Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-22
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meals they serve yet they do not calculate
to receive as large fees as they did last
March. Boarding houses are charg-
ing from 81 to 50 per day for
rooms and meals. There are places where
accommoda lions are secured if two persons
will occupy the same room, as low as Sl.5O
per day for rooms and meals but those who
expect to receive comfortable quarters should
not calculate to pay less than $3.50 per day
for the room and meals at boarding houses,
while the hotels will charge from $3.50 to ST.
a day. The weather in Washington during
the early days i'll October ls generally mag
niticont I he trees will have just begun 10
shed.thelr foliage. The season withal will
be probably two or three weeks later than in
the central states of Ohio Indiana, Illinois,
and on that parallel of latitude. Prepara-
tons are being made for a splendid time and
people who come need not expect to be
robbed.
LESS MONEY IN PENSION CLAIMS.
The retirement from the pension Office of
Corporal Tanner has renewed interest in the
business of the pension agents in Washing
ton. There was time Wheh very few busi-
nesses at the national capital were as lucra
tive as that of representing the claims of
soldiers before the pension department.
During the past six or eight years there has
been steady decline of this business until
at present it is said that there is not more
than one quarter as much money made out OF
pension claims as there was six years ago.
This fact is largely due, men at the pension
office say, to the work of men in congress.
Applicants for pensions have come to under
stand that their senator or member OF con-
gress can and will push pension claims with
much more vigor and success than pension
agent, and it will cost them nothing to have
1t done.
Much of the money made by agents in
securing pensions during the past three or
four years has been the result Of the labor
of senators and representatives. Pension
agents secure the clientage of applicants
and take the preliminary steps, but the work
of pushing the claims, filing additional testi-
mony, and all that sort of thing, Is, in more
than two. thirds of the instances, done by
men in congress- When the pensions are
allowed the agents represent that the success
was due to their efforts and proceed to COL
lect their fees. Nine-tenths OF the claims
before the pension bureau are represented by
attorneys, and four-fifths of the pensions al
lowed come through the efforts of men in
congress, of friends who have no financial
interests involved.
GOT EVEN WITH THE GENERAL.
In connection with the talk about General
Rosecrans retiring from the registership of
the treasury, his commission having expired
and he having secured the permanent pay OF
brIgader- general on the retired list,
amounting in all TO about rs, 900 year, or
| 81, 900 as pensioner and an equal sum as a
federal officer, IL is remarked by almost
every one who has run against the gallant old
soldier of late that he is becoming remarkably
| "gingery." A well-known newspaper reporter
| of this city went into General Rosecrans'
Office during the recent discussion of the
proposition to remove the remains of General
| Grant from Riverside park In New York to
| the Arlington cemetery in this city, and
| asked him what he thought of the PROPOSE
| tion General Rosecrans has despised the
| very name of Grant for a score OF years, and
| he generally loses his temper when he hears
| il mentioned, General Rosecrans was
| stretched QUITO an easy-chair, and taking his
afternoon siesta when the reporter entered
| the office of register of the treasury.
"What do you think Of the proposition to
| remove General Grants remains" was the
| way the question was proDouDded.
General Rosecrans opened his eyes. rubbed
| them gently, and replied: son, haven't got
| time TO say what think about it,"
''The reporter, who is somewhat OF wag,
| looked the general in the eyes a moments and
| gave vent 10 his feelings by replying;
| "Maybe you will have more time, general,
| when President Harrison gets back
| The door closed behind the reporter just in
| time to enable him TO escape an invitation TO
| retire.