Mr. BINGHAM. Not that I know of. I have never inquired. I know that this lady had received no pension from the Government, and no proposition was made to grant her any until within the last 90 or 100 days, after I introduced this bill for her relief. her sands of life are well nigh run, and I want to know of gentlemen who voted to give $600 a year to the widow of General Baker, and the same pension to the widows of General Berry and general Whipple, how they can go before the American people dickering about the difference between $250 and $60 ayear. That is the nestion, and the only question, now beforet O House on the reports of the committee. The Committee on pensions, both the majority and minority, report in favor of an increase of pension. The majority report in favor of an increase of $250 annually of this ladys pension, and the minority report in favor of increasing it only 60 dollars annually; the whole committee, therefore, agree that there ought to be an increase of her pension. The simple question, therefore, is, whether or not we shall adopt the suggestion of the m1 nority of the Committee on nvalid Pensions, and thereby save the sum of $190 annually and no more, on account of this increased pension proposed by the majorit. That is the only question before us. Wit all respect. It seems to me that to reject the majority report in order to save annually the sum of $190 by withholding it from this lady is not a was economy. Now, in regard to the services of this family. I beg leave to say that I was hers in my place, in the discharge of my puum. unty when the 1st battle was fought in Virginia in the struggle for the preservation of the Repugelinct. Annie This old man, Major McCook, the husband of this lady, without belonging to any company whatever, rushed to the front upon his own account and upon his own responsibility, and partincipatd in the battle of the 21st of July, 1861, tiiom its beginning to its close. Upon the retreat, when near Centreville, his young son Charley, aged 17, who had volun tecred from his school room at Gnmbier, Knox county, Ohio, to light for the Union, was over taken by the pursuing rebels and ordered to surrender. His father called to him, “Charley, surrender.” The boys voice was heard to respond, “Father, I can never surrender to traitors.” and he fell, pierced with the bullets of the enemy, one of the 1st martyrs of the Republic. I went with his stricken hearted mother to lay his mangled body in its last rest inplace in the Congressional burying ground. {Ifrom that day forward to the end of the struggle, every male member of this household was found in the ranks of the defenders of the country; being the survivingse ven brothers and the father. llirce of them have also fallen in battle, and one is now at home in the care of his mother, his constitution shattered, a miserable wreck, never again to enjoy health and comfort in this life and yet members here urge the importance of saving $190 pernnnum in this case. It may be so; but for myself I will say, that whenever a like case is presented here from any quarter by anyone O a whole family having rendered such service in the late war for the Union, the half of them having been killed outright, I will gladly vote for a like pension or annuity, and will not falter whatever word may be employed in the bill to designate the compensation. I trust. however, that the Gentfrom NewYork [Mia TAYLOR] will consent to strike “out the word “annuity” and insert the word pension" in its place, for the purpose of removing the scruples of gentlemen.