The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
The Railway Lobby Appears in Force and
Demands Forty Days Argument on
Proposed Legislation.
Commissioner Dudley Will Be Allowed
Eighty Millions for Pensions.
Brewster CamerOn's Reasons for Resigning
"A Proposal to Abolish the Mileage
of Members of Congress.
RELIEF FOR INDIANIANs.
Measures for the Relief of Indiana Soldiers
and Their Relatives.

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and Their Relatives.
! Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WAsFnNGToN Jan. u.-Among the bills in
troduced in the House this week are the follow
ing by Indiana members to grant pensions. and
other relief to the several parties named
By Mr.. Cobb: To restore to the pension roll
the name of William G. Douthett, Company |,
| Twenty fifth Indiana Volunteers
10 place the name of Samuel L.. Day, corporal
Company A, Sixty seventh Indiana Volunteers,
and pay him at the rate of $24 per month from
the passage of the bill
To restore to the pension roll the name of
Thomas Wadsworth, who was first lieutenant
Company c, Ninety first Indiana Volunteers, the
pension to date from the time his name was
stricken from the pension roll.
TO place on the pension roll the following
named persons: Basil Clements, Company a,
Forty fourth Indiana Volunteers John II. Ken
nedy, Company G, Fifth Louisiana Volunteers;
Bernard Moon, Company E, Sixty-ff Illinois
Volunteers; Felix W. Rusher Company |, Nine
| ty-Seventh Indiana Volunteers; Henry T. Skin
ner. Company G. One Hundred and Forty-ninth
Indiana Volunteers; Blackwell Bailey, Company
Z, Tenth West Virginia Volunteers
Mr.. Cobb also introduced the following:
Directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
Sasser Sullivan, of Pike county full pay as cap
tain of Company H, Eighth Indiana Volunteers,
for services as captain from Aug. 4, 1862 to No
vember IA, 1862, inclusive with interest from
last named date to time of payment.
Directing the Secretary of War to pay John G.
Parker the pay and allowances of a second lieu
tenant of heavy artillery from Sept. 8, 1864 to
Oct D. 1864, deducting the pay received as an
enlisted man during the same period,
Directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
Dexter Gardner the full pay of private soldier
performed by him in Company l. Eighth Indiana
Volunteers, which service commenced Aug. ,,
1862, and also full amount of bounty which the
government was paying soldiers at the time Of
Gardners service.
Mr. Stockslager introduced bills to place ON the
pension rolls the following named persons:
John 6. Coney, late first engineer of the
steamer Diana, of the Mississippi Marine Bri-
gade; Charlotte NJ. Conard. widow of Joel NJ.
Conard, late captain Company d. Thirty-fourth
Kentucky Volunteers. from August 26, 1873 as
long as she remains such widow; Thomas Simp-
son, Seventh Indiana Battery: Rebeeca s.
Allen widow of Captain James Alien late of
Mississippi Marine Brigade: Samuel H Cole
Captain Ninth Ohio Cavalry Volunteers,
Mr.. Stockslager also introduced bills to re
move the charges of desertion against the fol
lowing:
Albert schindler, Company E Third Ken
lucky Cavalry Volunteers; Alexander Nugent of
Seymour, Company G Seventy seventh Ohio
Volunteers; Thomas Crawford. Company B
Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry Volunteers.
Mr. Calkins introduced bills to place the fol
l'Nl7oilC
Harrison Mitchell Company K Forty eighth
Indiana Volunteers Philip Trapp, Company G.
One-hundred and forty-tirst Indiana Volunteers;
Mary McAnally, widow of John McAnally late
private in Company E Sixth United States In
fantry.
BY Mr. Matson: TO place on the pension roll
the name Of Harriet Armstrong, widow of Levi
Armstrong, late a private in Company -,
Indiana Volunteers.
By Mr.. Browne: To place on the pension roll
the name of David G. Paullus, Company D, Sec
ond Ohio Volunteers in the war with Mexico.
By Mr. Steele: 70 place on the pension roll
the name of Sarah Nicoll Crane, widow Of Brig
adler general Charles II. Crane, deceased late
Surgeon general of the United States army. and
pay her at the rate of $50 per month.
Also a bill directing the proper accounting
officer of the Treasury Department TO credit
William R. Reynolds, second lieutenant Four
teenth United States Infantry, with the sum of
$l2O.65, as acting assistant commissary of sub
sistence. said amount having been lost through
40 fault or neglect on his part.