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The National tribune., 1882-05-20

IT is the duty Of soldiers to stand bg each
other, and not the less because they came
of upinjured from the field of battle ought
they TO interest themselves IN all questions
relating to pension legislation. The senti-
ment of ccnradeship should impeI them to
second the efforts of their less fortunate
brothers to secure justice at the hands of
Congress, and they cannot make better
beginning than by subscribing for THE Ma
T!oNAL TRIBUNE, the un1ailing champion
Of the soldiers cause.
The National tribune., 1882-05-20

sailors-thereby giYing the Commissioners
power to exclude them entirely-and the
committee in reporting it proposed as an
amendment that this section be stricken out
and the following inserted in it's place: "ln
the appointment of policemen under this
act the District Commissioners shall, when
all other qualifications are equal, give
preference to those applicants who have
been honorably discharged from the volun-
teer service Of the Union army. No ap-
pointment shall be made to the police force
Of any person who has not been a resident
of the District for three months Immediately
preceding his appointment"
1t was this amendment that provoked
discussion. Mr.. Robeson at once pointed
out that it made the appointment of ex-
soldiers and sailors discretionary with the
commissioners, instead of obligatory upon
them as provided by the existing statute,
and that it amounted virtually to q repeal
of the latter-keeping the promise to the
ear, but breaking to the hope, and in reply
Mr.. Urner in behalf of the committee, en-
deavored to show thai it was simply in
tended to harmonic the statute with the
general law providing that preference should
be given the Union soldier over the civilian
in filing public Offices. AS the debate pro-
ceeded, however, the ground was cut from
under his feet by the establishment of the
fact that the commissioners had already at
tempted to evade the existing statute by
the adoption of a rule to appoint no person
over forty years Of age-thereby excluding
of course, all soldiers and sailors OF the late
war-and that so far as the Departments
ence had been dead letter for the last ten
years. The debate resulted finally in the
defeat both of the repeating section and the
committees amendment, but not, we regret
to say, until some Of the Democratic mem
bers-with the notable exception of Mr.
Holman, of Indiana-had taken the oppor-
tunity to depreciate the qualifications Of the
soldier.
We have alluded at length to this subject
in order to make clear to our readers the
character of the opposition which every
attempt to maintain the rights of the soldier
and enforce his claims is sure to arouse. In
this case the Democratic vote of the House
was cast solidly against the retention Of the
statute providing for the employment Of ex-
soldiers and sailors on the District police
force, and that, too, after Representative
McLane, Cox, Randall, and other Democrats
leaders had made labored arguments to shGw
that the Democratic party during and since
the war had been as much a soldiers party
as that whose votes prevented the repeal Of
the statute. With parties, as parties, THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE has no concern, but it
would be remis5 in its duty to its r Ier.
did it fail to record such a significant .a
ion on party lines as that which We F+
Just cited. Well may the soldier
Whose is not with me is against me!
The National tribune., 1882-05-20
rsTtalD AZ me ~ssnoToH r0s70Froz As ssooaaosss TTt7
WASHINGTON, D. c., MAY 20, 1852.

In foraodrdj,-y his subscription for THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE from Laurence, BASS,
Gen. Gcc~os S. NcrriU Commander ia-C Chief OF
the Grad Army Of the Republic, says;
"THe bold Gdcocdcg Of TIE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE of the rights Of the soldier cIjcitS my
hearty approval Keep on as goa hare begun,
and do not consider your 'rork accomplished
until eccTy soldier 1cEo as entitled to a pension
receircs at, and erery soldiers 'cido'c Gad erery
soldiers child are prorjded for by the Gorern-
gnent. (SiGncd) GEO. S. MERRILL
The National tribune., 1882-05-20

THE coming National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at Baltimore,
on the 21st Of June, promises to be, in many
respects, the most notable gathering Of the
Order that has taken place since it was
founded. The attendance viii probably
reach fifteen or twenty thousand, and as the
great majority of the Posts VIII be in uni
form, the opening parade win unquesticn.
ably be very imposing spectacle. Our
readers viii find q full account, in our Bait
more correspondence, Of the arrangements
that have been made for the reception and
entertainment of the Veterans, and it will be
observed that they are of the most liberal
and generous character. The City Council
of Baltimore has appropriated the sum Of
five thousand dollars towards detraying the
expenses Of the occasion, and private contri-
buttons viii swell the available fund to
fifteen OF twenty thousand dollars The
programme of festivities, so far as it has
parade on the first day Of the encampment,
which viii be participated in by 5000 mill
tia, including several well known confeder-
ate organizations from Virginia; a grand
Campfire and banquet in the evening at
Schuetzen Park, and an excursion down the
Chesapeake Bay on, the afternoon of the
second day. In connection with these pub
lie acts of hospitality, numbeTless private
couItesies viii undoubtedly be extended to
the Veterans, and the hearts, as well as the
houses of the good people of Baltimore, win
be thrown open to them. We may be cure
they will prove worthy of their welcome
ONE HUNDRED millions for pensions and
one hundred and fifty millions for the 1e-
duction of the national dcbt-now, which is
the more sacred debt Of the two?
The National tribune., 1882-05-20
Official Organ of the Grand Army.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SIXTEENTH

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SIAIELNIH
NATIONAL ENCANPMENT G.. 4. r.,
BALTIMORE, March 81, 1882
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
SIR: am so much pleased NTH the fearless
advocacy of the soldiers interests pursued by
your Ecper that I hcue taken a personal interest
in introducing 1t into this Department. I fur
tier desire to make it the OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
THIs COMMITTEE, and aoiH furnish you sreek'y
arih 50 much Of this committees correspondence
"a 5rH be interesting to oar comrades throughout
tire country arho intend CjSiting this city on The
occasion Of TIE assembling Of the National En-
cGm mpmea!, IN JuEs neTt
Yours. Ue7y truly,
The National tribune., 1882-05-20

A COLoRED bishop was elected from a car
on one of the Southern railroads, the other
day, and we observe that General Smalls,
the colored ex-congressman from South Gar
olina, was refused admission to the Revere
House, Boston, last week. And yet the
colored troops fought nobly.n
The National tribune., 1882-05-20
WIN. Z. W. Ross,
Chairman E.recdiiUe Committee.
Yours CcTg truig

The NATIONAL TRIBUNE is the only
journal that makes a speciality Of Grand
Army news, and its weekly reports from the
various Posts are alone worth the subscrip-
ton price-one dollar per year.
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Ghe g1afton'1 Cribe,pe

TIE VALIDITY or THE PUBLIC oEeT OF TIE UNITED
STATES AUTHORIZED Law, INCLUDING DEBTS INCURRED FOR
PAYMENT or PENSIONS AND BoUNTIEs FOR SERVICES SUP
PRESSING ksURRscTIoN or REcELuoN, SHALL NOT CUES
ToNeo.''-SEc. :, Arr. XIV, CONSTITUTION OF TIE UNITED
STATES.
The National tribune., 1882-05-20

IN OUR soldiers column viii be found
communication calling attention to the fact
that at the rate Of pay allowed soldiers dur
ing the war-thirteen dollars month-it
would require one hundred and .sirty gears
scrrtcc to realize a sum equal to that which
Congress so generously proposes to pay DR..
Bliss for eighty days professional attend
ance on the late President Garfield. Our
correspondent might have figured little
further with some equally interesting re-
suits. Thus, for example: the average pay to
pensioners is about $105 per annum, at which
rate a soldier who was disabled while in
service of his country would have 10 live tiro
hundred and fifty gears in order to receive an
equal sum. And again, it might be said the
amount proposed to give to this single one
of the late Presidents physicians would pay
one thousand pensioners for three months!
Facts are stubborn things, and the figures in
this case cannot be made to lie. We are in
favor of allowing proper compensation to
those persons who gave their services to our
martyred President, but we shall not hesitate
to characterize such prodigality as is pro-
posed in the matter of their compensation as
gross extravaganza. Under no circumstances
should Congress vote such q sum of money,
and least of all when our ex-soldiers and sail
ors, who have waited patiently all these long
weary years for the payment Of the debt due
them, are still neglected by the very Congress
that proposes to make such liberal allowances
for services certainly no less valuable than
those performed on the field by brave men.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, as its name
implies, voices the sentiment of the whole
people rather than the opinions of any par
ticular section, and its readers are scattered
all over the country, from the Great Lakes
to the Gulf, and from Maine to California.
1t eirculates OF the Pacific as well as the
Atlantic coast, in the sparse settlements of
the Northwestern frontier as well as the
populous regions of the East, In the modest
hamlet as well as the bustling city, and there
is scarcely a post-oaice in the land where it
is not a regular visitor. But its work is,
nevertheless, only in the bud, as yet 1t
will not have attained its greatest useful
ness until it is read in every soldiers home,
and commands the united support Of all the
Nations pensioners. To that end our sub
scribers should direct their efforts. With q
NATIONAL TRIBUNE viii not long have to
entreat Congress for justice TO the soldier.
The National tribune., 1882-05-20
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ONE HUNDRED millions for pensions and
one hundred and fifty millions for the 1e-
duction of the national debt-nOw, which is
the more sacred debt Of the two?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-13
RIGHT AT LAST.

Congressman Reed, of Maine, appears
to have attained a sound conclusion in
regard to the polygamy question. He ia
reported as saying that under the pres
sent system the enforcement of the law
depended upon the local sentiment of the
community to which it applies. Con-
"gress might enact statutes, but if the
" weight of public opinion were against
"them they would prove imperative.
'f This was the case in the South, and it
Z" had become apparent tina. it was useless
{" to attempt TO force law upon commu-
entity where the weight of public opinion
" was hostile to it." This is the argu-
ment the RECORD UNION has made it's
readers familiar with, and it is the key to
intelligent and effective action in Utah.
Experience has shown that legislation
such as has been hitherto resorted TO must
be vain. The only way to enforce
measures against which the community re-
bells is to pave the way by depriving the
community of its political liberties. So
much will be necessary in Utah before any
practical steps can be taken toward the
suppression of polygamy. II the Ameri.
can people are not willing to adopt such a
policy they must make up their minds to
tolerate the practice of plural marriages.
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PAssEeGgR LISTS.

OMAHA, January 12sh.-Left here to-day.
to arrive in Sacramento January 16.h: Miss
K. G. Butler, New Haven d. G.. Young
and wife, 8Iiller's Mills, n. Y; Mrs. L. W.
Ainsworth and daughter, San Francisco c..
G. Cunningham, Boston; S. L. Ranneg,
Toledo Mrs. NJ. Arson, Cleveland; James
w. Samtell. Buffalo: James Crandall, New
York; Henry Dole, Philadelphia.
Fifty Through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive IN Sacrs-
mento January l9.h.
CARLIS, January 18th. = Passed here t. :
day, to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow
Mrs. General E. w. Sswell, New York
Mrs G. w. Morrison and child, IAdisnapc :
lis n. Thompson, Salt Lake: D. W, Babb,
and wife, Wiliiamsport. w. Va; Miss Susie
Kayeser, w. Va; Henry Shrier, Henry L.
Highton, j. Dannenbaun, E. B. Eddy, San
Francisco Samuel Jameson, Cleveland, o.;
John Lightfoot, Warehouse Point. Conn
w. J. Scott, Louisville, KY; J. Earnest,
Cheyenne A. Allen, Wood River; W. H.
Chase, Columbus, o u. J. Straw, Rural Re-
treat, VAL. r. Ward. Virginia; Michael
Connolly. Montreal, Canada; IS emigrsnt
passengers, including 46 males, to arrive in
SACRAMENTO January 14th.
NEwHALL January 12th.-Passed here to-
day. TO arrive in San Francisco tomorrow
J. f Houghton. San Bsrrardine; H. G.
McGregor, San Gabriel L, Marson. G. w.
Hume, Louis Lewis. Charles Jacoby, NJ
Marcuse and wife, G. C. Hook, Los Angeles
G. Mayer and wife, Akron, Ohio; G.. Christ
man, Salt Lake; W. P. Haynes, Tucson
Ed. Haynes, San Francisco 2. L. Rider,
Nsduek, Mass; Mrs. Harris, Bauicia Mrs.
I. G. Catherwocd and three children, Budd
Deble, San Francisco; FL. G.. Logan, Wash
ington, d. G.; Kirk Sheldon. Portland; J.
NJ. Harris. Philadelphia B. P. Culcsle, San
Francisco; Mrs. Brown, Los Angeles; AIRS.
P. Cady and daughte-, St Clair, Mich p.
Bostin, Arizona; w. L. Lowery. John Gill,
Los Angeles
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-13
TIE PAY OF GARfIELD'S MEDICAL
ATTENDANTS.

Several conflicting statements have been
made as to the sums which are to be
charged by the physicians who attended
President Garfield during his last illness.
One of these statements represents Dr.
Bliss as demanding the lions share for
himself, and giving quite small sums to
Drs. Agnew and Hamilton. The various
accounts, however, are SO discordant that
it is perhaps safest to assume the falsity of
all of them. The total amount to be asked
for has been set at about one hundred
thousand dollars. It is no doubt a great
deal of money, regarded abstractly, but it is
not so clear that it represents an excessive
demand in this case. Ii must be remem-
bered that every physician who attended
Garfield had to encounter very disagree
able condition of things. The attention of
the civilized world was fixed upon the case
The American and English press were fol-
lowing it with sleepless vigilance. There
were special opportunities for Jealous and
narrow minded members of the profession
to attack the attendant physicians. And
in the event Of the patients death
they were certain to be abused and mis-
represented. As it turned out, more
over, the physicians made mis-
take in their diagnosis. They did not
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locate the ball rightly. II is true
that if they had ascertained where the
ball really lay, the probability is that they
would have killed the President at once IN
attempting to probe it. 1t is equally true
that under the circumstances they could
not have followed the actual track OF the
ball, and that nothing in their power to do
would have changed the result of the case.
But for all this they suffered aspersioD,
and this ought to be considered among
other matters. We do not think that DR..
Bliss is entitled to $4,000, or any such
sum, indeed. For after all, though he was
in charge of the case, the real RESPONSE
bility rested on Drs. Agnew and Hamil.
ton, both of whom had solid regulations
to maintain, and both of whom occupied
very much higher positions in the profess
sion. These gentlemen, moreover, un.
doubtedly sustained heavier pecuuiary
losses than any other of the attendant
physicians, irasmuch as they left the most
extensive practices to go to Washington.
But all who contributed to ease the last
days of the President should be well and
even handsomely remunerated for their
trouble, and Congress should not haggle
over few dollars in such a case, nor should
the press advocate narrow economy.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-13
THE NEWS FROM TIE JEANETTE

The news received at Washington from
ST. Petersburg yesterday is to the effect
that the third mate and five seamen, and
seven more of the crew of the Jeanette,
have arrived, or were about TO arrive, at
Irkutsk, where they would be well taken
care of. The most surprising statement,
however, is that Lieutenant De Long and
his party have not been found yet. This
conflicts with the former accounts hope.
lessly. 1t was stated that he had reached
the mouth of the Lena river. and that his
boats crew were suffering from frost-bites.
But if he had been at the mouth of the
Lena he must have been found when the
Others were found. 1t would seem from
this latest news that the boats were sep
arated much farther than had been sup
posed, or that the intelligence of the safety
of Lieutenant De Long and his party had
been premature. Further news will now
bs awaited with increased anxiety.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-13
NOT IN MUCH DANGER.

A San Francisco paper states that Josie
Peterson, young woman who was brutally
beaten by hoodlum named Thomas Cole
man, is lying in very precarious con-
"dition, and the physician in attendance
"gives it as his opinion that her recovery
sis doubtful" And our contemporary
adds, elf she dies, Coleman's chances for
changing will be most excellent" We
are afraid not. Unless some new move
ment on behalf of the administration of
justice is inaugurated in San Francisco, we
fear that this ruffian's chances of hanging
will be anything but good. How long is it
since murderer was brought to the
gallows in San Francisco? How many
murderers now occupy the prisons of that
city? How long have many of them been
there? The wretch who deliberately
strangled his sister-in- law, to prevent her
escape from ruin, and packed her body in
trunk, is still alive, and we should be less
surprised to hear of his release than of his
execution. The jails of San Francisco
fairly swarm with murderers, either untried
or convicted and held under appeals. And
while it remains possible for the most in
famous assassin thus to cheat justice, and
to postpone or evade punishment, human
life will be held cheap, and every cowardly
hoodlum will think it safe to make
a reputation by homicide, or by some
such brutal and wanton assault upon
a defenseless woman as this man Coleman
has perpetrated. If his mistress dies, the
probabilities are, not that he will be hanged
in a fortnight, as he ought to be, but that
that he will then have a chance OF acquit-
tai on the pretense of temporary insanity !;
that if convicted he will escape the capital
verdict that at the most he will be able to
stay execution by an appeal to the Supreme
Court that full year will be consumed
in these successive delays; and that, if at
last all legal tricks come to an end, he may
escape with term of imprisonment by a
judicious resort to political influence. This
is much more realistic estimate of the
chances" than that of our San Francisco
contemporary, for it is merely recapitula-
ton of the course of events in couple of
scores of familiar cases. 1t is one OF the
most disgraceful facts in the condition of
our civilization that there has virtually
ceased to be any approach to certainty in the
operation of the law in the most impor-
tant and serious class OF criminal cases.
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THIS MoRs1te,s NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at
lis for As of 1907; 14l for As; 1905 for SIS;
sterling, 81 s2l94 S6a silver bars, 1i25
Silver in London, 81 1851; consois, loci 5 per
cent United States bonds, extended, los; 49, 1909
SIS, HI.
In San Francisco half dollars quoted at ] dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, sole
The Gould & Curry Mining Company yesterday
levied an assessment of so cents per share.
Mining stocks we're in fair demand at San Fran
cisco yesterday moraing and prices. generally were
better. Consolidated virginil opened at 81 o5 a
gain of zoe from the best price Wednesday morning.
but closed at 90c. Union Consolidated sold up to
Sill the best in three days. OYerman fell from 81 %
to Doc.
Nothing further has been learned Of the fate Of
Captain De Long and the crew Of the first cutter Of
the Jeanette.
Fire at Arlington, Ill.
Two miners were suffocated by foul air in a coal
mine as. oskaloosa, Iowa. yesterday.
An energetic war is being waged at Chicago
against the gamblers.
Neither house CT the New York Legislature has
succeeded in completing its organization
In The Vatican at Rome there are 500 people,
one-third females.
Gladstone has again RENTED portion OF the
rentals on his Haw arden estate.
The bodies of two process-servers have been
found chained together in Tough Mask, Ireland
Snow whitened the ground in Ventura county,
and other points in southern California, Yesterday
an unprecedented occurrence.
A boat containing two men, woman and child,
was caps zed in Eel river, Humboldt county, on
Monday. and one OF the men was drowned.
The two Lathrop car robbers pleaded guilty at
Stockton yester lay. and were sentenced to three
years in the State Prison.
man named Sanders killed himself yesterday at
Tulare.
verdict of murder in the second degree has
been rendered at Astoria, Or in the case OF J. G.
Robson, indicted tor the murder of ]. R. Robb.
George Burchard was drowned Wednesday in the
Columbia river in Oregon.
The House of Representatives yesterday ad-
journed until Monday.
An Indian was hanged at Yakima, W. T., yester-
day, for the murder of Lorenzo D. Perkins and wife
in 1873.
The Illinois State Bolrd of Health report that the
SMALL ox is well under control in most localities of
that State.
San Jose is excited four cases OF small pox at
Los Gatos, few miles from that city.
In the Guiteau case yesterday Davidge made an
argument for the prosecution, in the course of
which he caused the assassin to vince several times
under his burning words.