Show washington LEIVE leits I 1 Fao xoua onus rov mar 12 issa washington atoll is having a light lent and society wears its weeds more lightly as the s season ason progresses gr esses the gay world e eats gives entertainments and even dances dancea a little for charity but dinners and luncheons are the principal oases which it finds in the desert of lenten observances every night this week and last week has hag witnessed many elegant dinner parties and the afternoon luncheons have been as huni numerous crous congress Cn gross has done nothing st startling art during the week unless the tha political and erat oratorical orical battle between senators ingalls and blackburn could be so called there were some interesting debates however on tho the dependent pendent Pe pension bill before it passed the senate by a vote of 44 against 16 the debate showed that a presidential veto is greatly feared the bill now goe ato to the honeo As passed by the senate it provides that in considering the claims of dependent parents the fact and cause of death and the fact faett that hat the soldier left no widow or children having been shown ag a required by law it shall be necessary on only ay to show by b y sufficient evidence that L uch luch parents are without other means of support than their own manual labor or tho the contributions of others not dot legally bound for their support the pensions pen siona allowed commence from the datlof data of the passage of this achand act and continue only during the exis existence tonce of such dependence then it provides that all persons who served as much as three months in the military or er naval service of the united states during the late war and who have been honorably discharged and who are dufferin suf ferin fr oria mental 0 lr play disability rift not the r result es uit of vicious habits babits which incapacitates them f 0 u supporting who are without other adequate means of support shall upon making such proofs of these facts as the secretary of the interior may provide be placed on the list of united states invalid pensioners and be entitled to receive 12 per month it looks very much as if we might have a complete system of ef postal tele telegraphy 0 rophy in the near tu lu ture the house committee on en commerce has favorably reported a bill which appropriates for the establishment of a postal telegraph the report claims that the government can place in Fer service vice a system answering all the needs of the public for a sum vastly below that which is represented by the western union telegraph company in brief its conclusions are these first that the time has arrived when the government should construct and operate a postal telegraph system as a branch of its postal service second blat the service will undoubtedly be self supporting third that the tha government has the right to build and operate telegraph I 1 lines under the jurisdiction of its Post postoffice office department fourth that public opinion will not permit and good faith and justice do not require the purchase by the government of the property and franchises of the union telegraph company tile bill places the general super vi gibion ion of the system under a fourth assistant Postmaster Genera 1116 I 1 he wi arx of establishing tho the lines etc W is s to lo 10 0 o done undo under r the direction li ot of the secretary of war with tho the approval of tho the president the bill pro i les for tole telegraphic 0 po the rates fixed are on a basis of 10 cents for twenty wor words rd s miles or less and one third of a cent a word of press pres dispatches ono thousand words or less today o oi 01 i senator blackburns blackburnn Black burns deskin desk in the senate chamber there is a very handsome floral tribute accompanied with a resolution of thanks it was sent by the hancock veterans association of Phil philadelphia adelphi for his remarks in vindication of general hancock last thursday during his impromptu speech in reply to 10 senator ingall it attack on the tl a president florace greely lind and gems gem hancock Hin cock mcclellan and B citek it is i s understood that very few faw of the republican senators approved 0 of f the kansas Seria tirs rs speech ard it was reported daily last week that mr ingalls contemplated a partial retraction or some explanation of some nome of his re maiks though as yet he has taken no step in this direction when whan asked ii a newspaper rp reporter porter if he be did not repent him of his speech he ha replied looking non BOB T and indeed anything 0 but penitently the mirld will not believe a man repents and this wise world cf ours is is i lily right 0 senator blackwell has prepared prep ired himself for any reopening of 0 the matter that mr ingalls may see aee fit to make the womans comans international council will in ahn city on the irist and will hold bold an eight days confer conference euce it is ia not a woman 1 guffra suffrage 0 a convention although called ty oy that organization to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the first WOM ans rights anven invention tion its purpose is 13 to discuss all the various movements of i reform in vt aich women are interested delegates frim a umber of foreign countries will bs be here |