Show FROM washington I 1 I 1 I 1 A most important pension decision ISSUED BY SECRETARY SMITH 9 tho the safety or of american steam sto boat Trav elThe the new now york yorm Is computed coi to have made 21 knots i may 27 7 the most important delusion pension decision ever let bent t from the office of the secretary of the bi interior to the commissioner of pensions was filed today it is believed by those high in authority in lei the pension bureau that it bill ill reduce tho the payment ent of pensions under the act of june pao I 1 SOO between and it involves the repeat of the order passed by general blaum and approved by assistant secretary kussey bussey and a return to the language of the tile statute requiring disability not of service origin to be such aa to prevent tho the applicant P 1 I 1 t from barning support by manual IF fabor 1 the decision casion fain sin the ie case of one hennett bennett who sought a p pension bension under the old law alleging that tha tw while tie in the service at ll It aleigh N C U h ho a was prostrated by a sunstroke which resulted in partial deafness in ili bo both th ear ears T the 1 e a application appl ppl 11 cation was denied on I 1 the he ground und t that t while the applicant has hai a 11 slight 1 ht do deafness rn ess at lt Is 13 not of sufficient severity to warrant any rating bennett subsequently applied for or and received a bension pension of 12 a under the tile act of june u ie 27 2718 incapacity to perform manual labor fays pays the secretary which is the foundation to the right to pension under the act of june 27 IM fixes an entirely different it standard of disability from fro ni that tha t contained in lei tho the revised statutes caverl covering 1 g injuries of service origin T the lied disabilities csabi it ti es incurred while in actual service and the incapacity con coming ing upon the applicant blonti lone after the service has ceased is made bv by the e law to stand upon an entirely different footing those incurred d urine the service and in the line are a re without regard to capacity to earn support end slid I 1 ia graded without reference to tub condition cyndi tion the disabilities resulting front causes other than service origin are only when incapacity to labor joins with the incapacity to earn support and the grades ot of rating ire are dependent upon these two conditions dit ions when by order N no 0 o IGI issued by italin ft it declares that disabilities under nilder the act of june 27 18 should be rated aa as if of service orl ordein stin tile very principle which governed covern td the rating under the act of june 27 bw displaced the tile rule applicable I 1 1 cable to the tile different act feet pr the b e decision is signed join john INV reynolds assistant 13 distant secretary arthe inget interior bior secretary smith in lei another tion to the commissioners of pension pensions says it is hardly necessary to present an all argument or the support of authority of the proposition th that t net neither ther the secretary nor thy the commissioner con call by order or practice tice all u act of congress a and 11 d Frac he I 1 recta abat hereafter lift tile practicing of theoffice the Offic e conform to the law 1 will in inspect s steamboat travel I 1 in ili view of the large additional traffic anticipated in consequence of the columbian 1 I 1 exposition ac at chicago chief super eibing 1 steamboat insoft etor dumont harf hai issued a circular enjoining upon ail all officers of the service to be exceptionally vil vig alantin enforcing a strict compliance wit with t i relating to overcrowded over crowded both passenger V e n g erand and excursion tte steamers tt camers amers to the pd ell end t that t passengers on steam vessels mit may y I 1 have the utmost confidence in lei tho the safety of american steamboat travel the circular cu tar is a approved proved by secretary carlisle and an en enforcement I 1 a is arg urged agni upon all customs officers and steamy steamboat inspectors the now york made wide 21 knots the computation by naval engineers upon the results atnip ibi ed by the new Y york 0 k u upon the trial trip triga a re completed this afternoon gore r noon secretary li erbott receive 1 A telegram from Comm commodore Wore ais as f follows the speed of tha thena dewyk finni close computation a tion and co corrected tr CC t cl for r tidal currents was t twenty wenty one knots knot gl 1 ts secretary carlisle badan bad an extended con feretic fere jice e with president cleveland this thie evening and as a result twelve coll ei lors of internal revenues ties second colip and other a appointments in the tre treasury abury service w will be announced on monday news from Nica nicaragua ragna secretary gresham today received ad v icon by mall mail from nicaragua but nothing new wae was announced two new now gunboats fop for tropical water waters secretary herbert has directed that two out of the three 1200 ton gunboat gun a boas authorized by congress be constructed of the com rolli noite type this means menne that the tile fr frame 0 of f th the vessels and part of the tile structure above the water line title wilt will lie b made of steel hut but th tho 0 bull wi will 11 be covered with wood blanking ylan lAan king this wood planking ill ili turn will be sheathed with c copper per and thus the lite beels will be enabled enable T to 0 make long 1019 crul cruises crules es in ili tropical waters without going through li alie edye process of cloaking and I 1 scraping to r aping 1 i Y r young hon lion a merchant attorney has a decided I 1 that young is a restate raut rant keepe ednot laborer lion who is in will new OW york went to china on oil a v visit I 1 it and upon his return was refused admission on the ground that he lie was a laborer and not a merchant and tle case w wag appealed to the attorney general why troops goto chicago the war department depatt ment Is annoyed by thea the insinuation from pertain certain qu artera that two troops of cavalry ordered from p fort ort snelling minn to chicago are intended to take komg part in enforce enforcing ng the decree against the opening of the fairon fair on sunday bunday acting secretary arant says they were ivere tent sent to chicago simply to per perform forne some necessary ne essary guard duty and points to tho faes that the troops aril will not arrive at chicago bl es until after next Sun bundah davi the date wn which chilto is expected to be critical in the 1 history I ID of appointment jolin john L thomas of missouri ie is appointed assistant attorney g general e for the li I 1 e ast office department vice james N vyner tyner resigned |