Show A GRATEFUL NATION PEOPLE DO SOT OBJECT EmSLY fiEN m ams bat f the im n none bill ts shall aicon fea nobi J SOV dec 1 1880 pensions are paid by grateful nations for honorable service rendered by individuals this nation hu no regular civil pension list but it has always rewarded the men who ix either branch of its military hare risked health limb and life in its behalf no claas of citizens cavil at this payment the do not object to the imposition of all burdens of taxation necessary for the collection of an amount to pay those who pensions flit the time has come when they do demand greater care in framing penison legislation to the end that a just tion may be made between deserving applicants and that the soldier and not the pension ageal may be the beneficiary in the most recent case of failure of the outcome to agree with the official forecast that of the dependent bill passed by the present congress the public were told that there could not possibly be filed exceeding claims under the measure in the first fifteen weeks after the passage ot that bill claims were filled and the claims still come in it is said at the rata of to a week the claims were to cost all told from to a year they doncost as far as filed an annual payment of nearly it was said that no extra appropriation would be necessary instead of that there may be a deficiency of it dearv ing had rotten all this there would be some consolation for the financial pinching administered to the republic there can be no revenue policy wise either for the present or the future adopted and sustained se long as the estimates for pensions are as unreliable as those just considered the public demand fair dealing and wise statesmanship in the name both of the veterans and payers congress resumes business at the old stand to day and the session is likely to be fully as interesting if not as exciting and important as the one that closed in october ahe comparatively small number of bemben of the house abow in the city deomi to indicate that those who predicted the republicans would have a hard time to keep a quorum of their own here through the correct there are not many mon in tho house who hare income for they are not obliged to work and while beram in congress most of these men hare more or less seri neglected their regular business or profession those of them who were defeated in the recent elections will naturally be dia posed to bebin up the loose ends of their private affairs aa soon as possible BO that their incomes will not he too heavily scaled down when their congressional cenes cen es on the ath of march next it will take pretty pressure pree sure to keep these non elect in washington with much regularity abia winter and doubtless not a few ol 01 them will think it not worth while to coma here at all thai this should be the caad will not show a very high bense of duty nor of honor on the part of the defeated members but the country will not suffer b their dereliction if the republican ma bority in the house is thereby prevented from rushing through of the unwise legislation which their program me calls for in order to meat as far as possible alie present heavy demand tor notes of email denominations secretary wind oca has decided to easue 10 5 and 1 treasury notes in exchange for treas ury notes of larger denominations owing to limited tims allowed to prepare fur the execution of the silver bil it was found necessary at first to confine the issue of notes authorized by that act to notes of largo denominations the united states treasurer has now on hand about in one five and ten dollar treasury notes and the secretary has directed that they be ex chanted for the larger notes on presentation the supply of onna and fives ix however vary small just at present and the exchange will temporarily pora rily be confined principally to tens hereafter small notes will also be principally used in making the silver purchase instead of large and it is hoped in a short time to have supply of them sufficient to meet all reasonable demands at least a boien democratic statesmen will today to day begin regular training in public for tb e of the fifty second congress their trial performances for the next three montag will be watched with keen interest by the galleries and by the country and it is safe to say that tho final race will net be won by the mancho develops thaita most nearly resembling those of the present speaker indications are strong that silver legislation will not be unpopular in the near future |