Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-07

rather taking rallying cry for an old attempt
One cent day seem. a small reward for the
tolls of march and perils of battle, if such
rewards are to be paid at all. The bill ap-
plies to all officers or enlisted men, regulars,
or volunteers, who served in the army, navy,
or marine corps subsequent to March 4, 1861
and prior to July /, 1866. aud this pension is
to be additional to any heretofore or here
after granted for disability. The main PEN
sion is As follows The rate of pension for
such service shall be at the rate per month of
| cent for each days service rendered in said
army, navy, or marine corps of the United
States" The first point to note is that it is a
monthly rate, not an annual. Next, there
were many soldiers who served three years,
and their monthly pension rate would there
fore be sl0.95, or. in round numbers, Sl2l a
year. A large number re-enlisted after the
three years, aud served long enough TO have
over SI2 a month. Some of the regulars
would have over SIS month.
The Potomac has been closed to navigation
by ice for nearly two weeks, but the warm
weather has weakened the ice SO much that an
ice-boat will start out this morning and en-
deavor to break channel between here and
Alexandria. II is doubtful if blockade oc-
ours again this winter
Passing the room of the Commissioner of
Patents today, the Journal correspon-
dent noticed that line of lady
clerks had taken a stand at his door and were
peering with curious and quizzical eyes into
the room. 80, his hair Isn't it beautiful"
aud II don't think Bob Ingersoli is Bit
good looking, do you?" were the remarks
overheard. Upon inquiry, learned that an
august array of legal talent were engaged in
a telephone case before the Commissioner
and that the presence of Roscoe Conkling
and Col. lngersoll was the occasion of the
ladies' interest. The lordly Roscoe has
changed much since | saw him years ago
His hair is white and the p0ise of middle-age
is wanting but he still wields his sarcastic
foretinger and collects his fees. | imagine
that to be an eminent private citizen of such
wide reputation, though this may not have
been his ambition, must be more agreeable
TO him than the Senatorial honors which he
so hastily threw aside. regret to say that he
chews tobacco very vigorously while engaged
in trying a cause, and the habit doesn't be-
come him any better than chewing a cigar
does General Butler. Ingersoll whose ro-
tundity has become something wonderful,
stood at one of the outside doors of the Pa
tent Office yesterday, after the hearing was
over, evidently waiting for his carriage; his
face was wreathed in smiles, and pres
emily, as if he could contain himself
no longer, he burst into singing a familiar
hymn. His loud sonorous voice rang
through the corridors that brough the clerks
out from their desks in hurry. He was
surrounded by number of admiring young
men.
The prettiest bit of work that has been
done for the industries of the United States
th..t tnth
engineered from two rooms in the St. James
hotel. The two rooms are the headquarters
of the National Fishery Association; the en-
gineer is Luther Maddocks, formerly of
Boothbay, Me-, and the work they have done
is to defeat all possibility of fish being put
on the free list even by this free-tradsh
House, spurred on by the message of Mr..
Cleveland, which Henry George SO helpfully
welcomes and endorses as straighout free
trade document. The story of their work is
a long one but suffice it to say that this quiet
little Yankee fisherman finds himself after
two months of unrelenting work, able to snap
his fingers at her ma jestys lord high COM
missioner, and hear the news through Cana
da that the arbitrators are patching up a
make believe convention so as not to adjourn
without offering any hting to the people Of
both nations as the result of their labors
Senator Hoar said recently that he would
shortly introduce the Lowell bankruptcy bill
in the Senate, as Representative Collins would
in the House. He thought it would probably
go in next week. He was only waiting for
opportunity to confer with some of the Dem
ocratic senators before presenting it, 1t will
be remembered that in the last Congress the
Democrats in the Senate, voting solidly to-
gether with half dozen Republicans, struck
out of the Lowell bill the involuntary bank
ruptcy provision. Mr.. Hoar wishes to con
fer with some of the Democrats as to their
present attitude before he brings the bill in
again. 1t is not probable that the bill will
psss both houses this session. The country
will have to wait for new bankruptcy law
until after the next presidential election.