The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1899-04-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, April z, 1S99'-No
more glaring proof of. the all around
military incompatency of Algerism
has cen shown than the fact that of
the 500 bodies brought from Cuba
and Porto Rico and buried in Airing
ton cemetery yesterday, after AN i'm
pressive military funeral, 81 were un-
identified. What sort of management
must there have been when 20 per
cent of the men who died or were
killed over there were barred without
being marked III some way Tor future
Identification 1t must have been
every bit AS Loose as that which had
to do With feeding the living. 1t Was
all right aud proper that these K,sn
should be honored by military
funeral and the closing Tor half a day
of the government LuiIIings III Wash
inston, but this houor " iii not make
the parents and friends IF those 81
soldiers whose graves will be market
unknown" forgive those i'll authority
who neglected plain duty in faiiins
Co lyok after their proper identified
tion.
Things have reached an acute stage
in the beef inquiry. he court has
done several tn ngs this week calculat-
tel to make the Lublie suspect its fair
ness, and believe that it had prefer
eace as to the kind of testimony it
wished to hear. 1t started by iguor-
ing u courteous req lest from ex-Repre
sentative j. Hamilton Lewis that he
lie allowed to appear as counsel for
DR.. DAILY, when he gave his testimony,
and it " gravated matters by trying
to dod.e speci request of General
Niles that Isl witnesses whose names
he furnished should be summoned.
rhi, brou sht out a sharp letter from
Gen, Miles, from which the following
Is All extract: sit is my belief that
at least $4,000 men, and undoubtedly
d much greater number, would confirm.
the testimony that has already been
given that portion of the food sup
plied the army as unwholesome and
unsuitable for use." General Niles
knows that the people are with him III,
this case and he has no idea of being
bluffed out
If all the applications are granted
and they continue being made as rapid
ly as they have been, goodly proper
ton of the men who enlisted for the
war with Spain will soon be on the
pension roll Of the government. From
official figures atthe Pension Bureau
it is shown that the number of APP
pIicants for pension have been COM
paratively enormous. Oat of five
regiments, which led the pension pro-
cession, there have already been filed
1885 applications for pension. These
regiments and the number of ap-
plicants follow: Thirty-fourth Michi-
gan, 1893; Fist District of Columbia,
352; Eighth Ohio. sometimes called
1.-The Presidents Own" $40; Thirty
third Michigan $40, and the Second
Massachusetts. 317.
No law seems broad enough to pro-
tect employees of the government from
their superiors who wish to have them
voluntarily" contribute to buy a pro-
sent for a retiring official The indi-
vidual contributions for this sort of
thing are small, but the aggregate is
large, and at least ninety-nine out of
every hundred who contribute would
refuse to do SO, If they did not know
refusal would be followed by course
Of petty nagging that would be far
more annoying than the loss of the
money. The latest voluntary" con-
tributiens we're made by the employees
of the Internal Revenue Office, TO bay
a $500 watch and diamond studded
ckAin, which was presented to Mr..
Nathan B. 6cett; who has resigned the