THE NATIONAL CAPITAL The President in Retirement Prepar- ing His Annual Message, THE PENSION LIST FIGURES. The Secretary of the Interior's Estimates Call for 8166,831,350, in Addition to Which There Is a Deficit of $10, 508,021 to Be Made Up. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 —President Har pison has begun the writing of his annual message to congress. He desires to give it his close attention until it is concluded and denies himself to as many callers as possi ble. He will continue to do so until his message is concluded The secretary of the interior has trans mitted to the secretary of the treasury the estimates required to pay pensions for the next fiscal year. The sum of £160,851 850 will be necegsary to pay pensions on ac count of the army and navy, including the maintenance of pension agencies, clerk hire and other incidental expenses. Of this amount it is estimated that §165,000,000 will be paid directly to pensioners In addition to the estimate £146,787,850 tor the fiscal year ending June 80, 1502, a deficiency of $10,508 621 is asked. During the first fiscal year of the present admihis- tration an estimate of £50.500,000 in round sumbers, was sufficient to pay pensions and sther incidental expenses. The civil service commission has more requisitions for both male and female phy sicians for the Indian service than it is able to fill. There is also a dearth of teach ers for that service, especially for the see md and third districts, embracing the vtates in the extreme northwest and south west, The examinations for 1503 will begin in January. The Vatioan and the Falr. Notwithstanding opposition in the navy department, it is certain that a United States naval vessel will be as duty of conveying to this country th hibit of relics relating to the discovery of America loaned by the Vatican from its museum for the Worid's fair, Secretary Tracy, it is understood, is heartily in favor of assigning a naval vessel for this duty, but certain influences against the idea are working in the department Objection being based on the ground, which is be- lieved to be strictly conscientious, that as- signments of this character should not be given vessels of the government Unless some well founded reason should intervene the United States cruiser Newark will be given the assignment ler Harrison has given the Vatican assurances that a naval vessel will carry the relics to this country, and Cardinal Rempolla, the papal secretary of state, has requested that one of the government vessels be assigned to the duty. It has also been practically decided that the United States gunboat Beunington shall convey the Columbus caravels from Huelva to America Secretary Tracy appointed a court of in- quiry to investigate and report on the partial destruction of the culvert of the League island navy yard dry dock. Com mander J. B. Coghlan, who was in charge of the dock at the time of the accident and consequently will be made the subject of inquiry, bas been before court martials twice previously—once in San Franeis® and once in this city In San Francisco he wan charged with ing an article for one of the newspa WW here, reflecting on the actions of naval officers. He was acquitted, the proprietor of the paper refusing to testify against him. Later be was court martialed here for writing to Mr. Moran, a clerk in the bureau of navigation of the navy depart ment, an abusive letter for forwarding an order transferring him from one ship to another In the latter case he was found guilty ant] sentenced to suspension from rank for one year, and publicly reprimanded in a general order by the secretary of the navy Presic t The Senate Secretaryship. WasnixaroN, Nov, 28 It is understood here that General A. B. Upshaw, formerly of Tennessee, now of New York, who was assistant secretary of the interior during the Cleveland administration, will be a candidate for the secretaryship of the sen ate after March 4. Another candidate for the pleasant place now occupied by General Anson G. McCook is Colonel I. Q C Washington, of Louisiana, for many years past an able correspondent of southern newspapers. It is rumored that Congress man Hemphill, of South Carolina, who was defeated for renomination, will also join in the race with General Upshaw, Colonel Washington and General Martin McMahon, with other candidates yet to hear from. Hippolyte's Revolution Scheme, PANAMA, Nov. 28 —A revolt is sald have been suppressed in Haytl, It was of no importance and has not been followed by any executions. The adherents of Gen eral Manignat claim that Hippolyte him self instigated thh revolt in order to have an opportunity of suppressing it Sunk with All on Board. HALIFAX, N.S Nov. 28 The schooner Warrior, which left Newfoundland for North Sydney some time ago, is reported to have foundered and carried with her all on board A Rieh Sliver Strike. SLveER City, N. M., Nov. 8. <At Lone Mountain, about ten miles southeast of this city, the largest body of silver ore ever struck in New Mexico is being opened Guilty of Murder, Avausta, Ga, Nov, 28 Henry Ramsey, charged with the murder of Robert Harris, marshal of Summerville, a suburb of Augusta, was found guliity He Killed a Sheriff. PLAINVILLE. Ga, Nov. ® Sheriff Me innis, of Calhoun county, was shot and killed by a railroad man he was trying &« arrest, General Crawford Dead. NonwAlk, Conn., Nov. 25 — General Robert B. Crawford, who commanded the brigade of the Connecticut national guard from 1871 to 1875, is dead, The Yale-Marvard Freshmen, Bostox, Nov, 28. -Bix to six was the soore of the great football game between the Harvard and Yale freshmen elevens on Jarvis fleld, Cambridge. St. Louis Panlestrickeon, 81. Lous, Nov. 28. -The typhoid fever is spreading rapidly. Over 1,000 cases is the record for the week, and the city is on the verge of a panie, r————— THE LATEST NEWS! 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PENSION LAW DEFECTS. heneral Attention to Them in His Anunal Report, masey (all MONEY PAID WRONGFULLY There Is at Present No Proper Provision to Enforce Is Hepuyment, and Legisia- tion to That Fond Is Recommended, Frovislons for 1diotie Children. WASHINGTON port of Gener snt secretary « reived by Ba y a s'vely with the work sion appeals, of which tary has direct charge chase of {ndinn supplis warehouse in New Y The report shows there were 5,030 appealed pension file with the board, and that this oo} were 4.208 appeals led during Of the 4,930 cases acted upon year the deci sustained 1 in 404 ca ut wi nsent of h there sh ursement of the treasury der the same law in pursuance the pension itself was granted I'he means employed, whether by claim nts or attorneys, to procure these excess i not be here discussed, evil itself confronts the wparts { for a legal remedy is WADOSS WwW) and the ned . aly bs ved not y by claim was based, al lays or more in Lhe the evider igh § line of duty in both the « June observed by an amend: that would be appl ous cases of dependeno seems that rit and the obje {the act of 1800. woul emphasized and t of this section i distress, and I respectfully urge th uch an amend ment { pled V « Aress Insane Children jeneral Bussey renews the re ation be made in his annual report of as to the third section of the act of June 1800, which provides pensions for minor ldren who are neane $diots + oth wise permanently helpless He says “The clause properly provides that the pension granted to such children shall con tinue during the life of said enild, or dur ing the period of der the law as it stands, in order that such children shall be pensioned during life, or during the period of such disability, it must appear that the father or the mother died prior to the expiration of the limit af fixed to the pensionable minority period- viz., sixteen years of age, and therefore if, when the parent dies, the insane or idiotic or otherwise permanently helpless child is more than instead of under sixteen years of age be al lowed. In view of this fact, 1 respectfully suggest that the act should be so amended as to admit all insane, idiotic or otherwise permanently helpless children to minors’ pension, regardless of the date of the par ent's death or remarriage, at any period prior to and including the age of twenty one years “The experiences of the past year impe: me now to further suggest that in cases of ‘insane, idiotic or otherwise helpless chil dren’ of deceased pensioners, the pension able age limit be abolished #0 as to admit such children at any date to the pension roll.” In concluding his report General Bussey says: am gratified to be able to say that the pledge of the nation (expressed a century ago) that ‘if any person, whether officer or soldier, militia or regular, called into the service of the United States be wounded or disabled while in actual service, he shall be taken oare of and provided for at public ex- pense,’ has been redeemed with fidelity. In compliance with the provisions of the vari ons pension laws, on June 80, 182, there were borne on the pension rolls the names of 880,087 pensioners, 179,008 more pension ers than were carried on the same rolls at the end of the preceding fisoal year, and $5 pte than were on the rolls June 30, such disability, but un A minor's pension cannot
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