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Show T-MI llllif. A Repurt lo the Senate nllli Cer Inlu Amendment. Washington, May 13. Senator Davis, with tlie unanimous concurrence concur-rence of other members of the Senate Sen-ate jnion committee, today mb-mttted mb-mttted a report recommending that the Senate do n"t agree to the amendment made by the House to tlie Senate dependent pension bills, rhey announce their determination uot to agree to the House bill under any conditions. Tlie bill as Is passed the Senate was a dependent tension measure, Identical to that vetoed by Cleveland. the House amended tlie bill by passing as a substitute the Morrill pension bill, which h both a service and dependent tension ten-sion bill. It is the opinion of the Senate committee that It is the duty of tlie government, before entering upon any other pension legislation, to provide for the needs of disabled and dci-uudent soldiers in the most libera! manner possible. The Senate Sen-ate bill was framed upon this theory. Service jierisions is a matter which should not le Involved with tbe disability bill. The estimates prepared pre-pared by the adjutant-general show that the ap, roximate-d aggregate cost of a service pension upon a basis of 03 years, as tbe age limit, w ill be 51,182,035,525. Upon a basis of sixty years the cost would be 31,333,109.520. Of this amount I,-079,617,021 I,-079,617,021 roust be paid twforelhe end of the. year 1915, and the average aver-age annual payment would be$41,-523,432. be$41,-523,432. These estimates are materially ma-terially greater than those of the House rommittee- but tbe Senate, committee adopted them because based on valid reasons, and because excriencc had shown that iensIon estimates heretofore bad .invariably fallen below tbe actual ccst- It Is tbe committee's opinion that whenever when-ever it is deemed wise to inaugurate a system of service pensions, it should be don- for the benefit of all living roldiers who were- honorably discharged, and that the rate of Ins!on should l graded according to the length of service. A COM1-R031ISK. Tlie Secretary of the Treasury has accepted an oiler to pay $300 and costs in a compromise in tbe case of the Mexican steamer Munttcrrat, against which the government bad claims for 512,000 on account of ton-nago ton-nago dues, etc, accruing by reason or tbe abrogation by Mexico of the treaty formerly existing between that country and the United States. Tbe MmUcrraC was purchased in Ku rope for tho purpose of trading under the Mexican Hag between the United States and Mexican ports on the Pacific Coast. The case lias been pending a long time. Faekln-? I!one fbrOcden. Omaha, May 13. Organization of the South Ogden Stock Yards and Land Company was completed here today, with a capital stock or $1,-590,0110, $1,-590,0110, equally divided between Ogden and Omalia. The company proposes to begin the construction of packinghouses, hotel and exchange buildings and yards. The Illol. at Hamburg-. IIameleu, May 13. Rioting was renewed this evening. Mounted police with naked sword, cleared tbe streets. Many arrests were made. The strikers at Germ destroyed nine pieces of fiulhed goods and warps and fifty-seven looms. The Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' Union oners a large reward re-ward for the discovery of the culprits. cul-prits. Tbey linn tba Toau. Xew Orleans, May IX Tbe lHcayunc, Jacksonville, J-'Ia., special spe-cial says: Xews is received from Cedar Keys, Fla-, to the effect that the major and marshal of that city have been running the town for seveal days. Citizens have been threatened, ladles insulted, the United States collector forced to keep within doors, and a man whipped by a negro, wh did the jobundcrthc persuasion of a loaded revolver In the hands of Mayor Cot-trell. Cot-trell. Many citizens have left the plx.ee and bloodshed Is expected. Paufitrer Cut Ilaien. Chicago, May 13. The Burlington Burling-ton road today met the Alton cut from Chicago to Kansas City and SL Louis. Tlie Ohio &. Mississippi road has added to the turmoil by cutting the passenger rates between Cincinnati and Kansas City. From St. Paul it Is learned that all roads are preparing to meet the cuts made yesterday, and further cuts are expected ex-pected in a day or so. The situation is becoming'Becldedly interesting. The Texa. Prohibition!.!,' Fort Worth, Texas, May 13. Tho Slate prohibition convention met today and nominated- a full State ticket. The convention Is op-poed op-poed to woman suffrage. |