There are, therefore, of this class (amputations) 9,182, with a total net annual increase, if House bill 1410 should become a law, allowing $40 per month, of $2,021,244. This number will diminish from year to year, as it is rare that a new pension is now allowed for amputation. EQUIVALENT DISABILITIES. The following statement shows the number who are in receipt of a pension on account of disabilities equivalent to the amputations mentioned, and such others as may be affected by the bill in question; also the annual value of the increase, provided this class should be allowed $40 per month: 8,847 now receiving $18 per month, and the net increase will be.. increase will be..... $2,335, 608 297,9-4 21,576 672 60, 480 In all 10,925, and a net annual increase of $2,716,320 for equivalent disabilities. This estimate is to the close of the last fiscal year, and as the resolution calls for an estimate for the future as well, I separate those purely estimated from those compiled from the records. An examination of 20,000 original cases recently allowed shows that 2.7 per cent. of the same received a pension wherein the current rate was at and above $18 per month and less than $40 per month. This does not refer to amputations, as it is rare that a pension is now claimed for the same. Assuming that 30,000 claims of this class should be allowed during the current year, together with the increase allowed bringing others within the same description, the annual increase during the present year would be augmented by this class some $450,000, which, added to $2,716,320, would make a total increase for equivalent disabilities of $3,166,320. Another proposition presented by the resolution is the probable number of pending cases which would be affected and added to the roll. There were, July 1, 1882, 207,684 invalids claims' on file. Allowing 20 per cent. for rejection, there would remain 166,147 as likely to be admitted; deduct from this the 30,000 estimated for this year, which has entered into the former calculation, and there would remain 136,147. The same ratio of 2.7 per cent. for rates at and above $18 per month and less than $40 would give an estimated net increase in value under the provisions of this bill of $892,000. The increase from lower rates up to those which would bring them within the same description would not vary very materially from the losses to the roll by death. Amputation at the Proposed net in crease per month over the present rate. Annual net increase Sixth. The number of pensioners on the roll June 30, 1882, who were receiving $8 per month and the fractional rating of $18 per month, with the present annual value, is as follows: To increase these proportionately with the $18 and $24 class would bring the rates up to $15, $20, $25, $30, and $35 per month, as near as they could be equitably estimated. The net annual increase for these rates would be as follows: 29,074, now receiving $8 per month, to $15 per month. 6, 249, now receiving $10 per month, to $20 per month 9, 209, now receiving $12 per month, to $25 per month. 2,861, now receiving $14 per month, to $30 per month. 1, 104, now receiving $16 per month, to $35 per month. This would increase the annual value of the roll......... $2,442, 216 749, 880 1,436, 604 549, 312 251,712 5,429, 724 To estimate the number and amount involved on this scale of increase to pending cases which may be hereafter allowed involves more difficulties for a satisfactory estimate than those already made. I submit this, however, on the following basis: Twenty-seven per cent. of those now on the roll are in receipt of the rates referred to. Take the 166,147 claimants before estimated as likely to be allowed a pension out of the pending claims now before the office, and the same rates would give 44,859 as likely to receive a pension of $8, and the intermediate grades of $10, $14, and $16 per month, and the annual net increase over the annual rates now provided by law would be $18,600,000. Seventh. The number of pensioners on the roll for total deafness is 125 where such disability is not complicated with another for which pensioned. I am at present without data which enables me to make an estimate of those who are receiving a pension on account of partial deafness; also, for the same reason, to present an estimate for those who are pensioned for impaired vision less than total loss of sight. I am unable to give figures showing the number who are actually granted an increase of their pension to $18 per month other than for loss of limb, but submit the statement that the death rate and increase from $18 to a higher rate will not very materially differ. The resolution, in conclusion, calls for a list of names of all persons borne on the pension rolls, classified according to their post-office addresses by States and counties, the amounts paid annually to each, and the disability for which the pension was granted, giving the date when they were placed on the rolls. As the same provides that the other information called for shall not be delayed by reason of this latter requirement, I submit the report with that exception. I will add that this list of pensioners will be furnished with the least possible delay, and that arrangements are being made for its speedy collection. I am, sir, very respectfully, Hon. HENRY M. TELLER, Secretary of the Interior. W. W. DUDLEY, Commissioner of Pensions. 2d Session. No. 22. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING, In response to a provision of the "act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882," a report in tabular form of the harbor, pilot, and other charges to which American and foreign vessels are subject under State laws, and the taxation upon ship owners. DECEMBER 20, 1882.-Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, December 19, 1882. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, in response to a provis ion of the "act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1881 (see Statutes of the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress, chap. 133, page 442), a report in tabular form of "the harbor, pilot, and other charges to which American and foreign vessels are subject under State laws, and the taxation upon ship-owners." The tables set out the rates of pilotage in all the principal ports of the United States, as well as the wharf charges. The latter are not prescribed by State laws, but are levied by the owners of wharves and docks, and, as being a large item in the burdens of the shipping interest, are included in the tables. Very respectfully, Hon. DAVID DAVIS, President pro tempore of the Senate. CHAS. J. FOLGER, Secretary. Report showing the wharf charges at the principal ports of the United States to which Ameri can shipping is subject. Albany, N. Y.-One cent per ton per day. Vessels lying in second tier pay half rates. Annapolis, Md.--One and one-fourth cents per ton per day. Vessels of 5 tons, 10 cents per day; of 20 tons, 2 cents per ton per day; 40 tons, 14 cents per ton per day; 50 tons and over, 14 cents per ton per day. Astoria, Oreg.-Vessels of 800 tons and over, $5 per day. If loading or discharging cargo, no charges. Barnstable, Mass.-Fishing vessels, 25 cents per day. Vessels of 100 tons or less, 50 cents per day for forty days; after forty days, 25 cents per day. Vessels over 100 tons, 50 cents per day for sixty days, and after sixty days 25 cents per day. Boston, Mass.-Vessels under 200 tons, three-fourths of a cent per ton per day; vessels over 200 tons, one-half cent per ton per day. Vessels loading or unloading allowed from five to forty-five days free of charge. Bangor, Me.-Vessels from 100 to 300 tons, $3 to $4 per vessel while loading. Vessels over 300 tons pay from $1 to $3 per day. Beaufort, S. C.-Vessels under 100 tons, 75 cents per day; over 100 and under 150 tons pay $1.25 per day; over 150 tons pay $1.50 per day. Vessels lying idle pay double rates per day. Line vessels and coast wise are exempt from foregoing rates. Burlington, Iowa. -For each steamer landing at wharf, for first twenty-four hours, $2; each subsequent twenty-four hours, $1. Barges and wood-flats, 50 cents per day. Brashear, La.-Vessels under 100 tons, 25 cents for first twelve hours, and 10 cents every day thereafter; from 100 to 500 tons, $2.50 for first twelve hours, and 50 cents every day thereafter; from 500 to 1,500 tons, $5 for first twelve hours, and $1 every day thereafter. Bridgeport, Conn.-Vessels less than 150 tons, 50 cents per day; less than 250 tons, 75 cents per day; 250 tons and upwards, $1 per day Bath, Me.-From 50 cents to $1 per day, according to size of vessel. Baltimore, Md.-State charges are 1 cent per ton per day; private rates are $1 per day on vessels under 200 tons, and ranging up to $3.50 per day on vessels of 1,500 tons and over 200 tons. Crisfield, Md.-One dollar per day for each vessel of 100 tons burden or under, and 1 cent per ton for each additional ton over 100 tons. Castine, Me.-Twenty-five cents per tide of twelve hours; half rates for vessels under 20 tons. Cincinnati, Ohio.-Two hours free. Over two hours and under twenty-four hours, $2.50; over twenty-four hours and under twelve days, 13 cents per ton per day; over twelve days, 2 cents per ton per day. Charleston, S. C.-Coastwise vessels free. Vessels engaged in the foreign trade, if under 100 tons, 1 per day; under 300 and over 100 tons, $2 per day; under 600 and over 300 tons, $2.50 per day; under 1,000 and over 600 tons, $3 per day; over 1,000 tons, $4 per day. Cairo, Ill.-Two and one-fourth cents per ton per day, or less, and half rates for additional time. Boat remaining but six hours, a reduction of 25 per cent. upon these rates, but no boat to pay less than $5. Eastport, Me.-Vessels 25 to 75 tous, 50 cents per day. Vessels 75 tons to 150 tons, $1 per day. Vessels above 150 tons, $2. Edgartown, Mass.-Vessels of 50 tons, 25 cents per day; from 50 to 100 tons, 33 cents per day; from 100 to 150 tons, 50 cents per day; from 150 to 200 tons, 62 cents per day; from 200 to 300 tons, 75 cents per day; from 300 to 400 tons, $1 per day. Vessels upwards of 400 tons, in proportion. Evansville, Ind.-Steamboats of less than 50 tons burden, for any period not over twenty-four hours, 75 cents; 50 tons burden and less than 75, $1; 75 tons and less than 100 tons burden, $1.50; 100 tons burden and less than 150, $2; 150 tons and less than 200 tons burden, $2.50; 200 tons burden and less than 250, $3; 250 tons and less than 300 tons burden, $3.50; 300 tons burden and less than 350, $4; 350 tons burden and less than 400 tons, $1.50; 400 tons burden and less than 450, $5; 450 tons and less than 500 tons, $5.50; 500 tons burden and less than 550 tons, $6; 550 tons and less than 600 tons burden, $6.50; 650 tons burden and less than 700, $7.50; 700 tons and less than 750 tons, 88; 750 tons and less than 800 tons burden, $8.50; 800 tons and over, $9. Every additional twenty-four hours, one-half rates. Georgetown, D. C.-From $1 to $5 per day, according to size of vessel. Gloucester, Mass.-Seventy-five cents per day for a vessel of about 100 tons. Galveston, Tex.-Vessels of 50 tons and over not receiving or discharging cargo, cents per ton; vessels under 50 tons, $2 per day. Loading or unloading cargo, pay nothing. Key West, Fla.-One cent per ton per day. Louisville, Ky.-Steamers for first twenty-four hours, $2; for each twenty-four hours or part thereafter, $1. Memphis, Tenn.-Five cents per ton register for first six days, and 2 cents per ton for each twenty-four hours thereafter; if steamers make two or more trips per week, they pay half rates each trip. Middletown, Conn.-One cent per ton per day. Nashville, Tenn.-All steamers 150 feet long and upwards, $9; if 90 feet long and upwards, $4.50. All steamers less than 90 feet long, $2. Natchez, Miss.-Three dollars per steamer, without regard to time or tonnage. New York, N. Y.-Two cents per ton for the first 200 tons, and one-half cent per ton on each ton over 200 tons, per day. New Haven, Conn.-One and one-eighth cents per ton on registered tonnage. |