The National tribune., 1886-09-23

near thereto rs TO prevent wearing artificial
limb per month.
For amputation Of leg arm. above the knee or
elbow, or amputation near the knee or elbow
joint to render the joint useless $40 per month
For amputation below the knee or elbow, $50 per
month
We favor pensions 10 all honorabIy-discharged
soldiers and sailors now disabled or dependent
upon their own labor for support, who are 6
years Of age, without compelling them to prove at
this date that such disability arose from the service.
We favor a just and equitable equalization OF the
bountes paid by the General Government.
Gro S. MERRILL,
LOUIS WAGNER,
JAMES TANNER,
john G. LIEEHAN.
john 5. KoUETz,
Committee.
The recommendations against which are
stars were accepted by the last session of
Congress, and enacted into law
We want the remainder treated in the
same way, and every true, practical friend
of the soldier desires the same thing.
Letevery ex-soldier plant himself squarely
on this platform, and insist on knowing
how every man who solicits his vote re-
CARDS it.
This is duty he owes to himself and to
the bro1en-down comrades who once stood
shoulder TO shoulder with him in confronting
the enemies of the Nation.
GEN. LOGAN AND THE RELIEF CORPS.
Gen. John A. Logan, the father of Me-
mortal Day." and the first great soldier of
the war to join the Grand Army of the Re-
public, whose Commander in-Chief he was,
believes in the Woman's Relief Corps. He
believes in the Relief CesPs, and he never
loses the opportunity of saying 50.
AT the magnificent reception rendered him
by the comrades of the great Northwest,
away up in Seattle, Wash Ter, he did not
forget the Relief Corps. His words are the
more significant as they indorse the action
of the fourth National Convention, which, in
adopting the report of the relief committee, of
which Mrs. Logan is a member, at the same
time pledged itself to work for pensions for
army nurses.
Gen. Logan at Seattle spoke rs follows,
after commenting upon the magnificent
work of the GAR:
Now in connection with this organization. and
as an auxiliary 10 it, has been organized the Wom-
ans Relief CorPs-thiriy thousand women. pair-
otto women. banded together for the purpose Of
caring for the unfortunate soldier, his widow and
his orphans. To them bow my head. for they
have done much for the unfortunate in this land.
/ lApplause.l And you. my comrades. will remem-
Der the time on the battlefield, in the camp and in
/ the hospital when the poor old army nurse with a
cup Of water or tea or coffee or something came to
arouse you and administer To your comfort: when
| they smoothed your burning brow. You all re-
member the kindness they bestowed upon you.
and in remembering that you should not forget
that many Of them still living. and to-day are
doing the same work Of charity they did then in
| the army. Last Winter | got n bin through Con-
! gress giving old Mother Eickerdyke pension.
! Poor old woman. remember once when To- see
her, It was like having angels visit. And ]
want to say to you now. that so flr as am con
ccrned, am in favor Of giving every one Of those
women who need il pension. lApplanse.l AM
/ ifanybody vetoes their pensions. We will keep ola
trying until some gets there who will not.
! lI.ong appause.l