Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
LIVE WASHINGTON WAITS.

OlSSA0SfaCttOn Over tho EA1lur0 90 SeuA0
the Bering Sea sealeries Matter-Ths
+ Status Of $4,000 Pennsyiyaniaps Fixed
by Pension Decision-Money for PEN
sions for Next Year.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The course Of
the negotiations now in progress between
the United States and Great Britain touch
ing the seal fisheries in Bering Sea Is being
closely watched by the members OF the
committees of the Senate and House having
to do with foreign relations. The report
from London, published this morning, to
the effect that Lord Salisbury has refused to
renew the modus vivendi under which the
two Governments last year undertook to
prevent Illicit sealing in Bering Sea, was re-
ceived with dissatisfaction. 1t is realized
that the arbitration provided for in the
treaty about to be submitted to the Senate
cannot be completed in time to avail for the
protection OF the seal waters, and the
counter proposition made by Lord Sails
bury, looking to the establishment Of pro-
tected belt extending only 80 miles from the
shores Of the Priblylov Islands, Is looked
upon as being entirely inadequate to meet
the case The members of the Congress
sional committees do not disguise their be-
lief in private, that unless the British Gov
eminent shows deposition to join In the
of the arbitra tion, the United States Gov
ernment itself must undertake the task and
.peaied, requiring it to protect the seal fish
cries. If this course is followed, the sltua-
tion will assume phase very similar to tnat
viSendi last year, and the Government viii
resume the policy Of seiZing offending YES
sells, which may lead to energetic protests,
and perhaps retaliatory action by Great
Britain.
THE House Committee on Military Al
fairs to-day completed consideration Of the
army appropriation bill. The most import
ant provision in the bill relates to payment
for transportation over bond-aided railroads.
It is provided that hereafter no money ap-
propriated for army transportation shall Dc
used in payment of transportation over any
of the non-bonded lines owned, controlled or
operated by the Union Pacific Railway Com
Utah Northern Railway Company, or by
the Southern Pacific Company over lines
embraced in the Pacific system. The max
allowed officers when travelling on duty
without troops is reduced from to cents
per mile. The total appropriation carried
than the appropriation for the current fiscal
year. The appropriation carried by the bill
Is 81, 703 55s less than the estimates Of the De-
partment.
THE United States steamship Yorktown,
now at Callao, has been ordered to proceed
to San Francisco with as little delay as
possible, stopping en- route at the principal
ports of Central America and Mexico.
YESTERDAY Assistant Secretary Bussey
made an important decision in the pension
case OF Rudolph NJ. Manly, of Company I,
Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer
Militia. On June Is, 1868, President Lincoln
issued his proclamation, calling upon the
Executive of the State of Pennsylvania for
so 600 volunteers, to serve for the period of
six months, unless sooner DISCHARGED. In
pursuance of that proclamation, the Gov
ernor issued general order calling for
volunteers to repel the threatened and i'm
minent invasion of Pennsylvania. In COM
pIiance with this order the Forty-seventh
Regiment was raised and mustered into the
State service for 80 days instead of "six
MONTHS" as designated in the call. The
records of the War Department show that
Mauly was mustered in on the 27Gh of June,
1858, and was mustered out with his company
on August Ii, 1868. During this service the
evidence OIL file shows that the soldier suf-
fered a sunstroke at Hagerstown, Md, from
which he has never recovered.
Upon his application, he was, in 1884,
granted pension of $24 a month, but on
June l3, 1891, his name was dropped from the
pension roll upon the ground that it had
he belonged was not in the United States
service, but in the service of the State of
Pennsylvania. This is the position taken by
the Judge Advocate General of the army in
a decision rendered September T. 1890. As
sistant Secretary Bussey, however, after an
elaborate review OF the law and the evil
dence in the case, concludes that it comes
within the first subdivision of section 1893,
of the Revised Statutes, which includes
among those entitled to the benefits of PEN
sion "Any officer ofthe army, including reg
v<l,r f3nop
in the navy or marine corps, or any enlisted
man, however employed in the military or
naval service of the United States, or in its
marine corps, whether regularly mustered or
not, disabled by reason Of any wound or in
jury received, or disease contracted while in
the service of the United States in the line
sionable status the 50, 900 soldiers who served
IN the Pennsylvania militia about the time
OF Lees invasion of that State.
THE House Appropriations Committee
to-day finished the consideration of the bill,
making appropriations on account of pen-'
sions for the fiscal year 1898. As completed,
it appropriates $l34, ,S25 066, as compared with
estimates aggregating $l47, ,O64. $50 and an ap-
prnpriation for the current year of $685.
GA, ,7s5.
THE House Committee on Irrigation to-
day agreed to the bill prepared by a SUBJ
committee for the cession OF the arid lands
to the States and Territories for reclama-
ton. Representative Lapham was author
lied to report it to the House.
THE second night session of the House
for the consideration of private pension
bills proved no more successful than the
first. MIR. Kilgore, of Texas, was on hand,
and his point of mo quorum" was good
one upon the first bill upon the calendar.
Mr.. Chipman's admonition that such point
would not rebound either to the credit of
the man who made it or to the party to
which that man belonged was Of no avail,
and call of the committee of the whole
was ordered. But 81 members responded to
their names, and this fact was reported to
the House, and after roll call the House
adjourned.
THE House Naval Affairs Committee to-
day practically completed the consideration
of the naval appropriation bill. The bill, in
round figures, appropriates $24, 100000 The
appropriation for the current fiscal year Is
$3l, ,146, l45, and the department estimates for
the next fiscal year were $27, 194, ,6S9. No ap-
preparation is made in the bill for the new
cruiser which is authorized. Under the
baod of of the Navv,, O00 ia