Show LARGE PENSIONS Two of the largest awards of arrearage of pensions ever made were allowed in I Washington last Thursday One is the case of Francis Patterson a private in the Fortyfourth New York Volunteers whose application has been pending for years the other that of an old soldier residing at Dolphos Ohio who is insane and has to be cared for by his sister who is very poor The New Yorker who is i totally blind was allowed 72 per montl and arrearages amounting to 11338 while the Ohioan is rated at 72 per month since 1865 and gets 12341 arrearages ar-rearages Now says the Winnemucca Silver Slate if Mr Woodburn and other political polit-ical speakers told the truth on the stump last fall when they said the present Administration Ad-ministration is opposed to granting pensions pen-sions to old soldiers how does it happen that tho cases mentioned which have been pending for years and which were rejected by previous Administrations weredecided in favor of the applicants Facts like these prove conclusively that hostility to pensioning the men who were physically or mentally disabled in i the war for the Union is not among the faults of Clevelands Administration the assertions of stump orators who attempt to make political capital at the expense of truth to he contrary notwithstanding |