Mr. GltIMES. I am not speaking now in regard to this case particularly; but if we are to be governed by those humane motives to which the Senfrom WestVirginia alludes, I want to have the principle apply to other cases as well as this particular one, and I want the Senator, as a member of the ComPensions, to allow other soldiers or the widows ofother soldiers to recover their pensions between the time that they may claim that they attempted to secure their pensions and the time they actually did secure them. We give to this woman 3 or 400 dollars, as I understand it, by this bill; that is a mere baga telle; but we settle a principle that we must be governed by in the future, contrary to the precedent that has hitherto existed and by which we have been governed before. I do not understand that the Senfrom WestVirginia controverts that fact; but simply upon the ground that this deceased soldier made an attempt to secure his pension but was unsuccessfu, we are to make the allowance. Is the Senator prepared to say that whenever a case shall be presented here where the widow claims that ier deceased husband has attempted to secure a pension and has failed in being able to do it, she shall be allowed, as in this instance? Here isa man from my State; he applies; he has not got the requisite testimony; c has just as meritorious a case as this; a man who has suffered and bled in the service; he employs an agent; the agent is not competent to transact the business; he sends on his papers, and the apers are found to be defective; whose fault is it? Does not that presentjust. as much merit as this case? Whi e the are making that effort to secure a pegsion. but are refused, the man dies. If we settle this rule for this case in the way that it is proposed by the ComPensions to settle it, wou d not thatperson from my State be entitled to a pension between the time that the man made the abortive attempt to secure the pension and the time his widow actually did secure it? Certainly, according to the principle contended for here.