There is no law requiring it, but it has become customary for Congress to pass a law granting a pension of $5,000 a year to the widow of a President. Last week a Congressman from Rhode Island, Richard S. Aldrich, introduced a bill for a $5,000 pension to Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, saying it was about time that a similar provision was made for widows of Vice Presidents.
This Congressman Richard S. Aldrich hardly titillates the memory of the average man today. Yet he might well have...
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