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FRIDAY, JANUARY 28. 1916.
INCREASED PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS.
, Ueprinted from"The National 'rribun.-_»
Representative Charles E. Fuller, Illinois, has inlroduced the following bili, which waa referred to the Com¬ mittee on Invalid Pensions and or¬ dered *to be printed:
"That section two of an Act eii¬ tltled An Act to increase the pen¬ sions of widows, minor children and 60 forth, of deceased soldiers and sail¬ ors of the late civil war, the War with Mexico, the various Indian Wars and so forth, and to grant a penaion to certain widows of the deceaaed sold¬ iers and sailors of the late civil war,' approved April 19, 1908. be, and the same ia hereby, amended so as to read aa followe:
"Sec. 2. That if any olTicer or en¬ listed man who served 90 daya or more in the Army or Navy of the United tSatea during the late civil war and who has been honorably dis- <liarged therefrom, haa died, or ahall hereafter die, leaving a widow, auch widow ahall, upon due proof of hla army or navel aervlce, be piaced on the penaion roll from the date of tho filing of her application therefor un¬ der this Act at the rate of $20 per month during her widowhood: Pro¬ vided, That aald widow ahall have married said soldier or sailor prior to I!) 15, and the beneflts ot thia section shall Include thoae widowa whose husbands, if living, would have a pen¬ sionable atatua under thS joint reaolu- tions of Feb. 15, 1895; July 1, 1902, and June 28, 1906."
This bill waa introduced in response to a widespread feeling, not only in Mr. Puller's district,* but in the State of Illinois and all through the coun¬ try for the Government to be more juat in providing for the widowa of veterans. While the pensions of vet- erana have been liberally increased, the wanta of the widowa have been utterly neglected. Thla is something that appeals very strongly to the sense of justice, whifth ia tbe crown¬ ing feature of the mlnda of all Ameri¬ cana. The unjust limitation on wid¬ ows pensions waa placed to meet jl most unworthy clamor from the Cop¬ perheads againat veterans' widows, and ahould be repealed. It ia a na¬ tional ahame that the limitation waa ever put there, and that it ahould be so long continued. This bill doea not go far enough, becauae the limitation is extended to Jan. 1, 1915. The lim¬ itation shoiil be talten bodily from the statute booka. However, the ex¬ tention to 1915 wiii cover a multi¬ tude of moat deaerving caaea. Beyond this it increases the pensions of all widows from $12 to $20. This will not cost the Government very much, aa the widows generally are of ap¬ proximately the same age as the vet¬ erans, and they are dying oft quite rapidly. All of them are beyond the age at which they can work for a liv¬ ing. Their families have grown up, died or scattered, and tbey are in far too many casea'in absolute want.Thoae who are receiving $12 a month flnd that it is inadetiuate to any comfort¬ able aupport with the preaent high prices of living.
The policy of the Government in the past has been invariably to treat the widowa of veterans with even more tenderness than the veterans themselves.
Those who have come down to us from the Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Mexican Wur, are cherished as sacred legacies from those great struggles. The same consideration, mercy and Justice should be extendetf to the widows of the veterans of the great wa^ which preserved the Na¬ tion. The struggle was far more try¬ ing upon them than any of tbe pre¬ vious wars. They had to care with loving' fidelity and unsparing toll for men who underwent trials and hardships such as no solulers were ever before^ sabdected to. They have richly earned a liberal support In their declining years, .and $20 a month does not approach generosity. It does not even reach Justice. Still sueh an increase will be a great boon to thousands of the most deserving women tbat our country bas ever •een.
There will probably be other bills
SAMSON.
Peace at Any Price, but Not In the Party.
—Ccsare in New York Sun.
similar to those ot Mr. Fuller's sine? the feeling that Congress should do something for the widows is Nation¬ wide, and is Impressing itself upon the Congressmen generally. While we are doing so much for the war suffer¬ ers abroad, it is high time that we pay a Ilttle attention to the suffering ones in our midst.
The etate administration's plan of clearing up the state's indebtedness with a direct tax appearii to have caused the Democratic press deep dis- treaa.
If the Whitman administration had continued the Glynn policy of push¬ ing one year's obligations forward in¬ to the next year, the Legislature this year would have had to levy a direct tax that would have been a aource of great joy to opponents.
It ia just aa good buainess for a state to live witliin its means ae for an individual.
In helping New York City out of the slough of flnancial despond and cleansing the flrst district public ser¬ vice commisaion, the special investi¬ gations eet on foot by the Legislature of 1915 have earned the gratitude of the people of that city.
An adminisration that settlee claima against the atate on a basis of iess than three per cent, is making good with the taxpayers.
will prevail, he believes that a higli tariff will be absolutely neceaaary for this country; also a large merchant marine to take care of our commerce and open up new markets.
Statement by Frederick C. Tanner,
Chairman, Republican State
Committee.
"I desire to correct the impression sought to be conveyed in aome of the preas of January 15 that the action of the Republican State Convention on January 14 waa in any way adverse to Governor Whitman. The party rule forbids endorsement of candi¬ datee at a meeting of State Commit¬ tee. Governor Whitman ia in entire accord with not aendlng an instruct¬ ed delegation, and in the naming of Senator Root for temporary chair¬ man."
Governor Whitman and Senator Sage are both from Missouri when it comea to propositions for spending public money. Following Governor Whitman's recommendation tor the abandonment of certain atate activi- tiea. Senator Sage has aubmitted for consideration a lengthy liat of activi- tiea undertaken by the state in order to give the people an opportunity to determine whether or not they are worth what they are costing.
Deputy Attorney General Merton E. Lewis, counsel for the Thompson investigating committee, after point¬ ing out that4^ven yeare was required to secure a decision in a rate case be¬ fore the first district public service commission and that five and six years respectively have failed to se¬ cure decisions in two other caaes, de¬ clares that the public service commis¬ sion law haa broken down completely and that if the^ people are to be pro¬ tected against extortionate charges by public service companies, some im¬ portant amendments to the law are absolutely necessary.
In a speech before the Y. M. C. A. of Glovorsville, State Comptroller Travis pointed out that under the amendment to the inheritance tax law made in 1911. an estate that other¬ wise would have paid a tax ot more than $2,000,000 to the state escaped entirely, and declared that the law should be restored to its former con¬ dition to. prevent this variety of tax dodging.
Secretary of State Franoifi M. Hugo, in an address before the People's For¬ um declared that, at the close of the present war In Europe, millions of men will be released from the armies to return to their shops and will flnd themselves in keen competition with one another. Taxes will be high in Europe and it is poesible that tbere win be a large migration to tbis country. Under tbe conditions that
Views of State Editors
The i^llson administration was perilously near shipwreck when the war in Europe gave thia country a boom in apecial linea of industry—but the rocks are still tbere! The worst rock in the group is half submerged now. It should be labeled "failure to protect the American working man against the competition of Europe in labor coat." When the tide receded the rock will loom up as dark and dangerous as ever. What are we go¬ ing to do about it? Shall we change the pilot on our ship of State, or shall we permit Pilot Wilson to run another risky voyage along that coast.— Poughkeepsie Evening Star.
"Efficiency" covers a multitude of sins against the taxpayers. And always someone not remotely related to professional reformers profits fatly. —Brooklyn Standard-Union.
"More truth and aound sense have I rarely been condensed into fewer words than by Senator Elon R. Brown, Republican leader In the State Senate, in his address before the Republican Ciub of the City of New York, which we publish in full in another column.
"Senator Brown puts in forcible style some financial facts which all New Yorkers ought to bear in mind, but which very few seem to. The time ot paying the tiddler was sure to come after the financial dance dur¬ ing which the city's funded debt and jannual budget had increased three I fold in seventeen years and ita debt I mounted up to a round billion dollara. I—Cortlandt Standard. ,
' Governor Whitman's message to the Legislature maps out a large share of that body's work for the session. It deals almoat exclusively with the sub¬ ject of State finance and recommends aome very Important change in the lawe governing the transaction of the State's business.—Newark Union Gazette.
Yes, the tax rate la very high. It is the penalty of democratic four years of misrule, but added to that the people have themselves to blame for it. They have voted these great bond¬ ing schemes for canals and highways and have pushed their legiaiaturea into voting big appropriations for welfare work. The people have given their notes and they have to be paid. It is always easier to make a note than it is to pay it.—Watertown Times.
If the Republican party adopts a platform of Republican principles at the Chicago convention next June it wiil have the support of the majority of the voters In the coming election, for they undoubtedly believe in those principles after suffering for lack of their application to government for three years. If the Republican party at Chicago assembled chooses a good candidate who embodies those prin¬ ciples, that candidate's poettion will be unassailable. The people wlll be¬ lieve in him, becsuse they wlll know he believes in their principles.— Brooklyn Standard-Union.
Hope This Year's Flsh Run In Puget Sound Will Increasa
Olympla, Wash.—All the salmon egg taking record.s of tills state were smashed this yeur ns the result of the enormous %jmber of eggs obtained from tbe Columbia river and the Grays harbor distriels, aeeoidiug to Stale Flsh Commissioner L. H. Darwin.
Unprecetlented Xovember storms and high water were handicaps, but on the Columbia river the state procured more than 45,000.0<X) salmon eggs. Ou Grays harbor, wiiere the Chehalis hatchery last yeur took 2*2,591.000 eggs, there bave beeu procured tills jear to date 44,000,000 eggs, and all are now iu the hatcheries. The three large sa'.mon hatcheries on Puget aound are busy taking eggs, and It is expected the roOr onls will be broken in tbis dLstriet, or close to 50,000,000 eggs procured-
It ia exjiected tbat the hatcheries this winter will have 150,000,000 salmon eggs to eare for, and the number of youug fry wlll be the largest ever nur- tured iu the states history.
The eutire product of tbe hatcheries this winter will lm released In I'uget .sound next fail. By so doing it is hoped to increase the run of salmon there in -spite of the heavy increase of salmon taken in recent years.
BREAKING RECORDS IN SALMON E66 TAKING
TO TAP GILA'S UNDERFLOW.
Dry River Bed Will Be Made to Yield Water For Irrigation.
I'alomas, Ariz.—S. U. Woodruff of Los Angeles and associates plan to utilize the uuderllow of the Gila river, uear iiere, for the reclamation by Irrigation «if a bit; tract of land.
.\ number of caissons wiil be sunk iu the dry bed of the river to the water level, and large pumps wiil be installed to lift the water to tbe surface and de¬ liver it into the irrigation ditches. The pumps wiii be operated by electricity.
Formal aiiplication for tbe withdraw¬ al from public entry of 14,000 acres that are embraced in the proposed ir¬ rigation scheme has been flled in the United States land ofllce here by the stnte land commission, as required by the Carey act.
PRIZES RING FROM FRONT.
Made by German Soldier and In Pos¬ seaeion of Lot Angelas Girl,
Los Angeles, Cal.—A ring fashioned from aluminum obtained from a pro¬ jectile, which has for a setting a rep¬ lica of the German iron cross, is the valued possession of a talented Los .\ngele3 girl.
It was made by a German soldier while at the front in southern Poland. The possessor of the ring is Miss Mary (ioodrich Itead, wbo bas spent several years abroad, in Belgium, Germany and other countries, studying.
Miss Read recently returned to this eountry, bringing with her the finger ornament.
HOODOO SHIP MAKES MONEY
The Old Algoa Has IVIore Than Paid Her Purchase Price.
San Francisco.-^TIie old .Vigoa. for¬ merly hoodoo freighter of the former Pacific Mail, has liUissdined out aa a real war baliy.
This steamer, wliicii in times of peace used to be tied up in tbe lower bay with cold boilers for long periods, has earned $300,000 thnt wus paid for her when she was rechristened th« Califoniia. Also she has earneil $!K).- 000 more.
Furthermore, the California—nee Al¬ goa—has now l>een chartered to a pow¬ der compnny at .fl.TfK) a day, or $15.- 000 a month, or $012.00(1 a year, oi more than twice as much as her own¬ ers paid for her.
It is stipulated in this last charlei tbat she shall ply only between neutra. ports, which is taken to mean that sh« will became a nitrate carrier betweet South America uud the Pu Pont pow der mills in the United States.
KISS FdR A JUDGE.
Carpenter'* Daughter Gave Him i Good Smack In Open Court.
Pittsburgh. — Congratulations show¬ ered on Judge James McF. Carpenter w hen he tool; his piace on the bench of the common pleas court recently did not make nearly so great an imprea¬ sion on the throng of well wishers as a resounding kiss implanted fairly and squarely on the jurist's lips.
Judge Carpenter, who was elected laat November for a fnll term of ten years, had been sworn In and had step¬ ped down to shake bands with the pol¬ iticians In the courtroom. As he left the bench hia daughter, Miss Alice La- zear Carpenter, stepped up, threw her arms around bis neck and kissed blm.
"Oh, I'm so proudr' Miss Carpenter exclaimed as the judge disentangled himself.
"Eh, umph: And so am I," her father replied, as he reached for a dozen bands Btretched in his direction.
College Romano* Revived. Marysvllle, O.—A romance dating back to college days at Ohio Wesleyan university culminated recently when Miss Alice M. Ooode, aged forty-three. of Cincinnati, was married to Jamea W. Magmder, forty-flve years old, of Mecbanicsbnrg. Tbey will take up tbeir resldeace at Mecbanlcsbarg.
Peanail Dl at HospitaL
Editor Smith F. Pearsall of the Nassau County Review was operated on quite suddenly at the Mercy Hos¬ pital, Hempatead, Monday afternoon. He recovered from the operation un-
uaually well and the doctors report him pn the road to recovery.
With others we join In wishing him a apeedy return to full health.
HabbeU Still Alive. W. F. Hubbeli of Freeport wlshea to deny the recent rumor that he ia dead and wae recently burled.
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The light given by a gas mantle has always b een conceded to be the easiest form of illumination for the eyes.
Previously some people objected to gas lighting because they thought electricity was more con¬ venient, and because they had all sorts of fantastic notions about gas lighting.
Appliances are now available for gas lighting which are fully as attractive and convenient as electric fixtures. Burners can be supplied which are absolutely noiseless, which will not tarnish the fixtures nor the ceiling, which will not blacken the mantles, and which have no internal glassware to break and be replaced.
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