The estimates for the year 1895 are as follows: For pensions, $160,000,000; surgeons' fees, $2,000,000; agents' salaries, $72,000; clerk hire at the eighteen agencies, $500,000; fuel at agencies, $750; lights at agencies, $750; rentals of agencies, $23,070; contingent expenses, $35,000; total, $162,631,570. PENSION OFFICE PENSION LEGISLATION-The present pension system has been built up between 1862 and 1890. In that time sixteen acts have been passed, fifteen of which may be classified as an extension of the original Pension Law to fit the necessities of Union Veterans. The sixteenth is the great Dependent Pension Law. Most of the pensions range between $2 and $30 a month for privates, though $72 a month is granted to those who have lost both hands, both feet and both eyes. METHOD OF APPLICATION-The first step toward securing a pension under the law of June 27, 1890, generally known as the Dependent Pension Law, is to apply to the Commissioner of Pensions, setting forth the military or naval service of the applicant, and the nature and character of his disabilities. The applicant must be identified by two witnesses. When the application is filed in the Pension Office he is informed of the fact, and is then ordered to go before a Pension Board of Surgeons for physical examination. If a disability is found sufficient to entitle him to a pension, he gets one on the report of the Board, or on the report of the Board his application is rejected. Widows are required to make application in the same form. With the application they must furnish proof of marriage to the soldier or sailor by PROCEDURE. a verified transcript from a church or other public record, if one exists, or by affidavits of the clergyman or magistrate who performed the ceremony, or by affidavits of two witnesses of the marriage, or by the record of the baptism of children. There must be evidence of witnesses that the widow has not married since her husband's death and that she depends on her daily labor for support. If she or her husband had been previously married, the date of death or divorce of former husband or wife must be cited. The widow must also prove the death of the soldier, and, if enlisted under an assumed name, must prove his identity. CHILDREN AND PARENTS-Children under sixteen and dependent parents are entitled to pensions under the law, but must show by the evidence of comrades or officers that the soldier's or sailor's death was due to his services. RECONSIDERATION-On the evidence of two physicians that disability exists, an application rejected by a Board of Pension Surgeons may be reconsidered. In this case the applicant is ordered to go before another board of surgeons. Procedure under the original Pension Law is similar to that outlined above, though the requirements for identification are more rigid. RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES. PREPARED BY U. S. WEATHER BUREAU. Nevada, Winnemucca... 8.9 48.6 104/a28 96 all 99 a 7 97 a13 38.8 48.2 98 a18 N'w-H'mps're, M'nchest'r 42.1 45.9 Pennsylv'a, Philadelphia. 40.9 53.9 102 a 5 ELECTORAL VOTE AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS-1789 TO 1892. 1789. 1792.. 9 8 Delaware.. 4 3 3 3 3 Washington... West Virginia.. Wisconsin. Wyoming. 1872. 1868. 1864.. 1860 1856. 1852. 1848. 1844.. 1840.. 1836. 1832.. 1828. 1824.. 1820. 1816.. 1812. 1808. 1804. 1800. 1796.. 13 15 16 16 17 17 18 19 241 241 241 241 26| 26 | 26 30 31 31 33 36 37 38 381 38 38 44 8 10 10 10 8 998 5 6 5 5 6 6883: 686 6889 6 3 4 10 10 11 6 3 3 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 11 11 11 12 12 13 21 22 22 24 15 15 15 12 12 12 13 13 15 12 13 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 15 8 11 11 11 13 13 14 4 5 8 16 16 21 21 21 35 35 35 33 33 35 35 35 36 36 36 10 10 10] 9 10 10 10 11] 23 23 23 23 23 21 21 22 22 27 27 27 26 26 29 29 29 30 30 32 5 5 7 8 81 8 12 12 12 19 19 8 8 8 S 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 36 42 42 42 36 36 7 12 12 12 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 11 11 8 8 5 7 8 9 3 5 3 23 23 23 3 3 Totals.. 91|135/138|138/176 176|218|221|235|261|261|288 294 294 275|290/296 296|303|314 317|366|369|369|401|401|444 V. P. ELECTORAL VOTE FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.-Continued. 1888. PRKS. V. P. PRES. V. P. PRES. States. Electoral vote. : Percentage of eac candidate...... Popular vote. Field.... Stev'son Reid..... Weaver Clevel'd. Harris'n Thurm'n Morton Clevel'd. Harris'n Hend'ks Logan... Cleverd. Blaine.. English. Arthur.. Hancock Garfield. Hend'ks Wheeler Tilden. Hayes.. Brown Wilson... Hend'ks Grant... Blair.... Colfax Seymour Grant... States (44.) 10 214 71 214 71 286 42 286 47 185 184 185 184 214 155 214 155 182 219 182 219 233 168 233 168 145 277 22 145 277 22 * No vote. 21 scattering. 19 scattering. Vermont.. Virginia 11 11 5 Wisconsin. 8 8 10 10 :100 ст * |