The Press., 1893-12-28
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.
One Which is Not "Purged," and in whic
 There Are No Suspensions.

One Which is Not "Purged," and in Which There Are No Suspensions.
 On the Mexican pension roll there are the names of 15,215 survivors and 7,2s2 widows, and something over 5000 cases were pending at latest reports. This makes total of 25, ,497, or several thou sand more men than the United States had in Mexico at any one time during the war.
 These all receive either $S or $12 month.
 Among the names are those of the widow of Gen. Samuel Cooper, New Yorker by birth, who was adjutant-gen- eral of the United States army at the out break of the war, and used his position to aid the rebels in preparing for the strug- gle. He resigned his position to become adjutant- general of the southern confed- eracy, and officiated as such until the re- bellion collapsed. Mrs. Cooper has been drawing pension since June 6, 1887.
 The widow of Thomas J. ('Stonewall'( Jackson, who was next to Lee the most popular commander of the rebel armies.
 The widow of Maj j.-Gen. George E. the rebel army.
 The widow of Mai Gen. Gideon J. Pill low, who commanded division in the rebel army.
 | The widow of Lieut.. -Gen. A. P. Hill, who commanded one of the three corps of Lees army.
 The widow of Sidney Smith Lee, who was dismissed from the navy for "going over to the enemy" and afterward be- came commodore in the rebel navy.
 Brig. Gen. Jas. R. Chalmers, who was Forests chief lieutenant
 Maj. Gen. Dabney H. Maury, who com- manded the rebel troops at the battle of Chickasaw Bayou.
 Hon. s. B. Maxey, late United States senator from Texas, who has been draw ing his pension since May 27, 1887. He was a major-general in the rebel army.
 Hon. Jas. z. George, senator from Mis-. sissippi, and who served in the rebel army as a colonel. The number of his certif- cate is 17,214.
 Hon. A. H. Colquitt, senator from Georgia, who was 0 major-general in the rebel army, draws pension under certif- cate 9,199.
 The widows above mentioned are of men who were educated at the govern ment expense, and afterward fought to destroy the government. They went on the roll at once, while last April there were pending the claims of 145 520 wid- ows of union soldiers who had not yet been able to get on the roll. .-7he Nation aI Tribune.
 Commenting upon the above, the Nor wich Bulletin says: There is something mystifying to northern pensioners about this list of government pensioners in the south. The northern pensioner has to make oath that he has never taken up arms against the country before he can draw his pension from quarter to quarter, and in this list of "heroes" there are thousands who did enlist in the confeder- ate service, and with their wives were disloyal to this government. They are not suspended and slandered as frauds, or subject to any of the odium this ad- ministration is putting upon the pension CTS of the union army; but they be all lowed a larger average pension. How they manage to get their money without perjury is puzzling the pensioners in oth- CT sections of the country. If they do not have to take an oath why should oth- CT pensioners have to? This is a ques- tion which might be asked in congress. Who the men are is known, and the ques- tion whether exceptions are made in thelI cases to prevent them from having to commit perjury every time they make 0 oath as to their identity and relation to the country, is worth finding out.