Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1898, Page 11

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The Following is an Index to the Table of Contents of THE EVENING STAR ALMANAC AND HANDBOOK FOR 1898. LOCAL SUBJECTS. Agricultural, Department of, District Government. Art Institutions District, Relations of, to United Assessors. Board of States. Assessments. Audubon Soclety. Banks. Banking Resources. Base Rall Record. Bar Association. . Roard of Trade. Boller Inspector. Buildings. Inspector of Building Operations. Charities, Superintendent of Charities and Reformatories. _ Children’s Guardians, Board of Chureh Directory. Civil Service Commission. Colleges. Cord Wood Inspectors, Coroner. District Rulers, Past and Present. District Taxation and the Organic Act of 1 Druggista to the Poor. Duties of District Commissioners. Engineer Commissioner's Assistants. Executive Mansion. Expenditures. Fire Department. Flour Commissioners. Food and Fish Inspectors. Game and Fish Association, Hack Rates. Harbor. Health Department. History of Washington City, Industrial Home School. 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Sources of District Revenues, State Department. Street Directory. Suburban Drives. Surveyor of the District, Treasury Department. Police Court. a ‘Trust Compantes. Police Force. Universities. Population. U. 8. District Attorney, Post Office. Post Office Department. Property Clerk. Property Exempt from Taxation, Public Buildings and Grounds, Rainfall. Recorder of Deeds. Reform School, Bo: : Reform School, Girls’ z Water Supply. GENERAL Death Roll, Foreign. Death Roll, 1897. Deboe, William J., Sketch of. Debt, Public. Detts, National. Deep Waterways. Delaware Election Returns. Dingley and Wilson Bills Compared. Diplomatic Service. Dudley, J. B., Sketch of. Duels, Memorable Draper, William F., Sketch of Allen, Hiram N., Sketch of. z Eastern Question. ro ‘The Farmers’. apa 23 = :, Education, Statistics of. American Party, The ices creating alicon Expedition. als, ion Treaty. President's lism, International, . Cornelius N., Sketch rs Dispute, Alaska Bridges, The Longest Sketch of United States Court of Great Britain. Message. of Bryan, Charles Page, Sketch of Buck, Alfred E., Sketch of Bullion, Exports and Imports, 1835- 1897 Business Fallures. Butterworth, Benjamin, Sketch of Calendar. Calendar, Perpetual California, Election Returns, Capitals, State Capitals, Territorial Carrying Trade, Foreign. Central American Affairs. Chronology of Chureh, Baptist ‘teamboatings Election Returns by States. Ember Days. Episcopal Chureh, Protestant. Executive Department, National Goy- ernment. Expenditures of the Government, Exports and Imports, 1835-1897, Exports of Gold Exports of Merchandise, Exports of Silver. Exports, Summary of. Pacts, Interesting. Failures, Dusiness. Falrbanks, C. W., Farm Animals. Farm Crops. Farm Lands, Unimproved, Farmers’ Organizations. Fast Run, A. Fisance, State Platforms of} Fires on Public Lands. Flags of Officials, Special. 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Railway Disbursements. Railway Mileage of the World, Railway Statistics. Rawlins, J. L., Sketch of ~~ Ready Reference Calendar.:+ + Receipts of the Government, Regiments, Stations of Ranches. Silver, Standard Time. erans. Subjects. Stat. States, States, States, Statistics, Statistics of Consumption. States. Swenson, E. Ranches. Compared. ‘Waterways, Rockhill, William W., Sketch of Roman Catholic Church, Routes to the KI Russo-Turkish War. Savings Banks, U. 8. Marshal. U. S. Supreme Court. Vital Statistics. War Department. ‘Washington Asylum, Water Department. Zoological Park, Ship Propulsion. Sheep and Swine on Farms and Silver and Gold, Ports, 1335-1897. xports of Silver, Imports of Silver Republicans, The Smallest Republics. Smoke Abatement: Ordinances, > Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Revolution, Sons of Veterans, Sound and Color, South Carolina Election Returns, South Dakota Election Returns. Spaia, Our Relations With Sporting Records, Spooner, John C., Sketch of Colored, Senate, United States. Sewall, Harold M., Sketch of Sherman, John, Sketch of Tonnage Entered Sampson, Archibald J., Sketch of Schools, Indian, and Imports and Ex- Stars, Morning and Evening. State Department. State Pensions to Confederate Vet- State Platforms on Finance. State Platforms on the Tariff. State Platforms on Miscellaneous States, Admission of Area of - Capitals of States, Electoral Vote of Governors of States, Population of ettlement of Statistics, Agriculture, Statistics, Commerce, Statistics of the Churchess Statistics, Cotton, Statistics, Financial. Statistics of Greater New York, tional Bank, lucation. Statistics of Street Railways, Statute of Limitations. SteamboatIng, Chronology of Storer, Bellamy, Sketch of Street Railways, Statistics of Sugar atd Molasses, Product and Sugar Importations. Sugar, Per Capita Consumption of Sugar, Beet, Produced nm Europe, Sugar Crop, The World's Suffrage, Qualifications for Sugar, Beet, Produced in the United Tarift Bill, How It Passed. Tariff — Wilson and ,Dingley Bills In what other way can so much knowledge be eee une UH ght for so little money? ~~PRICE, 25 CENTS. Mailed’ Ou remanent t-of-town Upon Receipt of Price. - Supreme Court, The United States ., Sketch of Swine and Sheep on Farms and Tariffs of 1894 and 1897 Compared. ‘Tariff, The State Platforms on Tea Bill, Impure Tennessee Election Returns, Territories, Area of Territories, Capitals of ‘Territories, Governors of Territories, Population of Texas Election Returns. ‘Timber Supply, White Pine Tobacco, Production, ete. Torpedo Boat Turbinia. Tower, Charlemagne, Sketch of Townsend, L., Sketch of ‘Trans-Mississipp! Exposition, Travelers, Legal Hints for ‘Treasury Department. Turkey, Greece and Crete, ‘Turner, George, Sketch of United States Consular Service, United States Courts. United States Diplomatic Service, United States District Attorneys, United States Marshals, Utah Election Returns, Venezuela and Great Britain, Vermont Election Returns, Virginia Election Returns, War Department, Washington Election Returns, Deep ‘Weights and Measures, United States West Virginia Election Returns, ‘Wheat and Corn, Visible Supply. Wheat Statistics. Wheat, Wilson and Dingley Bills Compared. ~.» Wilson, H. L., Sketch of Wisconsin Election Returns, Woodford, Stewart L., Sketch of World, Wheat Crop of Wyoming Election Returne. Years, Ancient and Modern Young, John R., Sketeh of SURVIVING SOLDIERS Effort to Determine the Present z Number of’ Veterans, STATISTICS OF THE WAR EXAMINED The Grand Army of Those Who Draw -Pensions. THE QUESTION OF FRAUD —S To the Bditor of The Evening Star: A few weeks ago a New York . news- paper startled the country with the an- nouncement that on June 30, 1807, there were on the roll of invalid pensioners several thousand more names than there were survivors of the recent war, and that nearly 200,000 other persons, claiming to be veterans, were seeking a lodgment upon said rell. The announcement was startling and dangerous, for it appeared to have as a solid basis the official census table of the number of survivors as found in June, 1890. If that. table be approxi- mately correct, the announcement of the paper in point ts substantially true, and the pension rolls are disgraced by having on them the names of several hundred thousands of criminal impersonators of soldiers, or several hundred thousands of criminals are knocking at the door of the pension bureau fraudulently claiming pen- sions for military services never rendered by them. To ascertain the truth of the matter is a subject of national importance. And now steps forward Robert P. Porter, a man of honorable fame, who, as the superintendent of the eleventh census, initiated and carried forward the sur- vivors’ tabies, and vouches for the sub- stantial accuracy of those tables. Several years ago a friend of mine was a clerk in the ‘veterans’ division” cf the census bureau, the division having charge of those tables. Myself a veteran, I was much interested in his work, and often talked with him concerning it. One even- ing he surprised me with the statement that said division was broken up, and the whole business abandoned and’ shelved, leaving everything in confusion, and no ap- preciable results secured. I recalled. this when, in 1804, the commissioner of pen- sions detailed me to give a senator an estimate of the probable expenditure in- volved in a pension bill he had recently introduced in the Senate. The primary difficulty was to ascertain the probable number of survivors. Without approximat- ing to their number, I could take not even the first step. I called at the census bu- reau, then in charge of Carroll D. Wright, but could get no satisfactory answers to my questions. A studied silence prevail- ed; but a high official (not Superintendent Wright) said that that survivors’ business was ihe least satisfactory of all the cen- sus work, and had not been pushed to completion. But February 21, 1896, on that date the S responded to ar February: 7, progr lating (See Se light dawned, for. ecretary wf the Interior ‘solution of the Senate of 1896, for information as t ves made concerning the statistics re. to the survivors cf the late war. ate document No. 125, Fifty-fourth » first session.) It seems that 1894, the act authorizing the se- curing and tabulation of such statistics was repealed, and Mr. Wright was ordered to transfer all his materials appertaining to such work to the commissioner of pen- sions. That was done, and that was the end of the census of the survivors. Allow me to now make several quotations from Mr. Wright, which can be found in the docume.t above desi ted: “As a re- sult of this special enumeration there were found to be living at the time the census was taken (June, 1890) 1,099,668 soldiers, sailors ana marines. This statement is based upcn a preliminary count made from the veterans’ schedules, without verifica- tion as to duplications, wrong entries, ete., and is subject to revision.” “After. this in. fcrmation, which from the nature of the inquiry was necessarily more or less in- emplete, had been collected and some work dona toward its verification and cempleticn, it was temporarily set aside, and subsequently by an act of Congress all the schedules and papers relating to this special inquiry were turned over to the commissioner of pensions.” Duplications, “As a result of this statistical inquiry, it was found that on June 1, 1890, there were 1,034,073 surviving United States soldier: sailors and marines.” (The work of revi- sion had reduced the 1,099,668 survivers to 1,034,073, mainly because names had been counted several iimes where soldiers had belonged to several different organizations.) Jn another place he states: “If the work of examining and correcting the veterans’ schedules had been carried to its comple- tion, there would have been obtained, in all probability, upward of 100,000 additional [seated ee feaee ecently I called upon Mr. Wr: - erence to this matter, and this sagen Stance, his guarded summing up: “The sur- yivors’ tables of the eleventh census, so far as they go, are approximately correct. You can work on the basis that in 1590 there were at least 1,034,073. survivors. That work having been abandoned before the tabulation was completed, there must be a very considerable numbér of veterans unaccounted for in thos: ‘tables. How many, I am not prepared to say or to guess at, and those tables give mé no basis for any satisfactory estimat: .thereof.” In a communication addressed to’ the Senate in 1390, and virtually repeated In 1896, Col. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of record and pension division of the War Department, stated: ‘It requires but a brief 2xamination of the census figures to show that. they fall far short of representing the ‘total number of survivors in 1890, and that they cannot be relied upon as a basis of ‘any ralculation for the future.” And yet the Hous2 com- mittee on invalid. pensiow#§ introduced a service pension bill, accompaniéd by a re- pert, using the census figutes:t6 show that the number of survivors was sd small that said measur2 would not add largely to our annual expenditure for pensiens. It is safe to assume that the census of 1890 does not embrace the ‘army records of the deserters of the war.’ Two hundred and fourtzen thousand desertiong (mot desert- ers, for some may have deserted more than. once) were repcrted. Many/desertions were merely apparemt™*vr’ tio: , and the charges for such have .been removed, so that it has been calculated:tnat there were only 121,896 real deserters during the war, being only 5 per cent of the, actual number of men ‘who erlisted. Until recently,- de- sertions prior or subsequent to the’ late war barr2d,the soldiers thereof’from pen- sions. But now it is justly ruled that faithful service in that war cannot be set astde because of-prior or subsequent faith- Jeseness, and the roll of genuine rebellion desertzrs grows less and less. Of the about 150,000 veterans living in June, 1890, open to the charge Of desertion, surely at least 100,000 of them withheld from the census enumerators the fact of their military or naval service. z ‘What is the” answer is That Jone estimate is ‘that their number then was 1,005,628, whereas my estimate is 1,110,433. In both calculations deserters are excluded. Inclusive of deserters, the grand total, as reached by him, is 1,167,732. Using round numbers for convenience, we may say that there were, last June, 1,168,000 survivors, including 72,000 deserters. Hereafter I shall stand or fall by the colonel’s figures. He exhausted the sub- ject in 1890, on congressional request, and in April, 1896, after the most thorough re- search carried on for years, with opportu- nities and data equaled by no other statis- ticlan, he again reached the above con- clusion. We will never come nearer to the truth of the matter. Because his com- manding position gives his opinion a high value, which mine cannot have, I shall in the future use his figures and conclusions. These are his basic figures: Total number of men furnished during the war, 2,778,304. That is nearly mathematically cotrect. These men were credited to the respective states, whose selfish jealousy would insure their comparative accuracy. Total number of re-enlistments, 564,939, leaving 2,213,365. as the number of individual soldiers. ’ The weak spot in the whole matter is that of the number of re-enlistments. Unfortu- nately, that is largely conjectural. If the re-enlistments exceeded the above estimates, or calculations, then the number of survivors on July 1, 1865, and the pres- ent number must be correspondingly _re- duced. It does seem to me that if the War Department should take 100,000 of its sol- dier cards and carefully analyze them, a close approximation to the actual number of re-enlistments would be reached. It is not necessary to eat the whole ham to judge of its quality. Such an investiga- tfon would pay, giving the best possible basis for future pension legislation, for a service pension law is among the certain- ties of the not far distant future. Deduct from the number of individual enlistments those who died during the war, and here the ground beneath our feet is more soli and at close of that war we find 1,727,333 survivors (deserters excluded). Include the deserters, and in round numbers, on July 1, 1865, there were 1,850,000 survivors. After that the work for actuaries is compara- tively easy and reliable, especially so as the census of 189, in decennial periods, gives the approximate ages of over 1,000,000 soldiers tabulated therein, and what was true of 1,000,000 will be found equally pro- portionably true of the whole army. The correspondent of the New York paper referred to asserts that, based on the census of 1890 and the last report of the commissioner of pensions, the present number of survivors (saying nothing about the widows) is 727,122, and that there are 733,527 survivors now on the pension rolls, or 6,405 more survivors on those rolls than veterans living. The Alleged Excess. In addition to that there are 187,500 al- leged survivors who have filed pension claims, making a total of 193,905 more “survivors” drawing or claiming pensions than there are actual survivors. And he is not much out of the way if the sur- vivors’ tables in the census of 1800 be re- Mable. Most thoughtful persons would ‘throw aside the article, saying: “Wild! Sensa- tional! Impossible!” Now, the superin- tendent of that census, no doubt, feeling some official pride in upholding his own work, steps in and vouches for its reason- able accuracy, and fixes the number of survivors, June 30, 1897, at 824,000, nearly 100,000 in excess of the claim of the New York paper. Why this discrepancy be- tween the two witnesses I cannot under- stand. + a But I will deal only with Mr. Porter's figures. This is a case where the indorser a¥one gives value to the note. Assume 824,000 as the correct number of survivors, though he states that that may be an un- derestimate. The report of 1897 shows that 734,527 survivors of the rebellion are now on the rolls, leaving something over 90,573 not drawing pensions. The leading G. A. R. officials estimate that fully ten per cent of the survivors have not and will not apply for pensions. Prosperity, official positions, pride, sentimental reasons explain this. Their number will about ab- sorb the 90,000 unpensioned survivors. Then we face this question—There were on June 30, 1897, 187,500 alleged veterans applying for pensions. Today their numbers have grown to 200,000, and still tha “scoundrels” keep on filing their claims. Either they are scoundrels or there are 200,000 men on the roll who are personators of genuine soldiers. Is this believable? Can the lat- ter horn of the dilemma be true without impugning the integrity or capacity of the commissioners of the last ten years? No one who has ever had anything to do with the adjustment of pension claims will give credence to this. Take the other horn of this dilemma—200,000 fraudulent claimants, not claimants of the past, but living claim- ants. Is that believable? Do criminal an- nals show anything compared to such a massing of- scoundrels? If all this leads to a wide suspicion of the integrity of our soldiery, we cannot adopt the often repeat- ed charge of the south that our armies were filled up with the scum of Europe, and lay this villainy upon those foreign’ born soldiers. The Union army was an American army. The statistics show that 83 out of every 100 of our soldiers were American born. Admit the incompleteness of the census of survivors taken in 1890, and the sub- stantial accuracy of the estimates of Col. Ainsworth, and all our difficulties disap- pear, and, doubting not that there may be a few (and Commissioner Lochren found very few) cases of fraud marring our rolls, Wwe can resume our work, glad to believe that neither the veterans in particular nor the American people in general have be- come monumental raiders of the public treasury. H. T. JOHNS, January 25, 1898. Pension Bureau. 5 —__>———_— CANNOT BE MODIFIED. The Conditions on the Chestnut Street Bank Settlement. Controller Dawes states regarding the Pending negotiations for a settlement of the affairs of the Chestnut Street National Bank of Philadelphia: “In reference to the statement of the managers of the plan, I will say that I can- not modify the conditions which I have im-* posed, as in my best judgment they are necessary to protect the people of whose interests the law constitutes me the guard- ian. I cannot agree as to the lack of ne- cessity of my first condition. The unqual- ified power of the committee to change the plan required this restriction on my part, even if the phrase which the committee re- states was not legally ambiguous, as coun- sel advises. “In conclusion, I am informed by the ex- aminer in charge of the bank that there is reasonably hope that the seventy-five per cent of the depositors’ claims can be real- ized from the existing assets of the bank. To this there will be added whatever can be raised from directors’ and stockholders’ liabilities. The directors are liable for loss which may result from excessive illegal loans to. upwards of enaneion the stockholders for their statutory ity to the extent of de “I cannot consent, under these condi- ditions imposed, which I cannot change.” ———_ 2 —___ Representative Dingley of Maine intro- duced a bill yesterday amending the act allowing certain iy MEN’ +5 S SHOES, Teck entire balance of Hathaway, Soule & Har- rington stock of Men’s $5 “Bulldog” Box Calf Shoes —the finest $5 shoe made— and got them at a price that will permit our turn- ing them over to you at ¢ $3.39 —just $1.61 under price. Let us describe them: Hand-sewed. Bulldog toe. Waterproof. Invisible cork sole, Leather-lined. backstay, Double-sole Polishers with Extension-edge. Pat. leather paste. Best $5 Shoe Made, $3.39. Will also add the $5 H ehhh debt bbb eth ebb bebo arvard Winter Tans of same shoe at same price, viz., $3.39. Crocker’s, Shoes Shined Free: 939 Pa. Ave. LODGE ENTRAPS TELLER. Incident of Yesterday's Debate in the Senate. The debate in the Senate on the Teller resolution justifying the payment of United States government bonds in silver, was continued yesterday afternoon. Senators Teller, Hoar, Platt and Daniel spoke at considerable length on the resolutien. When The Star's report of the Senate pro- | ceedings was closed at the conclusion of Mr. Teller’s speech, Mr. Lodge called at-j tention to some statements in criticism of } an amendment offered by him to the pend- ing resolution. The amendment declared that the obligations of the United States should be paid “in the money that is the st money of the world, in gold or its Jent in gold, whether that be silver or paper.” Mr. Lodge inquired whether Mr. Teller was in favor of that amend- ment. Well, I shall vote against it,” replied the Colorado senator. : Mr. Lodge insisted upon knowing whether Mr. Teller did or did not think the amend- ment a proper principle for Congress to lay down. Mr. Teller still héld that the government and ‘the government's, creditors ought tu abide by contracts made. “y desired to know,” said Mr. Lodge, “what the senator from Colorado thought of my amendment, because I copied it word for word from a speech made by the sena- tor, in which he declared that every dollar this government owes will be paid in the money that is the highest money of the world, in gold or its equivalent in gold, whether that be silver or pape! : Mr. Lodge thought that if the senator from Colorado (Teller) believed that his statement was accurate when he made it, he ought not now to object to supporting it with his voice and vote. Sr ‘Teller replied that he had never ad- vocated the payment of the government s obligations in a depreciated currency and jot now. eres Hoar (Mass.) followed in a speech in which he maintained the position that the qtestion under discussion was not one of law, but one of honor and integrity. In the course cf his remarks Mr. Hoar referred incidentally to the present indus- trial situation in New England and its re- lation te the Dingley tariff law. Furiher along he reverted to the situation and briefly discussed it. He was satisfied that the industrial trouble in New England was not due to the operation of the tariff law, but to quite different causes. He was glad and the people of New England were glad of the industrial prosperity of South Caro- lina, Alabama and Georgia, but he did hold that the people of New England did not want to be brought into competition with ccmmunities where long hours are the rule in industrial establishments and where clild labor was employed in the factories. He said that these practices were not known in New England, where limiid hours for workmen and no child labor were provided for by law. % He was followed by Mr. Platt (Conn.), in an address in opposition to the pending resolution. In the course of a brief colloquy between Mr. Platt on the one side and Mr. Aiien and Tillman, Mr. Platt stated this couniry now had bimetallism. To this Mr. Chand- ler took exception, saying that any defini- tion of bimetallism which omitted the free coinage of both metals at a ratio fixed by law was not only incorrect, but obsolete. Mr. Daniel (Va.) followed Mr. Platt in support of the resolution. He said that we were confronted upon all sides with the clamorous statements of the gold men that agitation of the financial question was un- settling business and destroying the credit of our people. Yet, he said, the gold men were holding conventions, the financial question was being investigated by con- gressional committees, and the President of the United States, in his message to this Congress, had advanced propositions in support of fastening upon the country the single gold standard. He said there was no disposition to pay the government obligations in discredited silver bullion, but in finished silver dollars —éollars gol dollars—dollars that would buy as much as gold dollars in any market of the world. Mr. Daniel concluded at 7 o'clock. notion of Mr. Aldrich, the te then went into executive session, and ten :ninutes later adjourned. —_—_-o+—_____ CONSIDERING THE INDIAN BILL. Ten Pages Were Disposed of by the House. The-House devoted another day to the debate.on the question of reducing the mail carrier service in the large cities, owing to the faflure of the Senate to attach the esti- A, R. ENCAMPMENT. General Order Ixsued by Department Commander Hopkt The general order in reference to the approaching thirtieth annual encampment of the Department of the Potomac, G. Ay R., was issued yesterday by Department Commander Thomas S. Hopkins. The en- campment will meet at 6:30 p.m. Febru- ary 3 in Grand Army Hall. The customary badges of admission will be furnished by the assistant quartermaster general. Capt. J. M. Edgar of the Old Guard is THE G. detailed as officer of the day and Lieut. W. H. Fuess as officer of the guard, with authority to make the usual cetail for service during the encampment. Cortinu- ing, the order recites that comrades de- siring to present resolutions to the en- campment should place them in the hands of the a ant adjutant general by Mon- day, the 3ist instant. On that date an effort will be made to provide the chair- men of the several committees with coples of the reports upon which they are expect- ed to pass. It is suggested that their prompt consideration of these seports will expedite the work of the encampment. The ¢ommittee on resolutions will meet at cepartment headquarters on Monday, 3ist instany at 7:30 p.m. Comfiander-in-chief Gobin will be pres ent during the encampment and will be cntertained by the department at a ban- quet at the Ebbitt Hi immediately after the encampment adjourns, on the night of February 3. The committee on banquet consists of A. H. G. Richardson, J. H. Dewees, Abram Hart, J. B. R. Stratton, M. M. Lewis, H. L. John- ron, A. F. Dinsmore and T. D. Yeager. The following committees are announced: On resolutions—C. . Lincoin, Nathan Bickford, J. L. Davenport N. Thomp- soh, J. H. Dewees, T. M. Vincent and W. P. Pierce. On address of the department comman- der—A. F. Dinsmore, H. M. Gillman, Fred. G. Calvert, I. W. Stone and J. P. Quander, On report of the employment committee - M. Brooks, H. L. Johnson, Jacob Moore, C. M. Robinson and Lawrence Wil- son, On report of the relicf committee—John McElroy, H. W. Burns, John Bresnahan, Thomas Galloway and James We On report of the assistant adjutant get w. ‘arter, eral—B. F. Chas>, G. M. Hu: w. Eldridge, W. F. DeKnight Rk B. Schwickardl. On the report of the assistant quarter- master general—Nathan Bickford, A. 8S. Taber, A. B. Grunwell, 8. W. Bunyea and Nathan King. On report of the medical director and chaplain—Dr. J. R. Hayes, Dr. A. C. Ad- ams, b. P. Entriken, E. J. Snow and G. W. Callahan. On r2port of the judge advocate—E, J. Sweet, G. H. Slaybaugh, J. M. Keogh, L. P. Williams and Nelson Hough. On report of the inspector and chief mus- tering officer—A. E. Fenton, J. P. Lothrop, L, E. Gridley, E. C. Grumley and Theodore Hausmann. On report of the council of administrae tien—J. B. Burke, F. Wagner, T. D. Yeager, S. J. Block and W. H. Liverpool. The committee on credentials will be ang rounced at the first session of the encamp- ment. S. R. Stratton is appointed a special aid, and assigned to duty with the assistant adjutant general during the sessions of the encampment. aes ee THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY, Members of Psi Upsilon Fraternity, Hold a Celebration. ; The thirteenth anniversary of the found+ ing of the local Psi Upsilon Association was celebrated. at the Hotel Raleigh last. night by about twenty resident members of the fraternity. A meeting was held, at, which the following officers of the asso- elected: President, Dr. E. M. Mr. ciation wei Gallaudet; vice presidents, Greeley and Mr. A. C. Geer; Mr. committee, Messrs. A. J. Wagstaff, H. G. Van Everen, 8S. H. Giesy and H. H. Pat~ terson and Rev. E. C. Smedes. Dinner was served in the banquet room on the second floor. The fraternity colors, garnet and gold, were shown. Speeches Iey, Mr. Wagetatl, Sr. Bmedes, Mr. Serven, ley, Mr. r. » Mr. ir. Paddock and Mr. Mohun. Mr. Hatch, the retiring secretary, acted as master of ceremonies, and led the fraternity songs, that egg Hg —— the speec! present were ~ M. a Professor A. J. A P ja y G. P. Whittlesey, A Fisher, 8 H. Giesy, A.J Wasser, AL C. Geer, HG. jr, and W.’ M. sieges: force-February = ate yesterday by Senator Caffery. The A dozen representatives from as many ittee recommends that Mr. Corbett get pe ya ee Lak nel be not given @ ssat in the Senate. The Popropriation, when, Chairman Lood ef the | OFeson legislature, the report says, delib- | post office committee and Can- | erately refused to perform am of Uae naercprintin <oaemmtiee tions with which the wrath of members by ‘the most important them that there was no occasion for alarm; | Successor to Senator that the service could ‘not suffer | cedents are against until time there | polmtee when the i Se Wiad “ola| lpr tg coi f — a used | curs in conelusion, on. Ten| Senator Hour presented were wed of ‘Mr.