Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-12-15
WHOLE NUMBER 1,772.
reasonable accuracy. Great guns,
rapid-firing guns, torpedoes and pow
der are being promptly supplied.

iapiu-illnS guns, IoIpeoOcS dlu pOW-
der are being promptly supplied.
NEW VESSELS COMPLETED.
The following vessels of the new
navy have been completed and are
now ready for service:
The double.turreted coast-defense |
monitor Miantonomah, the double
turreted coastdefense monitor Mon
terey, the ~smored cruiser New York,
the protected cruisers Baltimore,
Chicago. Philadelphia, Newark, San
Francisco, Charleston, Atlanta and
Boston, the cruiser Detroit, the gun
boats Yorktown, Concord, Benning-
ton, Machias, Castine and Petrol, the
dispatch vessel Dolphin, the practice
vessel Bancroft, and the dynamite
gunboat Vesuvius. OF these the Ban
croft, Machias, Detroit and Castine
have been placed in commission dur
ing the current calendar year.
The following vessels are in progress
OF construction; The first-class battle
ships Maine and Texas, the cruisers
Montgomery and Marblehead, and the
coast-defense monitors Terror, Puri-
tan Amphitrite and Monadnock,
all OF which will be completed with
in a year; the harbor defense ram
Katahdin, the protected cruiser
Columbia, Minneapolis, Olympia,
Cincinnati and Raleigh, all of
which will be completed prior to July
l, 1895; the frst-class battleships
Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts and
Oregon, which will be completed Feb
ruary 1, 1896; and the armored cruiser
Brooklyn, which will be accomplished
by August OF that year. It is also ex.
pected that the three gunboats au-
thorized by the last Congress will be
completed in less than two years.
DEMAND FOR MORE VESSELS.
Since 1856, Congress has at each
session authorized the building of one
or more vessels, and the Secretary OF
the Navy presents an earnest plea for
the continuance of this plan. He re-
commends the authorization of at
least one battle-ship and six torpedo
boats. While I am distinctly in favor
of consistently pursuing the policy We
have inaugurated of building up a
thorough and efficient navy, l cannot
refrain from the suggestion that Con-
gress should carefully take into &C.
count the number OF unfinished ves-
sells on our hands and the depleted
condition of our treasury in consider
ing the propriety of an appropriation
at this time to begin new work.
The method of employing mechani-
cal labor at navy-yards through boards
of labor and making efficiency the sole
test by which laborers are employed
and continued, is producing the best
results, and the secretary is earnestly
devoting himself to its development
Attention is invited to the statements
of his report in regard to the workings
of the system.
| SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
The Secretary of the Interior has
the supervision OF so many importan,
subjects that his report is of especia
value and interest. On the 30th day
of June, 1893, there were on the pen
sion rolls 966,012 names, an increas,
Of 1894 over the number on the roll
June 80, 1892. Of these there wer'
II widows and daughters of Revolu
tionary soldiers; Sc survivors of til,
war of 1912, 5,425 widows OF soldier
of that war; 21,518 survivors ant
widows of the Mexican war, 1882 sur
vivors and widows of Indian wars, %.
army nurses, and 475,645 survivors
widows and children OF decease,
soldiers and sailors of the war of tn
Rebellion. The latter number repre-
sents those pensioned on account Q
disabilities of death resulting from
army and navy service. The numbe
of persons remaining on the rolls Jun
80, 1893, who were pensioned uude
the act of June q, 1890, which a.
lows pen sions on account of deaf
and disability not chargeable to arm.
service, was 459,155. The numbe
added to the rolls during the year wa
12S,O34, and the n lumber dropped wa
$3.50. The first payments on pen
sions allowed during the year amount
ed to $3S, SIG, ,549.9S. This include
arrears or the accumulation betweel
the time from which the allowance Q
pension dates and the time OF actual
granting the certificate. Altogethe
the law of 1890 permits pensions TO
disabilities not related to militar
service, yet as req uisite to its bene
fits disability must exist incapacital
ing applicants "from the performance
OF manual labor to such degree as Il
render them unable to earn sur
port"
! FRAUDS SHOULD BE EXPOSED.
l am unable to understand VIII
frauds in the pension rolls shoul
not be exposed and corrected wit
thoroughness and vigor. Every nam
fraudulently put upon these rolls is
wicked imposition upon the kindl
sentiment in which pensions hav
their origin. Every fraudulent pen
sioner has become bad citizen; ever
false oath in supper of q pension ha
made perjury moro common; an
false and undeserving pensioners 70
the people not only of their money
but of their patriotic sentiment whic
the survivors of a war fought for tn
preservation of the Union ought to in
spire. Thousands of neighborhood
have their wcll-known fraudulent pen
sioners, and recent developments b
the bureau establish appalling con
spiracies to accomplish pension fraud,
By no means the least wrong done i