The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-03
WASHINGTON.

SENATOR FARLEY, In discussing the anti
Chinese bill in the Senate on the 9th, gave
that question political turn. He said the
matter Of anti-Chinese legislation had been
taken charge OF by the Republicans and man.
aged In close cooperation style. He COM
planned that the Democrats from the Pacific
coast had not been consulted as TO the needs
OF their constituents, and claimed that to the
Democrats belongs the credit of all that may
have been achieved.
TIE Secretary of the Interior says there are
269,S5l pensioners, the annual value Of whose
pensions was S29, ,26s, 400. or these, l2.OOO
were not paid, and pensioners not having
called for their pensions within three wears.
they have lapsed. Five thousand were sailors
whose residence was hot known, and 252, ,s5I
pensioners were paid, the amount required to
pay their annual pensions and arrears being
t51, p, ,2O4.
WILLIAM CRUNP, steward at the White
House, sent in his resignation on the 1st. He
gave lunch to the employees at the White
House on the evening of the 2Sth ult and was
presented by Colonel Crook, on behalf of the
employees, with ld-headed cane. Crump's
health was seriously impaired by his continued
attention to President Garfield during his
illness. He win take q trip to Europe for his
health.
A MEMBER Of the Senate Appropriation
Committee, which has had under consideration
the investigation OF the contingent expenses
of the Senate, says that among other discoy-
cries the committee found an account of Cap
tain Howgate for over $500, which was
fraudulent on Its face, and one for s. 80 which
was correct, and he further asserts that the
larger one was passed without question and
that the correct claim was held back for an
irregularity. , - sttSiJ 49,
TIE Senate on the 18th confirmed Nicholas
Fish, Of New York, Minister to Belgium; J. NJ.
Francis, Charge d'Affairs to Portugal; w. N.
Warner, United States Attorney, Western
District Of Missouri; Louis J. Lever, Apprais-
er Of the District OF New Orleans; A. Fortune
Reard and Benjamin j.. Morey, Assistant Ap-
praisers of the District of New Orleans; BEN
jamin F. Simpson, United States Marshal of
the District of Kansas.
THE Senate on the 2Sth ult passed the anti
Chinese bill as II came from the House, with
out amendment, a motion to strike ont the
clause forbidding the immig grafton of laborine
men, whether skilled or unslxilled, being de-
feated by vote of % yeas to 25 nays, all the
Democrats and four Republicans voting in the
negative. The only feature In which the biz.
as passed differs from the bill vetoed by the
President is that It limits the operation of its
provision to ten years instead of twenty.
THR Secretary Of the Interior submitted
report 10 the Senate on the 29th ult., showing
the number of pensioners now on the rolls
The number in Ohio is 81, ,663, and the amount
they annually draw is $2,63S, 900, besides the
arrears, which brings the total up to s4,s4l,-
$40. Only two States In the countrY have as
many pensioners as Ohio. Those are New
York and Pennsylvania New York has 81, ,024,
Pennsylvania. 2S, 29s, against Ohio's 24,66S.
None of the Others run up as high as 10000.
The next below Ohio Is Illinois, with Ie,619;
Massachusetts, next 14,s13; Indiana, IA 1876;
Michigan, 11,46s; Iowa, 10,925 and all the
Others below 10000. The lowest State is
Nevada, which has but sixty. Among the
Territories New Mexico has but thirty and
Alaska has but one. The number of pension
ers at the Dayton Soldiers Home is 1,7i5, who
draw $780, 900 per year, making their years
payment with arrears s271, 40. The number
at the Dayton Branch OF the National Soldiers
Home is almost equal TO those at the, three
ther branches in Maine, Virginia and Wis
consin, the total of those three being LES
JUDGE MoARTHUE set aside the 800, 600 !