The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-15
WmhinxtonN Notes.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 8, 1878.
The Senate Pension bill that passed
the House the first of the week has net
Yet been signed by the president,
though no enc doubts he will do so.
Under it every officer, enlisted and
drafted men who can prove IA days ac-
tus1 service during the war OF 1912, or
participation in any one of its engage
ments, and who was honorably dis
charged, is entitled to 80 per month, or
such part of that sum as will give him
with pension now received, that
amount monthly. Of course those
now receiving that amount are not en-
titled under this bill. The widows of
all soldiers who would, if living. be
entitled, are themselves entitled, pro-
vided they have never remarked. The
law Is not retroactive. In other words
pension is only due from the passage
of the act. The effort made to exclude
| from its benefits all such as voluntarily
went into the rebellion was defeated,
as Democrats are generally opposed to
discrimination that would tell so
heavily against their party. All spec
if1c information relative to the matter
will be cheerfully furnished free by
Gilmore & Co., of this city.
A careful scrutiny OF the record will
show that about all of any Importance
that has been done by Congress since
it assembled in extra session last OctO-
Der, is the passage of the silver bill. Six
long months FILTERED away In bonn
bastic speeches; and the prime work.
ers in the reconciliation movement
are more unhappy to-day than when
the initiatory step was taken, because
iHfiation, from present appearances,
has received its quietus. The large
fnumber of bills introduced to revive
the more Objectionable features of the
Bland bill are conclusive of their in
tention to continue the agitation. But
large majority of both houses appear
content with what has already been
accomplished in the way of general
financial legislation; and the speedy
decline of gold and the appreciation OF
government securities since the pas
sage of the bill over the veto, tends to
confirm the opposition against any
doubtful experiments. 1 verify be-
lieve bills and resolutions enough have
been introduced since last October to
keep Congress busy five years, were
they all to be deliberately taken up
and disposed of according to routine
but only few, happily, will ever be
reported from the Committee rooms
They will die there. The President
has tipped the fat all in the fire by We
tOing the bill sent him to secure to the
timber thieves immunity from punish
ment. What he has gained through
II weary months Reconciliation" and
by turning Republicans out of Office tC
put in Democrats, he has lost in ons
; short hour by refusing to extend tC
this class of public plunderers thu
: same grace that saved thousands O
= political murderers in the South from
the gallows which the enormity o
their crimes had richly merited. Con
ciliated Ewing brothers" are as a rul,
OF the kind that havn'r a word of com
a mendation for the ninety and min
favors rendered, ii the hundredth i
I. denied. The abuse is just as rank, tn
ing ratitude just as outspoken as thougI
they had each and all been refused
IF the Republican persecution
, fhHnn0hnu$ %
since specification" was first inaugu
rated and the whisky war on the rev
Il enue officials all through that region
q are not enough to prove the genera
feeling of hatred and hostility still
9 cherished against the government an,
= those who contributed to defeat sc
oil cessien, the new outbreak in behalf O
!. the timber thieves ought surely TO b
!. sufficient. The whole gulf coast /
virtually in arms against tie govern
ment because it would protect its oWr
i. And the insolent speeches of ''Ios
= Cause representatives in Congress, an
their supercilious manners toward
Republicans and their spineiess apollo
b gist are q constant rebuke to thos
: who haYe labOred under the guise @
9 friendship to manscle the loyal ele
9 ment in and out of Congress, and to re
!. habilitate the Southern braggart of hi
= Whimpering Northern lick-spittIe.
One Of the appropriation bills ha
got through at last. But the ship Q
State was brought up all standing yes
: terday BY proposition of the econc
mists to make past alleged Repub
!, lican corruption and extravaganza
> pretext for appointing to fat place
half dozen more of the loafers an
: dead beats hanging about town. TIL
? pretext was the need of that amour
e iof eexperts" to GloYer's Committee
0 Ia search of partizaR capital. Poll
with all his ingenuity was unable q
!. provide for all of these Ioag-haired
s uhisky-guzzling hangers-on. The.
q are generally constituents OF the chiV
d alrlc members from the South, or tn
0 old chronic Democratic ofi1ce-seeksr Q
: lYashington. They can turn thei
Z hand 70 almost anything except homes
} labor. They hang about hotel
Q by day, or around the Capitol, eubsist
Q ing on free lunches.
q or ali the humbugs that have eve
2 lcufsed the face Of this fair planet ere
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