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St Bloomsburg, the Count r Beat of Columbia
County. Pennsylvania.
Tbkwk: Inside the county, li.oo a year In ad
vance; 11.90 if not paid In advance Outside
the county, f im a year, strictly in advance.
All communications should be addressed to
TUB COLUMBIAN,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1893.
V1AKL5QT0H LETTO
Washington, August 7. If today
was not the proudest day Speaker
Crisp every saw his looks belied him,
and lie must differ from the average
man. His first election to be Speaker
of the House an office only second
in authority and dignity to that of
President was the end of one of the
bitterest contests ever waged within
party lines and now, after being un
animously nominated for the position
by the party caucus he is for the
second time elevated to the honorable
position. It was a personal triumph
of which any man might well be proud,
and which few men have attained.
The following officials were also elect
ed by the House : Clerk, James
Kerr, of Pennsylvania (reelected)
Sergeant-at Arms, Herman C. Snow,
(ex-Congressman) of Illinois; Door
keeper, A. B. Hurt, of Tennesee
Postmaster, Lycurgus Dalton, of In
diana, (re-elected) ; Chaplain, Rev. S.
W. Haddaway, of the District of Col
umbia. Vice President Stevenson presided
over the opening session of the Senate,
which was a short one, as President
Cleveland's message will not go in un
til tomorrow.
There were several good reasons
why a large attendance was not ex
pected at the opening of the extra
session. There was no contest over
the Speakership and many members
of the House took no interest in those
over the other officials ; stil1, the per
centage of members present was about
the average for the first day of a ses
sion. All the members have been
heard from and they will all be in
their seats before the House is ready
to get down to real business, which it
cannot do until Speaker Crisp has
completed and announced the com
mittee assignments, for the very sim
ple reason that none of the hills intro
duced can be acted upon until then.
Speaker Crisp is loosing no time
and just as soon as he can get the
committee assignments completed he
will announce them, but there is not
much probabi ity that it will be earlier
than next week. The proposition has
been made that Mr. Crisp follows the
examp'e set by President Cleveland,
in announcing the members of his
cabinet as fast as they were selected.
and announce thf rnmmiftiPi as fact- I
as they are made up, so that they may
get to work on the bills as fast as they
are introduced ; but the suggestion is
hardly practicable. There is so much
dove-tailing necessary in assigning the
members to committees that the com
mittees are all practically made up at
about the same time.
Some one has proposed and the
proposal meets with favor from many
members, that an entirely new com
mittee, to be called the committee on
Coinage and Currency, be added to
-those existing in the House, and that
to it be referred all bills relating to
.coinage and currency. The reason
for this proposal is the constant clash
ing between the committte on Coinage,
Weights and Measures and that on
Banking and Currency, as to the refer
ence of bills. Should the proposal be
adopted those two committees would
be less important, as the first wou'd
deal only with comparatively insigni
ficant bills relating to Weights and
Measures and the latter only with bills
relating to Banking. The new com
mittee, if formed, would rank with the
Ways and Means and Appropriation
committees in importance.
President Cleveland returned to
Washington Saturday afternoon and
spent Sunday quietly at his surburban
residence. He says he never felt bet
ter, and he certainly looks to be in the
most robust health. He is very con
fident that the legislation of the extra
session will be satisfactory.
Treasury officials say the scarcity of
small bills which is now prevailing is
no fault of theirs, as they have plenty
of small notes and gladly furnish them
to banks which apply for them in ex
change for notes of larger denomina
tion. ' A Congressman speaking of
this, said: ''There seems to be a
screw loose somewhere, when business
men of New York pay a premium to
get small notes when by sending to
Washington, only six hours away, they
could get all they needed without pay
ing anything. This matter ouht to
oe looked into."
The administration proposes to do
its part in helping the National banks
to increase their circulation, and the
bureau of Engraving and Printing is
now working extra time printing small
notes to supply the demand expected
to Le made h the banks.
THE METALS MUST PART
Cleveland Urges Repeal of
the Sherman Act.
MAIN POINT8 OF THS MESSAGE.
Tke Present Ceadltloa ef the Cvaatry
rorelga HbIIms frefltlag ay Oar Mis
takes Lack af Coaaaanee s Sarloas
Menace Sot a Party Mailer Immediate
Action KeeeMary TarlaT Beferm Caa
Walt Vatll the PlnaaoUl Probleaa la
1114.
Warb-iroton, A o. . The following are
the main point of President Cleveland's
message to Congress, read In both Houses
at boob yesterday:
TO TUB COKORRM Of TBI CfHTBD STATS:
The existence of an alarming and extra
ordinary business sitnstlon, Involving the
welfare and prosperity of all oar people,
baa constrained me to call together in ex
tra session the people's representatives in
Congress to the end that through m wise
and patriotic exercise of the legislative
duty with which tbey are solely charged,
present evils may be mitigated and dangers
threatening the future may be a verted.
Our unfortunate financial plight is not
the result of untoward events nor of condi
tions related to our natural resources; nor
is it traceable to any of the afflictions
which frequently check national growth
and prosperity. With plenteous crops,
with abundant promise of remunerative
production and manufacture, with
unusual Invitation to safe investment
and with satisfactory assurance to business
enterprise, suddenly financial distrust and
fear have sprung upon every side.
I believe these thing are principally
chargeable to Congressional legislation
touching the purchase aud coinage of sil
ver by the general government.
This law provides that in payment for
the four million and Ave huudred thous
and ounces of silver bullion which the
Secretary of the Treaaury is commanded
to purchase monthly there shall be issued
Treasury notes redeemable on demand in
gold or silver fcoin at the discretion ef the
Secretary of the Treasury and the aaid
notes may be reissued. It is, however, de
clared in the act to be "the established
policy of the United States to maintain
the two metals on a parity with each other
upon the present lngal ratio or such ratio
as may be provided by law." This declar
ation so eontrols the action of the Secre
tary of the Treasury as to prevent his ex
ercising the discretion nominally vested in
him.
If by such action the parity between gold
aud silver may be disturbed, manifestly a
refusal by the Secretary to pay these Treas
sury notes in gold, if demanded, would
necessarily result in their discredit and de
preciation as obligations payable only in
silver and would destroy the parity be
tween the two metals by establishing a
discrimination in favor of gold.
Up to ths fifteenth day of July, 1803,
thexe notes had been issued In payment of
silver bullion purchases, to the amount of
more than one hundred and forty-seven
millions of dollars. While all but a very
small quantity of this bullion remains un
coined and without usefulness lu the
Treasury, many of the uoU-s given in its
purchase have been paid in gold.
The policy necessarily adopted of paying
these notes In gold has not spared the gold
reserve of one hundred millions ot dollars
long ago set aside by the government for
the redemption of other notes, for this
fund has already been subjected to the pay
ment of new obligations amounting to
about one hundred and fifty millions of
dollars on account of silver purchases, and
as a consequence for the first time since
its creation been encroached upon.
We have thus made the dcpletinn of our
gold easy, and have tempted other and
more appreciative nations to add it to their
stock. That the opportunity we have of
fered has not been neglected is shown by
the large amounts ot gold which have been
recently drawn from our Treasury and ex
ported to increase the financial strength of
foreign nations. The excess of exports ot
gold over Rs imports for the year ending
June 30, 1893, amounted to more than
eighty-seven and a half millions of dollars.
At this stag gold and silver must part
company and the government must fail
lu its established policy to maintain the
two metals on a parity with each other.
Olvea over to ths exclusive us of a cur
rency greatly depreciated according to the
standard of the commercial world we could
no longer claim a place antonf nation of
the flrst class, nor could our governmont
claim a performance of it obligation, so far
as suck an obligation has been imposed up
on it, to provide for the use of the people th
beat and safest money.
It doe not Bases th situation to say
that apprehension la regard to th future
of our finances 1 groundless and that
then U no reason for lack of confldeno In
th purposes or power of th Government
in the premises. Th very existence of
this apprehension and lack ef confidence,
however caused, 1 a menace which ought
not for a moment to be disregarded.
Th people of th United States srs en
titled to a sound and stable currency and
to money recognised as such on every ex
chaug and in every market of the
world. Their government has no right
to injur them by financial experiment
opposed to th policy and practice of
other civilised states, nor is it Justified
in permitting an exaggerated and un
reasonable reliance on our national
strength and ability to Jeopard Us th
soundness of the people's money.
This matter rises above tb plane of party
politics. It vitally concerns every business
and calling and enters every household in
the land.
It is of the utmost Importance that such
relief that Congress can afford in the exist
ing situation be afforded at once.
It was my purpose to summon Congress
in special session early in the coming Sep
tember that we might enter promptly upon
the work of tariff reform, which the true in
toresU of the country clearly demand,
which so large a majority of the people, as
shown by their suffrages, desire aud expect,
and to the accomplishment of which
every officer of the present administration
is pledged. But while tariff reform has
lost nothing of its Immediate and perma
nent importance and must in the near
future engage the attention of Congress, It
bus seemed to me that the financial condi
tion of the country should at one and be
fore ull other subjects, be considered by
your honorable body.
I earnestly recommend the prompt re
peal of the provisions ot th act passed July
Mtb, 1690, authorizing the purchase of sil
ver bullion, and that other legislative no
tion may put beyond all doubt or mistake
the intention and th ability of ths gov
ernment to fulfil it pecuniary obligations
In money universally reoognlxed by all
civilized countries.
. Groves Cuvilanb.
Table of Votes Cast at Democratic Delegate Election Saturday August 5th 1893.
'Proth.
TOWNSHIPS.
and
DISTRICTS.
Beaver .... '
Benton
Berwick, N. E
Berwick, S. E
Berwick, N. W
Berwick, S. W
Bloomsburg, ist Dist.,1
Bloomsburg, snd Dist.J
Bloomsburg, 3rd Disk,
Bloomsburg, 4th Dist.,
Briarcreek,
Catawissa Borough,. . .
Catawissa Township . .
Ccntralia, 1st Ward,..
Centralia, ad Ward, . . .
Centre,
Cleveland, . . .
Conyngham, North. , . .
Conyngham, West
Conyngham, South. . . .
Conyngham, South E.,
rishingcreek,
Franklin,
Greenwood, East
Greenwood, West
Hemlock,
Jackson,
Locust,
Madison
Main,
Millville,
Mifflin
Montour,
Mt. Pleasant,
Orange,
Pine,
Roaringcreek,
Scott, East
Scott, West
Sugarloaf, North
Sugarloaf, South
Beg. and Bee.
Countj Treasurer.
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100; a 3a; 68 a 14; 39 1 89; 1 8; i 35; 50 1 4'. 2. 5
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176: 3 6oi 1 iia a 55: 1 a8 64 a 29 5; 53; t 97 a '9! ; 45 a7:
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of detect "anI' Candidate for District Attorne' and c- H- More, candidate for County Surveyor, each received 95 convention votes; the entire number
Lochren Lays Down Rules.
The General Defends the Pension Bureau's
Working Under the Change of Plan.
THE LAWS TO HE ENFORCED FAIRLY.
Commissioner Lochren his a.Mrsj.
ed the following letter to the editor of
tne j agonal Jrioune :
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions. Washw.tov
Aug. i. iSoj. Sir: 1 have not cnm.
plied with your repeated request that
1 snouia cause a test to be made to
show the number of fraudulent t.en.
sions, by having 1,000 casts drawn
irom me admitted hies ami examined.
I have not done this for several reas
ons :
First. Fradulent cases, if
cannot be discovered in tint way. A
fradulent pension must ordinarily have
ut-cij uuiumcu upon uise or lorgeel
testimony. On the face of thp
such a case would probably appear to
De wen estaDiisnea and incontestable.
Second. No one whose nnin!rn ic
entitled to consideration has, I think,
had the hardihood to claim that the 1
great mass of adjudicated pension
cases is permeated with fraud, open
and plain on the Darters, so that the
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examination of 1,000 cases would dis
close an instance. And I certainly
have far too hieh an onininn nf nw
old comrades to believe that any large
numoer 01 tnem are scoundrels, who
have soueht and ohtainfd
dishonestly. Especially I believe that
inc pensions graniea to soldiers who
did actual service in the field, on ac
count of disabilities of service origin,
are usually honest and well deserved.
IN DEFENSE OF PENSION ATTORNEYS.
No doubt rests on this rl nf .
and no examinations of them are r;nn
made, except where evidence is re
ceived tending to show that some par
ticular case is fraudulent or has been
improperly decided. Even among
the twelve Apostles there was only
one who was unworthy and among the
uic suu iruc soiaiers 01 tne union
army it cannot be denied that there
were a few bountv inmner anA m.n
who were of no credit to us and of
little deserving, and who have been
perhaps among the most eacrer fnr a
place on the pension roll at a hi"h
iw.ig. inc uivcsiigsiion as to the
work of dishonest pension attorneys at
Norfolk, New Mexico and Iowa show
local irauos ot large extent. But it
would be far from fair
- w wuiiwi UUV
from such cases that pension attorneys
are oenerallif nr-.. 1 1 '
uiiov.1 UJJUIUUM or OlS-
honest.
I think, on the contrary, they are
ordinarily as honest, painstaking and
careful as other business men. A case
of alleged fraud is brought to the no
tice of the bureau by information from
some source. If the information is
indefinite or appears to be prompted
by malice, it is disregarded. If it
seems to be trustworthy the case is
investigated, the pension being sus
pended during) the investigation, ac
cording to the uniform practice of the
bureau from the beginning. If the
pension is improper, it should not be
paid i if not shown to be improper, the
suspended pension is alt paid, and the
suspension enlists the active co opera
tion of the pensioner in furnishing
evidence and reaching a speedy result.
WHY THE EXAMINATION IS MADE.
Third. The examination of the
June 37, 1890, cases is made not be
cause of any fraud on the part of the
claimants, but because it was discover
ed that this bureau had, by the adop
tion of an erroneous rule for adjudica
tion, allowed many pensions not auth
orized by law. Under prior laws pen
sions were only granted on account of
disabilities of service origin. And the
acts of congress had in many cases
fixed specific rates of pension for desig
naled injuries or disabilities, and pro
vided generally that for inferior disa
bilities of a permanent character, pro
portionate ratings should be allowed ;
and under this general provision the
commissioner, with the approval of the
secretary, had fixed schedule rates for
such inferior disabilities of service
origin.
As I said before, all pensions grant
ed under these former laws are pre
sumed to have been pronerlv eranteri
and they are not being examined ex-
cept on iniormation Showing fraud in
some particular case, as has always
been the practice. . But the act nf
June 37, 1890, granted pensions to
persons wno nad served ninety days or
more, if suffering from a mental or
physical disability of a permanent
character, not the result of their own
vicious habits, incapacitating them
from the performance of manual labor
in such a decree as to render them
unable to earn a support such pen
sions not to exceed $ia, nor less than
$6 per month, proportioned to the
disability to earn a support by manua
labor.
PENSIONS NOT AUTHORIZED BY LAW.
Under this act the disability need
not be of service origin ; but to be
pensionable at all the disability must
incapacitate the person from manual
labor, so as to render him unable to
earn a support. Specific disabilities,
as such, were not pensionable at all
under that act, nor entitled to consid
eration except as they might affect the
capacity to perform manual labor.
But by order No. 164, issued October
15, 1890, the commissioner, with the
approval of the assistant secretary,
directed that specific disabilities should
be rated under this act, the same as
they . would have been rated under
prior laws had the disabilities been of
service origin, up to $13 per month.
The effect of this order was shown
in the Bennett case, which called at
tention to it. There the claimant, ap
plying under this act of June 37, 1890,
was allowed a pension of $13 per
month for slight deafness, not of ser
vice origin, and which manifestly would
scarcely interfere with his capacity to
perform manual labor. On incmiry
the medical referee reported that, act
ing under this order 164, the capacity
of a claimnant, under the act of June
27, 1890, to perform 1 manual labor
was not considered in adjudicating the
claim. It was clear, therefore, that,
under that order, the law was disre
garded, with the necessary result of
granting some pensions, like that to
Bennett, whice were not authorized by
any law.
LAWS TO DE ENFORCED FAIRLY.
A board of revision was. therefore,
conbtituted of the most experienced
RUSSET
SHOES,
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H. J. Clark's Building, Main street.
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SHOES, SHOES.
men of the bureau, to re examine in
these cases and cull out such as had
no legal basis to rest upon, and with
instructions to interfere with no cases
where by the most liberal construction
a right to the pension could be made
to appear ; und in other 4 cases, where
the pension could not be sustained un
der any law, to give the sixty days no
tice, according to previous practice,
within which the pensioner may fur
nish additional evidence and show
himself entitled.
It is clearly the duty -of every official
having charge of the administration of j
the pension laws to enforce those laws
fairly, and to stop such pensions as '
clearly appear to have been granted
without authority of any law. This is
all that is being done here. No one
disputes the correctness of the decis
ion in the Bennett case. It now ap
pears that Assistant Secretary Bussey
in January last rendered a decision in
the case of Henry H.Weike, announcing
precisely the same interpretation of
the act of June 37, 1890, and con
demning the construction given by the
bureau to order 164, as contrary to
his understanding when he approved
inai uruer, ana as contrary to law,
CONFIDENCE IN THE BOARD OF REVISION.
My old comrades may feel sure of
receiving everything tr wWh k. 1...,
--most liberally construed entitles
them. Partisan leaders mav tr U
arouse feeling for partisan ends. But
the execution of a law unon the
struction given to it by two heads of the
same oepartment, of opposite politics,
which construction is irtmi'it u..
everybody to be correct, has no politi-
.aivici i ami 1 uiu not hesitate
to commit the work to a hnr, t -
vision whose ability fitted them for it,
inuugii inuM 01 mem, with their chief,
are republicans.
They are able and fair men, and se
lect fiom day to day, from the cases
examined, such cass as they deem
unlawfully allowed. If that was the
class of cases you wished drawn and
examined, the work is done every day
by this board. None of the pensions
in these cases are suspended until af
ter condemnation by this board. It is
expected that in very many of Buch
cases the pensioners will K.. ...
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produce testimony showing them en-
M.n.u i fcuBiuua uiiuer me law, in
which case the suspension will be removed.
I have perhaps written mure than I
ought, but my comrades are interested
in understanding this matter rightly
and as it is. The man generally mis
represented is the secretary, who has,
in fact, always been more considerate
and liberal toward petitioners than any
of his subordinates, myself included.
Yours very truly,
William Lochren.
Hall's Hair Renewer enjoys the
confidence and patronage of people
all over the civilized world who use it
to restore and keep the hair a natural
color.
Finances in Pennsylvania appear to
be all right. During July, usually the
dullest month in the year, the State
Department granted charters to new
manufacturing companies whose capi
talization aggregated $3,443,100- T
this must be added the capital of
other new concerns, including rail
ways, bringing the total for July to
$3,938,100. It does not look as if in
vestors in Pennsylvania were scared.
Harry X. 3IrrU
Gour Stomach
"I was attacked with dyspepsia n 0'
touach. I took ITooO's SurtaparllU nJ It
helped roe from tha start, sod Us overcome my
Hood'sCures
trouble," Uahht U Mobbu, too Mult"
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