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THE OREGON SCOUT. JONES Sc CIIANCEV, Publisher. ONION. OREGON. THE COXOItBSSIOXAC BUSIXB93. 7b Get Through irith It Congrett Will Have to be Active. - Washington special: Very little work will be dono by congress during the rotnalnlng eventcen days of the session other than that on the floor of the two houses. Com tnltteo work, with only two or threo excep lions, Is finished, and there will bo no fur ther meeting. The proceedings on the floor will, too, be conducted with great rapidity, and while some dnys may bo thrown away in useless debates, others will be fruitful of unusual results. Tlio statue of varloun measures destined lor final pass ngo before March 4th continues to bo of lucli a character as to mako prognosti cation quite uncertain. In the scnato to-morrow Senator Came ron intends to call up his bill providing for the construction of war vesHels, and hopes to have it passed with little talk. Senator liae intend to ask the sonata to consider his bill, of tlio same character, very soon thereafter. The anti-Mormon bill in anticipated from the conference com mittee by the senate to-morrow or Tues day, ami will likely be disposed of at once. The river and harbor bill will be ready for discussion by tlio uiiddloof the week. Tills will consume two or three days, In all pro bability. Wednesday after 2 o'clock has been set aside for eulogies on tlio late Sena tor 1'ike of New Hampshire. To-morrow is District of Columbia day In thn house of representatives, when vari ous measures of Interest to Washington are to be considered. Tuesday Chairman Belmont on the commit too on- foreign affairs, will ask tlio house to completo the consular and diplomatic hill debate, which was begun early last week. Wednesday eulogies on the late Senator John A. Logan bf Illinois are to be delivered. Tlio legisla tive, executive and general appropriation 1111 is to follow the completion of His consu lar and diplomatic bill. TIiIb moasiira has much now matter in the form of changes of salaries of olllcors and will excito consider able debate, probably consuming tlio ro malndcr of tlio week. Mr. Hatch will In list, if opportunity olfors, that his pleuro pneumonia bill and the experimental agri cultural station bill be considered. It is likely that the conference, committee on fortifications will report during the week, and it roport is privileged and may bo considered at once. A pressuro is being brought to bear for an oarly report from this committee, and when it reports tlio lame pressure will be excriised for immcdi ato consideration of tlio report, so as to relievo tlio committee on appropriation from tlio responsibility on tlio subject, thcra boing a number of bills before it mak ing appropriations for coast defenses, and It is intended that tlio uiensiiro which will be reported by tlio conference on formica tions shall be a substituto for theso bills, and that the committee on appropriations shall thus be relieved of the whole ques tion. Ifthosenato net on the nntl-Mormon conference report it will likely bo taken up in tho hoitso during the week. Friday Is private bill day, but itis genorally concoiled that it will bo set aside, ns tho house is dis inclined at this lato day, whou there Is tuch n press of gcnornl measures, to give up a day to privato ones. SOME WASItlXOTOX aossn: Tho president has approved tho appro priation bill and tho luimodiato trans portation bill. Mrs. Logan Is about to start for Chicago. Whilo thoro hIio will take out tho necessary papors for administering upon her bus band's estnto, and will also decide upon his final burial plnco. Senator Cullom hns introduced a bill to amend tho rovised statutes so that no prisoner shall bo debarred from receiving a patent for an Invention or discovery, nor any patent being declared invalid by reason of its having been patented in a foreign country, unless tlio same hns been Intro duced Into public use in tho United States for moro than two years prior to tho ap plication. Treasurnr Jordan, acting on behalf of tho directors of tlio Western National bank of tlio city of Now York, called on Manning and formally tendered him tho presidency of that Institution. The secretary said lie would give his answer in u short tlmo. Thoro 1h much Indignation among srloti' title inou that tho president docs not up point a superintendent of thecoast survey, The ollleo bus boon vacant for about two years, and tho mere business details have been transacted by a treasury clerk. Tho committee of congress which Investigated tho probability of continuing tho survey as nt present oigunUed, has reported In favor of doing ho, and still the piesideut makes no appointment of a superintendent, and a $1,200 clerk draws a 50,000 salary. riHK, SMOKE ASH LAVA. San Francisco dispatch: Advicoa from Honolulu roport tho volcano Manna I.oa, on Hawaii Islands again active. Eruptions began January 15 with an emission of fire, emoko and lava, tho lattor flowing down the south slope. If its courso isuotrhnuged it will How Into tho sea without damage. Karthquako shocks throughout the Inland wero frequent, but without verious conso quenco. Rev. J. 1). l'aris writes from Kmxwola, Hawaii, under date of January lit, saying: "For thirty-six hours there lias been ouo continuous series of earth quake, tremulous Jars, with pretty hard shake interspersed, running Into each other, and our house lias seemed like a llttlo emit or bubble floating on tho waves of a chopped sea. While I write my table rocks so that it Is with dillleulty lean keep my scat and hold my pen." TIIK EISUEUIKS QUKSTIOX. Now York dispatch: In an interview with a reporter for tho Mall and Express, Sir Lionel West, British minister at Wash ington, said: I do not anticipate any trou ble whatever about tlio fishery question. Negotiations are now going forward in Lon don between Minister l'liolpa and tho Brit ish government, ami I think tho question will bo finally settled before congress ad journs. Uvea if the retaliatory and non intercourse bill goes through and becomes a law, I do not think the relations between thin country and Canada will bo strained. The president will have power to put tho law in force or not as tie sees proper and that as u provision that will prevent any harsh and rash measures from being taken until all other pacific remedies are ex-Intuited," A dispatch irom Victoria, British. Columbia, In announcing the building of the Catiadlau Pacltlc shot at Yule states that no through mall baa been receive for twleve day ou ae eount of uov blockade!, and that the tel egraph llnei along the track have been pro- &rtul Iiv altrwa. TUB SEXATB AXD HOUSE. rT7ial U Uelng Done In Both Dranehet o' the National Congrett. Senate, Feb. 10. Tho Joint resolution of the convention of the general assembly of Indiana (republican members,) protest ing against the validity of the election of David Turpio ns United Stales senator, was referred to the committeo on privileges and election. Tho committeo on naval affairs reported back the bill for the pur chase of John Errirson's "Destroyer," and it was referred to the committeo on appro priations. Tho houso bill relating to tho importing and landing of mackerel caught during the spawning season was passed. House, Feb. 10. Weaver, In behalf of tho committee on expenditures In the in terior depaitmeut, called up the senate bill providing that In tho general land ofllco there hIniII be ten chiefs of division, who shall receive a salary of 511,000 each. Steelo (Ind.) moved to strike out tliociiact nig clause. Tho republicans refrained from voting, and left the houso without a quorum, in which condition it remained until tho morning hour expired. Tho house then went into committee of tho whole on tlio consular and diplomatic ap propriation bill. Iielmont satd that the bill wit an increase over tho actual amount carried by the bill of last year ofSlOC.OOO, hut tlio increased colled ions to tho treas ury under it would, at the lowest estimate, be'S 150,000. Hknatu, Feb. 11. .Mr. .Mnndcrnn, from the committee on military affairs, reported the bill granting tho Salt Lake it Fort Douglass Kiiilwny company tho right of way acriiHH Fort Douglass military reserva tion in Utah. Cilendp.r. Tho senuto bill appropriating S100.000 for tlio improve ment and enlargement of the court houso and postolllco at Omaha was passed. Tlio senate bill for tlio relief of Tiioman A. Os born of Kansas (to repay him $8,701 public mousy lost by him in 1880 through tho failuro of a privato bank), was passed. House, Fob. 1 1. Tho presidents privato secretary presented a messago from the president transmitting without approval tho dependent pousion bill. Tlio rending ol the message wiir fol owed with nu ntiien lion moro trict than is genorally accorded to nch documents. At its conclusion Mr. Miitsnn of Indiana moved that tho bllland tho accompanying message bo referred to tlio committee on Invalid pensions, prom ising that thoy would bo reported back within the coining week. Tho motion wua ncreed to 1 117 to 27. Sk.vati:, Fob. 12. Tlio chairman of the committee on naval affairs leported back with amendment tho bill "to IncreiiHo tho naval establishment," and gave notice that ho would call it up Monday. Tho amend ments mado by the naval committee have tlio effect of fixing tho bonut to bo paid the contractor on tlio Ilrst knot in excess of tho contract rate of twenty knot to bo obtained by the proposed now cruisers at a hundred thousand dollars, ami for each additional knot $200,000. Tlio aggregate of thu appropriation, 521,800,000, hns not beon changed. Halo reported back from the naval committee, witli an amend ment, tlio bill introduced by him yesterday to provide for tlio insurance of tlio naval establishment and gavo notice that he would call it up at an early day. Tho postolllco appropriation bill was then con sidered until adjournment. House, Feb. 12. Tho trado dollar bill wu considered. Tho houso hns agreed to tho amendment to tho noun to trade dollar bill, providing that tho rocoinago of trade dollars rocoined under this act shall not be comidorod as a part of tlio silver bullion required to bo purchased and coined under the Illand law. Tlio amended bill passod. As passed the bill provides that for tho period of six months after tlio pnsugo of this act trade dollars, if not defaced, muti lated or stamped, shall bo reeolved at face valuo in the payment of all dues to tho United States and shall not again bo paid out or by any other moans issued. That during the above period tho holder of such trade dollars may receive in oxchango for thorn a like amoiiutof valuo, dollar fordol lar, in standard silver dollars or in silver coins, and that all laws authorizing tho coinage and Issuance of trado dollars nro repealed. Tito house then wont Into com mittee of tho whole ou tho diplomatic and consular appropriation until tho hour of adjournment. Siinati:, Feb. 11. Dalonnd Dolph, from tho conferonco committeo on the senate bill restoring to the United States certain lands granted to tho Northern I'ueillc railway company, reported that the comniltteoliad boon unable to agree. Tlio report was ndopted and a new conferonco ordered, Dolph, Toller and Cockrell being reap pointed on the part of thoHOuato. Merrill Introduced a bill for tho issue of subsidiary silver coin- Referred to tlio committee nu finance. Butler Introduced a bill for tho erection ol a national memorial bridge over the Potomac river from Washington to Arlington. Itoforred to the committeo ou public buildings and grounds, Tim Kads ship canal bill was taken up and discussed until adjournment. HousH.Fob. 11. Tho following was In troduced by Mr. Lawler: Resolved, That tho becrotary of state bo requested to in form the house whether tho troaty of niient, by which peace was consummated botween tho United States and Great llrltaln In December, 1811. ratilled by tho senate in February, 1815, is construed to Inhibit the United States from maintaining an effective navy ou tho northern lake hordorinc tiie dominion of Canada, and also whether the construction by Great lir ta u of tho Welland canal is not, In effect, a violation id tlio treaty of Ghent, and In case of war witli that country, a menace to tho safety of our lakeboard cities. Sknatk, Feb. 15. Tho presiding olllcor presented a communication from the secre tary of tho treasury in regard to tho need ol impropriations lor a wharf and other building at Sitka, Alaska. Referred to tho committee on appropriation. Tho bill to increase tho naval establishment wuh taken up but not disposed of. Tho Kads Teliuanteplc bill was then consld eied. Van Wyek ottered an amendment that no stock shall bo issued until fully nald for in money at par valuo and no totals Issued until the full amount of the stock has been subscribed for, and 50 per rent, of It paid for. Vest modi Hod Van Wyck's amendment a to provide that no ivrtitUntlnn of stork shall be Issued until the same sha'l be fully paid for in money of its par valuo; that no bunds in excess of the amount of tho capital paid in, shall bo authorized or issued until such capital -hall amount to 510,000.000; and that no bonds shall bo disposed olitt less than their par value, l'eiidlug action, the bill wont over. Hoi-si:, Feb. 15. Hammond (Ga.) sub in it ted the conference report ou the antl Mormou bill and it was ordered prlutod and laid over. Thomas, (III.) from tho committee on naval affairs, submitted a report to Increase thenavul establishment. The house then went into committed of tho whole on the diplomatic and consular ap propriation bill. Varloun itomsof Increase In the compensation oi consuls were ruled out ou points ol order. Without com pleting consideration of tho bill the com mittee rose. Messrs. Cobb, Van Katon and I'ayson were appointed conferees ou the Northern I'uciuc luuu loneiiure mil. tub bouse then adjourned. Skhatk, Fob. 10. Doth parties In tho Kcnate held an "order of business" caucus this morning. The list of measures on the calendar, prepared by the republican cau cus committee, was laid before the demo cratlc caucus, and certain change were in dicated to the order in which it was desired the measures should come up. The scnato then resumed the consideration of the bill to increase the naval establishment. Sena tor Maxey Mipportcd the bill and said ho wu not only in favor of building war ves sels, but of fortifying every seaport in the country. The question was then taken on the amendment offered yesterday by Sena tor Hale and it was adopted without divi sion. Other amendments were adopted and tlio bill passed. Senator Illalr offered reso lution in honor of hi lato colleague, Sena tor I 'ike, and nddresscd tlio senate in eulo gy of the deceased Henator. After further culngiums by Senators Edmunds, Dolph, Manderson, Jones of Arkansas, Goorgo, HvartH. Palmer and Oheney tho resolutions were adopted and the senate, as a further mark of respect, adjourned. Hotmi:, Feb. 1C The houso to-day in lted upon it amendment to tho senate trade dollar bill and agreed to tho confer ence requested by the senate. Mr. Iiel mont, from tho committee on foreign af fairs, reported back tho senate retaliatory bill with ij substituto therefor, which was ordered printed and recommitted. Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, attempted to securo consideration of thepleuro-pnoumoniu. hill, but abandoned tho attempt when it was evident tlio point of no quorum would be raised against his motion. At 2 o'clock, in pursuance of tlio previous order, public business wan discontinued and Mr. Thoma. of Illinois, railed up the senate resolutions exprcssivo of respect to tlio memory of the Into John A. Logan. Kulo gies wore also delivered by Messrs. Butter worth, Ilolmnu. Hem!crou, of Iowa; Rog ers, McC'omiiH, Weaver, of Nebraska; Wil son, of West Virginia; Ciilcheon, Rico, O'llarn, Osborne, and Anderson, of Ohio, niid then a a further mark of respect to tlio memory of tlio deceased the house adjourned. DOTS AXD DASHES. D. T. Todd, the leading fruit-dealer at Do Monies, w us found dead In tlio Ice-box at his warehouse. The jiollce report that a Btioug odor of gas and chloroform pervaded the place, leading to a siipielon of suicide. Ills watch and chain lay on a box near his body. Maunders of largo niuches In Indian Terri tory re ort that the winter lias been the mildest lor live vear., and that the loss of stock will only he from 2 to 4 per cent. Ad vices from the Ycllowstouc ranges are to tho elloct that two hundred thousand head of cat tle are siiflenng terribly for grass and water, and carcasses can be counted by hundreds along the river. C. A. Scollcld, a leading citizen of Winni peg, was ou Saturday night killed In his olllce with a knife, mid hi-, body was dragged ta tho river and pushed down an air-hole. On a farm near California, Missouri. L. D, Wright and Miss ThoiiiDiou were killed by the .misting of u saw. The houso of representatives passed the sen ile hill for the retirement of the trado dollar, witli an amendment providing that its recoin .igo shall not count in the bullion required to be coined under the bland law. A bill has been introduced In tho Nebraska house to provide for the stamping of merchan dise made in the penitentiary. The Northern Pacific road Is building a car to supply light, heat, and pure water to pas senger tialus. It Is to bo placed Immediately behind the locomotive. An incendiary fire nt Anaconda, Montana, burned thirty buildings, valued ut $7.r,0OJ. The Knights of Labor have purchased for their general headquarters a building on North ltioad street, Philadelphia, for $(i.r),000. The United States government has 150,000 Smlnglleld rllles stored away, and is still iiiaimfaeruriug tho antiquated weapon at the rate of 40,000 per milium. General R. 11. Potter is reported to be se riously ill at Newport, Rhode Island. A Dispatch from Winnipeg announces tho death of Lieutenant Colonel MacKeant. who led tlio Ninetieth battalion in the campaign against I.ouisRiel. For the tlrst live weeks of 1S77 the railway construction was double that of the same period last year. A SEXSATIOX IS AUSTIX. A special from Austin, Tex., say: Thoro is qulto a sensation hero to-day among tho member of tho grand lodge of Odd Fellows, which ha been in session during tlio week. It is alleged that Mr. Thomas M. Joseph, of Galveston, and for ten years treasurer of the Grand lodge ol Odd Fellow of Texas, is short in his ac counts in a sum ranging nil tho way from 512,000 to 530,000. Suspicion wu tlrst formed nearly a year ago by a draft drawn ou Mr. Joseph being returned unpaid. Subsequently other drafts drawn ou him and which should have boon promptly honored, wore returned unpaid nnd an ex planation was demanded by tlio grand master. It was not satisfactory and the matter wa laid before thu lodge at this session. Mr. Joseph was present to bo re installed as treasurer for the coining year, ho having been re-elected at tho lust an nual meeting, but ou tho representations made by the grand master, the lodge be fore proceeding to install him, demanded a new and better bond and that he produce tho cash and United States bonds in tho lodge. tronsury amounting to about 530, 000, Ho left for tho ostensible purpose of complying but thus far has failed to re turn, nnd prominent otlicers of the grand lodge express tho opinion that ho is short Inpn In ri-.i Hiini. iierhan tho entire S30.- 000, There are also grave doubts about the solveucy of Ida boud, given n year ngo." S-IB llAVEXXA Tit A IX no nr. Masshxon, O., Feb. la Late last night a young, well-dressed nnd Intelligent woman went beforo Mayor irantz nuu mane a voiuu tnry statement which Is regarded ns nn im portant clue to at least the Identity of the thugs who assaulted Detectives iiuiugan ami lloehno nt Ravenua, and rescued the fur thief McMunii. Sho gavo her name ns Margery Robinson, and said she was the w ife of Edward Robinson, a nephew of John Rob inson, tho circus man. Sho says she wa In tho houso of Jennie Rogers, a Third avenue brothel In Pittsburg, ami assisted to secrete the lur wraps. Moieu irom iieneuivi oc uue iy in Cleveland. They were taken to the Roger house by an expressman. There was n regu larly orgauued gang oi croons numoenuK lllUClCm, Mill l III' lingers inmso nus ini'ir iu sort. Four - them. Tom lloddv. Joe John sou, Smith Carson and her hut-band, went to Alliance, via tho Fort Nuvuo mad, tlie even- lug preceding ye rescue oi .mc.muiui aim re turned to l'ituburg the following Mondav. Johnson was wouuded In the encounter, went to llarnshurg, Pa., and died there from the elfects of hi Injuries. The house was beareh ed three different times while Ihe furs were there, but the goods were uot discovered. 1 uey were stored In cupboards and Ice boxes In the basement In explanation as to why sho disclosed the secret the woman said tho Ltim had threat ened her life. She appealed to the mayor for protection ami giauiv couseuieu louectuiiiueu In the cltv prison, where she uow Is and will Iks held to await Instructions from the chief of police of Pittkburgli. Mr. Emtim Molloy Is conductlus revival at Vancouver when1 she went Iu search ol .Mrs, (iratiam, generally believed to have been murdered in Missouri. TUB VEPEXDEXT VEXSWXEllS. The Meature for Thtlr IXtUtf Vetoed by the Vrtstilent. ollowlng is the text of the presidents messnge vetoing the dependent parent pen sion bill: I hereby return, with my approval, houso bill No. 10,457, entitled "An net for the re lief of dopciidont parent nnd honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who are now disabled and dependent upon their own labor for support." This is tho first generHl bill that lias been sanctioned by congross since the closoof the lateclvil war, permitting a pension to soldiers and sailor who served in tliatwnr, upon the ground of Hervice and present disability uloiif. and the entire nbsenco of nny injuries received by c.iHulties or incidents of such services. While by almost constant leg:lution since the close of the war there hns been compen sation awarded for every poKsiblo injury received ns a result of military service in the Union nrmy and while a great number of lan a passed for that purpose have been administered witli great liberality and have been supplemented by numerous privnte uct to reach special enses, there has not, until now, been an avowed departure from the principle thus faradliered to respecting Union Boidicrs, that the bounty of the gov ernment in tho way of pension is generous ly bestowed when granted to those who in their military service, in tho lino of military duty, have to a greater or les extent been disabled. Kut it is a mistake to suppose that service pensions, nuchas are permitted by t he second section ol the bill under con sideration, uro now to our legislation. In 1818, tliirty-fiveyciir after the close of tlio revolutionary war, tiiere wero granted to soldier engaged in that struggle, condi tional upon sei-viceiintil the end of the war, or for a term of not less than nine mouths, ami requiring every beneficiary under the act to bo ouo "who is, or heiealter by rea son of Id reduced circumstances in life shall be, in need of nssistauro from his country for support. Another law of like character was passed iu 1828, requiring service "to tho close of tlio revolutionary war;" and still another, passed in 18!!2, provided for those perous not included in tlio previous statute, but who served two years at some time (luring the war and giv ing a proportionate sum to those that had served no less than six mouths. A ser vice pension law wn pased for tho benefit of the soldiers of 1812, in the year 18d, fifty-six years alter the close of that war and which required only sixty day' service nnd another was passed in 1878, Bixty-threo years after that war, requiring on'y fourteen days' Hervice. The service pension bill pushed at this session of ton gres, thirty-nine year after the close of tlio Mexican war; lor the ucnciit oi vuo siilditMH nf that wnr. I coilire either some degree of disability or dependency, or that the claimant under the provisions hiiouiu be G2 years of age; and in either case that he should huvo served sixty day or been actually engaged in battle. It will be seen that the bdl of 1818 and the Mexican pen sion bill being tluiH passed nearer the close of the wars in which its benificinries wero engaged than tho otheiH ono thirty-five vi-nrs ami thu other thirty-nine years after tlio termination of such wars embraced person who wero quite advanced in age, assumed to be comparatively few iu num ber, and whoso circuniMtances, Dependence and disabilities wero clearly dolined and could be quite easily fixed. The other law referred to appear to have been passed at a timo so remote Irom l tie mili tary service which they embrace that their ago alone was doomed to supply presump tion dependency and need. The number of endorsement iu tlio revolutionary war, i staled to lie :i0!),7,.tl, and in the war of 1812, 577,022; but it is estimated that on account id repeated re-enlistment tho number of individuals engaged in the wars did not exceed one-half of the number re presented by theso tlgures. In the war with Mexico, tlio number of enlistment was re ported to be 112,2:S0, which represent tlio gieater proportion of tlio individuals en gaged than the reported enlistment o! the two previous wars. Tlio number of pen sions granted under all laws to HoldierM of tlio revolution i given at 02,000; to soldier of t lie wnr of 1812, and thoir widows, 00,178; nnd to tho soldiors of the Mexican war, and their widows, up to Juno :t0, 1885, 7,01!).. This number of pensions was granted to the soldier of tlio wnr involving much hardship, for disabil ities incurred as tlio results of such service; and it wau not till within tlio Inst month that the few remaining survivors wero aw arded a service pension. Tho war of tho rebellion terminated nearly twenty-two years ago. Tho number of men fur nished for its prosecution i stated to bo 2,772,108. No corresponding number of statute have over been passed for every ind of injury or dissability incurred in tlio military service of any war. Under theso statutes, 5(11,570 ponsion havo been granted from the year 1001 to Juno !10, 1SS5. and more than 2,000 pensioners have been added to tho rolls by privnto act passed to meet case, many of them of questionable merit, which the general laws did not cover. On tlio first day of .lulv. 1800. :ill5.(7!l pcneioneis of all cIukso wero upon the pension rolls, of which ;10,505 wero survivors ol tlio war of the rebellion and their widow and depo'.identH. For the year ending Juno HO, 1SS7, 575,000,000 has been appropri ated for tlio payment of pensions and tlio amount expended for that purposo from lSlUtoJuly 1, 1880, is 5S0S.02 1,811. While annually paying out such a vast sum far pension already granted, it is now propimeilbytlie.bill under consideration to award a service pension to soldiers of all wars in which tho United State has been engaged, including, of course, tlio war of the rebellion, and to pay those entitled to the benefits of the net 512 per mouth. Sofnrnsit telate to t lie soldier of the lato civil wnr, the bounty it affords them is given thirteen years earlier than It has boon furnished to the soldiers of any othor war, and beforo a largo majority of its ben ellclarios advanced in ago beyond tho strength and vigor of the prime of life. It exacts only a military or naval servico of three mouths, without any requirement of actual engagement with the enemy in bat tle, and without subjection to any of the actual requirements of tlio actual dangers of war. Tho pension it awards is allowed to enlisted men who have not suffered the least injury, disability, loss or damage of any kind, in curred In, or iu any degree referable to, their military servico, including tlioso who never reached the front at all, and those discharged from rendezvous at the close ol tho war, il discharged three month aftor enlistment Under tho lust call of thopre- Ident for troops, in December, 1SG1, 11, 303 men were furnished who were thus dis charged. The section allowing till pension does, however, require, beside a service of three months and uu honorable dischnrge, that those seeking the benellt of the act shall be such a "are now or may hereafter be eufferfng Irom mental or physical disa bility not the result of their own vicious habits or gross carelessness which inca pucitates them for the performance of labor in such a degreee as to render them unable to earn a support, and who are de pendent upon their daily labor for sup port." It provide further that such per son shall, upon making proof of t lie tact, "be placed on the list of invalid pension era of t lie I' luted States and be entitled to receive for such totul (nihility to procure their subsistence by d kly labor, $12 per month, and such pension shall commence from the tlato ol the tiling oi tne applica tion in tho persiou ofllce, upon proof that I disability then existed and continued dur ing the existence ol the same in tne debtee herein provided; provded, that persons whoaienow receiving pensions under ex isting laws or whose claims ate pending in tli pension olllce, y, by application to the commissioner ol pensions, iu such form as be mny prescribe, receive tlio benellt of this net." It is manifestly of the utmost importance that the statutes, which, like the pension laws, should be liberally ad ministered hm measure of benevoluiu-e in beliall of monthly beneficiaries, should admit of no uncertainty as to their geh'inl objects and consequences. Upon careful consideration of the language of the section of this bill above given, it seems to me to lie so uncertain nnd liable to such conflicting constitutions and to be subject to such unjust and mischievous applica tion as to alone furnish sullicieiit gi-i.tiud for disapproving the proposed legislation. Persons seeking to obtain a pension pro vided by this i-octiou must be now or here after suffering from mental or physical dis ability;" "Biicli disability must not be the result of their own vicious habits or gloss carelessness;" such disability must lie such a "incapacitates them from the pel form anco of labor in such digree as to render them unable to earn u support;'' they must be "dependent uron their daily labor for support;" upon proof of theso condi tions they shall be "placed on the list of invalid pensioners of the United States and be entitled to receive for such total in ability to procure, their subsistence by daily labors, 512 per month." It is not probable that the words last quoted, ("such total inability to procure their subsistence by daily labor'') at all qualify the conditions prescribed iu the preceding Inugiiagx of the section. The "total inability" spoken of must be "such" inability ulleail.y described and constituted by conditions already detailed iu previous parts of the section. It thus becomes im portant to coiibidcr the meaning uud scope of tlie hist mentioned conditions. Tho mental and physical disability spoken of, has a distinct meaning in the practice of the pension bureau, and includes every impairment of bodily or mental Htrciigth and vigor. For such disabilities these are uow paid 131 different rates of pen sion, ranging from 51 to 5100 per mouth. This disability must not be tlie result of tho applicant's "vicious habits or gross carelessness." Practicably, this provision is not important. Tlie attempt of tlie gov ernment to escape the payment of pension on such a plea would of course in a very large majority of instances, and regard les-i of tho merits of tlie case, prove a failure. There would be that strange, but nearly universal willingness to help an individual a between him and the public treasury which goe very far to insure n state of proof iu favor of tlie claimant. The disa bility of applicants must be such as to "in capacitate them for the peiformunce of labor in such degree as to render them un able to earn a support." It will be observed that there is no limitation nor deliuation of the incapacity, injury, or tlio ailment iuself. It need only be such a de giee of disability from any cause as ren ders tlie claimant unable to earn a support by labor. It seems to mo that "support" here mentioned as one which cannot be eurned is complete, and entiresupport with no diminution ou account of the least im pairment of physical or mental condition. Jf it has been intended to embrace only tlioso who, by disease or injury, were totally unable to labor, it would have been very easy to express that idea instead ol recog nizing, a is done, tlie "degree" of such in ability. What is support? Who is to de termine whethrr a man earns it, or has, or 1 1 ic it not? Is the government to enter tlie ho. nes of the claimants for pension and, lifter an examination of their surroundings nnd cirutmtunces, settle these questions? Shall the government say to one man that bin manner of subsistence by his earnings is support, and to another that thu thfngs which his earnings farniuh are not support? Any attempt, however honest, to admin ister this law iu such a manner would necessarily produce more unfairness and unjust discrimination and give more scope lor partisan partiality, uud would result iu more perversion of tlie government's benevolent intention than the execution of any statute ought to permit. if iu tlie effort to carry out the proposed law, the degree of disability, as related to earnings, be considered for tlio purposo of discovering if in any way it curtail tho support which tlie applicant, if entirely sound, would earn and to which lie is en titled, wo enter a broad field long occupied by the pension bureau, and wo recognize ns tlio only difference between tlie proposed legislation and previous laws passed for the benellt of the soldiers of the late civil war. It must be borne in mind that in no case is there any grndingof this proposed ponsion. Under the operation of tlie rule tlrst sug gested, il there is a reduction in any degree of the support which ho might earn if eoiind, he is entitled to a pension of 512. iu tlie latter ease, and under the provision of tlio proposed bill, permitting persons now receiving pensions to be admitted to the benefit of the uct, I do not seo how those now on tlie pension roll for disabili ties incurred in tlie service, and which di minish their earning capacity, can be de nied tlie pension provided iu this bill. 01 course none will npply who nre receiving 512 or more per month, but June au, 1880, there wero on Mie pension rolls 202,. 021 persons who were receiving 58 different rates of pension, from 51 to 511.75 per month of these 28,142 were receiving 51 per month, 18, 52 per mouth; 01,110 5-1 per month; 37,251. 50 per mouth, and 50,274 whose disabilities were ri-d us to tal, 58 per month. As to the meaning of a section of tlie bill under consideration there appears to have been quito a differ ence of opinion among its advocates iu con gress. The chairman of the committee on pensions in tlie house of representatives who reported the bill, declared that there was in it no provision for pensioning any one who litis a less disability llian a toiui dis ability to labor; and H at it was a charity measure. The chairman ol the committeo on pensions in the senate, having charge of the bill in that body, dissented from the construction of the bill announced iu tlio house of representatives and declared that it not only embraced all soldiers totnlly disabled, but iu his judgniDlit, nil who are disabled to any considerable extent, and such construction was substantially given to the bill by another distinguished sen ator who, as former secretary of the in terior, had imposed upon him tlie duty of executing the pension laws nnd determining their intent nnd meaning. Another condi tion required of tlie claimants under this act is that they are "dependent upon their daily labor for support." This language, which may be said to assume that there exists within reach of tho persons men tioned "labor," or tho inability in somo degree to work, is more aptly used in the statute describing those not wholly de prived of tins ability than in one which deals with those utterly unable to work. 1 urn of the opinion that it may fairly be contended that, under tire provisions of this section, any soldier whose faculties of mind or body become unpaired by acci dent, disease or age, irrespective of his ser vice in the army as a cause, and who by his labor oulv is left incapable of support, which hs might, with unimpaired power, have provided lor himself, and who U not so well endowed with this world's goods, as to live without work, mny claim to par ticipate In its bounty; that it is not re quired that he should be without property, but only that labor should be neceBsary to liu support iu some degree, nor is it re quir d that lie should beuow receiving sup port from others. Believing this to be the proper interac tion of the hill, the president can nut but remember that the sold ersof the civil war received, in their par and bounty, such compensation as soldiers never received before, anil that since tlie war more has been done for them than for nny other soldiers in history. Hitherto such relief had been granted to only soldier few in number, venerable in ng, ix ter a long lapse of time since their military service and ns a parting benefaction by a grateful people. The president continues by snylng that he thinks that vutersiM who regard the firesent pension roll as n roll of honor do not desire to see tho roll increased by charity seekers whose cuiim i based upon alleged dependence; that fraud has been used in securing pensions and could and would be resorted to again; that tho cHtimute ol probable cost to the government i tdo small, viewed in the light nf pension history since tho days of the pus ige of t he Ilrst of the pension nets; that the country is still groaning under a burden nf taxation, made necessary by the wnr, and that the popu lar wisli is against adding to that load; that the cost of maintaining a large stand ing army would uot be so great as the cost of maintaining an increased pension roll. I am not willing to approve a measure pre senting tlio objections to which this bill is subjected, nnd which moreover will have the effect of disappointing Uie expectation of the people and their desire nnd hope for rebel from war taxation in timo of peace. I cannot do otiiorwise tlian to brine to the consideration of tills mensuro my best efforts of thought nnd judgment and pei form my constitutional duty in re lation thereto regardless of all conse quences, except such us appear to me to be related to the beat and highest interests of tho country. A MTSTEllT SOLVED. l'lnlicrton Says the llotk Island Iloboery and Jturdtr lt'ill be Cleared. Chicago dispatch: Pinkerton is about to duplicnte his success. He has caught nnd sentenced tho robbers of tho Missouri ex press, and now hns, it is believed, tlio nu thors of tho Rock Island crime in which Kellogg Nichols, tho messenger, was mur dered. Tho velvet-footed men have acted with extraordinary circumspection nnd Mr. Schwartz of Philadelphia, has told about all ho knows. Pinkerton bus all his money; that is, all be received from the robbery, with tlio exception of S3.000. Tlie statement Hint "Dill" Gallagher, Schwartz' cellmate, gave up anything of iinportunce, or in fact anything at all, is pronounced by Pinkerton as a diabolical canard. It is a long story, but n usunl, murder will out. Continued pumping by Pinkerton ha resulted in tlio squealing of Schwartz. Hei chicken hearted and lacks "gall," and when pressed told all lie knew, m it is said. Ho, witli others, planned tho robbery. The murder fell to a third man who i unknown to anyono but Billy Pin kerton, and tlio murderer i not in n posi tion to be renched, at least to-night. Ilia colleagues took two men out of lliiiikiu'e gambling den nt a lute hour to-night, but what thoy are wanted for is vain to conjec ture. Schwartz i as good as salted. Wil liam Pinkerton told a Republican reporter at nn early hour thin morning that tho Rock Island express robbery nnd the mur der of Messenger Nichols would be cleared up within lorty-eiglit hours. OATTI.BMEX IX COXVICXTWX. Denver special: The second day' session of tlio Range association began this morn ing. After somo preliminary work J. II, Brusli of Colorado introduced two resolu tions; Hie first demanding retrenchment in tlio expense of dressing and shipping beef cattle; tlio second demand that tlie gov ernment shall give tlie range cattlemen bet ter weather service A resolution wns adopted thanking President Cleveland lor prompt response to the telegram of Presi dent Head iu relation to Hie memorial on contagious disease. Communications wore received from tho National Butcher asso ciation and Brooklyn Butcher' association asking for co-operat'on for the benefit of butcher nnd cattle grower. Mr. McGal lan of Cleveland, O., addressed the associa tion and charged tho commission men na being tlie cause of cuttle men not getting just prices. Heclo-ed by offering a p'-m to organize nn immense corporation partici pated iu by all cattlemen which should butcher uud market all cattle and sell direct to consumer. Several other utiim poi taut addresses wero made. The after noon session was taken up by the discus sion nnd revision of tho constitution and by-laws. I'EAlt DEMOHAL1ZA TIOX. Chicngo dispatch: Managers of western railways appear lost nnd greatly in fenr of a demoralization of rates during tho period elapsing before tlio inter-state commerce law takes effect, tliero being already a seem ing indication ol a relaxation in pool authority. To-day tlie general freight agents of tlie Southwestern Railway asso ciation liucH wore in session hero giving tlie subject consideration. They concluded that action would have to bo taken by nil tlie western lines in hnriuony to avert the pending trouble. For this reason no action wa taken at tho meeting beyond agreeing that a general conference should be held to-morrow by tho general malinger of the southwestern nnd northwestern lines, at which nn ngreement will lie reached, and if possible maintain tlie present tariff rates until the interstate law goes into effect FOUR J HEAT TAllKh SUITS. St. Louis dispatch: Col. R. I). Lanaster, Biirveyor of tho port, and an Intimate friend of Sonator Vest, will file in tlie circuit court to morrow or Monday libel Bints ngninst the New York Herald, the New York Trihuno, Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette and John M. Glover the JainngeB ' eaeli ense being placed at 5100.000. ton gressmnu Glover, who has been lor year a bitter political foo of Lancaster, recently wrote an open letter to Senator Vest, which wns given general circulation among politicians, nnd which charged I Lancaster witli grave political crimes. Tlie papers named are alleged to have printed Rome of the allegations made iu the lotter in their issues ol January 25. AMEEICAX CAltDlXALS IX HOME. Romb, Feb. 13. The American cardinals arrived iu Rome this evening. Father O'Con ucll rector of the American college, met them at Genoa. They were met at the depot by Archbishop Cake of Melbourne, and Klrby, of tho Irish college. Bishop Keane of Rlchmoud, Mgr. Callahan, Stover, Straneiro, Count Muccloll, Vico Rector Deasy aud many promi nent laymen. Cardinal Gibbons will make hia home here in the American college, being as signed to the apartments formerly occupied by the late Curdlnal McCioskey. A Tit AO Eli Y UXEAltTlir.O' Denver special: This morning new of ft terrible tragedy was received from Houlder county. On Monday last Weniloline Mole a Germnu ranchman on tlie lelt hand ol the creek, shot hi child dead and II red two bullets into ills w die's breast, leaving her lor dead. He then tied to the mountains. Mrs. Mole cannot recover. ""'"; tw days the start, tlie murder is still at large, No cause whatever U Uuwn for the act.