The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1881-10-01
Answers to Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents.
We are Obliged to answer certain inquiries of the same
nature in each issue of paper. While we cheerfuly
furnish information to subscribers in this coiursn,
suggest that much labor time and expense may ne saved
both to ourselves and to correspondents the latter
and other subscribers would keep file of the paper
They could Them any time turn to the file and proba
bly, find the very inquiry answered about which they
would have written We trust that each and every
subscriber will profit by this suggestion.
l.. X, WILMINGToN. DEI.-Thc Commissioner of
tensions has the power and authority to reject
ciaim which he does not regard meritOrous or
Iuliy established If the claim is established to the
satisfaction OF the Commissioner he does not reject it.
H. w. PORTLAND ME.-Tbere are ten Chief, Of
Bureaus OF the War Department who are officers of
the regular army, viz: the Adjutant-G General, In
spector- General, Quartemaster- General, Commits
sary-C General SurgCOn-ticnera Paymaster-C Ienera
Chief OF Engineers, Chief Of Ordnance Judge Advo-
cate General, and Chief Signal Officer
R. L.. INDIANAPOLIS, IND-We cannot advise or
suggest to ex-sOlders and sailors in what portion of
the United States they will find the most desirable
lands on which to locate their homesteads, but we
advise them To write to the Commissioner of the
General Land Office here, and he will send all who
seek information on the subject a pamphlet telling
all about public lands.
T. C.. SYRACUSE y. Y.-The Commissioner of
Agriculture may give you the information you seek.
W. DAYTON O-General Grant did not immedi-
ately succeed Mcclellan in command OF the Army of
the Potomac. Burnside. Hooker, and Meade inter
vened between them.
L. c. c.. BRATTLEBORo, VT.-The Arrears of Pen
sion law does not make any provision for an earlier
commencement of pension to a dependent father,
where the mother survived the sodier-as in your
case-than from the termination of the right OF the
mother The right of the mother terminated at her
death, and as you have been allowed pension from
the date of her DEATH you not entitled under the
rrearS law.
II. K, PITTsFIELD, Mass Under the present
law the pension of widow of soldier ceases when
she remarries, and her name cannot be restored to
the Pension Roll even if she again becomes a widow.
bill to restore to the roll the names of widows
dropped account of remarriage, and who again
become widows, was introduced in the 10th Con-
gress. but not reached for action.
A E. ROCHESTER, y. Yin the case to which
YOU refer the parents of the deceased soldier will be
entitled to the additional bounty, if same not
drawn by the widow, provided Congress extends the
time for filing claims for said bounty, which are now
under the bar imposed by statute OF limitation Inc
parents have title to pension because the soldier
! left a widow surviving him.
W. T. New LONDON, CONN.-If your pension
claim should be dsalowed, your attorney will be
notified.
B. J. F. WINAIACK, ISD.-Crime committed by
/ ex-sOder does not deprive him Of his pension.
unless connected in some way with the procuring Of
/
/ 3. f. C.. FAIR9IONT, MINN-If you have located
one hundred and sixty acres as a civilian, you are
not entitled to any further benefits under the home
stead laws account of your service as a soldier.
Soldiers are not entitled to additional hOmesteads,
unless original entry made prior to June 20,
/ 1874.
P. J. \, PINE Hollow, MINN.-If you have sus-
tanned bodily injuries in the service which deprived
you of the of any of your limbs You entitled
once in every five years to an artificial limb ap
pliance. or Communication therefor. Application
should be made direct to the Surgeon General of
the Army in this city as attorneys cannot be rec
/ ognized in such cases. ANY disability which is
equivalent to the loss of hand foot is rated at
/ SIS month
c. II. c., SPRING HILL, IOWA.-NO law has been
enacted granting 5000 additional bounty; in fact,
the only law granting additional bounty passed
/ July 2S 1866. 4 bill to equalize b0unties in
trOduced in last Congress- but did not pass either
! Senate or House of Representatives.
NJ H., FIskE, PA-"Can a soldier get his dis
| charge who wounded and furlOughed home and
did not return? | understand that the Through
was not dated when to return" \. He cannot, I'M
less he prove by his attending physician that at the
date of the expiration of his furlOugh (which
certainly granted for some definite periOd) to the
date OF muster-Out of his command he was wholly
unable to travel and reOin his command, or report
in person to the nearest military station of the
United States.
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