Messrs. Adkins, Bowers, Brock, Colman, Corbitt, Dickey, Griffin of the 6th, Harris, Higbee, Jones, Merrell, McWhorter, Richardson, Sherman, Smith of the 36th, Speer, Stringer, Welch.

the motion was lost.

The senator from 2d senatorial district, Mr. Gignilliat, appeared and took his seat.

SENATE.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1868.

The bill declaring colored persons ineligible to office was made the special order for Monday.

The appropriation bill.

HOUSE.

A resolution was adopted allowing the new members pay from the time of expulsion of colored members, and mileage both ways.

Mr. Fitzpatrick's motion on Friday was, not to pay the colored members for the time they served, but to pay the new members from the time they (the colored members) were expelled.

SENATE.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1868.

The senate took up the special order of the day, which was the consideration of the bill declaring the ineligibility of freedmen to hold office in the State. Laid on the table for the present.

S. Rep. 308-5

In the matter of the petition of Sarah Evans for pension.

The proof in this case shows that petitioner is the mother of L. G. Evans, late sergeant of Company K, Twenty-first United States Infantry; that deceased served honorably as a soldier, and was discharged at Camp Crittenden, Arizona Territory, by reason of expiration of term of service, on January 26, 1870. That before he could leave on his return homeward to the States, the United States camp was attacked by hostile Indians; that deceased fought to repel the attack with the troops, and was wounded by an arrow through the lungs, and died thereof after lingering until March 13, 1870, at Camp McDowell, Arizona. The proof shows that his mother, the petitioner, was an aged widow, in indigent circumstances; that deceased was a loving and dutiful son, and supported his mother by his pay as a soldier; that she cannot be pensioned under existing laws, in consequence of deceased having been discharged when he received his death wound. That, from the circumstances, it is equitable and just that deceased should be regarded as having died in the service of his country, he having always borne an irreproachable character as a soldier and as a dutiful son, and supported his aged mother by his earnings.

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Let a bill be reported granting pension to Sarah Evans, the petitioner, proper limitation, as mother of L. G. Evans, late sergeant Company K, Twenty-first United States Infantry, to date from passage of the bill.

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred Senate bill 174, entitled "A bill granting relief to Lois Clark," submit the following report:

Lois Clark was the daughter and only surviving child of Abraham Lawrence, deceased, who served in the Army of the United States during the war of the Revolution. He died in Bridport, in the State of Vermont, on the 13th day of November, 1837, at the age of eighty-five years; entitled at the time of his death to a pension, under the act of November 7, 1832, from the 4th day of March, 1831, to the day of his death, amounting to $750. His application for a pension was pending at the time of his death. There was a delay in the action of the War Department, because on its rolls it did not appear that he had served for the whole time he claimed. Because of this delay he applied to Congress for relief. The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, at the twenty-second Congress, reported a bill in his favor, but it was never acted on. About the year 1852, Albert G. Whittemore, as administrator of Lawrence's estate, made application to the Commissioner of Pensions, and filed a declaraton and proofs in support, to obtain the amount to which Lawrence was entitled at the time of his death. While this application was pending the administrator was accidentally killed, and so the claim failed in the Pension Office. Lois Clark, the surviving child of Lawrence, then addressed her memorial to Congress, bearing date the 7th day of February, 1867. She was at that time eighty-four years of age, and entitled to receive the amount of peusion money due her father at the time of his death. The Committee on Pensions in this body recognized her claim, and on January 20, 1869, reported back, without amendment, the bill for her relief, granting her the sum of $750, in right of her father, which bill passed the Senate, but was not reached in the House, and consequently failed in the fortieth Congress. The bill was again introduced in the Senate on March 20, 1869. In the mean time the said Lois Clark has died. Her only surviving daughter now seeks to have the bill amended so as to give her the relief her mother sought.

On these facts, the committee are of opinion the bill should fail. The present applicant is the grand-daughter of Abraham Lawrence, and stands in too remote a degree to receive a pension in right of the soldier. They accordingly recommend that the bill be indefinitely postponed.