Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-14

pad the preceding year. OF this
amount - ,3l5, 400 was paid. under act
OF Congress, tn survivors of the war of
1872. The increase of pensions by
legislation of Congress has more than
kept pace with the natural yearly losses
from the rolls. The act of Congress of
June 8, 1872, has added an estimated
amount of $3.50, 900 per annum to the
rolls, without increasing the number of
! pensioners. We cannot, therefore,
look fCr any substantial decrease in the
expenditures of this bureau for some
time 10 come, or as long as Congress
continues to change the dates Of pen
sions. The whole number of soldiers
enlisted in the war Of the rebellion was
2,6SS, 1913. The total number of claims
for invalid pensins is II ,5O-emlisted
men. The total number of claims on
hand at the beginning of the year was
81, 7G9. The number received during
the year was 1854; the number dis
posed of, 35, 17S-making net gain Of
1864. The number of claims now on
file is 7G,0S5. On the 3Oth of June,
1872, there were on the rolls the names
of 9,545 invalid military pensioners,
1883 widows, orphans and depend
ent relatives, making an aggregate of
20S, 1923 army pensioners. At the same
time there were on the rolls the names
of l ,449 navy pensioners and 1,730
widows, orphans and dependent rela-
tives, making the whole number of ma
val pensioners 3,179. There have been
received, since the passage of the act
to provide pensions for survivors of the
war of 1912, 36,551 applications prior
to June 80, 1872. Of these there were
allowed, during the last fiscal year, 90
126 claims; 4 ,S45 were remanded during
the year, leaving II $50 claims pending
at that date. The number of pensions
of all claims granted during the last
fiscal year was 1928. During that pc
Rod there were dropped from the rolls,
for various causes, GA, leaving the
grand total 232, 229 pensioners on the
rolls on the 3Oth of June, 1872. 1t is
thought the claims for pensions on ac-
count of the war of 1912 will be dis
posed of by the first of May, 1873. It
is estimated that $40, 4SO, 900 will be
required for the pension service during
the next year.
THE CENSUS.
The ninth census, about completed,
is the subject of congratulation, mas
much as the use to be made of the sta
tistics therein contained depends very
greatly upon the promptitude of pub
LEGATION. The Secretary of the Interior
recommends that a centenary census be
taken in 1875, which recommendation
should receive the ready attention of
Congress. The interval ut present es-
tablished between the Federal censuses
is so long that the information obtaiued
at the periods of the material condition,
wants and resources of the nation is of
little value after the expiration of the
first half of that period. 1t would
probably Obviate the constitutional pro-
vision regarding the centenary census,
if the census of 1875 should be Invested
of all political character and no appOr-
tionment of Congressional representa-
ton be made under it, Such census,
coming as it would in the last year of
the first century of our National exist
ence, would furnish general monu-
ment of the progress of the United
States during that century.
EDUCATION.
The rapidly increasing interest in ed
ucation is the most encouraging feature
in the history of the country, and it is
no doubt true that this is due in great
measure to the efforts of the Bureau of
Education. That Office is continually
receiving evidence, which abundantly
proves it's efficiency, from various insti-
buttons of learning and education of all
kinds throughout the country. The
report of the Commissioners contain a
vast amount of educational details of
great interest. The bill now pending
in Congress, providing for an appro-
priation of part of the proceeds on the
sales of public lands for educational
purposes, to aid the States in the gem
eral education of the rising generation,
is of such great importance to oar real
progress and so unanimously approved
by leading friends of education, that
commend it to the favorable attention
of Congress.
THE TERRITORIES.
hAuiIS III UlC 1CIIlCOIlcS iLIc pclIcTtll-
ly satisfactory. The capacity of the
pioneers who are settling up the vast
domains not yet Incorporated into
States is keeping pace with internal
improvements, and with the older COM
munities. In but one of them, Utah,
is the condition of affairs unsatisfactory
except SO far as the quiet of citizens
may be disturbed by real or imaginary
danger of Indian hostilities. It has
seemed to be the policy of the Legisla-
ture of Utah to evade all responsibility
to the Government of the United States,
and even to hold position of hostility
to it. I recommend careful revision
of the present laws of that Territory by
Congress, and the enactment of such a
law as the one proposed in Congress at
it's last session, for instance, or some
thing similar to it, as will secure the
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