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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
PROOF IN PENSION CASES.

Where an Applicant IL shown TO Have
Been Mustered Into the Service lie
Shall Bo Presumed 10 Have Been Ina
Sound Health at That Time.
Representative Bagley has been instructed
by the house committee on invalid pensions to
prepare favorable report on Representative
Laird's bill regulating the proof required in
pension cases. Mr.. Laird's bill provides that
in all applications for pension now pending
in the interior department, or that may here
after arise, where it is shown that the appli-
cant was regularly mustered into the service
of the United States, he shall be presumed to
have been physically sound at the date of the
mu ster in. In all cases where the applicant
for pension is shown to have rendered three
months service or more in the field, all in
juries sustained by him while in the service
shall he presumed to have been received in
tho limo of duty, unless the contrary be
shown by proof, the burden of which shall
be upon the government; and where such
claimant shall have established by two or
mora credible witnesses that he has suffered
from such disability since his discharge, it
shall be the duty of the commissioner of pen
sions il satisfied to grant such pension as the
proof shows the applicant is entitled to.
The bill further provides that the benefit
of all doubt shall be given to tho applicant
for pension, and the commissioner OF PEN
sions shall receive and consider the testimony
of the applicant, and may grant pension on
such testimony alone when supported by
established circumstances; and that the act
shall apply to all cases in the pension office,
whether rejected or not.
1t is further provided that on and after the
passage of the act it shall be unlawful for the
secretary of the interior, commissioner of
pensions, or any other officer or agent of the
pension office to receive any information con.
corning an application for pension pending
before such officer or department., or that may
hereafter arise, or touching a pension now
granted from any person under an agreement,
promise, or understanding, to conceal the
name of such informant ON the subject-matter
of such information from the applicant or
penHoner affected thereby, his agent or at
torney.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
Senator brown Answered.

When Senator Brown makes another elab-
crate defense of polygamy he will probably
DO careful not TO invite reply from Senator
Hoar by calling attention to tho existence of
immortality in New England. The Massl-
chusetts senator made an excuse for his
southern colleague by politely remarking
that the senator (Mr. Brown has preferred for
q great part of his lifo institutions lying at
the foundations of tho government which
prohibited the institution Of marriage alto
gether to a majority of tho people
Of his state" Ho then spoke of tho high
standard of morality of the people of Georgia
and the south, and said that if he felt disposed
to reply to Senator Brown in kind he might
inquire chow the number and presence of
mulattoes can be accounted for" That was
branch Of the question he did not propose
to discuss, however. No power on earth
could induce him to say a word about the
mulattoes. The subject was distasteful to
him. Far be 1t from him to point to the
living presence Of two or three millions of
colored men, women, and children in the
south through whose blood there runs strain
Of white blood, and ask how it got
there. He wouldn't talk about his neighbors
or in any way SOW seeds of distrust in south
ern morality. The distinguished gentleman
from Massachusetts, is nothing If not consid-
crate, and his refusal to drag the southern
social skeleton from tho closet cannot be too
highly commended. An exhibition of a
skeleton of such horrid proportions would be
exceedingly indicate. Senator Brown must
have thought so, too, for he made no supple
mental efforts to draw Senator Hoar out
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
MAKING AN APPLICATION.
An Editorial Upon Fir. BIRine's Letter
Accepting the secretaryship OF State.

Globe Democrat
1t cannot fairly be claimed that Arthur has
failed TO do anything which Garfield would likely
have done, had he lived to guard and promote
the interests of the government and justify the
trust reposed in the republican party at the last
election. He has, by general admission, made
president with whom there Is every reason to be
satisfied. The conventions of tho party in all the
states have, with barely one exception. and that
not intentional, commended him in plain and
strong terms; and the most obdurate of his oppo-
nents admit that no fault can be found with the
general course Of his conduct. II may even be
doubted If Garfield would have been as successful
as he has been in healing party dlssensions and
determinations, and administering the affairs of
his Office in manner so free from bias personal
ambition. The measure of wisdom aud prudence
of frmness and expertness, which he has dis
poyed is something really remarkable, when all
the circumstances are taken into account; and
nobody doubts for moment that If he were re-
elected the country would be sure of safe and
acceptable president for the next four years.
Why, then, should not the same thing be done
for Arthur that Mr.. Blaine proposed to do for
Garfield? Does not "the logic OF events" point to
his re nomination quite as directly and us
strongly as II could have pointed 10 the renomi-
nation of Garfield had he lived until now? Are
not "the imperiouS necessities of the situation"
fully evident and as urgCn' in one case as they
would have been in the otheH lstherea any reason
in short, taking Mr., Blaiue's own doctrine for It,
why Ar thur should not be honored aud requitod
with a second term? He has been thoroughly
tested under conditions Of a very severe order,
aud the result is one signally creditable TO him in
every respect. 1t is not possible to name single
step he has taken or refused to take thai
Garfield or anybody else would have
done more successfully and more circumspecty
lie is the constitutional and proper representative
of Garfield for all the purposes Of Mr., Bano'
philosophy Of second term and he is reasonably
entitled to the same considera ion which we mus
believe Mr. Blaine would now be demanding fol
Garfield If that distinguished and lamented maj
/ had been spared until this time, Instead abld
! ing by his own theory however, Mr.. Blaine pro
! poses TO thrust Arthur aside aud carry oil the
nomination himself Can he or his friends com
plain II the people choose to hold him to the doc
! lrine announced In his Letter TO Garfield; aud lei
THE logic Of events" give II second term TO the
man who, without "at all directing his energies
for a reelection" has clearly demonstrated that
he is In every sense fit and worthy 10 be thu
| trusted and rewarded?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
EXTENDING THE PENSION LAWS.


A BIZ CONFIRMING Pension Upon All
P,rsous who Served Three Months
During tile War and Were HonOrabiy
Discharged.
Senator Cullom reported from the COM
mittoe ON pensions yesterday bill which
confers II pension upon all persons who served
three months during thewar and have been
honorably discharged, and who arc or shall
become disabled from any cause not the
result of their own gross carelessnoss, dis.
reputable conduct, or vicious habits, and
shall also be dependent wholly or part upon
their own labor or upon pecuniary assistance
from others for the means of comfortable
support.
The highest rate of pension granted by the
bill, which shall be Tor total incapacity to
perform any manual labor, shall BIO $50,
which is hereby made devisablo upon that
basis for any less degree OF disability, pro-
vided that no person entitled to or receiving
an invalid pension greater than that pro-
vided for herein shall receive tho benefits of
this act.
All widows Of soldiers and sailors who are
now receiving or entitled to receive IS n
month shall, from and after this date, be
entitled to receive at the rate of SIP per
month.
The widow or minor children of pensioner
pension in their own right, under existing
laws, without being required to prove that
the death cause of the pensioner wasdu to
his military or naval service.
In considering the claims of dependent
parents, the fact and cause of death and the
fact that the soldier left no widow or minor
children having been shown as required by
law, it shall be necessary only to show by
competent and sufficient evidence that such
dependent parent or parents is without other
present means of support than his or her own
manual labor, or the contributions Of others
not legally bound for his or her support, and
such as may be found to be entitled to 80 per
month under existing laws, shall receive in
lieu thereof SIC a month from the date Of
this act.
In all applications under the general PEN
sion laws. including this net, where it appears
by record evidence that the applicant was
regularly enlisted and mustered into the
service, that fact shall be sufficient prima
facie evidence that he was then in good health
and free from the disease or cause of disability
for which he claims pension but such owl
dence shall be subject to rebuttal by record
or other satisfactory evidence of the prior
existence of such disease or cause of disability.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

Arthur stock 10 again quoted at q pre-
mium.-EdnSdS city Star.
There are no indications that Roswell p
Flower has suspended operations troy TeLe-
gram.
Ono of the strangest feature connected with
this presidential canvass is that none of the
Washburn family are candidates. Cohesion
NeWs.
From present appearances Mr.. Tilden may
easily obtain tho nomination if he desires it.
Tho fraud ISSUE" however, is buried too
deep to be resurrected.- Cincinnati TjmeS-Siar.
The fact that New York merchants are
bestirrng themselvesi in national politics and
beginning to realize that the public questions
of the time mainly relate to business is
hopeful sign.-FdH Rirer Nelcs.
The recent financial disasters have served
to awaken men to the absolute need of an
administration in which perfect confidence
could bo reposed, and to Arthur as the head
of such they instinctively turn.-BarnstaJLe
Patriot.
New York Is the lion in Blaine's path, and
Ohio in Arthur's. The cry will be often heard
at Chicago, week after next, that Blaine can't
carry the former state and that Arthur can't
carry the latter. Our opinion is that no
republican can carry New York, and that any
republican, BIO it Arthur OF Blaine, can carry
Ohio ouTier-JOuradi.
1t Is said that Mr.. William Walter Phelps
| has been Mr.. Blaines principal negotiator
| with the rulers of the "rotten boroughs' of
the south, and it is now reported that he has
received personal letters from sufficient
number 10 assure Mr.. Blaine's nomination
NeW York Commercial ADVERTISER
As to Mr.. MacVeagh's reiteration of the
old and cheap fling that Mr.. Arthur drew q
| prize in the lottery of assassination" that
| Guiteau was "the first Arthur man." and tn at
| he killed Garfield expressly to make Arthur
| president, such assertions are dastardly, and
are unworthy even Of Mr.. MacVeagh, To
attempt, by even tho most indirect insinu :
tion, to attach the iaintest responsibility to
Mr.. Arthur for Guitoau's mad freak is gross
injustice, -BoSioa Journal.
Whatever may be our private opinion, or
the private opinion of any other republican
voter in the country, or the opinion of any
delegate to the Chicago convention, there is
no use in Disgusting the fact that at least ten
thousand votes will be lost to the republican
party in the city oflBrooklyn alone aud prob
ably as many more in the city of New York
ifMr. James G.. Blaine is nominated. Here il
simply fact to DO looked at and dealt with
fairly and squardly. The Young Republican
club, in Brooklyn, with its 5000 members
{ will vote almost in u solid body against him
and they Will work on election day agains
him, ii nominated This regiment Of young
men arc determined, to the extent of Their
votes and their united influence to oppose
the eleotio of any man, on any ticket who
will need to be defended all through the cam
paign. With agood ticket they mean TO gain
10000 now republican votes, instead Of LOSING
y that number With ticket they will not sup
| port,-Ihe Independent.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
A Fable.

An Enormous Personal Magnetism took
Six Great Ambitions up on the top of high
hill and secretly contracted with each one to
deliver up to him the Earth, in payment for
assistance to be rendered in raid on tho
White House. Each of the Great Ambitions
conided the Flattering Proposition TO q fow
newspaper friends on the Dead Quiet and
tho next morning the Whole Snap was given
away. The Six Great Ambitions thoreupon
nailed the Enormous Personal Magnetism to
the floor and stamped on him for trying to
obtain support under false pretenses. And
besides, the Earth did not belong to him.
Moral-Don't promise to deliver one Vice
Presidential Nomination to more than six
men at the same time. They might tumble
to the little game and get mad about it,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

Mr.. BELFoRD made another effort yester.
day to provide each member of the house
with clerk at the public expense. Failing
in this he offered an amendment to the legis.
tee clerks from performing any clerical
services for members of tho house. This
amendment was adopted in committee of the
whole, probably by way OF joke. Inasmuch
as it confers judicial powers on the house
and invests it with authority to Gne and
imprison its members, a question may be
raised as to the constutionality of Mr.. Bel
ford's civil service amendment.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

before he entered tho military service. The
house committee on pensions has directed
favorable report to DO made on Mr..
Laird's bill, which also provides that
the fact Of the soldier having
been mustered into the service is presumptive
evidence that he was free from disease, and
all injuries received by him while in The SER
vice are to be presumed to have been received
in tho line of duty. great many merito-
rious claims for pensions have been rejected
because the applicant has been unable to
prove that tho disability from which he
suffers did not exist at the time of his enlist
WnapA
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

A BALTIMORE paper keeps standing at the
head of its principal column a paragraph
urging "its Washington subscribers" to do
their shopping in that city, where, it says
goods are 20 to 80 per cent cheaper than in
Washington" This is one of the checklist
specimens of b Ald-faoed mendacity every put
in type. 1t is notorious that Washington
merchants keep on hand as full lines of goods
of every description as can be found in
Baltimore or any other city, except possibly
New York, and that they offor better bargains
than can DO obtained elsewhere. Washing
tonians do not have to go to Baltimore for
bargains, as the advertising columns of The
REPUBLICAN clearly show.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

PROBABLY hundred bills have been intro
duced in the two houses of congress at thepres-
ent session amending the pension laws. most Of
them covering tho same points, None of
them have been passed A bill was favorably
reported from the senate committee on pen
sions yesterday which provides that every
colder who served three months in the union
army and was houorably discharged, and is
now disabled from any cause not the result Of
vicious habits, and dependent, shall be put on
! the pension rolls. The bill also increases the
Apensions of soldiers widows and dependent
mothers or fathers from S. a month to $l2.
IL is provided that tho soldier is to bo pre-
sum ,ed TO have been in good health at tho
time of his enlistment, and if the question /,
Ea'Seu the burden Of proof is on tho govern
~e"' - show that the disability existed
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

THE Tilden movement has hitherto egeemed
child's play. Uulcss he is grossly misrepresented
BY his friends, it is becoming the cover for dis
crGditable intrigue and the perversion of the pur.
pose of the honest democrats of the country
BrOokiyn Edgc.
Take your medicine and quit kicking. If
Tilden's nurses find that he cannot weather a
campo ign, the convention will have to nomi.
nate whoever he may conclude TO make his
hoir. Where is the discrcditable intrigue in
pleasant scheme like that?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

THE even-tempered Mr.. William H. Eng.
lish is proposing to sue every news.
paper in the land for publishing charges
that he lobbied for his son. Perhaps the old
man has new name for it. Como to think
of it, what became OF all those libel suits he
was going 10 institute after the campaign of
1880? He laid awake nights for two or three
months collecting lin his mind judgments
against newspapers aggregating in the
neighborhood of eleven billion dollars.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

IT took Massachusetts, jury only ton min
utes to find Or" Franklin Peirce guilty of
manslaughter in causing tho death OF one Of
his patients. This extraordinary practitioner
applied bandages saturated with kerosene to
delicate woman who was supposed to be
suffering from somo internal disorder. Tho
skin came Off with the baudages and the pa.
tient lived but few hours after being sub
jectod to tho torture. 1t would tend to pro.
tect society from medical charlatans If tho
lee taiionis could DO applied in this case. A
few hours experience with kerosene ban
dage would give OR" franklin PIERCE bot
tor knowledge Of tho merits of his favorito
remedy than he could get from many years
of hard study-in prison cell,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

THESE are good times for the, statesmen
who arc employed by the great newspapers Of
the country to write essays from political
centers They take trivial incident, that
probably means less than nothing dress it
up, dlstort it, magnifyit clear out of shape,
ard spin out story of inordinate length
about it. Then they turn it over and wri tie
the other way. The next day they turn it over
and write through it sdewse both ways,
BY the time that is accomplished something
fresh and equally trivial suggests itself
That is what the metropolitan journals call
new. Tho children of the large cities are
said to cry for it.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
The We,kIr Nntlonn1 Renuhlicnn.

The edition of The NATIONAL REPUBLt-
CAN for the current week contains full
account of the bank failures in New York
aud elsewhere; tho latest details of tho Gront
& Ward collapse; mysterious fate of colored
porter; report of the senate committee on
the Danvillo riots; six days proceedings Of
congress; the unseating Of Messrs Peelle and
Mckinley by q partisan vote of the house;
graphic description of a ruined Peruvian viii
lago; an account of the anniversary exercises
ut tho Hampton Normal school, the expert
onces Of n reporter among tho clouds on the
TOP Of the Washington monument; full text
Of the new postal telegraph bill; an article on
propagation and management of fig trees
useful hints for housekeepers; all tho latest
nows by telegraph and cable; editorial arti-
clos, and the usual miscellaneous budget of
selections for all classes of readers.
THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
issued this morning. Price, 8 cents.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

in the second act, which received triple on
core. Miss Amy Harvey, Alice Vane, Her
mino pnlaoo and Lulu Crane, tho last
named having assumed tho part of Master
Paris at short notice, owing to Miss stan
hop o's indisposition, oil acquitted themselves
creditably. While at times there was some
uncertainty on the part of the chorus, they
did good work in the main.
At the matinee yesterday "Girone. Groaa'
was given, of which mention has already
been made. Tonight 1.-THE Mascot" will be
repeated
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

THE democratss spent five time as much
money in 1876 as the republicans did in 1880
to carry Indiana and the fund was expended
under the personal direction of Samuel ].
Tildcn through trusted agents. A statement
of how the corruption fund was placed would
be a noble plank to put in the reform plat
form upon which Tilden will probably run
q second time.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

Mr.. TILDEN's physical aud mental con-
ditiou is the subject of daily newspaper bull
letns. He has two or three physicians and
he is as rugged aud sturdy as mountain oak
But for his incurable paralysis, softening of
the brain, and general breaking down of the
system, the old gentlemen would be as healthy
as ANYBODY
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

ready manages to get away with five millions
year in its operations at Plum point and
the sum that will be required to protect the
whole Of the lower valley from overflow.
If another hundred millions is to be added
to the annual appropriations for pensions,
and the lower Mississippi is to BIO provided
with permanent embellishments there is no
use of talking about cutting down tho tariff.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

To SAVE trouble and expense in the future
the democratic national convention should
authorize Mr.. Tilden or any ono he may
designate to cast the vote of the democratic
party. Mr.. Tideu appears to be pretty much
all there is left of tho crawflsh party.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29
CURRENT GOSSIP.


THE CANDIDATE.
The politician. smooth and bland,
Has many winning ways,
And to and fro throughout the land
He travels all his days.
A modest man. Of modest ends,
He runs reluctantly;
He's ever forced by certain friends,
A candidate to be.
ltinjures much his business
To be public funo;
For ofIentimes, while under stress,
He getteth beastly drunk.
He speaks n piece to every man,
However low and rude:
Much takes he from ne wspapers, aud
Much is plat ltude.
The beer TO drink, the babes to kiss,
He hastcly doth pass;
Among the agrlculturlsts
He tramples down the grass.
lie asks, with earnest bend of head,
After your family,
And be they sick, or well, or dead,
Never curse cares he.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

A DETERMINED effort will be made to seat
the Dezendorf delegates to the Chicago con-
vention. Those political buccaneers represent
the rag-tag and bob-tail of Virginia nothing
ness. They are entitled to no consideration
whatever at the hands of the national con-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

FROM the vicious manner in which demo.
cratic journals and democratic statesmen are
attacking the President, it is evident that
they look upon his nomination as almost a
foregone conclusion.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

THE democratic house should lose no time
unseating Gen. Thomas NJ. Browne of Indi-
ana. His good old Quaker district is reliably
republican by anywhere between 6,eOo and
10000, and there is no contest, but the scat
robbers should not mind little thing like that.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

THE risky SIr. Tilden will have to dance
q hornpipc in the presence of an audience Of
newspaper men very soon or the people may
begin to think he is fooliug them when he
tells them about his wonderful vitality.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-29

IT is sincerely to be hoped that the courts
of New York will eventually land the mill
iouaire bank president swindlers in striped
suits. A half dozen of the rich rogues in
penitentiary costumes would be refreshing
eigbt