Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-24
PRIVATE PENSION BILLS.
Action Taken by the House
of Representatives.

The House yesterday, in committee of the
whole, passed 142 private pension bills,
granting pensions and increases of pen
sions. The amounts ranged all the way
from IS a month to s72 month. The bills
make an aggregate charge upon the treas
ury of 81, 143 month.
Among the bills of local interest was one
granting $50 a month to the widow of
Brigadier General Augur, and another
granting s12 month to the dependent
mother of late Chief Engineer Randall of
the revenue cutter McCulloch. A number
of Mexican war pensions were granted at
the rate of s12 a month.
The names of the benefciaries and the
amounts per month provided by the bills
are follows:
w. F. Loveland, $40; James Chapman
s24; Mary Mccarthy. So: Sarah Robinson
81; Harrison Garfield increased to $50;
John White. $50; Catherine OBrien, $50:
Emma B. Reed, 81; Amelia Taylor S12:
creased to $40: Lena E. Patterson, s12;
Lewis r. Armstrong, increased to s24; John
O'Conor, increased to $40; Hulda l.. May
nard. S12; Franklin NJ. Burdoin, increased
increased to s1I; Melville Oliphant, 1914;
Catharine A. Schwunger, S12; John c. Ray,
s24; James T. Donaldson, jr. So: Orange
F. Berdan. increased to $50: Maria V.
$50: W. G. Willoughby. $50; MILFORD Coop
er. $24: Charles A. Hausman. increased TO
SO; Frances d. Best, $50: Austin ]. Pick
EFT, increased to s24 Horace N Bracket,
increased to s45; Alice S. Jordan, increased
to $50 Henry Johns. increased to s36; Jane
Mcmahon. increased to s12: Mary ]. Free
man. increased to s12: Ambrose J. Vanars-
del. 81; Sophronia Scely, 81; Henry Schnet-
Wheeler. s12: Jane f. Augur. $50: Wesley
Reed, $50: Charles Weed. increased to $50;
Isaac Price, So; Zedock c. Andrews, in
creased to s24; Phebe s. Riley. SIS; Alanson
c. Eberhart, increased to $780,. John +
Crawford, increased to $40: Thomas T.
Garrison. s12; Henry H. Neff. $50: Joshua
Ricketts,, increased to $50; Abbie E. Web
ster. IS: Joseph F. Allison, increased to
gish, increased to $50; George NJ. Brown,
increased to $40: Maria Eagan. $40; ]. C.
Stone, so: Alfred Bigclow, increased to s1S;
R. W. Houghton. increased to $50; Francis
S. Wolfe. s24; Ellen V. Myer, s15; Matilda
Hennessy, IS; Francis A. Kitchen, s12;
Catharine Harris. s12: Ellen ]. Williams
SO; Eliza Wight, increased to So; John
G. Bradley, increased to $50; Samuel A.
Greedy, increased to $50: John Vogler, s12
Elizabeth Keif. So; Mary Steffens, s12;
Luke H. Cooper. increased to $50 Totally
blind; John Lafollett, s12: Elizabeth A.
Hyatt, SIS: Adolphus Levine, s24; ]. r.
Eggeman. $50; Horace B. Durant, increased
to $50: VIM. H. Lane. 500: Benjamin f.
Kurtz. increased to $50; Carrie L. Dale
$50; Clara L. Hartman. IS: Matilda OCon-
nor, s12: Samuel B. Weeks, s12; Simon van
der Naart, s2J; Cyrus johnson, s12; Abner
S. Crawford, s24: David L. Wentworth, in
creased to $780, Clare II. Burleigh. $40; Fan
nie NJ. Hays. $50: c. C. Doolittle, increased
to $50; Isaac NJ Locke. increased to $40;
Julius Nogt, $40; Rebecca ]. Jones. s12;
Lois A. Fields. IS; Arnold Bloom, s24; Mar
garet L. Coleman. s12, and s12 month
for each of two children; Alexander P
Baugher. s24: Eliza H. Getchel 81: Eliza
8. Redfield, S12; Martha E. Graves. s12 and
g for each child; L. B. Gregory, s12; Will
lam TAFT. s24: John VI. Garrett increa sed
| to $40; Abraham Sanford, increased to 800;
Henry Mcmillan. So: Edward Harris, s12;
Mary A, Randall, s12; Joseph E. Hamrick
and Ella G. Hamrick, each s12; Alfred
T. Msdoreland, s12; Cynthia A. Middle
ten. IS; Joshua Mitchell. $50: VIM. r. Wal
| lace. s24; Geo. W. Wakefield, s24: Jane
F. Chalmers. So: James W. Kessler $24
Susie E. Johnson. s.; Bertha NJ. Jordan,
s12: James ]. Lyon, s12: Missouri B. Ross,
increased to s12: Eliza A Lake, increased
| to $50: James Winnie, increased to s1S;
| Julia A. Floyd. increased to so: Bell Fries,
| increased to s24; Lizzie NJ. Dixon. s12: Tim
othy B. Eastman, s24: Laura S. Pontius,
80: Alice D. Roatch. $40: Charles H. Gates,
| increased to s45: Mrs. T. W. Hard, s.;
Chester Willis, increased to $40: Elizabeth
B. Cooper, Sl2. Daniel H. Kent, increased
to $50; Ezra A. Bennett, increased to s24
Edward T. Kennedy. $50; Joseph E. Bald
win. S12; Robert II. Jones, SIS.