Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-26
HE HAS PUT AWAY THE STAMP
Raum Will Sign Pension Certifl-
Gates With the Pen.
NO MORE DEpuTlzeo CLERKS,
Tho New Commissioner viii Proceed
Carefully In the Granting OF Ap-
piications-Dakota Going
to Washington.
WAsHISGToN BUREAu THE OMAHA BEE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET, J
WAsuISGToN ID. c.. Oct %.

WASHINGTON, ID. G., Oct. %.
"I am going to carefully examine every
pension certificate before l attach my name
TO it," said Commissioner of Pensions Raum
to-day as he drew up before him huge pile
of certificates.
~ cannot be too careful till / learn
thoroughly the routine of affairs here. II has
been customary for the commissioner to
sign his name or have clerk do it by the
use of rubber stamp, but think that is
delegation of too much power, and it should
be attended to personally by the commis-
sioner. If l can intrust clerk TO sign my
name to pension certificates by the use OF
rubber stamp / cannot see why / should
alone be empowered to do this work and be
held exclusively responsible for it."
The commissioner had four or FIVE hun
dred certificates presented to him for his sig
nature during the day. Among the cases he
made special was that Of a lady who was
born during Washingtons administration
She is ninety three years old and is the
widow of soldier of the war of 1919. She
has been entitled to pension all along but
has never applied for one until recently
That was why her case was made special
General Raum himself is entitled to pen
sion, being a wounded soldier, but he has
never filed an application and he has no idea
of seeking pension while he Is commls-
sioner
GATHERING OF DAKoTANs.
There will be a gathering of very prom
inent South Dakota republicans in Wash
ington next week.
The two senators, two memoirs of con-
gress and the governor and lieutenant gov
ernor together with Judge Edgerton, who
came near being elected one of the senator's,
will be among the number. They are COM
ing here especially to present Judge Edger-
ton for appointment as the United States
district Judge for the state of South Dakota,
and they will look after the distribution of
various other offices before they leave.
Senator Pettig"ew will arrive tomorrow.
Just before the opening of the recent cam
paign, and at the request OF those gentle
men, the appointments at the post
Office and various other depart
ments were held up in Dakota
until the election was over. There now will
be a rafting of the dry democratic bones
holding positions in South Dakota. While
here these statesmen will take all of the ini-
tiatory steps possible for the opening of the
great Sioux Iudian reservation and also the
opening of the Wappeton and Slsseton res
ervation, which is located in the northwest
ern part of South Dakota. They will pre-
pare the bills which are to be presented on
the subjects before congress and will get
the material ready for reports upon them in
committee.
CAPTAIN BoURKEs EXPERIENCE.
Among the newspaper men on the excur-
sion train of the international congress,
which is due in Omaha tomorrow afternoon,
is Mr.. Harris, of the Evening Star, of this
CITY, In his dispatch published this evening
is the following, which will be reished by
the many BEE readers who personally know
Captain John Bourke, who is member of
the special party and represents the presi-
dent of the United States on the trip:
captain Bourke sat down to breakfast
this morning and discovered after he had
tAl -, line tr ~ nnt 10
he was without the implement with which
to convey the provender to his mouth. AT
two previous meals this same tting had
happened, aud on those occasions the captain
had insisted on his rights with some vigor.
This morning he just smiled alphabetically
at the waiter and meekly said, Water in
New York and Washington, where ]
have frequently eaten as many as three
meals in day, have become accustomed to
using knife and fork. Now if it is not a d.
rect violation of the rules of the house |
wish you would get me those articles
There was asmile visible on the countenance
of the waiter as he moved away. but he got
even with the sarcastic captain, IL took him
ten minutes to find them, and the captain
was not doing so much smiling either"
PALMER AND THE PREssMEN's UNION.
Public Printer Palmer had a dose of
the power Of the pressmen's union
day or two ago. No man can be
pressman in the government print
can show card that he is iourneyman in
good standing in some other similar organi-
Zation. LII the public printer should insist
upon the appointment OF man, however
competent, who was not member OF the
union. every pressman employed in the print.
ing office would stop work at once, and re-
fuse to resume until the appointee was
either admitted to the union or discharged.
A few days ago the public printer ap-
pointed two men who made application for
nd 1n1iS nj
were rejected on the ground that they We're
not competent journeymen pressmen The
public printer made an investigation into the
matter, and it so happened that he ascer
tain that the union was right, and that the
men were not fit to act in The capacities for
which they had been appointed. 1t was a
narrow escape on Mr.. Palmer's part from
what might have been very embarrassing
situation, for had the men been able TO prop
erly perform their duties, and the union re-
fused to have admitted them the result
would have been strike.
IOWA PosTMAsTERs.
Bartlett, Fremont county, S. @. Walker;
East Nodaway, Adams county, S. G. Simp-
son; Essex, Page county. Richard Mccall;
Tuskeega, Decatur county, w. IL. Edison;
Weston, Pottawattamie county, ). ). Works.
ARMY NEWS.
BY direction of the secretary of war the
superintendent of the recruiting service will
cause thirty recruits to be assigned TO the
Twenty-first infantry and forwarded under
proper charge TO such point in the depart
ment of the Platte as the commanding gem
eral of the department shall designate.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The application OF j. Il. Beggs, of Hastings,
for rerating OF his pension has been made
special and allowed at $50 month He was
drawing only 50 a month, but a new exami-
nation showed that he was entitled TO the in
crease.
L. b. Grady and wife, of Omaha, are at
the Ebbltt.
Senator Paddock. with his wife and daugh-
ter will arrive about the middle of Novem-
ber and locate at the Portland for the win
ter.
Now that the sinking fund requirements
for the present fiscal year have been met by
the purchase of bonds 10 date the sole pur-
pose of future bond purchases will be TO pre-
vent undue increase in the surplus. which
now amounts to $40, 345, 600. Tho receipts so
far this month aggregate nearly S27, 00O, 900,
and the expenditures were nearly Sl7, ,0OO, 900,
making net gain of Sl0,0O0,0O0 for the
month.
The estimotes Of the staue department for
expenditures during lS90-9l, with slight ex-
ceptlons, are the same as submitted last
year. and aggregate about S3, 600, 600 Several
consuls will be recommended for increase in
salary and the services of few additional
messengers will be asked.