Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-11
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Cameron,s Southern Tour.

III
.AsHrSGroS, January l0.-Simon
Ceron is abont to visit the South, and
vxtend his tour TO Cuba. He will
la Harrisburg about January 10.
Sopolitical significance is supposed
toseh to this trip, as it is understood
ne visit Malone at Petersburg, and
alsye conferences in other States.
ressional Apportionment Bill.
uessman Cox, OF New York,
Chan of the House Committee on
the Sus, arrived here Saturday night.
he ets to introduce his Apportion-
menf on next Wednesday er Thurs
day. bill will provide for about 800
mend
Pension Points.
Thbwing interview has been held
with missioner Bentley on the
pensio oestion; ..
"Wb YOU estimate will he the
total CO the luxury called the Ar
rears a the tsx-pSyers?'
tnhe aggregate cost to the peo-
pie as tsult OF this measure. includ-
ing the ,al pensions upon these new
cases am S25, 600, COO already paid
to the Customers May be set down
as not lee Ia S400,000, 900, and this is
liable 10 Creased il the percentage
OF the ciab be disallowed should be
reduced on this latter point 1t
Will Do - understand that the
percentassraudulent claims among
the lsZ,OU claims filed after the
passage OF ct, is less than the per-
centage oiaudulent claims among
those hied the six or eight years
preceding, iurther, the desire for
pensions wro means as GREAT as at
. present.
"How mu you estimate is lost
; through all hleut claims"
Ihe amo bald out upon such
} claims Is ihble to be estimated
l With any deg accuracy, We nave
D only one eeHasis to figure upon,
/ and that Is TINS which we discover
!. to be actual These discoveries,
T however, are At always brought
about by someent. Some person,
= throuSh maiicsrd the pensionSr,
will allsge that NOT entitled TO a
/, pension, perhsa sating the ground.
+ Some overslgMaps, in proving a
= case before il ISL viii attr,ct at.
/ tention anu arc rospicion against it
:, V When suspicion rsed by these or
= any other means nv il made. and il
I they are well srv an investigation
n il had. IL IL tult OF these in
- vest cations thaititute the only
means that We to estimate the
n' amount OF fraud. .se lead me to
- the opinion that ount paid out
le annually in fraudt asss and in ex.
"a cessive PENSIONS, ss that $, ,00O,- :
10 coo, or ten per cen appropriation
N provided by the aact."
IA "what, under tsent svstem.
will be the probabh, h pension ex.
penditure during ext Eve or six
years.
"Without the Chi sxstem Of
settling claims whicie proposed.
nv the annual pensions Ter with the
u first payments on nSions will be
,as so, ,O0O,O 900, and apwr Ar least six
w ne wears TO come.
Library Building Chi s.,is.-Not
,rt for .Gr
le. wAsuISaToS, Janus The hill
ers reported by Senator "a to-day
nv. from the Committee av antbor.
OF king the construction library
building provides forGon Of a
ing fire-proof bnildiag on ~: ois, =
al according to the plan ued nv
A Joint select committee nv hr;l5.
inc. The bill approprh ,;Ii;on
Ave hundred thousand 20 com
meuce the constructors so mo-
q. vides il shall be in chap"Un - pS
The sion composed OF the Se Of ,bs
vas Interior, the Architect S,,;,nI
nto and the Librarian oil Com ar,
avy the appropriations shall D. , hv
Test the Secretary Of the Inter seu W
The President sent the
ling treaties to the Senate tod dNse
the ecutiye session they wsr "a -
| all the committee on foreign = W
The Sub committee Of u
ON military affairs had und ,s.ee
ton a bill to make Gen. Grt.;
lead General and will report adv ," =
and full committee.