The Taney County republican., 1899-09-21


The committee Of i've appointed By
the National Encampment OF the
GAR. win lay before President Nc
Kinley the resolutions adopted by
the encampment regarding the CON.
struction Of the pension laws. These
resolutions call attention to the sta.
tute making it the duty Of tho Com.
missioner to perform such duties a.
may be presented by tho President,
and ask executive action to secure q
change in Rule 22s, which throws the
burden of proof upon the veteran and
prevents the aggregation of disabili-
ties to secure . pension rating. The
rule that pensions shall not be grant
ed to widows possessing an annual
income Of 500 is asked to be changed
so that the limit Of income shall be
$3.50. Pension Commissioners Evans
insists that the present rules faith
fully carry ont the intention Of Con-
gress as expressed in the ststutes,
and that if a change is necessary
Congress must make it. The Presi-
dent told tho GAR. investigating
committee last July, that he did not
intend to remove Commissioner
Evans, and that he hoped the National
Encampment would not ask him to
do 30.
1t was very noticeable throughout
all the debates upon this subject, that
there WAS an almost universal feeling
among the veterans that President
Mckinley was their friend, and that
while he would not ovorstep tho linn
its distinctly laid down by Congress,
he would be Disposed to construe an
indefinite law in . friendly spirit.
This confidence in the President was
shown by tho fact that the resolu-
tious did not deuounce Commissioner
Evans by name or demand . change
In the head Of tho Bureau, though
many thousand veterans had writ
ton the committee that such demand
was tho least tha: the Encampment
should mako. Instead Of doing 80,
the encampment has laid the whole
matter before the President, asking
him to use his executive authority
in their behalf if he can consistently v
do 90, and that if he finds that he is
not able to give them relief, then
Congress will be asked to change the
law imposing the limitations con,-
planned of. President Mckinley may
we'll be proud OF the confidence in
him felt by his old comrades.
Commissioner of Patents, DUell,
who has just returned from Now
York state, where he spent his vaca-
ton of several weeks in an interview
said, 81 have never known the time
when the condition of affairs in New
York state was 80 prosperous. From
q financial point Of view, everything
is very bright, not only the banks,
but the people at large have seeming
ly plenty Of money aud are spending
it freely. Free silver had no stand
ing three years ago in our state and
no conversions have been made for
it since. Going from one end Of the
state to the other, have been sur
prised to see 30 many factories
lighted at night, evidently running
over time. One gratifying element
in the present industrial activity, is
that while retaining our home mar
kets, our manufactures arc finding
sale in the markets of the world.
This means much, and our patent
system has much to do with it. 1t is
because of the greater inventiveness
and better organization acting on the
great natural resources Of the coun-
try that we owe our present ability
to enter the markets of the world.
A well known Democratic lawyer
from the South, who attended the
meeting of the American Bar Asso-
citation, in commenting on the action
of President Mckinley in the Philip
pines. said: "upon this question we
must be with the Administration,
and if my party makes that the is-
sue in the next presidential election,
it will certainly meet with an over
whelming defeat"
Representative Foss, of Illinois, was
in Washington last week, having just
returned from q long tour through
England and the European countries
Mr.. Foss is q member of the Naval
Affairs committee and crossed the
ocean fol. no other purpose than to
secure all the Information possible on
naval affairs. "Not with any idea OF
initiating other Countries" says Mr.
Foss, "but to see all that is good
which can be made of use to u.s.
NE. Eoeo @h;nlyo that tho uoYt C0n.