The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-12
WAS PRIVATE BILL DAY.
WAR CLAIMS AND PENSION CASES
CONSIDERED BY THE HOUSE.
Ways and Means Committee Hard at Work on
the New Tariff Bill.

washington, Dec. 12.-Yesterday was
private bill day in the house. and seven
war claims. carrying an aggregate OF
committee Of the whole as follows:
To pay Peter Cook OF Arkansas 1904
for storage and supplies used by the
federal troops; to pay Augustus p. Bur-
dit $5130 for the use of the steamer
Matte during the war; to pay Flora A.
Darling $56S3 in satisfaction OF her
claims for arrest and Imprisonment. and
the seizure of her property at New Or
lenas in 1868; to correct the muster OF
Francis A. Benton as captain Of the
Fourth United States Colored cavalry
and pay him accordingly;to pay John
A. Lynch $249O for services as assistant
quartermaster at Cincinnati In 1872.
and to offer the claims Of Major James
Stewart. u. s. A., retired, for longevity
pay, to the court of claims.
Only the first two. however. were
passed by the house. as Mr.. Dalzell of
Pennsylvania made an attack on the
bill for the relief of Mrs. Flora A. OAR
ling. and developed the fact that she was
the wife of a confederate general, a fact
not brought out In the original debate
on the measure. The result was that
Toint of no quorum was made on his
motion to lay the bill on the table, and
IL went over until next Friday.
At the night session of the house 80
bills were favorably acted upon. There
were no features of the session. Among
the bills were the following:
To increase the pension of Adelaide
Morris, widow Of the late Arthur Morris,
formerly captain Of the Fourth United
States artillery, to $50 a month; to pen
sion the widow Of Jose Keefe, late cap
tain Of the Fourth United States in
fantry, at so month; to increase the
pension Of the widow Of Colonel David
McKibben, Of the Fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania TO $40 a month to pension ira
Harris. late lieutenant commander Of
the navy, at the rate Of $50 a month; to
increase the pension Of Adam Dennis.
a one-legged soldier of Mann's cnoice,
Bedford, Pa, to $50 a month; to pension
the widow Of the late Brevet Major Gen
eral Horatio p. Van Cleveland at $50 a
month, and to grant an honorable dis
charge to Captain Elisha d. r. Bait OF
the Nineteenth Michigan infantry. who
was dismissed for cowardice by General
Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The program of the ways and means
committee to prepare tariff bill for the
extra session OF congress was the only
topic of discussion about the house yes
terday, and met with general approval
among the Republicans. It Is expected
that the bill will be brought forward
very early In the extra session and
passed under a rule fixing time for de-
bate. so that its fate will be in the hands
Of the senate early. All Of the Republi-
can members Of the ways and means
committee have been reelected to the
next congress, and II ia assumed that Mr.
Reed will be again chosen speaker, and
! will not change the personnel Of the COM
mittee; so that there is no probability
that any effort will be made to do the
work over again. Yesterday Chairman
Dingley had a conference with Mr.. Nc
Millin Of Tennessee, the senior Demo-
cratic member of the committee, and
officially stated the Republican plans.