Fair play., 1893-07-08
Washington Letter.
Trom our REGULAR CorrgsponIen,.l

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-hip-shape tor the extra session Of
. Congress. EVERYTHING +. being over.
hauled ana ire-hrucl uu or renewed
As the eyjgepcic- Of The Gas, may de
mauG. A,t!ipugl, the urohab,.t:y of
President cleveland MAKING II, earlier
date for tine extra -..-i,,, than sen
teInber i recorded A. ry..rIsugi,
slim if va. iLoucI.t hest to rush The
work ni The ra,,fr,} - fI,..r eycr,;'ir,,
would hn ready far C.uore-- Il. .--
,cmbIr i. e:.r,y 81. tr. lg,l,r ,,,.gt of
Ju!v in case the p,e..dsu, should
change hi. mind
Speakiug of ral,ina the extra 80.
.;pu of Couorc.- earlier rl..u ~a,,pi.,-
Der. gentleman who L..! , I,rs con
vcr,aliou with the President ON the.
subject -a,- "Iat President thinks
ai.l .,,,r,r with nIrr tL.,t iu.f..,I .l
being 4 reu,au I,r An earlier extra
session. The action Of the Government
Of Great Britain il, .iou.i,u. the COIN
are Of silver on uriytre :,rruuut in
India. ,urui-hr. nn. Of the STRONGEST
reasons anaiu-r AN rar.irr session
Errry oitr ian. same ..rt ,t ga, i1r.,
/ Of what will br tl.c result T.; ruftjug
on with stroke OF the pen TIE.
market for ,.h,u; oup-tI,iii nt the
precisely what that result T.lI be f..
Couurcs, were to be called to meet
within three or four week, il would
necessarily lack nue., lu,orua,jou !
upon this snhiect which by the middle /
of ~cptruic; c;lu easily bc obtained +
information, too. that l., in NV /
opinion. absolutely essential To intel I.
ligcut and beneficial financial Iclri.la !
ton. and any other sort of LEGISLATION .
would bc much worse than Eolc." /
Investigation has brought uut lhcI
fact tha, many men who are drawing
disability pensions are !iyiu" in Sol.
dicrs Homes without cost TO them
selves and are earning regular WAGES
for the performance of mauua! labor.
Further investigation shows lhal, cy /
cept in the cases OF those who draw
pensions under the act of 1880. moth
inc can be done to prevent a couiiu
uancc of thus practice without new
legislation. at is evident that the
whole system of pen,iou laws" re-
marked a Congressman who was him
sell a Union soldier, ''arc faulty and
III need of thorough revision, bu,
have serious doubts As to the COURAGE
OF Congress to make that revision
Pensions have been used As capitol so
LONG hy demagopues that the urople
AT large will have TO be educated ON
the snbiec, before the pressure uvon
Congress becomes strong enough 70
compel action. The preliminary steps
in this educational work are helm.
taken hv The administrator in lis ON.
dcavors to rlear the roll of i,icool |
Later. the revision OF the c
laws will come in answer toa uuhlic
demand in which thousands of old
soldiers will ioin. indeed. many of =
them have already done So. As soon
,s urnsious are entirely divorced from
partisan politics Justice Will be done
,like to the taxpayers and the old
.oldicrs''
Among the fraudulent PENSIONERS (
whose droppiuc from the roll was
officially approved this week were 7
.lcyen men shown by the records OF I
he War Department. to have been de b
,erters and who are still descrters n, :
arge, one man who never was in the q
army at all, several women who con- Il
inucd to draw widows pensions s
.fter they had married again, and one s
notorious prostitute. Surely such AS I
hese have no business on "a roll of .
,onor."
President Cleveland was asked by =
he committee in charge of the pra. -
,aratious for the celebration OF the \
centennial of the ,ayino Of ,be corner.
,o ~ ,,oT c,,;,o, ,,,nn
, :.
'eilVer The prihc'pas ora'loh upon l
hat occasion. but as the President ex-
,ects TO have his hands full about ,bo
,. -. ,,o oo,,,,,: c,.,
'''' Vi ,'i' ''''"' ''''o" e'iioe' l.,
ould not comply with their request /.
the man they selected ,o =,
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