The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-19
GALLINGER'S ATTACK.
WHY HE OPPOSED Mr.. JONES Posi-"
TI0N ON PENSIONS.
B,,, for the Erection OF Memorial Bridge
Across the ePotsmae-soerstary of Irea-
sury Makes Detail for Coast survey
TINES BUREAU, RAPLKY BUILDING.
WASHINGTON. January Is, 1870.

believe lAAL Iut UODAs tiNNNsi
and suffering family OF the soldier whose
life went out I'm the trenches should
have only Sl2 per month, and that the
nourshing household contingent of the
officers who died after the war in COM
narrative comfort should receive from
5000 to 5000 apiece. while the fawning
Federal demagogues pose in the halls
Of Congress as their especial benefactors,
and the toiling masses are taxed TO con-
tribute TO this sacrilege. Mr.. Jones was
Yesterday bitterly denounced In the SEN
ote by Senator Gallinger, OF New Hamp-
shire. for his position on pensions. Who
IS Gan.nger? His personally contributed
statement 20 the directory gives MS BIRTH
place as Cornwall ontario. and states
that ne was born in 1897. and after re-
cciving a common school and academic
education. and having Deen printer in
early life. was graduated IN medicine in
1853. lie Is next heard Of as a member OF
tba New Hampshire Legislature in 1872.
and the record is silent during the period
from 1861 TO 1866. not even giving aim a
place as one Of the distinguished vet
eriuarians who come to our hospitable
shores from Canada. the Athens Of the
art when we needed most their services
in the cavalry of the country.
Eut he knows now all about pensions
and would cri,icise for New Hampshire
sentiment the intrepid. hoLest, intelligent
conception OF the subject as Mr. Jones
has presented it. The continued fiattering
letters received by Mr.. Jones from the
Grand Army posts Of the country demon
strate the fact that they believe only in
pensioning soldiers, and not in paying
tribute 10 rank or tithcs to alleged royal
~ as created by circumstances.
The Senator from New Hampshire
stated that Mr.. Jones thanked God that
before he was of age he was in the
trenches Of the Confederate army, fght-
ing against his Cove. nment." AS mat
ter OF fact Mr.. Jones never alluded i'm
his speech 70 his part In the war, until
pressed with the question as to where he
was during the war. and then he said he
was proud TO have been a member Of the
cadets of the Virginia Military Institute
and was in the trenches around Rich
mond The Republicans may try TO make
political capital cut Of the attitude of
Mr.. Jones on the pension question. 1t may
be done by Canadian senators, but never
by heroic American soldiers, whose needy
widows Mr.. jones would Cheerfully pen
sion but 10 whose deserters he tenders
nothing. and 10 whose officers he ex-
tends only the same consideration as that
OF the private in the ranks.
IHE MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
The report Of the suocon mittee TO
which was referred the bill providing for
the construction of q memorial bridge
across the Potomac. from the old Naval
Observatory grCurds here TO Arlington.
on the Virginia shore. was discussed at
some length at the meeting Of The Inter
state ana Foreign Commerce Committee
tO-deN.
While the report OF the subcommittee
~ f.ff .tN .T. t4.
Wa also considerable opposition TO II.
and no conclusion was retched by the
committee to-day.
captain George -. Wise, :he chairman
oi thr committee. who Is always alive 10
The material interests of Virginia. is Il
warm friend Of the bill. and can be relied
upon TO do everything i'm rs power II
secure favorable action by the committee.
The pfopc sition will be renewed at the
regular meeting of the com .littee on next
Friday. when IL is to be hoped that it
Will be ordered reported favorably.
THE DETAIL Will BE MADE.
The resolution passed by the Virginia
Legislature last fall asking detail of
officers from the Geodetic and Coast sur
Ney, TO define certain lines marking high
and low water in Tangier Sound. was for
warded TO the superintendent of the Geo
detic ana Coast Survey by the Governor of
Virginia several months ago, but for some
reason the matter was tied up and the
detail was not made Yesterday. how
ever the Secretary of the Treasury or
dered General Dufield, the SUPERINTENDENT
of the Coast Survey TO detail a sufficient
force 20 perform the work requested bv
the Virginia Legislature.
4. c. Chewing, who was found last
July in the Smithsonian grounds here
apparently prostrated. and for whom the
sympathetic citizens of WASHINGTON sub
scribed a sum sufficient to relieve his i'm
MEDIATE necessities and also TO give him
a fresh sart in lie is again in the ac-
cident ward of the Emergency Hospital.
Yesterday While returning from -Four
Mile Run" Va, where ne has been en-
ployed, ne was struck by an OUTGOING
train near the Washington end of the
long bridge. lie was thrown several feet.
and was unconscious when picked up bv
the train hands, who had him convened
10 the Emergency Hospital For some
time It vas thought that he was dead.
but the examination by the surgeons al
the hospital showed only a lew SCALP
wounds and several severe brui.es. The
patient insists that he is fatally injured.
but the surgeons say that unless he has
received internal injuries his condition
IS not serious. Mr.. Chewing is from
Basic city. Va.
SILL RACING AT ALEXANDER ISLAND.
The managers of the Old Dominion race
track are still holding high carnival at
Alexander Island. Horses are being kill
cd. jockeys crippled, but the cruel win
ter racing still goes on. Rain or shine,
slect or snow. through mud and slush
or over the rough, frozen track. five races
are run daily. The same hard-featured
gang OF men and women are i'm daily at
tendance but the profits are being d-
yided between the management and the
'bookies." The touts and crooks at
tracted here by the sport are rapidly fill
ing the Washington Jail and work house
Clerks. labOrers and mechanics are daily
impOverishing themselves and families,
but still the carnival of sin and cruelty
goes on. Yesterday the track Was near
ly knee-dcep in mud in places, but stin
the races went on. Two horses fell, and
one was 50 badly injured that 1t was Inn
mediatey killed and one Of ,he jockeys
is now lying in the hospital with a frac-
tured eollar-bone.
SENATOR DANIEL SPEAKS TO-DAY.
Senator Daniel left to-day for Staun-
ton. Va, where ne Will tomorrow deliver
an grafton The anniversary OF General
X. Il. Lees birthday will he celebrated
by the people of Staunton with appropri-
ate ceremonies. and the Virginia Senator
will ne the orator N the occasion