minneapolis, Minn.; 1885,
Portland, Me 1896, Saa Francisco, CaL;
1867, SL Loak, Mo.; 1888, is in session,
Colttmbofi, 0 this week.
A oombabk seeds ns a copy of a long
speech on general pension legislation, which
pnrpoFte to have beea delivered in Congress
recently by CoL Mateoa, aed asks if it was
really hoard there. "We answer, No. Not a
word of it was ever delivered on the fioor of
ihe House; and, furthermore, on the day
whoa it purports to have beea spoken the
Jlscord shows that Col. Matsoa did not utter
a wood on any subject whatever.
A Mx. M cAxthur, wool grower of Aus
tralia, has naively assured a Chicago reporter
that if the American Congress will only take
the &ty off wool, this country will be their
chief market. Thanks. We knew that be
fore, hut the met is we prefer wool raised in
Ohio, Vermont, Colorado and Texas, if Mr.
Mills and his Australian friends will waive
their objections. Kot that we love Austra
lians less, hut Americans more.
Thjj attention of our correspondents is
called particularly to the notice at the head
of the editorial page relative to manuscripts.
It is impossible to send manuscript to the
printers when written on both sides of the
paper without copying it all out on a fresh
sheet. Our editors cannot do this work for
want of time, when hundreds of such com
munications are sometimes received in a
week. We are always glad to hear from our
readers on any subject, and if they will
kindly hear this point in mind, and not
write on both sides of the paper, they will
give us an additional pleasure and relieve
us of n great burden.
the House of Representatives, and known to
the country as the Mills bill, absolutely, al
though in an underhand way, provides free
whisky. Mr. Mills's free-whisky provision
is not simply a declaration or statement in
a party platform, or the resolution of a mass
meeting, which may never take effect. It
is a distinct provision in the text of a bill
of whieh the gentleman from Texas is the
reputed father, and which has actually
passed one branch of the United States Con
cress. Little wonder Mr. Mills in his
speeches makes no allusion to this part of
his bill, which, coming in at the tail-end of
his G7-page measure, after a three-months'
debate, was rushed through with but very
little discussion. It had been prepared by
the gentlemen who met in secret, and knew
what they were about, but was no better
understood by the mass of the House than
if it had been written in Choctaw.
The language is such as to cleverly con
ceal its real meaning, and would do credit
to a Talleyrand.
It is alleged that in the copies of the
bill distributed to the public for cam
paign purposes these sections, namely, 3G
to 40, are left out, dnd thatfhe other sec
tions are so renumbered as to conceal the
omission. Section 36 provides that all dis
tilleries which are of a capacity of less than
25 bushels of mash a day shall be exempt
from the operations of the provisions of a
certain section in the Revised Statutes of
the United States, except as to the payment
of taxes. Now, the section alluded to, which
fa hereby repealed, is the one which pro
vides the surveillance of the Government,
and affords the only possible means for the
collection of the whisky tax.
It is proposed, therefore, by the bill to
take away from distilleries of the capacity
of less than 25 bushels a day the entire
supervision of gagers, storekeepers or
revenue agents of any kind whatever. The
distiller, then, is simply expected to report
h&w much whisky he is making, and volun
tarily pay all the tax. This scheme would
be very much like opening a store in a city,
marking the goods with the prices, and
leaving the door unlocked, inviting pur
chasers to come in and select what they
wanted, make their own change, and leave
the money in the till. The result of such an
operation would he obviously to create a
community of thieves.
The result of the new system xroposed by
ihe Mills bill will be that not one gallon in
a hundred of whisky made, except at the
great centers, will be reported and the taxes
paid by the distillers.
Under the ordinary process of distilling,
where, owing to the high tax, economy in
production is a prime object in order to
make the business profitable, 72 hours is
consumed in fermentation. That is the uni
versal practice now. It has been found,
however, that just as good whisky can be
made by consuming 24 hours or even 12 in
fermentation as by the complete process,
which consumes 72 hours. The only differ
ence is, that by the short fermentation
about 25 per cent of the spirit is lost. Now
the distiller in the remote districts of the
South, where the small stills are chiefly lo
cated, can well afford to inn three mashes
through his distillery in 72 honrs, instead
of one, and lose the 25 per cent, of product,
when he is only expected to pay tax on
one-third ofhat he produces, if he accepts
the plain imitation extended to him by the
Mills bill. Probably he would not feel
callod nron to pay even that all the time.
The result will be, should the bill be
come a law, that the small distilleries of
the South will control the business, and
whisky will be sold in the open market for
but a fraction of the present tax. In other
words, Mr. Mills himself practically fur
nishes a legal cloak for "Moonshining."
There are now some 4,000 little distiller
ies in the South making so-called fruit
brandy, on which it is estimated the Gov
ernment loses from $6,000,000 to 10,000,000
a year in taxes. Under the present law
they arc without the surveillance of store
keeper and gager,and the distiller simply re
ports his product and pays a tax upon what
he pleases. There are only 15 revenue in
spectors or detectives policing the whole
country, and even if it were phyiscally pos
sible for them to keep watch of the opera
tions of all distillers in their districts, it
would not be wholesome for them to appear
on the premises except upon reception day,
when the place was prepared for their visit.
That the product which comes now from
that region exceeds the amount of spirits
which could be made wore every apirie,
quince and pear south of the Potomac River
put through a distillery is well known. In
New York, for example, where there are but
64 fruit distilleries, the value of the apple
crop alone is greater, according to the cen
sus of 1880, than that of the combined fruit
crop of the entire South, even including
oranges; yet the spirit product of the Stale
amounts to nothing, comparatively. The
truth is, this Southern liquor is made from
corn and rye.
The wholesale dealers of Atlanta and
Savannah take up this illigilimate prodnct
now for about the amount of the lax per
gallon, being obliged to do it in order to pro
tect the market. The operations of the dis
tillers of alleged fruit brandy under the ex
isting law are therefore well understood in
commercial circles, and the effect of the Mills
bill, should it become a law, is equally
obvious.
TheSouthern distillers aroalready educated
up to the conviction that it is no crime to rob
the Government of its revenue. They are
unanimously in favor of Mr. Mills's bill, for
not only were the tariffs arranged to protect
the South at the expense of the North, but
their peculiar views upon this subject of the
Internal Revenue system were fully em
bodied in it. If anything was lacking to
secure solid support south of Virginia, this
sop to the "Moonshiners" did the business.
Section 40 of the bill repeals all special
taxes upon manufacturers of stills and retail
dealers in liquors, both malt and distilled.
It is suggested that on the occasion of Mr.
Mills's next speech he give some time to the
explanation of the Internal Revenue clauses
of his bill, instead of consuming all the time
in platitudes about the tariff.
as showu above, the degree of protection or
free-trade in a revenue system has little or
nothing to do with the rale of duty levied,
but depends entirely tipon the manner in
which it is adjusted. ,
In the language of a popular opera, Mr.
Mills's answer " has nothing to do with the
case."
DIFS'EIIENCE BETWEEN TILE ENGLISH
AND AMERICAN TAKIFlS.
The advocates of the Mills bill are fond of
declaring that iti3not a free-trade measure,
because it provides for an average duty of
over 42 per cent. Mr. Mills himself never
fails of the opportunity to ring the changes
upon this point, which he treats as a clincher
in all arguments on that subject.
This is simply pettifogging. The question
of the percentage of duty levied by the Mills
bill has nothing to do with the question as
to whether its tendencies are toward free
trade or not. It is true, as a matter of course,
that the bill is not an absolutely free-trade
bill. Even the present House could not be
dragooned into passing such n measure. The
truth about it is that it is the result of an
attempt by its promoters to go as far in the
direction of free trade as was politic, looking
to its passage.
Indeed, in the beginning of the discussion
upon the subject in Congress, the policy of
advancing toward free trade by measures
like this was openly advocated and declared
to be the plan of the supporters of the Mills
bill. In the course of a few weeks, however,
it became evident that the country was in a
state of revolt against such a scheme and
they immediately changed front, and as
sumed the attitude they now take, by deny
ing simply that the bill is a free-trade bill
at all, and giving as reason therefore the
average tariff for which it provides.
England is the best example of a free
trade Government in the world, since the
collapse of the so-called Southern Confed
eracy, and it is the current opinion that
there is no tariff upon English imports. This
is a popular error. The fact is, Eugland has
a tariff sj'stem as well as the United States
and other countries. Indeed, there is no
civilized nation that does not raise a portion
of its revenues from a tariff on imports.
The official sUitoincnt of the amount of
revenue collected by Great Britain for the
fiscal year ending with March 31, 1887, is be
fore us, and shows the following
Articles. Amount.
Tea ; 22,574,370
Coffee 950,170
Wine and spirits... 20,736,720
Tobacco and snuff. 4G.835,030
Currants, raisins anil fruits 2.C33.450
Other imported articled S03.C10
Miscellaneous 115,025
i
$100,C70.273
Here we have the collection of more than
a hundred million dollars of revenue from
the tariff on imports in free-trade England
for the last fiscal year.
Still, England is a free-trade country in
spite of the fact that she has a tariff system,
and the United States, could it be reduced to
a free-trade basis under the theory held by
Mr. Mills and his supporters, would likewise
be compelled to raise revenue from a tariff.
England is characterized as a free-trade coun
try because its tariff is a tariff for revenue
only, and not for protection. On the other
hand, the tariff system of the United States
is a protective system, because it is levied
with a view not only to collect the neces
sary revenues for the maintenance of
the Government, but to put the duty
upon articles which are produced both by
American and foreign labor, and thus protect
the workman of the United States against
his poorer paid competitors in Europe and
Asia.
It will be observed in the English tariff
list given above that the duty is collected
chiefly from tea, coffee, tobacco and wine.
England produces no tea. The levying of
the tariff upon this product, therefore, can
not protect any tea growers in England. Her
farmers produce no coffee. Therefore the
tariff upon the coffee bean can protect none
of her people. Her wine comes from Prance.
Therefore a tariff upon it can be of no assist
ance to vineyards in England, because they
do not exist there.
In the United States, under the system of
protection, such articles as cannot be re
duced within our bordersgo on our free list.
For instance, we have no duty on either tea
or coffee, and instead of levying a tariff which
can in no possible way protect any industry
or interest in this country, we place it upon
the articles made in foreign mills and grains
grown in foreign fields which would enter
into ruinous competition with our own were
their introduction not obstructed by the
wise legislation advocated by the fathers of
the Republic and in vogue now. Thus, in
stead of an unmeaning duty on tea we place
it on wheat, to keex the Fellahs of the Nile
Valley and the Ryots of India from furnish
ing flour to the people of our Atlantic sea
board. Instead of a tariff on coffee, we levy
it on steel railB, in order that the workmen
in American mills shall not be brought to
tho degraded level of the pauper labor of
Great Britain, where oven women and chil
dren work at the furnaces.
It is therefore no answer for Mr. Mills to
say that his bill is not a free-trade bill be
cause it levies a certain amount of duty, for,
BOOMERANG DIPLOMACY.
As usual when wo enter the field of diplo
macy, we have been made to appear ridicu
lous through our hasty action toward China.
We have stepped into our own basket of
eggs, and through sheer blundering folly
jeopardized our Oriental trade, worth mil
lions annually.
We have doubtless also defeated the ami
cable settlement of the Chinese immigration
question for some time to come, when the
matter seemed about to culminate in an ad
justment satisfactory to all concerned. The
Chinese is a very sensitive Government, and
the question was, at best, extremely delicate;
but Great Britain could not have acted more
insolently toward the Zulus than we have
done where extreme finesse was called for.
At our instance a new treaty was nego
tiated, with a view to absolutely pnfc a slop
to further Chinese immigration. Although
it had an unneighborly savor, the Chinese
Government, recognizing our industrial ne
cessities, seemed to acquiesce in a friendly
spirit, and it wa3 signed and sent on to
Peking for ratification. It was transmitted
to the Senate by the President, and ratified
on our part. Furthermore, to clinch mat
ters, after many days of debate, a law was
passed only week beforo last to carry out its
provisions.
This act had barely reached the White
House, and had not yetbeen acted upon by the
President, when a newspaper dispatch from
London reported a rumor from China to the
effect that the Imperial Government at Pek
ing had rejected the treaty. That very day
Mr. Scott, as the accredited mouthpiece of the
President, rose in tho House and offered a
bill in direct contravention of the provisions
of the treaty, and demanded immediate
action upon it. The bill went through with
out a roll-call, and was sent to the Senate
for concurrence.
Here it was also attempted to hustle it
through at once, and only a conservative
suggestion from Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Sher
man caused it to be laid over for a little
i
consideration, for appearance sake at least.
A reference to the Committee on Foreign
Relations was promptly refused, and the bill
was passed.
The denoument would have been ludi
crous were it not so grave a matter, for the
next thing that transpired was an official
notice to the effect that the treaty had not
been acted on at all, but was under consid
eration by the Chinese Government.
Yre then stood in the attitude of having
violated a treaty of our own making, which
was still pending before ihe other Govern
ment, to which we ourselves had proposed
it.
Senator Gorman, as the Administration
spokesman at his end of the Capitol, was
under the embarrassing necessity of rising
to beg the Senate to reconsider the vote and
refer it to the committee, to save the Presi
dent from the mortification of vetoing his
own bill.
The net result of such diplomacy with
England or Germany would be an immedi
ate apology or war.
With China the case is different As the
effect of such trifling we shall only restrict
our Chinese market, which will go to our
competitors, the English, Germans and
French, with whom for years we have been
fighting for this trade.
Our commerce with China in . the face of
German and English machinations; and our
own desire to exclude the Chinese from the
country, has been worth over 25,000,000 a
year to the United States. Americans own
an important line of steamers that ply for
00 miles on tho Hoang Ho River. Fur
thermore, American rolling-mill owners have
negotiations now pending to Bupply the steel
for the great railroad projected from the
Coast to the Chinese Capital, which if se
cured would have given work for the next
year to thousands of our workmen. All
this vast interest has been put in peril, and
in great part beyond question thrown away
for years to come through this indecent
action and inconsiderate haste.
It seems that the whole thing was a clover
scheme of British agents at Hong Kong who
were bidding against us to sell China the
steel rails for this road, and who desired to
get up new irritation against Americans for
business reasons.
They set the trap, and we put our foot
into it.
It can hardly be expected now that the
Emperor will ratify" the'" treaty, and the
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Chinese immigration sorewill continue to
fester. rt
The readers of The National Tiiibune
well understand our altitude on this ques
tion, which is that we have the perfect right
to exclude the Chinese, and further that our
duty to our own citizeuB demands that their
coming to this country be'prohibited.
from 1S53 to 1857. During his second torni
ho was elected Speaker of the House, after
the most remarkable contest that ever oc
curred for that position, which lasted for
three months. He was chosen a second and
third time Governor of Massachusetts, and
at the breaking out of the war entered tho
service. His career in the army was con
spicuous, and is familiar to our readers.
His last appearance in public life in Wash
ington was as a Member of the 45 th Congress.
Since 1879 and until recently he has been
United States Marshal for the District of
Massachusetts. He is now in the God year
of his age, and is well preserved and active
as ever. In appearance he is a handsome
man, and possesses one of tho most melodi
ous voices ever heard in the Halls of Congress.
TYUAT
rata
A TIMELY SUGGESTION TO OUTtPBIENDS.
The season has rolled around again and
brought us near the time of falling leaves
and the shorter days which come appropri
ately with the lessening toil of rural life
as the harvest is gathered in. It is the
harbinger of long evenings by the firefide,
and the cool September breezes bring back
the echo of sleigh bells soon to ring again,
and the careless hilarity of coasting scenes
and the gaiety of Winter sports.
It is the season when one begins to plan
for long hours of leisure, and how they
should be spent ; what shall bo read, and how
storm-bound days shall be made bearable.
In this age of advancement, when the mar
velous achievements of the printing press
have placed newspapers within life reach of
the most humble, none need go without that
mental comfort, afforded in no way so easily
as by means of the family journal which
comes weekly with its store of information
and amusement for one and all. This luxury
of the rich of the last generation has become
the common boon. Modern improvements
have made such a great paper as Tiie Na
tional Tcibune a possibility at less than
two cents a week. We fail to realize what
this means unless we stop to reflect upon it,
because we have approached such a condition
of affairs step by step. The weary toil by
which the triumph has been achieved is for
gotten. The days of struggle and experi
ment and often of failure have faded almost
beyond recall. We only know we have such
great journals, and their meager expense to
the Teader is accepted as a matter of course.
Now it costs but a single dollar to secure
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Attend to it at once. See that your sub
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THE LIMIT Or HUMAN LIFE.
It seems to be hard for a man to live over
a hundred years. We have to chronicle this
week the sudden death of that wonderful
centenarian, Col. Perkins, of Stamford, Conn.,
who celebrated his 100th birthday in perfect
health just a month before the day he died.
There are many such cases where the un
usually great age is reached which rounds
out a century, when all at once, very soon
after the hundredth year is passed, the
powers collapse and the machine stops with
out any apparent cause. It is simply run
down.
There have been well authenticated ex
ceptions where persons have lived to a con
siderable periodbeyond the century, but they
are very few. There is much doubt as to
whose record of years is the longest in his
toric times. " Old " Parr, who died in Eng
land in 1G35, claimed to be 152, but the fact
of his actual age cannot be substantiated.
Many cases also of Indians and negros in
this country whoso ages have been claimed
as far above a century are of doubtful au
thenticity. According to the census of 18S0
there were 4,01G persons in theUnited States
who reported their ages at 100 or over, out
of a population of 50,000,000.
It appears from a study of the mortality
tables that man is more apt to die before five
and after 80 than during the other decades
of his life. If he once turns 90 his chances
are excellent to make the hundred, and thus
equal in years the range of existence enjoyed
by the elephant. The reason why, with his
superior intelligence, man may not surpass
in years all other creatures is no doubt due
to deliberate violation of the laws of health
which is practiced almost universally, even
with the full knowledge that the result is to
shorten life.
IS TUB MATTKK TT1XK
POSTAL SKRTICJB?
From all parts of the country come com
plaints of inefficiency and corruption in the
postal service of the conn try. A registered
package containing $100,000 in currency
disappeared somewhere between Portland,
Ore., and New York City a few days ago.
A week later a letter containing three
notes for $5,000 each hi mining in New
York. Last month a gang of thieves were
discovered in Chicago with duplicate box
keys, and the postoffice officials of that city
think that over $100,000 lost within a lew
months is thereby accounted for. Thousands
of "rifled letters were found in the head
quarters of the robbers, who had grown too
careless even to take the trouble to destroy
those evidences of their guilt.
It has come apparently to be no crime at
all for postoffice omployes to tamper with
newspaper mail. It is charged by responsi
ble publishers that newspaper wrappers are
opened and campaign literature inserted.
Tho partisan postmasters are displaying an
unusual interest in the circulation of the
press, and are taking it upon themselves to
see that, so far as possible, no periodicals not
friendly to the President are allowed to
poisorr(?) the minds of the people.
There is a general demand for reform in
the service, and the country has a right to
expect it.
The meeting at Madison Square in New
York city on Wednesday of last week at
which Mr. Thurman was to spook, had a
sensational opening. Mr. Thurman had
spoken but a few words when he was seen
to falter, and had to be assisted to a chair,
in what appealed to be a fainting fit. He
rallied, however, and was carried to bis hotel
and put to bed. It appears that nothing
serious was the trouble except weakness in
cident to the overtaxing of his strength, and
to his extreme age. It is a cruel spectacle
to behold the old veteran who ought to be
enjoying the quiet of his chimney corner,
dragged out of the repose he loves so well to
serve the purposes of a lot of designing
politicians who would go to the edge of the
grave to accomplish their ends.
THE LOGAN MONUMENT FUND.
The following additions to the Logan
Monurciant Fund have been received since
the last report:
Biirnsicle Post, No. 92, Mount Carmel, Pa.
Spalding Post, No 38, Le Raysville, P
Cash - -
Paul Re-erePost, No. 88. Quincy, Mass.-.
Ja. A. Garfield Post, No. 34, San Fran
cisco, Cal
From the following members of Cob
lantz Post, No. 272, Yale, 311.:
F. S. Byron - -H 0
C. F. Comstock SQ
C. F. M. Morey 1 1
"W. W. Chapman SO
S. D. Oilell. 1 00
T JET, i uclw w
SB CO
009
Si
5 0
25 00
J.TJ. McPherson Post, No. 33, Boulder,
Mont
James .Randolph Post, No. 116, Iitthanola,
Iowa. ....,.. .-- .
La Grange Iost, No. 79. "Windom, Minn....
Fred. Steele Post, No. 70, San Luis Obispo,
Cal
M. P. Hodges Past, No. 80, MunfordrHle,
Ivy
From the following members of E. C.
Johnson Post, No. 39S, Atehtsou, Kan.:
Seneca TJeatb Jl CO
Jno. M. Wells - 1 80
Stanton Park......... ................ 1 00
Chris. Sliecic....... . so
Jno. T. "Wright.. 50
Post Fund 2 60
560
500
sea
5 60
1160
50
Maj. W. VT.
Grove, Pa.
Miles Post, No. 808, Milea
ceo
5 00
Previously acknowledged-
Total
33S56
5,08143
S5.817 90
THE NATIONAL TIUBUNK FENSIONBTJX.
GEN. BANKS TO ItUN IfQIt CONGRESS.
Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, it is announced,
is to again run for 'Congress in a Massa
chusetts District. His career has been a
remarkable one, and his reappearance in
public life at the Capitol will awaken
memories of stirring scenes and great ovents
long passed away, ne was the son of poor
parents, who were operatives in a factory in
"Wallham, Mass., and he had no educational
advantages except those afforded by the
common schools. In early life he became a
newspaper editor in his native town, after
ward studied law, and in 1848 was elected to
tho Legislature of Massachusetts, serving in
both Houses, and at one time filling the
Speaker's chair. Later he was elected Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, and then to Congress
A specimen of the queer financiering of
the present Administration was furnished
last "Wednesday when the Secretary of the
Treasury, after declining bonds offered day
.after day, turned "bull" on himself and
bought 4,000,000 of 4 per cents at 129, and
52,500,000 of 4 per cents at 10G$. This
was an advance over the current market
price of $ per cent, on the 4's and $ for 4Js.
This is the result of going in to the money
market with a brass band, and is in keeping
with the " I-told-you-so " policy of the
Treasury ever since forced by Congress to
an unwilling halt in an attempt to accumu
late a surplus for campaign effect.
WnEN it is proposed to redeem the Gov
ernment's honor by paying what it owes to
its veteran soldiers, the scream of " another
raid on the Treasury " drowns all calm argu
ment. On the other hand to lend the Na
tionalbanks 50 or GO millions of public money
without interest has a soothing effect, and
the screamers drop to a gentle coo of satisfaction.
He il enacted by the Senate and House of Eepressnt
alivts of the United States of America in Congress
assembled. That the Secretary of the Interior be.
and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place
on the pension-roll, upon application therefor, the
names of the surviving honorably-discharged ofli
csrs and enlisted men of the military and naval
services of tho United States who actually served
00 days, or more, subsequent to the 4th day of
March, 1861, and prior to the 21st day of December,
1SC7.
Sec. 2. That pensions under section 1 of this act
shall be at the rate per month of one cent for each
day's service rendered ; and payable only from and
after the passage of this act, for and daring the
natural lives of the persons entitled thereto: Pro
vided, however. That in each and every case where
the service so ronuored was less than 800 days, tho
pension shall be at tho rate herein established for
a f-crvice of 00 days, to wit, SS.
Sec. 3. That nil invalid pensioners who are now
receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose
claims are pending in the Pension Office, or before
Congress, may, by application to the Commisaioner
of Pensions, in such form as he may prescribe, re
ceive the benefits of this act; and nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to prevent any
pensioner thereunder from prosecuting his claim
and receiving his pension under any other general
or special act at uis election ai any unac: xrwmeu.
That no person shall receive more than one pen
sion for the same period.
Sec. 1. That if any honorably-discharged officer
or enlisted man of the military or naval service of
tho United States, who served during tho period
specified in section 1 of this act, has died, or shall
hereafter die. leaving a widow, such widow shall
beplnceuupon tno pension-roll upon ner applica
tion nt the rate of $12 per month: Providetl, That
said widow was married to the deceasod ofliccr. or
enlisted man, prior to the passage of this act. And
provided further. That nil pensions granted to
widows under this act shall take effect from the
date of death of tho husbands of such widows
respectively, but not dating from any date prior to
the passage of this act.
See. 5. That rank in the service of any officer or
enlisted man shall not be considered in applications
under this act.
Sec. 0. Tint Section 4716 of the Revised Statutes
is hereby repealed so far as the same relates to this
net or to pensions under this act: Provided, That
this act shall not apply to those persons under the
political disabilities imposed by the 1 1th Amend
ment tc the Constitution of the United States.
Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Interior bo, and
he Is hereby, authorized and directed to employ
1,000 clerks, or such additional force as may, in hi3
discretion, be deemed necessary, additional to those
now employed in the Pension Bureau.to adjudicate
all claims arising under the provisions of this act
within two years from tho date ot tuc passage
thereof. And be it further enacted. That the Secre
tary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to employ 500 additional clerks, or such
force as may be necessary, in the oflieeof the Adju-tant-General,United
States Army, to dispose of tho
increased work consequent upon the passage of this
net. And be it further etmcted. That tho several
United States Pension Agents be authorized to in
crease their clerical force, subject to the approval
of the Secretary of the Interior, to an extent neces
sary to promptly dispose of the increased work
consequent upon the passage of this act, not to ex
ceed 12 at each agency, and whose salaries shall be
paid out of tho moneys to be appropriated by this
act.
Sec. 8. That so much as may be necessary to pay
the pensions provided for in this act, and to pay for
the increased clerical forco in the offices of the
Commissioner of Pensions, tho Adjutant-General,
and theUnited States Pension Agents hereinbefore
authorized to bo employed, be, and the same is
hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in tho
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 9. That any agent, attorney, or other person
instrumental in prosecuting any claim under this
act who shall, directly or indirectly, contract for,
demand, receive, or retain, for his services or in
strumentality in presenting and prosecuting such
claim, a greater sum thanSlO (payable only upon
the order of Commissioner of Pensions, by tho
Pension Agent making payment of the pension
allowed), or who shall wrongfully withhold from a
pensioner or claimant the whole or any part of the
pension or claim allowed and due such pensioner
or claimant, shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for
every eueh offense, be fined not exceeding 500,
or imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding two
years, or both, in the discretion of the court. Pro
vided, That no fee whatever shall be allowed toany
person whomsoever in any case where an invalid
pensioner is granted an increase under the provis
ions of this net.
Sec. 10. That all law3 or narls of laws which con-
( fiict with the provisions of t hid act shall be, and the
ftuuiu arc, uercuy icicmcu.
Tim cftttesa km dam hook ienntsdmn
otaer attack upon Anwifem by a ass in
China. It cannot be said any
that these Moogoliana learn notsla
Western civilisation. They doing well,
but so far as reported we are ahead. Within
less than three yean mobs in the United
States have killed 46 Chinese dtizene. There
were 28 killed at Rock Springs, in Wyoming,
in November, 1885, and a fecw etfts places
since, in Oregon, Washington and Idaho our
mobs have disposed of 20 ater in esses that
ar of record. WhatisBore,onvOoTevnsaent
has so fiwr neglected to settle the MB far dam
ages. Stfll, the business with China is worth
over $25,000,000 a year to Amaricaney and
we are now trying to sail them the steel
rails for the great national railsoad 9500
miles long from Hong Kong to Peking,
.
TYjixsr demagogs want to npsei asi ex
isting condition of things they clonk their
designs in a concerted howl Jbr Kcsssm"
Mr. Barnnm, of Connecticut, pioyonsd to
"reform" the country some yean age, even
if it cost the price of "seren moles" io do it.
Now the old oligarchy of the South that &
once more endeavoring to break down intel
ligent labor and reduce the jaonle of this
country to but two dasset, the aristocrat and
the peasant, are trying to do it under cover of
a cry for u tariff reform." TheJactntaeydo
not want reform, hot power. Thatt ihe North
should bow its knee to men who wooM be
felons but ibr tbe mercy of a benign eon
queror, is one of the marvels of the world's
history, yet the Brigadiers in Congress hav
the affrontery to demand submission and,
more wonderful still, expect to get is.
Wz do not hear so much about the accu
mulation of the dangerous snrnrns lately.
It ia about time for another nmiiBius dfedos
ing a new mare's nesfc. The silver dollar
seems to frighten no one any move, the sur
plus hae awkwardry refused to ge on accu
mulating, the Canadian retaliation scheme
seems to be less popular since it was bond
that it promised to injure ns move than the
Canucks.' and now China seems not m have
rejected that treaty afier all. Ifsxt!
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PERSONAL.
Col. Geocse?. HaekeUund sevcat eoMpadeq of
thaHth N. Y.. have beea to Octtjraemg to locate
the position of that regiment there ftaymtmamy to
the erection of ita monomut They haYttiumutged
everything to their fflitfeftvettoa smd, mo doubt, to
that of the rest of the survivors of thai cattaat
organization.
Master-at-ars? John Qnevedo e Sour toes by
tbe fall of a teak of gunpowder on his foot on board
the steel cruiser Boston, outside Sandy Hook, on
Tuesday last. Tbe injured mas k confined in ihe
Naval Hospital and. will recover. H is an old.
maa-of-warsnuin, having; served 3S yeasssinee ho
was IS years of age. He was a petty oflJeor on
board one of the vessels of the Greely Relief A rette
Expedition, and was one of tbe Srst to discover the
perishing: objects of their humane search and to
help to carry the famishing: Maj. Qreely and the
survivors on board ship. He is Officer of the Guard
of Moses F. Odell (veteran) Post, and was looking
focwavd to aa early retirement upon a Bib pension,
to whieh his long servke entitled bias.
J. Newton GottbeW. the aetorand aaebor. Is dan
gerously ill at Pittsburg. Pa., with Bright'irdiseftse
of the kidneys, with very little prcepeet of ate re
covery. Mr. Gotthold served bis country ftriiftliiHy
in a New York regiment during the war. and earn
ed a reputation for gallantry second to nose. After
the war he went upon tbe stage and made his debut
in Washington, lie made a reputation as an actor
and author, and was well-known to all theatrical
people.
Srelvflle C. Davis, a -veteran soidier of Co. B, 15th
Iowa, arrived in Washington from tforiua a few
days ago, accompanied by his wife, bavins been
compelled to leave that fever-infested State, where
he has resided sinee bis resignation aa Special
Agent of the Pension Bureau about a year age.
Comrade Davis lost a leg: on toe 1th of July, 18S4,
in front of Atlanta, near Nkksjack Creek, and the
writer of this assisted him from tbe Held. Davis is
one of the gallant soldiers who made tbe reputa
tion of such great Generals as Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan, McPherson, Logan, Belknap and ether
great Captains of tbe Army of the Tennessee, and
though minus his right leg capable of making a
living, with something to spare, by beadwork. He
will probably return to bis Florida home when the
fever subsides.
On the 22d of August Gor. Beaver and Corp'l
Tanner addressed immense audieneesia the Rink
at Bradford, Pa., and were greeted with enthusi
asm. The Evening Star of Bradgprd is especially
complimentary to Corp'l Tanner, of whom it says:
''He is a gentleman of sebolariy appearance and
brilliant address. He is masterful and motivating'
in speech and endowed with a great fond ef w&
and satire. His heart is with tbe veterans and in
hia opinion nothing is too good for them."
Gen. Iscae F. Catlin, formerly of the 109th N. Y.,
had a little difficulty the other day with the con
ductor and brakeman on a suburban train en Long
Island. The ggilroad men were guilty of some in
civility which aroused tbe General's ire, and be
made it rather lively for them. He was subse
quently arrested by a detective ia the employ of
thel road, and is now going for tbe management.
He promises to make an interesting Oght ef it be
fore he gets through.
MUSTERED OUT.
Miixbr. Dr. IL H. Miller was founed dead, with
a bullet in bis brain, near Crum Lynae Station, Pa.,
Aug. 29 last. Dr. Miller was one of the best-known
physicians of Chester, Pa. While but little doubt
is entertained that the Doctor took bw own Ufef
circumstances whieh surrounded the ease wove
such as to warrant a rigid investigation by the Cor
oner. He was 47 years old. He enlisted in the
army before he was of age, during tbe early part
of the war of the rebellion, but he contracted dis
ease for which he was discharged in IS63. At the
time of his death he was believed to be in eon
sumption, caused by disability contracted in tbe
service. He leaves a little girl about five years
old. his wife having- died some four years ago.
Wiluams. Simon II. Williams was buried Aug.
31 last by Boss Post, No. 31, New York Mills. N. Y.
The deceased enlisted at the village where he died.
in the Sth N. Y. Cav., and after filling the measure
of a brave horseman for the honor of Uncle Sam.
returned to the same town and entered into tbe
truck grademng business and followed it with
resolute spirit, even through foiling health, till the
muster-out bade him answer " here" in the ranks
of the great majority. Comrade Williams baa
always borne the habit and character of patriotic.
Christian man.
Garsett. Henry W. Garrett was bdd to rest by
the citizens and veterans of bu native village.
South Trenton, Aug. 30, 1883. He bad come to
the ripe age or 81 years, being 50 yearn old
when he enlisted in tbe 97th N. Y., aa drum
mer, his brother, John P., being companion.
flfer, and though beginning to be old men at
the time, they both had hot fires of patriotism
within thent each also having a son in Ber
dan's Sharpshooters. Henry W. continued to
hold the same sentiments of loyalty to bis country
to the end for whieh he bad previously beea
noted.
PBRKcra. Col. George S. Perkinsdied Sept. S at
Norwich, Conn., aged 100 years and one month.
He was in the famous engagement known in -history
as the "bombardment ef Stoniagton," and
helped to pick up tbe eannon-balls which were Bred
from the British fleet into that city, which were
afterward fired back to the enemy. The Colonel
was an official of the Norwich & Western Railroad,
and was the treasurer of that company for over 30
years at the time of death. He was six feet tall and
had a soldierly appearanea notwithstanding bis
advanced age.
Butlkk. Col. Edward W. Butler died Sept. 5 at
the resideuce of his son, L. L. Butler, on Union,
avenue, SU Louis. Mo. He was born at tbe close
of the last centary, and for several years beforo his
death was the oldest West Point graduate, having
entered the academy from Tennessee in WIS. He
remained in the Army until 1831, but joined it
again for the Mexican war. His lather and foul
older brothers served in the Revolution, one being
Maj.-Gen. Butler. His father led the assault w
Yorktown with his regiment, and was assigned by
Lafayette to receive Cornwall' surrender, but
the honor was conceded to Baron Steuben. He was
Adjutant-General or the Army during Washing
ton's administration. Col. Butler was in good
health and very active up to a few weeks ago. He
was also the oldest member of the Pennsylvania.
Commandery of tbe Society of the Cincinnati, to
which are admitted only the eldest descendants Ol
commissioned officers of the Revolution.
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