US Presidency
1900

At the end of the fiscal year there were on the pension roll 993,529 names, a net increase Of 2,010 over the fiscal year 1899. The number added to the rolls during the year was 45,344. The amount disbursed for Army pensions during the year was $ 134,700,597.24 and for Navy pensions $ 3,761,533.41, a total of $ 138,462,130.65, leaving an unexpended balance of $ 5,542,768.25 to be covered into the Treasury, which shows an increase over the previous year's expenditure Of $ 107,077.70. There were 684 names added to the rolls during the year by special acts passed at the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. The act of May 9, 1900, among other things provides for an extension of income to widows pensioned under said act to $ 250 per annum. The Secretary of the Interior believes that by the operations of this act the number of persons pensioned under it will increase and the increased annual payment for pensions will be between $ 3,000,000 and $ 4,000,000.