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The National tribune., 1886-03-04
CROCKER'S IOWA BRIGADE.

We have received copy Of the printed re-
port of the Reunion of Crocker's Iowa Bri-
gade at Iowa City, Iowa, Sept % and "a,
1885. 1t is handsome pamphlet, gotten
up in that "style that characterizes every
thing that Crocker's boys" do, or ever did
do, whether fighting, marching, "burning,"
or holding Reunions. The pamphlet is Or
namented with an excellent steel-plate por-
trait of Gen. Belknap. The gem of the re-
port is the magnificent Grafton of Gen. Hick-
enlooper, of Ohio, at one time commander of
the brigade. Besides this, it contains elo-
quent speeches by Gen. Macarthur, Capt.
Hedley. Gen. Gresham, Gen. Strong, Gov.
Sherman, and others
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
THE Ex-PRIsoNERs OF WAR.


The visit to this city ofthe officers of the
Ex-Prsoners of War Association cannot help
being productive Of great good to the cause
The committees of Congress are never ap-
preached by abler men than Comrades
Longenecker, Mack and Gessner, and their
presentation of the claims of the victims of
rebel prison-pens carried conviction to all
who heard them.
President Longenecker made logical
statement of the position of the prisoners !;
DR.. G. A. Gessner reinforced this with an
array of solid and unanswerable figures, and
IF. Mack closed the statement with sledge-
hammer argument on the justice of the case
Every Member of Congress who heard them
expressed himself as satisfied that pen
sions are Justly and rightfully due all who
suffered Imprisonment for any length of
time. We look for good results from the
visit of the delegation to Washington.
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
THE ss-A-MoNTH AGITATION.

We believe that there is the greatest dan
ger to the interests Of the soldiers in the
agitation at the present time Of the $6-a-
month plan. The temper of Congress and of
the people-of soldiers themselves-is not at
all favorable to service pensions. Urging
this tends to greatly embarrass other plans
which have strong hopes of success, and
which are supported by public sentiment
1t is very hard now to get men to admit
that every man who served in the Union
army ought to be pensioned at So month,
without reference to his physical or financial
capacity to take care of himself But nearly
every one will admit that the Government
ought to provide for every soldier who is now
disabled and poor. We can get thousand
friends for a law which will take every
broken-down old soldier out of the poor
house, and put him once more in his own
home, to where we can get one supporter of
measure which will pay all old soldiers
rich and poor, strong and decrepit-$S a
month, or any other sum.
1t is very essential that Congress shall
pass law at this session which will make
such provision as we have spoken of for the
thousands of broken-down soldiers who are
suffering for the common comforts of life,
and who are practically denied a pension by
the years of time which are expended in ex-
amining their claims and satisfying tech
nicalities. Every months delay in the pas
sage of such law is the greatest cruelty to
them. We can get the law passed if we will
temporarily drop everything else and con-
centrate on this. If we do not so concentrate,
its passage will be greatly endangered.
1t is the silliest nonsense to charge that
pension attorneys are interested in the pas
sage of suc'' a law. They cannot have any
interest in it. 1t is really against them. If
it passes, all that claimant will have to do
will be to present himself before Board of
Examining Surgeons, armed with his dis
charge. If he can prove that he served in
the army, that he is now physically dis
abled, and that he is dependent on his labor
for support, he gets his pension without any
more ado and at once. A pension attorney
will be of no use to him at all.
Comrades, let us all put our shoulders to
the wheel and get this measure through at
this session. Next year We can urge $S-a-
month service pensions, equalization of
bounties, land warrants, ETC., and so on. Get
ting the disability-pension law now will not
interfere a particle with the agitation of
other measures in the future.
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
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THEY don't believe the age of miracles is
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.SOLDIERSIN CONGRESS.
CAPT. ALBERT C. THOMPSON

One of the many brave soldiers of the late
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gross is Capt Albert Clifton Thompson, the
new Member from the 18th Ohio District. He
was born in Brookvile, Pa, Jan. 23, 1912. He
attended the public school and spent two years
at Jefferson College, Pa, but was not able to
finish his course by reason Of his fathers finan-
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
THE GRAND ARMY ByITE Ro0K.

The best manual that newy-elected officers
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satirical journals of the country. 1t is
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on any matter Of public interest.
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THE RED ACORN.

IL Is bright. humorous and attractive story OF
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The National tribune., 1886-03-04

THE number Of pension certificates issued
during the week ending Feb. 20, 1886, was
rs follows: Original, 1,l40; increase, 225; !;
reissue, 90; restoration, 81; duplicate, 90 (;
accrued, %; Act of March 3, 1888, S;
Order April 3, 1884, 20; Act of March 3,
1885, g.; total, 1870
The National tribune., 1886-03-04

The number of pension certificates issued
during the week ending Feb. 81, 1856. was
rs follows: Original, 764; increase, 1S7
reissue, Sc; restoration, 21; duplicate, % !;
accrued, 30; Act of March 3, 1883, 3; Order
April 3, 1884, 10; Act of March 3, 1885. 4 /;
total ] 100
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
GEN. w. r. ROWLEY.
Death OF Gen. Grants Military Secretary ar
Trusted Friend.

Gen. W. r. Rowley, whose death in Chicago
Feb. 9 has been briefly mentioned in our Obit-
uary column, was well known in the armies of
the West during the war. He was born in st.
Lawrence County, N. Y, in 1924. When a
young man he taught school in Brown County,
o., and in 1S43 settled in Galena, Ill, where he
held various civil offices. In November, 1861,
he entered the service as First Lieutenant Co.
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
EVERYBODY DELIGHTED.

The pictures of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
are going off very rapidly, and 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 in the stores for 81
and inward aniere
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
MRS. SHERwOOD's POEMS.

We have on hand still number of copies of
hrs. Sherwoods exquisite lyrics which we will
sell, handsomely bound. for the small sum of
81, or elegantly decorated in blue and gold for
81 80
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
S2S,T63,T9S 10

Even if we add this amount to the aggre-
gate collection of the IL "ex- Confederate
States" it will fall several millions short of
one-third the total amount. But it is mani
festly absurd to allow any such addition.
Even if Kentucky had gone into the rebel
lion as thoroughly as Virginia did, it would
be preposterous TO allow her credit for more
than small percentage of the SIS, $50, ,17216
which was collected in her limits. She pro-
duces five-sevenths of the fine whiskies con-
sumed in the country, and consequently it is
not she who pays this immense tax, but the
people who drink her handmade, sour
mash, fire-distilied" staple products. The
tobacco, cigar and cigaret manufactures and
the breweries are the main sources of inter
nal revenue in Maryland and Missouri
1t is very absurd in every way to class
among tex Confederate States those which
sent to the Union army
Maryland 5O,36 men
west
III
T9025
Total. ........ ......270 $40 men
and so we cannot believe that Mr.. Tillman
intended to SO include them.
His statement that the |" ex- Confederate
States pay one-third of the revenue of the
Government is made to embrace the amount
Of indirect taxes they pay in shape Of en-
hauced prices for dutiable articles. Here
again he is badly at fault. The people of
the "exConfederate States" pay but very
small proportion of the income derived from
the Custom-house. We do not refer now to
the actual amounts of imports through
Custom-houses situated in the ex-Confed-
crate States" because we viii admit that is
unfair, since the greater portion of all the
foreign goods consumed in the United States
passes through the New York Custom house.
The truth is that the people of the "ex-
Confederate States" number but one quarter
of our entire population, and being on an
average much poorer than the rest of the
country, their aggregate purchases are not of
the annual value of those of half of their
number in other sections; that is, 1000
average Virginians or Georgians will not buy
as much imported and dutiable goods-or
goods of any kind-in year as 500 Ohioans
or Pennsylvanians. The people of Chicago
or Cincinnati, for example, probably pay
more to the Government in the shape of
duties on champagne, brandy, ETC., that they
actually drink, silks and other fine cloth
that they themselves wear, than the whole
of Virginia and the Carolinas
The best obtainable figures place the entire
contribution of the seeding States to the
Government income at between one-seventh
and one-eighth of the aggregate amount.
On the other hand, the Governments ex-
penditures in the so called Confederate
States, for river and harbor improvements,
mail service, public buildings, etc, are greatly
out of proportion to the revenue it receives
from them, so that this pretense of generosity
in submitting cheerfully to taxation to help
pay pensions TO Union soldiers will not bear
examination, for every year the sex Confed-
crate States" take much more out of the
public treasury for their own purposes than
they put into it for all general purposes, in
Guiding pensions.
The National tribune., 1886-03-04

This does not include the citizens of Sc
ceding States who made their way through
the lines and joined the first Union regi-
ments they came to. There were many
thousands of these who were enrolled in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky and
Missouri regiments.
There should be also added the II ,279
pensioners from the United States Colored
Troops" since these were almost invariably
from the seeding States, as those from the
loyal States bore the names of their States
the same as the white regiments. Adding
all these together we have at least 10000
natives of the seeding States on the pension
rolls AS the average annual value of PEN
sions is s110.36, this would make the aver
age annual payment to this class $3.50, 800,
an enormous discrepancy from the "three
cents" at which Mr.. Tillman assumed to ap-
praise the benefit received by the people of
the seeding States.
But possibly Mr.. Tillman would like us
to include in this the Border States, as he
doubtless does when he speaks of the "ex-
Confederate States paying one-third of the
pension expenses. All right Here goes:
,2o2
Kentucky 1856
hiarSiho o'o'
MISSOURI loa|o
west N1rginii...... oi-o
76G
Adding these to the figures given above
we have total of 67,641 pensioned citizens
of the country south of Mason & Dixon's
Line With the average annual value of
pensions, S110.36, they receive every year
S7,464, ,8G076 or about 20 per cent of the
annual value of the pension-roll.
The case can be concisely stated thus:
Mr.. Tillman's 500 600 03
Correct 6i,S6O 16
Error in Mr.. Tilman's statement..... 1851, 800 73
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
MIR. TILLMAN,S MISTAKE.

When Mr.. Tillman, of South Carolina,
made his astonishing statement that the
"Cotton or ex-Confederate States paid
one-third Of the sum expended for pensions
for Union soldiers, he added another almost
equally astonishing one that "they (the
aforesaid ex-Confederate States) do not get
back three cents" Mr.. Tillman probably
has not looked over the report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions recently, or he would not
have let his temper betray him into talking
SO wildly. In the report for 1855 we find
that pensions are being paid to citizens of
seeding States who served in Union regi-
ments or other organizations from their
States as follows:
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
HOW MUCH THEY PAY.

In the course Of the debate on pensions
in the House of Representatives last Friday
MIR. Tillman, of South Carolina, said:
Considering that The Cotton States, or rather
what are known as Confederate States pay about
one-third Of the amount derived by the Federal
Government from taxation-being based on con-
sumption on imported goods and whisky and TO-
bacco-1 say considering that the taxation Of the
Federal Government is based upon consumption
and not upon property, and, therefore, the South,
or the ex-Confederate States, pay about one-third
of the total amount paid by the Federal Govern
ment for pensions, of which they do not get back
three cents; considering also that s8 month from
the foundation Of the Government to the present
time has been deemed sufficient pension to a
widow, can the gentlemen blame the Southern
members for trying to restrain the necessarily large
expenditures for pensions within the rule that has
prevailed heretoforeo
The gentleman from South Carolina is
very badly misinformed. The States lately
in rebellion were: Virginia. North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. For the
fiscal year ended June so, 1884, the collec-
tions Of internal revenue in these were as
follows:
Alabama ............................ ss5,s9s 33
Arkansas ........... 9l,Oo9 81
Florida a................. I7S,562 O9
379,74 81
Louisiana 56olS4 50
Mississippi. 504i9 So
North Carolina l. 100 500 "a
South Carolina ................. 1896 96
Tennessee 1249975 96
Texas-.......... 2l0I49 OF
Virginia 2G 10
The National tribune., 1886-03-04
2S

As the whole amount Of internal revenue
collected was S121, $50, O,039S3, it will be seen
that the States lately in rebellion, instead Of
paying one-third, only paid about one
fifteenth; that is, instead of the people of
the lately-rebellious States paying one dollar
in every three of internal revenue taxes,
they pay less than one in 15. This is an
astounding discrepancy to be found in a
statement made in so formal manner as a
speech to the House of Representatives. But
possibly Mr. Tillman will insist that Mary
land, West Virginia, Kentucky aud Missouri
should be included among his ''Cotton"
or "ex-Confederate States" The internal
revenue collected in those States in the
fiscal year of 1884 was:
SIS os3ii2 l6
Maryland ............. g. 1885, 49I l5
West 56O,32S 2S
The National tribune., 1886-03-04


"BuryiRg the Hatchet" is war drama writ
ten by Maj. George Sperry, LockpOrt, Ill, and
dedicated to the Tooth Ill. 1t is production
of high merit. and is particularly suited to
Grand Army and kindred entertainments.
The scenes representing the battle of Stone
River, and the accompanying text, are exceed
ingly effective.
c. P. Putnams Sons, New York, have issued
No XXXII of Questions of the Day" 1t is
a treatise on Modern Armor and National De-
fense," by Lieut.. William III. Jaques, u. s.
Navy. The writer has brought together many
interesting and important facts on this subject,
and makes strong argument in behalf of bet
ter coast and naval defense5 for the United
States.
Patriotism and National Defense" by Chas.
III. Hall, d. d.. is No. XVIII OF the series of
" Economic Facts" published by The Society
for Political Education, 81 Park Row, New
York. 1t is plea for more thorough prepara-
tion, on the part of our Government, to meet
the possibilities of the future.
A new monthly magazine is soon to appear in
New York to be called The Forum. 1t is to be
devoted to the discussion of such questions as
interest the mass of intelligent people and is to
be independent in its attitude. 1t will in form
be modelled after the English reviews, with
large type, wide margins and heavy paper
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell, whose clever
little book, "A Canterbury Pilgrimage" has
been such success. have written and illustrat-
ed a new work, entitled Italy from a Tricy-
cle." 1t is a description of pilgrimage on
three wheels, recently made by them from Flor
ence to Rome. and it will appear in two num-
bers of The Century. beginning with March.
The subject of Church Union will be discuss
ed in the March Century. from the Presbyterian
point of view, by DR.. Howard Crosby OF New
York, and Professor A. A. Hodge OF Princeton.