The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-11-28
L. =. Pension. Statistics.

a special dispatch to the Chicago
/ Tribune gives the following from lhe
! forth coming report of the Commissioner
OF Pensions
The annual report of the Commissi ION :
er OF Pensions, for the present year, will
be unusually interesting, on account of
the thorough manner in which the sta
tlstics OF our pension system vii! be pre-
sented. The main portions Of the re-
port have been finished. and the u hole
will be embraced in the report OF the
Secretary of the Interior to Congress.
During the fiscal year ended June 80,
the increase Of the pension rolls has been
greater than for any year since that end
ing June 80, 1867. BY the allowance of
new claims there have been added to the
rolls. 6,3l7 army invalid pensioners; l.
l20 army widows aud dependent relative
pensioners, Isl navy invalid penioners,
"a navy widows and dependent relative
pensioners 17,02l survivors Of the war
of 1912, and 3,l05 widows Of soldiers OF
that war, making a gross addition to the
rolls OF SO. 838 new pensioners in the fis
cal year. The losses to the rolls by
death, re-eniStment, recovery from di> a
blllty OF Invalid pensioners, of failure to
claim payment Of pension for three
years, are 2,28l =; By death or marriage
of widows and dependent relatives. ex-
piration of minors pensions or failure to
claim payment OF pension for three years,
6,09T; by death Of the survivors Of the
war Of 1912, 6U4 by death Of the widows
OF soldiers of said war, l22 total loss
of 9,i04 The gross additions to the
rolls, 33 S36, less the total loss, 9, i04.
gives a nett gain Of "A 737 pensioners for
the year, which added to the rolls of
1871, makes the total number OF pens
sloners Of all classes, June 80, l512
232, 229. In addition there have been
increased the pensions Of 5, ll6 army in-
yalids, 6S navy invalids, 290 army
widows and minors, and navy widows,
a total of 5, ,4S0, involving a total increase
to annual amount of the pension roll of
$2l .5S7 50 per annum. This increases
the total annual amount of pensions in
the sum Of 50, 2,675. 583 II, making the
total amount of all pensions upon the
rolls June 80. 1872, $25, ,460, 513.
The amounts appropriated for the pay
ment Of pensions during the last fiscal
year were: For army pensions, $29, 55O,-
600; for survivors of the war of 1912,
81. 500, 600; for navy pensions, $500, 900.
The unexpected balances in the hands of
pension agents were: Army, 1884, 5S2.
SO navy SO, 669 81; which amounts
have been recovered into the Treasury.
The appropriations for the present fiscal
year are: Army, $50, 600; navy,
$3.50, 600, under The acts OF j June II and
80, 1870.
At the close Of the last fiscal year there
had been issued ITO communications OF
ders in lica CT artificial limbs furnished
in kind. There were issued also 450
orders, amounting to $27,
$50, and 326 bills have been approved
for limbs furnished III kind, amounting
to $50, ,025. The total number of claims
allowed thus far is 9SO2
The last remaining few of the widows
of revolutionary soldiers are slowly but
surely decreasing The number of
widows OF the war of 1912, on june 80,
1868. was SSS; June go, 1869, SS7
June 30. 1870, 727; june 50, 1871.
634 June 80, 1878. 276.
i. Efforts have been made to collect in
formation relative to the supposed sur
vlvors, that register of their names,
residences, condition. ages, and dates OF
death, might be prepared and continued
until the last shall have passed away.
Circulars have been send to the postmas
ters at their places of residence, and to
other parties from whom informatio
554 have been returned, % without salts
factory reports and 53l with the full in
formation sought. Of these, 38l were
as living and $50 as having died
since January / 1870.