Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Senator Lodge introduced an amendment to the fortifications appropriation bul authorizing a popular 3 per cent coin bond issue of $100,00Q,000, to be used in providing for the defense of the coast, for the manufacture of guns and the erection of forts and batteries. President Cleveland on Friday sent a special message concerning land grants, in which he says: “It seems to me that the act of 1891 should be so amended as not to apply to suits brought to recover title to lands certified or patented on account of railroad,or other grants. I respectfully urge upon Congress speedy action to the end suggested, so the adjustment of these grants may proceed without the interposition of a bar through lapse of time against the right of recovery by the Government in proper cases.” Chica-go’ . 26 St. Louis. .24 Cincinnati .1 New York 0 Chicago wins the Democratic national convention of 1896. July 7 is the date. The national Democratic committee so decided at Washington Thursday. It was a long contest, and for twumty-eight bal-* lots the result was in great doubt. Chicago won eventually by the slender margin of two votes over St. Ixmis, amid considerable excitement in the committee room and among a great throng which had lingered for two hours in the hotel lobbies awaiting the decisive ballot. The pension committee of the Grand Army of the Republic will appear before the House Committee on Pensions and hrge legislation placing the pension office administration on “business principles,” the stopping of "unwarranted interference with pensions through biased complaints,” and will toror fixing S3OO a year ns the limit of income which bars a widow from receiving a pension. Gen. Walker said: “We want the practice of sending assassins of pensioners’ rights through the country at the beck and call of everyone who has some personal aim to sene to stop. The Grand Army of the Republic is iu favor of using means to stop fraudulent but in ninety-ifiue' cases put of one hundred it is not the pensioner guilty of fraud in cases investigated, but those personating pensioners. Among no body of men is there less fraud. We believe that, except where otherwise provided by special legislation, all pensions should be issued uniformly, the widow of a colonel receiving the same pension as the widow of a private.”