Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
PENSIONS .AND rARLEE
The Many New Bills on These Topics
That Have Been Launched in the
House of Representatives.

| The Many New Bills on These Topics
| That Have Been Launched in the
House OF Representatives.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Among th E
bills introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives quite number are devoted
to pensions and the tariff. On the
former subject are the following:
BY Mr.. Houk, (Tenn.): Awardine
pensions to residents of insurrectionary
states who enlisted in the United States
army, but were prevented from Joining
their commands by arrest or imprison.
ment, and who suffered from wounds
| received or disease contracted while
thus under arrest or imprisonment, and
to those persons who, because they re.
manned loyal to the United States, were
arrested and imprisoned and incurred
disease therefrom which permanently
disabled them.
BY Mr.. Hermann-To pension soldiers
OF the Indian wars as Mexican war
soldiers are pensioned.
BY Mr.. Mallory-To restore to the
pension rolls of the United States the
names of all persons who were drawing
pensions at tine beginning of the late re-
| belllon by reason of their services in
the Indian wars of Florida, and whose
names were stricken from the pension
rolls by reason of their participation in
or sympathy with said rebellion.
By Mr. McKaig-To increase to $50 a
month the pension for total deafness,
By Mr. Martin Chairman of the com.
mittee on invalid pensions)-To enable
applications for pensions under the gen
eral disability act of 1890 to prosecute
the same in the absence of an honora-
bic discharge; also To abolish the dis
| tinctlon as to weight of evidence be.
tween privates and officers.
by MIR. Wheeler (Ala.)-To fix the
pension of soldier who did not engage
in battle nor incur disability while in the
service and who served less than three
years at the quarters the rate fixed by
law; to the soldier who served less than
two years one half, and to the soldier
who served less than one year, one
| fourth.
By Mr.. Curtis IN. Y.)-To make the
pension for total blindness 500 a
month.
BY Mr.. Pickler-To prohibit the sus.
pension or stoppage of payment of any
| pension until after full hearing and
| SAHlhihutlOL anu ludl determination Nv
the Secretary of the Interior of charges
filed in connection herewith.
By Mr.. Grout-To increase the pen
sion for total disability from $72 to 800
a month--the increase to take effect
February 18th, 1889; also to increase the
pensions of $50 month granted under
act of June 18th, 1874, to $72 a month,
the increase to take effect from that
date; also, to give to pensioners who
were confined in Confederate prisons az
a month additional for every 80 days Of
such confinement.
The tariff bills are:
BY Mr.. Tracy-To put coal tar and its
| products on the free lists.
By Mr.. Martin Qnd.) ITO repeal the
reciprocity clause of the Mckinley law,
By Mr.. Tucker-ro place binding
Irvine on the free list.
BY Mr.. Houk (O.)-To place anv
filtering medium manufactured from
earth products, the formula for the
compromising of which is protected by
letters patent, granted to citizen of a
foreign country, upon the free list.
By Mr.. Wheeler (Ala. ITO place cot
ton bagging on the free list.
BY Mr.. Geary-Fixing the tariff on
imported wines.
By Mr.. Tucker-To place sulphuric
acid or oil OF vitriol on the free list.