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Show P-CRJ O AAA AT I Substituted by Committee Commit-tee For the Sherwood Measure Washington, Fob 12 Tho Sherwood Sher-wood so-called dollar-a-day ponslon bill was rejected today by tho senate committee on pensions and another measure, which would Involve an annual an-nual expondlture of $24,000,000, proposed pro-posed as a substitute by Senator Smoot of Utah, was adopted. Senators Brown of Nebraska and Curtis of Kansas gave notice that In tho senate they would press tho Sherwood Sher-wood bill as a substitute for tho Smoot blU. Senator Smoot'a ostlmato of $21,-000,000 $21,-000,000 as tho coat of hie plan is based, on tho ponBion bureau's computation of ajre and length of service of tho veterans. The Sherwood bill, according accord-ing to the pension bureau, would have cost, about $75,000,000 a year. The Smoot bill, adopted by a vote of 12 to 2, after tho Sherwood bill had beon voted down 10 to 4, embodies provisions to ponslon Civil war veterans vet-erans G2 ycar6 old, who served flu days or more and any Mexican war voteran who servod sixty days or raoro. The Mexican war veterans would receive $30 a month. Tho Civil war veterans would be put on a graduated scalo from ?13 a . month for 90-day vetorans, 82 years of age, to $30 a month for veterans 75 years old, who served three years or i more oo I RANDOM j REFERENCES Lost On Grant, bet 29th st and Staudard office, gold locket, set with small diamond. Initials V M. H. P,ud-er P,ud-er return to Standard and receive reward. re-ward. Early Planting Gardeners in tho vicinity of Ogden are planting their gardens ten days earlier this year than last yoar, crops already having been put In. The early planting requires re-quires glass coering, but the sun Is warm enough at this time In the middle of the day to cause the seeds to germinate. Unless unforeseen conditions con-ditions arise to provont it the product of the gardons will be considerably earlier this season. The large stringers for tho second floor of the Spargo business block on Hudson avenue, between Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth stroeta, are being placed today and the brick men are working above the level of tho second floor Tearing Down Contractors are busy today tearing down old structures to make room for new and more pretentious preten-tious ones, even though It Is Lincoln's birthday. The Commercial National bank structure Is ncarlng the level on the second floor on tho downward course and It will not be many days before the work of reconstruction will begin. 'Tho old Drher drug store building Is fast fading away and the land mark will soon bo a thing of the pasL |