The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-07-22

B. Grimes, Mary J. Hannaford, James Bennett,
Elizabeth Wensten, Martha Jane Douglass,
Emily Theadgill, JOrial Onkst, John c. Fensche,
Joseph F. Wilson, Margery Nightingale, Bridget
Hamilton, Dennis Smith, Mary E. Taylor,
Anthony B. Graves, Rowland Ward, Thomas
F. Baker, Robert Carey, John Lakewood, Sarah
J. Cameron, Francis Duffy, Reuben Marshall,
II. E. Van Trees, and N. IL. Clements.
Adverse reports were made in the cases of
James Johnson and Orinel Gillette.
The House also passed the Senate bill giving
pension of $50 per month to Mrs. Elizabeth g.
Custer.
The Senate amendment to the bill increasing
the pension of Elijah w. Penny was concurred
in as were those in the cases of Amelia Ann
Wilson and George J. Webb.
A petition was presented in the House pray
ing that a pension be granted William IL.
Milan, OF Indiana.
RELIEF FOR MRS. GARFIELD.
The House on the 18th instant passed the
following BILL
Be it enacted, &c, That the Secretary of tho
Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to pay, out OF any money IN the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs.
Lucretia T. Garfield, widow OF James \. Gar
field, late President of the United States, or,
in the event OF her death before payment, then
to the legal representatives of the said James
a. Garfield, the sum of 550G00, less any sun
paid to the said James A. Garfield, or his widow
or legal representative, on account OF his salary
rs President Of the United States.
PROPOSED PUBLICATION OF TIE NAMES OK
PENSIONERS.
On Saturday when the pension appropriation
bill was before the Senate Mr. Beck offered the
following extraordinary amendment:
Pr0UiIed, That the Commissioner of Pensions
shall, Is soon as practicable, and once III each
year thereafter, cause separate distinctly
printed lists OF all pensioners and applicants
for pensions and increase OF pensions, both
army and navy, to be made ont tor each county
in the United States in which pensioners or
claimants reside, containing the names OF each
pcns0ncr and claimant whose pOst-Ofice address
is at any post-oiiiCo III said county, aud furnish
said list to the postmaster at the county seat at
each county, whose duty it shall be TO keep
said lis. posted in some conspicuous place i'll
his post-oliice, 50 as to be accessible to the
public for inspection.
Each list shall contain the full names Of the
pensioners and claimants, whether they claim
10 he invalids, widows, minor children, de
pendent relatives, OrsurViVors or widows OF TIE
war OF 1872, stating the amount of pension now
paid to and claimed by each, and the total
amount heretofore paid; and the Commits
sioner of Pensions shall append to each list a
general request for information IN regard TO
the Justice of said pensions and claims, stating
that all Communications to him on these sub
ject5 may be sent to him free OF postage.
And the Commissioner OF Pensions shall also
cause the lists for each county to be inserted
Mt least once in each year in the newspaper
published III said county which has the largest
circulation therein: and Ii no newspaper Is
published in any county, then III the news
paper published nearest thereto; and III all
counties containing q town or ci5y OF 10000
population or upward the Commissioner of
Pensions shall cause the lists aforesaid TO be
inserted IN the two newspapers, representing
different political parties, which are published
in said county having the largest circulation !;
and in ali cities Of $4,000 population and up
ward he shall cause said lists to be inserted at
least once each year in three OF the leading
daily papers published in said city.
The Commissioner OF Pensions may use any
money herein appropriated to pay the neces
sary expenses incurred in carrying out the
foregoing prvisi0ns, and may so organize IN his
Office such clerical force as will IN his jUdg-
ment best utilize The information he may re-
ceive so as 20 protect the Government against
fraudulent claims The Commissioner of Pen
sions shall keep file in his Office the post-otce
address OF cach pensiOner and claimant, and
! shall suspend the payment of any pension or
the consideration Of any claim unless the post
Office address OF the pensioner or claimant is
| furnished.
In urging the adoption of this outrageous
amendment &.r. Beck sharply criticized the
whole pension system Senator Plumb said
the Senator from kentucky had repeated the
old, old story heard SO often in the Senate
rejecting upon the integrity of pensioners.
He defended the pension roll and the admins
tratoa OF the Pension Bureau, declaring that
the roll was as honest as it was possible for it
to be, and that the management of the Bureau
was first-class in every particular. AS for the
payment OF $,iC0, 100000 q year to the wounded
survivors of the war for the defense OF the
Union, that was Il matter OF 10 consequence.
lie said the soldiers Of the Union army did
good work, and he thanked God there was
something now to show for it. He did not
begrudge q penny that was paid them. Scra-
tor Logan also opposed the Beck amendment,
and it was ruled out Of order on a point made
nv Spuotor Plumb