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otherwise the pension shall commence from the
date OF illing the application; but the limitation
herein prescribed shall not apply 10 claims by or
IN behalf OF Insane persons and children under
sixteen years OF age.
The bin was passed on February d by
a vote Of, yeas 39, nays 90 The negative
vote was made up Of seventeen republI-
cans, and three democrats,
thy JANUARY /, ls0O"--TuE INGALLS, IDEA
AsTO TINE.
Mr.. Ingalls,, In attending TO the forego-
ing provlso, delivered the following re-
marks:
The committee on pensions believe arrears OF
pensions should not be paid after the lst Of Jan.
uaTy, 1880; chat that would leave n sufficiently
long period since the termination Of Che WAT 70
allow all claims properly .referabe 20 the war TO
be adiudlCated without giving pensions back 10
the date Of the disability OK discharge
THE KRKwooD AND ooLEsBY AMEND
MENTs.
It may be in order here TO say that
Hon. Samuel j. KirkwOOd, who had been
governor Of Iowa, and who was appoint
cd secretary Of the interior by President
Garfield, proposed the following amend
ment:
ProUided, The application for such pension
has been or is hereafter nled with the commits
sloner Of pensions prior 10 the ist day Of July,
1890.
In explanation Of his act, the Senator
said:
The purpose Ofmy amendment Is very evident.
The period Intervening between thls and the ist
day Of January Is 90 short that many persons
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Peoples Candidate for State Superintendent of Public instruction

from Kansas Is informed from the pension Office
is the percentage OF fraud that Is committed uI-
der existing laws. / had the honor ~ be for
some years connected with the committee on
pensions, as my honorable friend Is now, and
the impression Of the committee no that time
was for Che four or five years had 10 do with II,
that the percentage OF fraud under the pension
laws, as distinguished from mere error for
which nobody In particular Is TO blame wrong
decisions, etc, was very much smaller / should
have said not more than fVe per cent Instead Of
twenty.
PAYMENT OF ARREARS or PENSIONS.
AS O friend Of the soldier, per Sc
claimed so vigorously by several soldiers
Of Kansas--it might seem little sur
pTising TO the average person that Sena-
tor Ingalls, should insist on 80 large a
percentage OF fraud. But on February
II, 1870, Representative w. A. j. Sparks,
Of Illinois, Of the house committee on
appropriations, introduced house bill No.
6,462, entitled, "a Bill Making Appropri-
ations for the Payment Of the Arrears Of
Pensions Granted by Act Of Congress,
Approved January 25, 1879, and for Other
Purposes"
1t passed the house by a vote Of, yeas
194, nays 67, and on February 81, IL was
considered in the committee Of the whole
in the senate, to which Senator ingalls,
proposed sundry amendments, and there
was this provlso:
PrOUidCd The application for such pension has
been or IN hereafter filed with che commissioner
Of pensions prior 10 the ist day Of january, i9s0
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SENATOR INGALLS, PUBLIC RECORD.
History Of the Arrears of Pensions Lcgisla-
tlOn.


History Of the Arrears of Pensions Leglsla-
tlOn.
Henry j. b. Cummings, journalist,
lawyer and soldier, Of Winterset, Iowa,
was a representative In the Forty-Rfth
Congress, and as such, on April 2, 1878,
introduced House bill No. 4,234, which
provided that all pensions on account Of
death or wounds received or disease con-
tracted in the service Of the United States
during the late war Of the rebellion,
which have been granted or which shall
hereafter be granted, shall commence
from the date OF death or discharge from
the service ofthe United States, for the
payment Of arrears Of pensions and other
purposes.
The bill was referred TO the committee
on invalid pensions and ordered to be
printed.
ITB PASSAGE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRE-
sENTATIVEs.
On June 10, 1873, on motion Of Hon.
Dudley @. Haskell, Of Kansas, the rules
we're suspended and the committee on
invalid pensions was discharged from
the further consideration Of this bill,
which was passed by a vote Of l64 yeas
TO 81 nays. The following was an amend
ment to the Cummings bill:
No claim agent or other person shall be entl-
tied TO receive any compensation for services In
making application for arrears OF pensions,
About seven months thereafter, TO wit,
on January 16, 1879, John j. Ingalls,,
chairman Of the committee on pensions
In the Senate, moved that this bill be
taken up for consideration, which he ex-
planned in his talk before the Senate, was
for the removal Of the FIVE years limita-
ton clause Of section 400 Of the revised
statutes Of the United States.
The bill, after some general discussion,
IAAAed the Senate on that day, by vote
yRt4; nays, A.
fSda aF Ingalls,, after the passage Of
Be sS.AsFears Of Pensions" bill, left Wash
Ssgton, D. O., for Topeka, Kansas, and,
after four days struggle in the leglsla-
ture of this state--January 1881, 1879
at the end OF which time he received SO
out Of 169 votes; he got back TO the Sen
ate on February 7, and participated in a
debate on private pension bill, and in
his speech he spoke as follows:
believe that in consequence OF fraudulent
testimony and OF the peTsOnatlOn Of persons who
are dead, and through re-marTtages OF widows,
and through the growth OF children who have
passed beyond the period OF sixteen years. when
their pensions should cease, not less than 20 per
cent OF the entire pension list is wTOngfully and
Improperly paid.
SENATOR EDMUNDs' OPINION DIFFERENT
FROM INGALLS,.
George F. Edmunds, Of Vermont, thus
spoke:
do not wish TO let this matter 20 by on the
question OF frauds without putting In a doubt as
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he Interests of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union and Other kindred
1O PAGES,

may not be aware OF the loss they win sustain II
they do not hlo their applications before that
day ny extending u % the igt day Of july, al1
months longer, we shall perhaps in the future
rid ourselves of much trouble IN being asked t0
extend the time In special Cases.
Senator Oglesby sought to amend, by
the provisos that would limit the time Of
the application to the 1st day Of July
1886.
The Kirkwood amendment was adopt.
ed, and, on the passage OF the ml aa
above recorded, Senator Window entered
Il motion 10 reconsider the vote by which
the arrears Of pensions appropriation blll
passed, which he called up on March !,
1870, and which motion prevailed BY o
vote Of 2S 10 n, Senator Ingalln having
been absent on this roll call But the
bill passed, aftera protraoted discusglc
on that day, the vote standing, yeas,
nays, 3; absent, 30.
As amended by the Senate, Il pa
the House on March 3, by a volo Of, ye
2O3; nays, OIL not voting, rs. y
IL thus appears that Senator
as chairman Of the Senate COM
pensions, kept the bill plgeonhoi
months after lts passage by the ...
Representatives he brought IL
just on the eve OF the Kansas Senate
election OF 1879, and that II passed
Senate on that same day by q vote
TO that Senator Ingalls, started II
dlately after It's passage for Topeka
cure his reelection 10 the United 8
Senate-that he returned 10 WASN'T
after his election that on Februa
just forty eight days after the paas
the act, and just twenty-eight days
his reelection, he was personally
strumental in securing the passage
repeal OF the aot In the United y.
Senate by a vote Of 3s to 20, and that the
repeal passed the House Of Representa-
tlves four days later by a vote Of q
TO OF.
In recent speech made by repre-
sentative from Congress in Indiana whose
congressional service commenced Ia 1885,
this "Ingalls repeal" is thus spoken Of:
II 6 obvious that either the act ~ January %,
1870, was absolutely wrongful and unjust ur tho
repeal which took effect on July 4, 1890, h indie
fenslble, IL Is reasonably certain that IN the
short Interval between january % AaSa ard
July !, 1906 multltudes Of union soldiers and
their widows would be wholly unlni0Tmed Oi the
state Of our legislation, and know absolutely
nothing about the restored limitation, whiCIiN
took effect July l. 1890. The effect OF th,g eXlTa-
Ordinary legislation was that the well informed
hled their claims promptly and obtained tnoir
arrears; the multitude OF the uniof ,sOldicr0 and
their widows, who were uniformed aS % tbA
stnte 0f our pension legislation, and that perApa
larger number Of soldiers whose cOndltion OK
health, although impaired In the service dld not
seem 70 Justify an application for q peAsiON
failed TO receive an arrears OF their PENSIONS
Mr.. Ingalls, true sentiments upon the
subject Of pensions we're expressedin the
following extract from a speech doliv-
cred by him on February 10, 1878:
The principle Of granting gratultOus pensions
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A. Heroic Southern Girl.

New ORLEANS, La, Oct. 29.-Judge
James T. McTeer, member Of the bar
of Virginia, and who happened to be on
the Louisville and Nashville train CON-
lrg to this city tonight. furnishes the fol-
lowing. Il was a passenger today on
the Louisville and Nashville train, which
was FIVE hours late. Before reaching the
long bridge beyond Biloxi the engineer.
running at full speed, observed negro
on the trestlework near the north end.
The negro, observing the approaching
train and hearing the warning signals,
turned and clung fora moment to tele-
graph pole. He then lett his place of
safety and ran for the next pole, in his
excitement forgetting to Jump to the
water, a distance Of perhaps fifteen feet.
Despite the engineers warning singals,
he stopped, bowed his head. and the pilot
of the engine crushed his skull and
knocked him into the water. where he
floundered and struggled about tor some
minutes. The water was two and half
feet deep, and FIVE Or six big, stalwart
negroes stood by and refused to run in
and try to save the unfortunate mans
life. From house near by beauti-
full girl OF Is summers was seen 10 run
with all possible speed. She dashed into
the water and pulled the dying man to
the shore, where he died in few mo-
ments. This daring, heroic deed was ob-
served by train full ofpassengers. who.
from their position on the bridge, were
unable to render help"
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Manager Against Editor.

ATLANTA, Oct. 23.-The Hon. W. \.
Hemphill, the well-known business
manager of the Constitution, in a
speech before the Confederate Veterans
Association a night or two ago, alluded
to the fight being made on Governor
Gordon as blow at the Confederate
cause. lie said he indorSed everything
the farmers had done except that fight.
To-day the other end of the Constitu-
tion-the Livingston end-took issue
with Business Manager Hemphill in an
extremely long editorial, in which it
was claimed that the alliance was max
ing no fight on Gordon and that to fight
him politically did nc+ mean to fight
him as Confederate soldier.
When Mr.. Hemphill saw the editorial,
his first idea was, he says, to publish a
card in answer to it, but this plan he
abandoned. Butwithout receding from
his position il the slightest, to-day he
said:
Il think that the old Confederate SOL
diers are with me, and they certainly
endorsed my views at the meeting the
other night. l stand by what l said.
and believe that a fight is being made on
General Gordon, and without a just
cause: and l reiterate, that a blow at
John B. Gordon is blow at the sacred
cause of which he is to-day the greatest
living representative. TO strike at
Gordon means to strike at every Con-
federate soldier"
So the business end of the Constitu-
ton and the Livingston end seem to be
just as far from reaching an understand
inr IS eyer
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4 Cotton Seed War.
The Charlotte News SAYS: \ 7,

The Charlotte News says: \ report
comes from along the line OF the Oil
mills South OF Us, that the old cotton
seed war has broken out again and
promises to be worse than eyeT-the
farmers against the oil mills. Tie cot
ton seed oil manufacturers lost money
last year They attribute this largely
to the Conger Compound Lard Bill,
which. although it did not pass Con-
gress, yet caused such agitation against
cotton seed oil that it depressed prices.
y still more important cause Of the
losses Of the mills, however, was the
high price paid for seed. some Sl4 to
Sl6 a ton The competition between
the American Oil Trust mills and the
independent mills sent up the price OF
seed higher than was ever known be-
fore. and the result was that. although
the production was greater than ever,
there were heavy losses all along the
line: indeed, the more oil made, the
greater the loss.
With this experience the cotton seed
oil men resolved to avoid similar loss
this year, and early last month met and
resolved to act together. The trustand
the Independents combined 50 as to re-
duce and fix the price of seed. They
decided on IS or 50 a ton for the seed,
a little more than half the amount palG
last year. This has naturally aroused
great opposition, and has brought on
the same old war waged between the
farmers and the mills three years ago.
The low price offered has naturally cut
down the supply CT seed for the mills.
Not half as much has been received as
at this time last year, although the cot
ton itself is pouring in very last. lie
chances are that the war viii grow even
warmer, and the cotton seed oil product
of the country be materially reduced III
consequence.
In many of the parishes farmers Or
CARNATIONS have been formed to fight
the mills. The planters are pledglng
themselves to hold their cotton seed and
use it. as fertilizers rather than sell it at
present prices They also propose to
adopt the plan successfully pursued IN
South Carolina of putting up and work
ing small cooperative Oil mills OF their
own, and thus freezing out the big mills.
They seem determined not to sacrifice
their seed, and have already greatly re-
duced the supply for the New Orleans
and other mills.
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T, old davs the nolice delepated their

In old days the police delegated their
authority to the Camorrista. Just be-
fore the advent Of Victor Emmanuel
they were placed in charge Of the whole
city. For time they did their work
we'll The thieves being well paid crime
diminished. After i While their old
instincts were too strong for them.
The customs Of Naples which we're
worth 10000 ducats to the State, return
ed their fostering care barely 1000 du
cats. The collectors OF internal revenue
thought they were doing we'll when they
returned 20 per cent, into thetreasury.
The secret service Of the United States
has been aware for several years OF the
operations Of La Malta in this country.
Their counterfeiting, which IS their
diversion as well as a part OF the duties
OF their profession of crime, could not
fail sooner or later to bring them before
the eye Of the governments detective
force Sabastino Lama, who held meet
ings with q regular group at 95 Thomp-
son Street, New York City, sold Malta
counterfeits at forty cents on the dollar
to colored people, boys, girls, his own
countrymen, and any American he could
find simple minded enough to buy.
Each counterfeit distributor organizes
group around him and turns his rev.
enueS into the general Malta treasury.
Lanza was watched and arrested on the
charge of coUnterfeitlng. A steam en-
CINE couldn't pull from him an admls-
sion of his connection with the Malta
Or indeed an admissin that such an or
ganization existed. Shrewd men like
Lama are well aware how grave an
otfsnse counterfriting is against the
laws Of the United States. But the
average Malta counterfeiter prelends
the most dense innocence and lgnoS-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-05
WINNIE DAViS'S HERO.
Nothing OF a Mercenary Character in :
Broken Engagement.

SYRACUSE, y. Y, October 22.-Al-
fred Wilkinson, who was until recently
engaged to be married to Miss Winnie
Davis, the Daughter Of the Consed-
eracy," has came out in a card which
completely sets at rest the financial phase
Of the broken engagement. The general
feeling here is that the situation resem-
bies the relations of an Orlando and a
Rosalind rather then those Of Romeo
and Juliet. The card of Mr.. Wilkin-
son is as follows:
Having seen in local paper Of yes
terday a somewhat long report from
New York in regard to the breaking of
her engagement by Miss Davis, take
the liberty Of asking correction OF some
Of the statements therein. What is said
by Miss DAVIS is, of course, correct in
every particular; but there are some
suo o5estions at the end of the report IN
question that would be annoying to any
one were they not so absurd. She broke
her engagement with me for personal
reasons only, as she is reported to state,
and it IS ridiculous to suppose that politi-
cal Or financial reasons had anything
to do with it. The imputation of
any mercenary motive 10 her is
false, and would be digniied by call
ing it unjust. Any one who knows
Miss Davis, or who has ever known Mr..
Davis or any Of his family, knows that
by no possibility could they be influenced
by mercenary motive. [ am certain
that the same is true Of all their intimate
friends.
Furthermore, Miss Davis has Known
for year or two, if not longer, that l
was poor, and within the last year my
circumstances have been much improved.
The burning of our house, though a
serious loss, had nothing to do with her
decision, for she had decided to terminate
our engagement be fore that happened.
when lady decides to break her en-
gagement the gentleman has nothing to
do but submit. and l feel that any inquiry
into Miss Davis's motives is impertinent.
My only reason. therefore, for this state
ment is the silly and unjust report which
have been circulated-some purporting
to come from my friends-imputing to
Miss Davis motives entirely foreign
to one OF her high birth and character.
Alfred Wilkinson"
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Exciting Adventure.

PARIS, Oct. 26.-The Aeronauts, Val
les, Lelice, Truelle met with an exciting
adventure, which nearly terminated IA
tally. They left the gas works at La
Villette at o'clock yesterday afternoon
in the balloon Mozart intending to make
a brief ascent When in an altitude of
three thousand yards, a hurricane drove
the balloon Northeast, the wind violent
ly rocking the car, and the occupants
clinging to the sides. When over the
village of Bourey, one hundred and fif-
ty miles from Paris, graphing irons
were thrown out and broken. The
wind tore the covering off the balloon,
and sank the car, which struck the
ground so forcibly that it rebounded,
throwing Lelice on the telegraph wires
and companions on the grosnd. AL
were injured.
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Panic in a Church.

JoNEsBoRo Ga, Oct. 29.-Sunday
morning at 1l:45 O'Clock, severe wind
storm struck this place from the north
west, stirring things up generally.
No particular damage was done, eX-
cept to the Baptist church. Services
were going on at the time, and when the
church began to crack the congregation
almost stampeded. People rushed pell-
nell in every direction to escape. and IN
the rush Mr.. n. r. Hamrick fell to the
floor, brulsing himself quite badly. 1t
was miracle that he escaped serious in
jury, as the crowd went wild for a few
minutes. The church is so badly damag-
ed that it will not be safe to use until it
IS repaired. 1t will be torn down and re-
built from the ground, with all modern
M
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An Awful Death.

MACON GA. Oct. 29.-There was
a balloon ascension at the State fair
here this afternoon. An immense
crowd had gathered to witness the per-
formance, and in the vicinity of the
big gas bag was a mass of people.
When the aernonaut was ready to
start, the order was given to close the
ropes. The balloon was hot air ves-
sci. and was upheld during the imitation
process by tall poles. AS the air ship
was released everybody shouted Look
out" as the great poles, having released
the balloon, fell to the earth.
Among those who cried Look out, !"
was J. w. Robertson. former state
senator from Talbot county, but while
giving the warning to others the old
man failed to look out for himself. and
as one of the tall timbers descended, to
the horror Of the gazing thousands, it
struck him full on the head, crushing
him to the ground and crushing his body
into shapeless mass. The affair threw
a gloom over the whole days program.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-05
Removal Of the a1liance Exchange

COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 30.-The stock
holders of the State Alliance Exchange
metyasterdayin Agricultural Hall and,
after some discussions, decided to move
the State Exchange from Greenyille to
Columbia January 1St. 1t was also
concluded to establish Il farmers bank
in this city. \ committee was ap-
pointed to memorialiZe the LegiSla-
ture q. its coming seSs on to obtain the
use of Agricultural Hall for the bank.
This move was taken as the result
of a meeting of the County trustees
of the shareholders OF the State Al
lance Exchange held in this city Tues
day evening, tweaty-three Counties
being represented 1t was suggested
that the exchange be located at Green
vile, Blackville, Charleston and Co.
lumbia, but the latter place was finally
decided on yesterday. 1t was voted
as the sense Of the meeting that the
stock of $4,000 subscribed to the State
Exchange be used as the capital stock
Of an Alliance bank, and this bank, it
is proposed, will do the business of the
Alliances Of the State. The arrange
ments for the bank will be eperfected at
a meeting to be held the second Tues
dey in Observation-Disclosures.
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Attacked by Two angry Bucks.

RED BANK, n. J., Oct. 25.-Edward
Kemp, of New York, has fine heard
Of deer at his summer place on the Rum
son road. Thomas Breen went into the
pen to feed them, and was attacked by
two large bucks, which were angered by
dog. Breen tried to climb the fence,
bat one Of the bucks got It's antlers IN
his clothing, and threw him heavily to
the ground, and while in this helpless
condition both bucks struck him with
their antlcrs, and had it not been for the
arrival of one Of the gardeners, Breen
would no doubt have been killed. lis
right knee-cap was dislocated and his
hands and arms We're badly cut.
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She Remembered the Revolution.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 24.-Mrs. Mary Jane
Mills died at Snow Hill, Nd, aged 102
years and six months. Mrs: Mills was
born in Delaware June 18th, 11SS, and
lived tie greater portion of her life in
that state. Her family were noted for
their longevity, her mother living to the
age of il4. and an aunt died at the age
of 1O2. Her father was killed during
one of the engagements with the British
in the war Of 1872, while serving as a
private soldier in one of the Delaware
militia companies. Mrs. Mills distinctly
remembered the battle of North Point,
having heard the cannonading, as at that
time she was living near Baltimore.