Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-15
cHlcAeo's STRATEGIC MOVE.
The Windy City Establishes an 1nfor-
nation Bureau i'm Washington
Indian s--Hoagland's
Mission.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
5l3. FOURTEENTH STREET,


sion allowed him without any application on
his part or, in fact any knowledge that such
was being done until he had received GER
tificate from the commissioner of pensions
showing that his pension had been increased
AS a pension office official remarked to-day
One difference between Senator Man
derson and the rest Of the re-rated
pensioners is that he has returned the money
and the others have not" 1t is said that most
of the others who have been re.rated made
an application for it, which he did not,
There are about thirty of the employees of
the pension Office whose pensions have been
re-rated. In some instances this re-ra.ing
was done upon their application and in otner
cases it was done without the knowledge of
the pensioner. Some of these cases were al
lowed by Commissioner Tanner while they
were on appeal before the seer etary of the
interior.
The present acting commissioner, Hiram
Smith, was re-rated, but it is understood
that he made an application to that effect
and in that particular the legal requirements
were complied with. There are others in
the pension office as well as out.
side whose pensions were re rated
and who received arrearages of from
$4,000 to $4,000, and under this
ruling in the Manoerson case all are char
acterized as being illegal.
The question now arises to what extent II
any, will Senator Manderson's example be
followed by those who occupy substantially
the same position.
1t is thought that the new commissioner of
pensions will have this question to consider
among the first duties which ho will be
called upon to perform. The commissioner
has the right to recover all money illegally
paid on account of pensions, and in cases
where the arrearagcs have already been ey-
pended the government can contiscate all
all future payments. So far there has been
no attempt to recover any of the money
which has been paid illegally to pensioners.
1t is SAID to be the desire of the secretary of
the interior to enforce as far as practicable
the collection of the money, and that active
measures will be adopted as soon as a COM
missioner of pensioners has been appointed.
Some of the employees of the pension office
whose pensions were re-rated have left the
government service since action was taken
IN their cases. The great majority are still
in government employ, and of course it will
be comparatively easy to compel payment
providing they have not spent the money
In such an event the government could levy
upon their salaries as we'll as their pensions
oHIoAGo's LATEST MOVE.
The astonishing enterprise of Chicago,
which will do a great deal towards securing
for the city by the lake the much coveted
worlds fair of 1892 was impressed upon the
residents of Washington tonight when it be-
came known that the citizens Of the windy
city had opened general information bu-
reau at parlor 6, Wizards hotel, and that
Mr.. r. S. Taylor was to be charge d'affairs.
MIR. Edward Walker, chairman of the COM
mIttee on congressional action, accompanied
MIR. Taylor here but wilt return to Chicago
within few days, just as soon as the head
quarters are in order. II is the intention
IN establishing the headquarters here to have
some one always on hand to answer the
many questions that will surely be pro-
pounded during the winter and to have
settled rendezvous where the friends of Chi
cago can meet and where those in charge
can have the most favorable conditions un-
der which to present the many advantages of
the giant OF the west. 1t is probable that
the headquarters, which will be opened prn-
cipally as an information bureau, will be
made very attractive before congress con-
venes by the addition of many of the luXu-
ries, both imported and domestic, and there
will be no place where all will be more wei
come and free to come and go at pleasure
u an there. Chicago has again stolen a
march on its would-be competitors and Is the
first of all the cities that are anxious to Sc
cure the fair 10 come fairly INTO the fight aud
establish headquarters at the front.
HoAGLAND's ADDRESS.
President A. Hoagland, of Lincoln, Neb.,
to-day delivered his annual address at the
opening of the Boys and Girls National
Home and Employment association. He
quoted statistics to prove that crime is on
the increase among the youth of the land.
There are 10000 convicts in the prisons and
one-half of them are under twenty-o one years
OF age. There are O,0OO boys and girls in
reform schools and reformatory institutions.
Thirty thousand tramps are abroad in the
land, and over onehalf of them are boys.
They are tramps because they have no homes
or employment. Eighty per cent of these
tramps come from the large cities, and their
early life was one of street vagabondage,
finally driven from the cities by the law or
by sheer want and the necessity to keep
moving in order TO keep alive. he object
of the association is to secure national state
and county aid in providing homes and en-
ployment and in aiding in the education of
these boys, to divert them from lives of idle
ness and crime. In each city local assocla-
tion is formed of twenty members, including
the mayor and chief of police. free intel.
ligence office is established, the members
procuring homes among farmers for the
friendless lads. In the rural districts the
plan is to establish country intelligence Of
fees which will cooperate with the city
offices and aid in the placing Of boys among
the formers. These local associations are to
be formed into state organization, with the
governor of the state at the head.
INDIAN VOTERS.
Every male Indian over twenty-one years
of age who receives an allotment OF land in
severalty becomes voter by an act of the
late congress, and the successive termina-
tion OF the negotiations with the Sioux
Indians by which they surrender large part
of their reservation in Dakota will, by next
year. throw into the politics of that state
3700 voters. This vote thrown solidly, as it
pro bably will be, in both state and national
elections, is likely TO become an important
factor In the state. At the interior depart
ment it is thought that upwards of 10000
Indians will be entitled to vote in the next
presidential election.
CANDIDATES AND THEIR PROSPECTS.
With the certainty that there is to be no
extra session and that they will serve their
terms out, the present officers of the house
discuss with some complacency the pros
poets of the several candidates for their re-
spective places. The speakership possibill-
ties are also discussed knowingly at the
capitol, where members are sure to go when
they come TO Washington, and where there
is little Of interest except remote political
possibilities TO talk about The race be-
tween Reed and Mckinley Is regarded as
quite close, so close, indeed, that members
are 10th TO openly state their preferences.
AS 10 the officers of the house there are TWO
or three things regarded as pretty certain.
Mckee, of Indiana, is expected TO be post
master; Adams, of Maryland, (McComas'
man) 10 De door keeper, and Major John Nj.
Carson, of the Philadelphia Ledger, clerk.
Swords, of Iowa, Is regarded as a possibility
for sergeant-at arms. II Is not known yet
whether Swords will be candidate for SER
geant alarms Of the house or the senate.