, 1881-11-27
Samuel J. Tilden's Sly Methods Said
to Show Through the
Affair.
Program Arranged blythe Committee for
the Coming Tariff anu Cur
rency Convention.
The American Book Exchange, or Liter
a1y Revolution Put into the
Hands Of Receiver.

HEE PHYSICAL CONDITION HE4l1klNd tON-
ST-ANT CARE.
sp+eta! Diypa:eh 10 The Chicago Tribune
NEW yonk, Nov. I.-Nrs. Abraham Lincoln
st nre<ent resides nj No ~ West Twcnty-sfxth
street. this city, where she is undergoing 4
et,,,rse If electrical treatment Her phrsicAl
c,ndition, white not precarnus, Is such us to
demand cnustaut care. for she Is troubled with
a spinal difficulty TINT renders it impossible for
her to walk, and which will unqnes1ionab!y
keep her On her back the remainder of her d.sys.
Mentally Mrs. Lincoln is active and clear, taiks
With rapidly, and Is pleased to meet her friends
who may call to visit her I spent two hours
with her this afternoon. the conversation
turning mainly upon tho subject now upper
must In her mind. and which has during the
past week received and excited great amount
OF criticism, which IS
THE POSSIBLE iScEEAsE OF HER PENSION
lsr COSGEISS.
Mrs Lincoln says she nns felt much grieved to
hear that the people OF Illinois should give e1-
pressoa to any such stu1emen1s as have tound
their way into the press concerning her. and
she knows full well the particular source from
which these reports have cmanated and the
personal feelings which have prompted thetn-
This Government, she says, owes 1t to her to see
that sh: Is provided for in manner that her
wants may he fully met. and there Is no reason
why Ehe should not receive the same consfdera-
tion at the hands OF the Nation that may be cOi1-
templntcd for another. Not on her own ac-
count so much as an act Of justice 1o the ,1ieni-
orr OF a man to whom this Nation owes great
debt Of gratituGe-Abrnhnm Lincoln. So far as
her present financial condition is concerned,
Mrs. Lincoln says most positively that she has
htr. She is under expenses, medical and other.
which are latge no matter how simply she may
live. and rs for being
A CHARITY SUBJECT
On the hands of her relatives, she will never
consent to that. Some had criticised her son
Rcbert because be did not t:tke curG OF her. Sho
did not desire to have him do so for he had his
own brood 10 look after and had his hnnds full.
His kind heart had urged this many times, aud
also his wife had done the same, bur she hnd is-
sisted that it was her duty to live upon her own
resources, for she did not care to Take from him
that which should 20 to bis own fam.ly- There
Mrs. Lincoln. and and it ,.'1s was now ' freshly Ills
repeated within The past two dnys ia
*:iuO from Congress, and that Tie interest
upon this sum added to her s3vuO pension ought
to be enough to maintain her handsomely. There
never was greater faisehoOd uttered.
CONGRESS NEVER GAVE nE1: S75,00o.
Rut BIT Immediately after her husbands death 10
*:,5eo which Mr: t. 3, wasnnlrno ' Succeeded % IL
,h aa sf eo hes e no to
purchased house on West Washington street,
payang therefor Sls000. and n addition to this
expenditure She laid out a considerable amount
for furniture, 50 that she bad very little left
after thia transaction from tn5 original amount
OF The appropriation. She finally found that it
would cost more than She could afford to keep
I'D The house. SO she told her son Robert Lincoln
thai II be would pay her 500 year for period
Of seven Years he might have the property. He
agreed to this, and
PAlD THAT sun ANNUALLY.
The property much Of the time failed to pay
more than half thar revenue, so he WIS Obliged
Sne also rave 1o Robert the hunse In Spring.
neid. which was very old, her husband having
ooo3ht It in 1919, and worth but little. BUT she
SAYS She was prompted III both instances by a
a aes1e n Ihat her son should have something Of
Enat the country had given her il consideration
lor his fathers services. Not until july
r. !s'u, more t1nn five years after
fFes!deuts Lincoiu's death. did Congress sec
NJ TO grant her pension. The orisina, design
aIas ~ 70 @ secure her $5 but It was but to S;k
heF had been voted, advised her not to accept,
rs It wRs
fAI BELOW WHAT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN
GIVEN uEI:.
hut the felt that $4,000 was eycu better than
1sotnlng, and her necessities compelled her to
ustaine 10 act upon his urYcnt advice. Ehc had
rrtNaSs endearorcd to live fruxAlly, and when tu
ianca she lived like peasant, III small upart-
.neats, and had not spent her time truvuling,
making bur infrcqucnt visits to l1aly. WHITTIER
nns ene *eut ~ ~tntcr TN account OF her health.
otten OF late she hnd been obltgc.i 10 borrow
a.uaeJ on her pension claim III order to meet her
iiaptnses+ It uutttrs not. 6hu says. what jacob
nHo.oesos H., nobody. Sue had not enough muncy to
co. ~ oa. md she felt that it was but the duty OF
.uaefess to increase her pension ut least to an
41aouat IN Keeping with her necessities.