Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-11-26
Report Of the Commissioner o; PEN
siOnS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.


Gen. J. H. Baker, Commissioner of
Pensions, under date of Oct Is, 1874,
has submitted his annual report to the
Secretary of the Interior. During the
year 1888 applications for army invalid
pensions were allowed, at an aggregate
annual rate of 500, 1892. so; the pensions
of 1908 pensioners of this class were in
creased at an aggregate annual rate of
$4l6,257 So the losses TO this roll from
death and other causes were 6,l05,
whose pensions with the amount of re-
duction of the rates of other invalid pen
sions aggregated $377, 452 80 annually.
On the Both of June, 1874, there were
102, 457 army invalid pensioners on the
roll. The aggregate annual pay of this
class was $10,05S, 377.54. The increase in
the number of this class was 1858, and
the aggregate increase of pensions was
$43l ,l3745. During the year 1851 new
pensions for army widows and dependent
relatives were allowed, at an aggregate
annual rate of $1l6 433, and the pensions
of 1882 pensioners of this class were
increased at an aggregate annual rate of
$403 l1l.22. There were stricken from
the roll of this class of pensioners, 1923
names, whose pensions aggregated ST.
250,113.05. On the 30th of June, 1874
there were on the roll of army
widows and dependent relatives 1O7 $40
names, at an aggregate annual rate of
$l3,537 1856, the decrease for the year
being 4,572 names, and the decrease of
pensions of this class being s424, 56S 03.
On the 30th of June there were ,551
navy invalid pensioners, at an aggregate
annual rate of $780, 92, an increase in
the year of 12l in the number of pen
sioners, and $lS,954 90 in the annual rate
OF pensions of this class. On the Both of
June there were i,7S5 pensioners on the
navy roll of widows and dependent rela
tives, at n total rate of S2S1 ,534, an in
crease for the year of 10 in the number
of names, and IS, 9S4 in the rate of pen
sions
The names of 81 new pensioners were
added to the roll of survivors of the war
of 1912, and l,2l7 of this class were lost
by death, leaving on the Both of June
II ,620 pensioners of this class at total
annual rate of 81 SOL, 520--a decrease for
the year of 6i6 in the number of pen
sioners and 500 06l in the rate of pensions
OF this class, The names of Sl3 widows
of soldiers of the war OF 1912 were added
to tho roll, and 554 were lost by death
during that period, leaving on the Both
of June 1912 pensioners OF this class
an increase for the year of 259 in the
number of pensioners and SPA, S64 in the
rate of pensions.
The total number of pensioners of all
classes on the 30th of June, 1874, was
236, pa, decrease of 2,l70 during the
year. the aggregate annual rate of pen
sions of all classes on June 30 was SEQ
Pa OIL 10, decrease from the preced-
ing year of S5,645l3. The roll contains
the names of 4l0 widows of soldiers in
the Revolutionary war.
Certain specific increases allowed to in
valid pensioners by laws passed at the
last session of Congress, and the steady
increase of the number on the Invalid
pension roll will probably bring the
disbursements to invalids for the present
fiscal year UP to those of last year; but
in the payments to widows, minors. etc.
n reduction may reasonably be expected
During the year PA claims for bounty.
land warrants were allowed, the war