Show I AT THE CAPITAL Hints and Happenings Around the White House MRS CLEVELANDS RECEPTION The President Digging Up the Records of Soldiers He Vetoes Some More Pension Bills From the Capital WASHINGTON February 19Follow lug is the text of the trade dollar bill as passed both Houses Be it enacted etcTbat for a period of six months after the passage of this act the United States TRADE DOLLAES If not defaced mutilated or stamped shall be received at the office of the Treasurer or any AssistantTreasurer of the United States In exchange for a like amount dollar for dollar of the standard silver dollars or subsidiary sub-sidiary coins of the United States that the trade dollars received by paid to or deposited de-posited with the Treasurer or any Assistant Assist-ant Treasurer or national depository of the United States shall not be paid out or in any other manner issued but at the expense of the United States shall be transmitted trans-mitted to the coinage mints and recoined into standard silver dollars or subsidiary coin at the discretion the Secretary of the Treasury Provided that the trade dollars received under this act shalt notbe counted as part of the silver bullion required to be purchased chased and coined into standard dollar required re-quired by the act of February 28 1878 that all laws and parts of laws authorizing the coinage and issuance of the United States trade dollars are hereby repealed Acting Secretary Fairchild today issued a circular to the constructors of passenger cars and steamboats and other persons inviting suggestions as to the best methods of building rail road cars and steam vessels and heating the same so as to PREVENT THE LOSS OF LIFE and property by fire Correspondents are requested to send sketches or drawings draw-ings of their designs when practicable Thisaction of the Department is in accord ac-cord with a resolution of the House adopted January 21 requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain all i possible information on the subject JOiS CLEVELAND held her last ublic reception this afternoon after-noon and it was attended by more people peo-ple than any similar event at the White House The crowd was composed mainly of ladies and its number was estimated at 10000 Members of several sev-eral excursion parties from Baltimore Brooklyn and other places helped to swell the throng The House committee on MILITARY AFFAIRS today resumed consideration of the McAdoo ordnance bill Cutcheon presented a substitute for the bill before the committee It provides fcfr the erection of a gun factory and for first class modern guns for the army seacoast and other defenses de-fenses at appropriates 10000000 for the purpose After the bill had been read Chairman Bragg stated that he was engaged in the preparation ot a substitute for the original measure which he hoped to be able to lay before the committee on Monday Mon-day and with a view to allowing a comparison of the yaHous measures and a combination of the best features of each the committee adjourned ad-journed without voting on Cutcheons proposition General Bragg indicated that his substitute sub-stitute was only to provide for the creation crea-tion of a government factory and for the creation of a testing board of which LieutenantGeneral Sheridan is to be a member THE ATTOBNKYGEHEBAI to day transmitted a communication from the United States Attorney for Wyoming calling attention to the inadequacy in-adequacy of the fees provided by the fee bill for tne services 01 witnesses wit-nesses jurors etc in attendance upon the United States Courts in that Territory The amounts allowed tor mileage and per diem to the attorney and marshal of the Territory and witnesses and jurors it is said do not pay their expenses in attendance upon the courts and it is desired that these fees be so increased that the interests in-terests ef the government shall not suffer THE PRESIDENT sent two messages to the Senate today vetoing the act granting a pension to Charlotte ONeal and an act granting a pension to John Reed Sr The first named bill proposed the grant of a pension pen-sion to the widow of Richard ONeal late Colonel of the 26th regiment Indi diana volunteers In his message n this case the President says i records of the War Department Jtt to show that there was a colonel of the 26tn Indiana regiment named Richard ONeal but it does appear that Richard Neal was lieutenantcolonel said regiment that he was mustered on August 31st 1861 and resigned June 30th 1862 If this is the officer whose widow is named in the bil the proposition is to pension the widow of a soldier who after a service of ten months resigned and who seven months after his resignation died ofa disease which in no manner related to his military service There is besidessuch a discrepancy dis-crepancy betwse jthejnLame gi ain a-in the hilt and r the name of the officer who served as Lieutenant Colonel Neal in the regimen tmen toned that If thetaeritshrere t witbnho t widow the billwouldneed iurther congrts biIlbwouldP sional consideration In his message retative to 3 the act granting a pension to John Reed Sen the President says The records show that the beneficiary named in this bill filed an application for a pension in 1877 alleging that he was the father of John Reed who died In the service and that his wife mother of the deceased de-ceased soldier died May 10th 1872 that the father was mainly dependent upon his son for support He filed evidence of the mothers death and one of the witnesses alleged that he was present at her death and attended her funeral In 1864 Martha Reed the mother of the soldier filed her application for a pension in which she at first claimed te be the widow of John Reed She afterwards however alleged that her husband John Reed abandoned his family in 1879 and had not thereafter there-after contributed to their support and that the soldier ws her main snp port after such abandonment She was allowed a pension as a dependent mother which commenced in 1862 the date of her sons death and seems to have terminated July 221884 when she died The claim of the father was rejected in 1883 for the reason that his mother who had a prior right was still living and when his claim was again presented m 18s6 he was informed that his abandonment of his family in 1859 precluded the idea that he was entitled to pension as being dependent upon the soldier for a support Of course these decisions were correct in law in equity and in morals This demonstrates the means employed to cheat the government in applications applica-tions for pensions too often successful |