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Show patches state tiiat, in one province of Canada Cana-da alone, over thirteen hundred people will he alTecicd hy the proposed legislation, and General Newherry himself estimates that the foreign beneficiaries of the pension laws aggregate at least IfitOOO, In an interview General Newberry said that after the war, foreigners, who had come here as soldiers of fortune, took advantage of the literal pension laws anil returned to their native country, where they have ever alike i lived, rearing families on the money paid thera by the United States. It Is not now, nor was it ever tneir purpose to return to this country, nor do their sons acknowl-cdire acknowl-cdire allegiance to the United States. The pensioner himself takes advantage of his position to absolve himself from the duties to his home government, and lives in ease and luxury on the bounty of the United States. He. is a constant source of annoyance annoy-ance to our consuls abroad, demanding protection pro-tection under our Hag from the duties owing to his own government. There are several thousand such pensioner! living in the kingdom king-dom of VS'urtemburg, Germany, and our minister to Turkey says that they are scattered scat-tered all over eastern Asia and western l.urope. We know that many ore living in Great Britain and Canada. I-. . V. ho I fl ri.ad. Wasiiinoto , Feb. 10. S in' bill introduced by Represent! We NVivbeMn ol Illinois, cut-tlnif cut-tlnif oil Hen-' t I relgM ' "" dents of l!ie;Jltod sB is becoming a I subject ot jjic tnternatioiMil iutcrct. in |