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A MATTER OF JUSTICE,

The Dubuque Times of recent date pub
lished some criticisms upon Col. Hepburn
and Maj. Holmes, Members from Iowa, be-
cause of their advocacy Of the arrears amend
ment to the widows pension bill which lately
passed the House. The article maintained
that the action Of the two gentlemen was
calculated to endanger the passage of the
widows bill and drew some conclusions very
unjust to them.
The point at issue was simply parlia-
mentary one Both were in favor of the
widows bill and voted for it. They were also
in favor of the righteous measure for the re-
peal of the limitations in the arrears act.
They held that if a vote could be brought
out strong enough to pass the amendment
for the repeal of the limitation of arrears,
the same vote would pass the bill as amended;
and, further, that if Congress meant to repeal
the limitation it might as well do it as an
amendment to the bill under consideration for
the benefit of the widows as at any other time.
In this view THE NATIONAL. TRIBUNE con-
Cured although we were aware that many
whose friendship for the soldier could not be
questioned differed from us as to the adj
visibility Of this form of bringing forward
the matter.
We have observed the difficulty of secur-
ing consideration for a worthy measure, and
the defeat of bills that should have been
passed by simply preventing a vote thereon,
as in the case of the Mexican pension bill
and amendments in the House last Congress-
We welcomed, therefore, any parliamentary
proceeding which would force a vote upon
the arrears proposition, and we believe that
the measure would have passed the House
could vote have been reached upon it either
in the form of an amendment to another bill
Or as An independent proposition, and regret
that by parliamentary technically the
matter was not put to vote.
At any rate, it is unjust to Col. Hepburn
and Maj. Holmes to charge them with oppo-
sition to the widows bill for advocating the
amendment, for no two Members of the
House can be depended upon with greater
safety than them to vote and speak right
when justice to their old comrades in-arms
is the question at issue.
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in many places in the last few months
of the war. But these were mainly confined
to the large cities and the manufacturing
centers, where men were heaping up money
so fast that they were willing to pay any
price rather than be disturbed at their
wealth accommodating. Such men as the
editor Of the Boston Advertiser forget, how
ever, how the talk Of big bounties recoils
on themselves. If in 1864 it required enor-
nous bounties to induce men to enlist, then
there should be the greater credit given to
the men who enlisted in 1861, 2 and 3, with
little or no bounty, and who formed the bone
and sinew of the army which broke the
back bone of the rebellion The big bounties
were paid by rich men who were either
afraid to go to the war, who were unwilling to
endure the hardships and privations of sol
diering OF who were making so much money
that they were willing to pay anything to
be allowed to go on heaping up wealth.
But the editor of the Advertiser cares lit
tie for the right or justice of the matter.
lie only desires to appeal to the selfishness
of the moneyed classes, and furnish them
arguments for repudiating the just claims of
the men whose services are no longer needed
to stand between them and destruction.
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The Third Corps
GETTYSBURG,
BY CAPT. j. e. SMITH,
OF Smiths Battery.

Capt. J. f. Smith, who commanded Smiths
Battery at Gettysburg, and made with it a
reputation second to that of no other organi-
sation engaged, has prepared careful paper
an the operations of the Third Corps, to
which be belonged, in the battle This will
give many new facts in regard TO the cele-
brated fight at the Peach Orchard, and show
of what immense value to the Army of the
Potomac WAS the time gained by the gallant
1truggle there.
Capt. Smiths article has the sanction of
Gen. Daniel L. Sicklcs, and it was he who
suggested Capt. Smith as the best man to
write mp the fight.
The article will be well illustrated by
maps and pictures, and will appear in the
issue Of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for next
week
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JUDGE SENEY, Member of Congress for
the Seventh Ohio District, is preparing a
minority report dissenting from the bill
reported back favorably by the committee
to establish time limitation to bar claims
against the Government. He proposed to
to insert the word "except before the words
for back pay or bounty due to officers,
soldiers" etc. Col. Hepburn, of Iowa, and
probably some others, will join Judge Seney
i'll the minority report.
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THE SOLDIERS BULLETIN
MERGED WITH
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.

That very excellent little paper-the Sol
dfecs' BUiy,tia, published by Col. Milo B.
Stevens, has ceased 10 be. 1t has been
merged into THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and
its subscribers will receive a number of
this paper for every number of the Bulletin
that is due them.
They will remember that the Bulletin is a
semi-monthly, while THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE is a weekly. Therefore those who have
paid fer the Baiiefia a year will receive THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE for six months, and
shorter periods in proportion. We trust and
believe that they viii be satisfied with the
change, for while the Bulletin was conducted
by Col. Stevens with marked ability, and
loyalty to the best interests Of the soldiers, vet
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE is in position to
serve them more acceptably than the Bulletin
could. We welcome them 20 the great ranks
OF The NATIONAL TEIBUNE's constituency,
and congratulate them on being in line and
In communication with the lis, 600 comrades
whose names appear On our list
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VETERANS RIGHTS IN NEW YORK.

Comrades Joseph w. Kay, Thos. B. O'Dell
and DIR. J. T. Burdick, of the Union Vet
Grams Association, Edward A. Dudley,
President of the Kings County Association,
and Hon. Walter Howe have been doing
very effective work for the veterans at
Albany. They appeared before the Judi
ciary Committees CT the Assembly to advo-
cate the bill which we published a few
weeks ago, and Of which the essential por-
tons are:
Sec In grateful recognition of the services, sac
rices and suiierings of persons who served in the
army or navy of the United States in the late war;
and have been honorably discharged therefrom
they shall be certified as such by the Examiner
Board of Examiners as the case may be, to the ap-
pointing officer, or other appointing power and
shall be preferred for appointment to positions in
the civil service of the State and of the cities
affected by this act, and the several acts hereby
amended over all other persons, though not graded
higher than others examined and certified pro-
vided, their qualifications and fitness shall have
been ascertained provided under this act and the
several acts hereby amended; and the person thus
preferred shall not be disqualified from holding
any position in said civil service account of his
age, nor by reason of any physical disability, pro-
vided such age disability does not render him
incompetent to perform the duties of the position
applied for "
Sec. 5. Whenever it shall appear after a competi-
tive examination for appointment to position in
the civil service of the State of the cities affected
by this act and the several acts hereby amended,
that more than one such honorably discharged
soldier or sailor is qualified to fill the same the Ex-
amlner or Board of Examiners, as the case may be,
snail certify FOR appointment to the appointing Off
Ger or other appontingpOwer all of such honoraby-
discharged soldiers sailors whose qualifications
and fitness have been ascertained as aforesaid,
specifying their respective grades in such examina-
ton, and in such case the appointment shall be
made from among those certified who are graded
highest as the result of such examination.
Hon. Walter Howe made very strong
argument in favor of the bill, and was fol-
lowed by Comrades Kay, O'Dell, Dudley and
Burke in shorter speeches.
Hon. Seth Low resisted the proposed
change in the law on the ground that any
change would be injurious to it, since it
would tend to uproot its underlying prin-
ciples and that the one contemplated would
give the veterans the monopoly of the offices
of the State, for there were several thousands
more of them in the State than there were
offices to be filled. He added that since the
passage Of the Civil Service law the veterans
had passed, on the average, better examina-
tons than the civilians, so that they did not
need an exemption to be made in their favor.
The Committee decided to report the bill
favorably.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18

SENATOR VAN WICK has introduced an
widows pension, which provides that the
pension to dependent minors shall be in
creased from ST. as now, to s. where they
have lost one parent, and to $40 where they
have lost both parents, and he also extends
the reasonable age from 16 to 10 years
The Senator's amendment also provides that
dependent parents shall only be required to
prove dependence at the time of application,
and not prior dependence.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18

The Hon. John r. Eden, representing the
18th Illinois District is one of the most use
full Members in Congress. The quiet and
efficient manner in which he serves his dis
trict is another exemplifcation of the wis
dom of constituencies which send expert
enced men to represent them in the House.
Mr. Eden is now on his fifth term, and has
therefore training in Governmental bust
ness that is of more practical advantage to
his district than any other consideration to
be urged. He is an Industrious and earnest
friend of the Union soldier, and may be
relied on to vote to give the veteran his just
dues every time
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A VALIANT KNIGHT FALLEN.


In striking down Gen. Hancock Death has
removed from among us one of the knight
hest figures among the contestants on either
side of the great struggle of the rebellion.
He was such man, such fighter, and
such leader as might have sat with the
legendary knights that gathered about
King Arthurs round table, and been the
peer of the bravest, the truest and the most
courteous among them. In purely knightly
traits of character he had no superior in any
age or country. He was as absolutely with
out fear and without reproach as Chevalier
Bayard himself, and as long as our history
shall last he will stand as the type of an
ideal leader of grand masses of fighting men,
kingly in form and feature, great-hearted
and generous whirlwind upon the field of
battle, gracious gentleman in peace. To
the Army of the Potomac he was such a
leader as neutrality-suspicious. fright arm y
was to the armies of France, with vastly
more nobility of character and more ability
than the great French cavalryman could lay
claim to-
What rank he might have taken as COM
mander of an army we do not know. He
never had an opportunity to conduct CAM
paign, such as Grant Sherman Sheridan,
Thomas, Meade, Mcclellan, Buell., Hooker,
Rosecrans, and others had. But as an execu-
tant, as leader of soldiers in battle, he
never had superior. Nothing could be finer
than his leadership of his brigade in the bat
ties on the Peninsula and at Antetam, of his
division at fredericksburg, and of his corps at
Gettysburg and in the Wilderness campaign.
He was only equaled in this respect by such
men as Logan, Sedgwick, Humphreys, and
kearny. To the same class belong on the
rebel side Longstreet, the Hills, and Pat.
Cleburne.
His whole life was on the same elevated
plane as his solderly service to his country.
In every relation of life he was the same
high-souled, ardent unshakingly loyal man.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18
1,O79,333

When we add this to the sum above and
include the men who were deprived of
bounty because disabled before serving two
years, we find that much more than half the
men who gathered around the flag either re-
ceived no bounty at all, or, at most, got but $35
worth of deprecated paper. 1t is true that
since the war Congress has done something
to repair injustice toward this class by an
additional allowance Of 500 to d small Dor
ton of them, but this was not enough to
affect the general statement
We hear much talk Of enormous bounties
now-much more than we heard at the time.
The men who were in the.fieId before Lee
and HoOd-the men who were shooting the
rebellion to death-the men who were man
ming the 50 miles Of trenches around Peters
burg, who were making the March to the
Sea. who were beating the venom out of
Hoods army at Franklin and Nashville
heard little about enormous bounties. There
were none when they entered the field, and
the only Information they got in regard to
them was from some occasional substitute
who was thrust into their company, and who
told how well he had been paid for enlisting
to save some such man as the editor of the
Boston Advertiser from being snatched away
from his money-making schemes, to do his
share toward rescuing the country from her
difficulties
Undoubtedly there were big bounties paid
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THE GAR. WATCH.

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THE GRAND ARMY BLUE BOOK.

The best manual that newly elected officers
OF Posts can have to instruct them in their
duties and to solve difficult questions that con-
tinually arise in and out of the Post room is
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mander-in-C Chief Robert B. Beath, of Philadel-
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mirable digest of Grand Army law has just
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18

THE interview with Commissioner of
Agriculture Coleman on sorghum sugar
which appears in our Agricultural column
will be found highly interesting to those
who have given any thought to this subject
and its vast Importance from the standpoint
Of political economy.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18

WE call attention to an important letter
in another column from Gen. Black on the
subject of the obsolete pension laws which
gave halfyear's pay to the widows of officers
who were killed or died, and which has been
the cause of circulars from Pension Agents
raising hopes that could not be fulfilled.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18

TIE many friends of "Si KIegg" will
miss his familiar face this week. He has not
deserted nor been killed or captured; but
his artist is in hospital. ST will come sml-
ing next week with chapter of fresh and
spicy adventures.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-02-18

THE number of pension certificates issued
during the week ending Feb. Is, 1856, was
as follows: Original, 652; increase, 3S3
reissue, "a; restoration, 20; duplicate, "a
accrued, %; Act of March 8, 1883, 4;
Order April 3, 1884, II; Act of March 3,
1886, 5; total, 1917.
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WORLDS CyCLOPEDIa

So many inquiries have come from our sub
scribers for copies of the Worlds Cyclopedia,
of which we distributed several thousand last
year, that we have secured a new supply.
This book is a wonderful little mine of infor.
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send it and TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for one
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TAGoTS FROM THE CAMPFIRE

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veterans of the late war as will "Fagots From
the Campfire" filled as it is with accounts of
thrilling adventures and har-breadth escapes
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THE RED ACORN.

1t is bright, humorous and attractive story of
the late war.-Chronicle-H Herald (Philadelphia).
The Red Acorn is just the book to place
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ing for the true story of the war. Sent by THE
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MRS. SHERWoOD's POEMS

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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. d. c., FEBRUARY Is, 1886

General Sherman The Tribune.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE L. S.,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE
From the nature OF the articles published
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EVERYBODY DELIGHTED.

The pictures Of Grant Sherman and Sheridan
are going off very rapidly, aud everybody who
gets them is delighted with them. They could
not be finer pictures or better portraits if they
cost 81 piece, and in fact they are much better
than any which are selling ia tho stores for 81
and upward apiece.
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This, it will readily be seen, makes very
big hole in the grand total. The following
men received but 500 bounty, which, when
it was paid them, was worth only $50 in
gold. AS they did not get this unless they
served two years or more, at least half did
not get any bounty at all.
Call Of May 8, 1861. G57 ,s6s
July ?, 1862. 42l 4G5
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INSULTING THE VETERANS.

Lahoring strenuously to curry favor with
the "uppeh clahses,r the Boston Advertiser
continues to seek every opportunity to insult
and belittle the intelligence and patriotism
Of the noble men in Massachusetts, sent to
the field in the dark days of the war to do
battle for the preservation of the property
and rights of the men who would now deny
them everything. In a recent leading edi-
torial it said:
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-08-10
Coming Home to Die.

At period oflife when budding NO.
manhood requires oil her strength 10
meet tbe demands nature makes upon IL,
many young woman returns home
irom the severe mental strain u school
with broken-down constitution, and
her functions dissrrsnged, to go to an
early grave If sbe had been wisely
counselec and gwen the benefit OF DR.
Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" bel
bodily development might have kept
pace with ber mental growth, and health
and beauty would Dot have given way
to decline andssdeatb.