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Show CHARLES T. LINCOLN GItm III Testimony Utfore the ILanm IrnrMljatlon Coin- tulttte. THE "CONTCMPTIDLC RAG" CAUSE OF HIS OEATH. The 1'roIiIbIlioiiUtt Uact the Laboring Jlfn to Join the I'arlf. CANADA CANNOT EXCLUDE JOHN CHINAMAN. The Ircm-jcr.il Ic and Bc.nbmUIon ConTrclIuns Hard at lVorlw By Tetej rapa to tie News. WtSIIIMItOV Mill,. The Riant Inxntlc-atl'n: Charlm T. Llnrolaa Tratlraonr. WaSiilsotok, Sept, 9. Deputy Pension Conimteloucr Charles T. Lincoln was today before tlie Ilium inrtstlcfttlon committee. Hetc?tl-fieJ Hetc?tl-fieJ that the coniplttnl files syttrtu recommended by Lemon did not commend lUelf to his judgment. Claimants without attorneys were placed at a disadvantage by IL Probably lets than 5 i?rcent of the original claimants are without with-out attorneys. An attorney might secure considerable advanu;eIn time of adjudication by certifying claims complete when they wav not so. Witness did not think any particular attorney bad been lient-lited lient-lited by tht order. The Washing-tan Washing-tan attorneys, n a whole, mluht have been ,Lt.i.efittd for a time, because of their location, lie did not believe the slightest degree of partiality par-tiality or favoritism had been shown by an officer or employe of tho pen-iiii pen-iiii hurc-ati ton aril any attorney. The order bad given moresatisfac-tloa moresatisfac-tloa to the country at lare tliau tho original plan and had considi-rauly exiedited b:is!r;s, althoilgli some injustice wai worked, pertiap?, towards to-wards claimants without attorneys. II. Jlossbock, a mechanical en giueer, started In to tell how he met in Memphis several years ago, Frank A. Smith, who, he had been told, was the pat-ntrc of the Universal Uni-versal refrigerator. Commissioner Kaum objected to ihixllncof inquiry. Iewls argued for full nud fair In-vcfctlgation. In-vcfctlgation. If the refrigerators re impracticable and worthless, the country ought to know li; because e believed that an oflieer of the United States should not life his jOIcIal position to booat any worth-le&i worth-le&i enterprise. Cooper asked Sinyser if ho had not told Iiewis'a, member of the committee) thai bo liad no money interest In the stock. Smyter replied that he told Lewis that while t-tock was enteral lnhi name, he did not own all of It, but represented gentlemen In Ohio. There was a worJy war between Lewis and Smyser'for sometime. Lewis finally auuiltteil that he might have mlsunJtrslooJ blui. Adjourned. Ad-journed. JJ'CJOK RD"BIVBS ISTnCCrto.No. Brigadier General Alexander McD. McC'osk has been ordered to proceed from Kjrt Ieaven worth, Kansas, to Los Angelc, Cl., and assume command of UieDc jartmrnt of Arizona, etc. yoETincATioxs uoaud. In acAirdaure uilh A clause in the lat Kortiflcathns bill, the Pr "idem has aproiuted a baird con fitting of Colonel Georgo II. Men-Jell, Men-Jell, Corps of Knglnccn; Colonel Henry W. Cloi-on, Fourth Ar-tillery,and Ar-tillery,and Colonel A. It. Uufilpgton of thu Ordnance Uetartrnent, with MajorUutton.Orduancc Department, as ttcrttary, to enquire into theft Illt'es for producing tteel forging for high-power guns at or near the Pacific coatt and lnsrct " the Rock Island arsenal, the Indianapolis In-dianapolis arcenal and also omc Jniuton or near theOulf coat ind report on the advisability of erectlu-rcun factories for flnlililnir and ascmUing high power guns to be mount t-u In fortifications at the Reiierla arsenal In California or at tho Rock Island aracnal, the Indi-atlBpolU Indi-atlBpolU arsenal or at sonn-point sonn-point on or near the Gulf cav-t. Thu board will also examine And report as to the cost of erection ind e (Ulpmvut of each Mich gun factory: C3XFIRUAT.ONS. T. P. Hawley. UiilteJ States district judgo of XevaJa; John W. Ro", commissioner of the District of Columbia. |
