Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-25

thank God that, amid all her loyalty, Ken lucky "grew 47, 900 of the finest disloyal sons upon whom the sun of God has ever fallen.''
 Mr. John M. Gregory, of the Civil Service commission, finding that there is still de- mand for further explanation regarding the rights and duties of federal employees and the Civil Service act, makes the explanation de- manded. In substance the law is this: No committee of which federal official is member can solicit or receive contributions No person in the federal service can lawfully pay contributions to such committee No committee whatever can solicit or receive contributions in any federal building or of flee, directly or indirectly. No one in the federal service can lawfully help or injure any other person in the service for having given or refusing to give contributions. Any person in the service can give as much or as little as he chooses for political purposes outside his place of employment to any com mittee not embracing federal official among it's members, or to anyone not member of such 8 committee. The law recognizes the absolute independence of the federal employe and protects it.
 The new French Divorce court has refused to convert legal separation into divorce in case where the petitioner, the husband, was the party against whom the separation had been pronounced three and half years ago. It was shown that the wife had always conducted herself in an exemplary manner. and the divorce was opposed on her part on the ground that it would enable the husband to marry the woman with whom he had lived since the separation, and so the posi- tion and the prospects of the wife and her children would be'prejudiced In the case of Adelina Patti, now pending, the petition has likewise been presented by the party against whom the separation was decreed, the proceedings for separation having been taken by the Marquis de Caux. According to the divorce law, it is competent for either party, after legal separation of more than three years, to apply for divorce, but it seems that the court can refuse it to the par ty against whom the separation has been de- creed if it judges right to do so.
 Congressman Ranney was requested by a
 
 army to support some of the great pension schemes now before the public, and his reply is well worth attention. He says that there are 1 400, 900 surviving veterans of the war who served 60 days and have honorable dis charges; of these 230,000 are already on the pension roll. To give all these men $S apiece per month, according to the Lowering bill, without regard to their needs, would require $113, ,000, 900 year. Then there is the ''Union veteran army bill, " which proposes to give 160 acres of land to every survivor give graded pensions to those who were in reb- el prisons 100, ,000 in number, and pay $8. B 1-3 month to all who served during the war for the time of service, deducting boun- ties This would throw on the market 250 GOO, GOO acres of land in land warrants which would depreciate and be bought up by spectators, and, in all, cost beside about $240, ,000, 900. Mr Ranney says he has not been on the pension committee and has not specially investigated the subject or heard it discussed, and he added: I do not propose to make any promises or pledges which could be construed into bid for support, or effort to disarm opposition. As a present member of Congress, likely to be called up on to act at the next session, can say and do nothing which would interfere with or take away my liberty to vote and act when the time comes, as my more matured judg- ment might then dictate or approve. AS 8 candidate for reelection could not consent to do anything more in matters which are ill the nature of aggregated individual claims against the government, and on which, if elected, should have to pass in judgment in quasi judicial capacity, than to say; what ought to go without saying, that shall approach and deal with the same with the utmost candor, guided by strong sense of justice and inspired with spirit of fiber ality, and vote as my honest convictions lead me to do at the time.