The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-01-24

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rible bruise. The day General Beale saw him
he was, for the first time, moving about on
crutches. and felt fatigued in consequence. He
says of the injury that it was caused by falling
heavily upon the edge of the stone step, ac-
cording TO the coachman, although the GEN
eral himself thought he simply came down
fiat ON the pavement. which was covered with
ice. He says nothing more serious viii result
than the slow recovery from such severe
bruise incident to man of General Grants
age.
The General, says his friend, takes the live
lest interest in public affairs without express
ing any opinion as to who should be nominated
for President He simply hopes that it viii be
someone who, if elected, will prove equal to
the high position. lie desires, above all else,
that the country should move onward in pros
perity and peace.
General Sherman says he doesn't want to be
President. If he has to spend four years in
purgatory, he says, he would father run the
risk of it in the next world. If they want
one of the family" he is reported to have re-
marked, let them take John"
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Congressman Cannon, of Illinois, is the
father OF the proposition, which was carried out
last year, to appropriate enough money for the
1,2o0 or 300 additional clerks in the Adjutant-
Generals Office and the Pension Office to
hurry up the examination Of the pension cases.
AS leading member Of the committee on
appropriations he is in position to be of much
service to the old soldiers. / asked him yes
terday what he thought of the proposition to
pension the prisoners of war. Said he: am in
favor of it. So many of these men, who no doubt
now deserve pension, have great difficulty in
proving that their disability arises from their
military service. Owing to just this cause,
am in favor of presuming that any man who
was kept penDed up in these places suffered
such physical disability as to entitle him to
a pension. man may safely be presumed
TO have been pretty well up to his work if he
was captured. The chances were in favor of
the escape of the fellows who ran away early.
it seems to me. I am satisfied that man was
in the line of duty If he stood there till he
was captured. OF course, he cannot get hos
pital record from AndersonviIle or Belle Isle.
It's all a mockery to ask it, am for taking a
common-sense view of the matter and putting
them on the rolls
What do you think" asked, of ingalls,
TO remove the time Limitation from
the arrearage Of pensions act7p
. am In favor of that also take II that
that is the only logical view of the matter A
man began TO earn his pension the day he
was wounded-not when he was able to COM
plete his proof"
The Christian Church, memorial Of Presi-
dent Garfield, was dedicated in Washington
last Sunday. The edifce, fine brick of i'm
posing proportions, stands where the little
wooden building was which Garfield attended
for so many years, and where Guteau went TO
shoot him once, but desisted for fear he might
hit some one else. The erection of new church
was talked OF at once upon Garieid's election
and he wrote to the pastor about it in these
words: | am glad to hear that the work is to
be undertaken, azld In answer TO your inquiry
| beg to offer bnt one suggestion, and that is,
that our brethren do not undertake to build
too large house. Let US keep within our
means, and also avoid anything Ike ostenta-
ton, either in size or decoration. Let it be a
neat, modest church, of under size rather than
over SIZE
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Minister Romero got ahead OF the Senate last
Thursday night in very clever manner. He
is dark-skinned, restless man, who Is said
never to sleep. It looks as if the accusation
were true at any rate, for he is always at work.
Thursday, when it became uncertain about the
ratification of the commercial treaty, friend
sent him nete, which he received in the
evening, expressing The fear that il would fail.
He went at once to Secretary Frelinghuysen's.
and III an hour had made and exchanged
new convention with the United States, by
which the commercial treaty was given four
months more of life. The next morning his
action was Endorsed by the President of Mexico
by telegraph, and nothing was said about ii.
That afternoon, however the Senate declined
to take definite action on the treaty and adj
jourEed over to Monday TO let 1t die by limita-
ton o decent death, as they supposed it would
On Sunday. Some of them called to express
their coincidence with Mr. Romero that night.
They regretted it had failed. He told them
they need not be concerned. The matter would
be before them for four months yet, go there
would be plenty Of time for elaboration Its
said that one or two gentlemen who fear to
vote as they would like to, if the doors are
thrown open, were made very uneasy by the
coup detat of the diplomat Heretofore the
doors have been closed, but SO much has been
said about going into executive session for the
discussion of purely commercial matter that
the chances are the galleries win be opened
when 1t IS taken up again. LII so, it is believed
The treaty viii be ratified.
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The discussion Of "cold tea in the Senate.
last week, set all the boys In the restaurant
down stairs grinning. One of the attaches of
the place was very communicative that after
noon, and ran ON without let or hindranee, Cos
siping about great men. Said he: tThe Sem
ators are queer lot. Some of them spend
money like dirt; some never let go a cent.
Some of them eat three or four times a day,
and some never eat, but come down regular for
cup The best customer we ever had was
Don Cameron. His bill would be three or
four hundred dollars month. have chaIked
down as high as eighteen quart bottles of wine
to him in one afternoon. II there We're a night
session. he was sure to give q dinner party
down here, and it was a snap for the restaurant
The Democrats don't spend as much as the
Republicans now. There's Mcpherson, he's
pretty good, and so Is Pendieton, but most of
them do very little with us. There's Jones.
Of Florida, now; he never eats, but every little
while he comes down aud takes a cup stand
at the counter. Logan is quiet eater He
comes down alone, generally, and takes bowl
Of milk and couple of hard biscuit. He is |
not rich, and never throws money around, but
he always gives the boys dime The most
money we eyer see, old Morrill, takes ont He
never has anything ehalzed up He goes
slowly down into an inside vest pocket and
travis long wallet, which is jafnmed full of
bills. He seems always to have hundreds OF
dollars in THAI old wallet, and is as careful of
handling it as though 1t were baby The |
biggest bills we get to change come from Saw |