The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-18

The Senate Committee on Pensions has
| reported favorably a large number OF bi Is
| granting pensions TO widows OF Union Off
! GERS and soldiers One Of these is a bill
! granting a pension to Julia NJ. Johnson.
! Of Great Falls. Mont, widow Of Richard
W. johnson. late brevet major general.
| United States army.
General johnson entered the United
States Military Academy July l. 1874;
/ graduated July l. 1879 and subsequently
received the following appointments and
1 promotions: Brevetted second lieutenant
1 Sixth Infantry. July 1. 1913; second lieu.
tenant. 'ane 10. 1850; first lieutenant,
! Second Cavalry, March 3. 1855; captain.
| December /, 1856; major, Fourth Cavalry.
July II. 1862: retired with the rank OF
major general October i. 1867. and with
rank Of brigadIer general March 8. 1915.
For gallant and meritorious services in
battle and in the field he was brevetted
as follows. Lieutenant colonel. Septem-
Der 20. 1863. colonel. November "A, 1868;
brigadier general and major general.
March 70. 1865.
He was acting judge advocate of the
military division of the Tennessee to Au-
/
Tennessee to March Is 1867, and OF the
Department Of the Cumberland until he
was retired from active service October
u, 1867. with the rank OF major general.
for disability from wounds received in bat
tie. which rank was changed to bricadier
general by act OF March 3. 1879. General
JonnsOn died from. pneumonia, April p,
1897.
General WriEht's Record.
Wright. widow OF Gen. Horatio c. Wright,
who died at his home in this city. Ju.y
?. 1888. ras been fayorsbly reported
Horatio G. Wright late brigadier gen.
eral and Chief Of Engineers. United States
army, was born in Clinton. Conn. March
8. 1920 and entered the Military Academy
at West Point at the age OF seventeen I
lie graduated al the age OF twenty-one.
and was assigned to the engineers. Seven
years later he was promoted to the rank
OF first lieutenant. and IN July 1sJ5. be-
came captain. On May II. 1861. he was
rendered the grade OF major in the Thir-
teenth Regiment OF Infantry. which he !
declined. and IN August Of the same year |
be attained that rank in his own corps |
the engineers.
On November %. 1860. General Wright |
became a lieutenant colonel IN the regular /
army, and March 1. 1S79a colonel OF en-
CHEERS On June 80 OF the same year he |
was elevated by the President 70 the high /
est grade In his corps, that OF brigadicr I
general and Chief Of Engineers. fourteen /
years later than he would have received /
that appointment had President Abraham /
Lincoln lived TO fulfill his promise made /
to appoint him Chief CT Engineers - 1865.
IN recognition Of his distinguish "a ser /
vices, particularly in breaking the lines at
Petersburg. April . OF that year. Presi- /
a
plan, and Gen. A. A. Humphreys was pro-
NOTED al that time.
The beginning OF the civil war found
General Wright a major Of engineers He
was chief engineers OF the expedition for
the destruction Of the Norfolk navy yard
and participated in the first battle of Bun
Run. As a brigadier general Of volunteers
ne commanded the Port Royal expedition
which operated in South Carolina and
Florida. IA 1862. and the same year was
promoted major general OF volunteers and
assigned 10 the command OF the Depart |
ment OF Ohio On March o, 1854. General !
Wright was retired from active service
Chief Engineer Randall.
The committee recommends the passage
Of bill granting a pension 10 Mary A.
Randall, Of Portsmouth. y H. mother OF
the late Chief Engineer Frank B. Randall
Of the United States revenue cutter Nc
Culloch
He entered the United States Revenue
service June i. 1874 at the age of twenty
Tour years. He was promoted 10 first as
sistant engineer May l. 1889. and 10 chic,
engineer June o, 1888. He was married in I
July. 1874 He left daughter who was
born in November, 1855. Some time be
lore the death Of his father Chief Eng neer
Randall contributed TO the support of his
mother and on the death OF the father the
mother was wholly dependent upon her
son for support. who regularly sent her
-ach month So (S3S for herself and $50
TO- his child, as is shown by the records |
on ME at the Treasury Department Chief |
Randall lost ais Isfe al the hal
tie OF Manila, at which time he was forty
eight years Of age. He died at his post of !
duty in the engine-rOOm Of the vessel OF
which he was chief engineer After his |
death the mother applied for a pension. .
but was denied because the child had an
piled and received pension Of so per |
month which was paid up to November /
1899, at which time she became sixteen | {
years OF age and the pension was discon- S
inued
The committee concludes its report on | ]
his case as follows. AT this time neither
mother nor child is receiving anv pension
md in view of the fact that the late CHIEF !
Engineer Randall spent about half his life I
n the United States Revenue Service. ard Z
ne mother at the age Of seventy-one {
Years. with an invalid daughter. has no 4
property or income of any kind being de- c
PENDENT upon help from others. your com Z
nittee report the bill back favorablv with
! recommendation that il pass"
other Bills.
Another bill favorably reported is grant