The National tribune., 1885-12-24

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be placed the pension roll under this act proof
shall be made, under such rules and regulations as
the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, of the
right of the applicant TO penson and any person
who shall falsely and corruptly take any oath re-
quired under this act shall be deemed guilty of
perjury; and the Secretary of the Interior
shall cause to be stricken from the pension roll
| the name of any person whenever 1t shau be
| made to appear by proof satisfactory to him that
| such name was put upon such roll through false
and fraudulent representations and that such per-
son is not entitled to pension under this act. The
loss OF the certificate of discharge shall not deprive
any person of the benefits of this act but other evil
| dence of an honorable discharge may be deemed
| sufficient; and that when any person has been
granted land warrant under any act of Congress.
for and on account of service III the said wars such
! grant shall be prma face evidence Of his service
| and honorable discharge; but such evidence shall
! not be conclusive and may be rebutted by evidence
that such land warrant fraudulently granted OF
| obtained
| SENATOR MITCHELLs BILL
proposes number of amendments to present
| pension laws The bill is very meritorious
one, correcting many inequities that now exist.
1t is very long, but its provisions are in brief,
| as follows:
Sec L. The persons entitled to receive pensions
under Section 1892, Revised Statutes. are:
l. Any officer of the Army, including Regulars,
volunteers, and militia, in the Navy or Marine
| Corps or any enlisted man, however employed, in
the military naval service of the United states
or in the Marine Corps neither regularly mustered
or not, disabled by reason of any wound or injury
received disease contracted while i'll the service
| OF the united states ana III ilne Oi duty.
2. The officers and enlisted men of the Missouri
State militia and the Missouri Provisional enrolled
militia, and of the Missouri Home Guards, disabled
as aforesaid while such militia was cooperating
with United States forces.
3. The officers and men of the Revenue Marine,
disabled by wound or injury received while i'll the
| performance OF prescribed duties.
4. Any master serving on gunboat, or any pilot,
engineer, sailor, other whether regularly
| mustered or not, serving upon any gunbcat or
armed vessel of the United States disabled by
any wound or injury received or otherwise inca
pacltated while in the line of duty for procuring
his subsistence by manual labor.
| D. Any person, not an enlisted soldier In the
Army, serving for the time being scout under
proper orders employe of the Quartcrmas-
| ter's Department with United States forces in the
| field or as member of the militia of any State,
under orders of officer of the United States, or
who volunteered for the time being to serve with
any regularly organized military or naval force OF
| the United States, or who otherwise volunteered
ana rendered service III any engagement with reD-
els or Indians. disabled in consequence of wounds
or injury received in the line of duty in such tenn
! porary service. But no claim of a State militia
man, or non enlisted person, provided for In TINS
| paragraph, on account of disability from wounds
or injury received in battle with rebels or Indians,
while temporarily rendering service shall be valid
unless the application shall he filed or before
| the lst day of July. 1887. .
| 6, Any acting assistant or contract Surgeon, dis
| abled by any wound or injury received or disease
contracted lii the line of duty, while actually per-
forming duties with any military force in the field,
or in transitu, duty in a hospital.
| 7. Any Provost Marshal. Deputy Provost Mar
shal, or enrolling officer, disabled by reason OF any
wound esSrinjury received in the discharge of his
duty.
s. Any female who shall have acted nurse or
| hospital attendant in the Army or Navy for the
space of 90 days during the war of the rebellion
shall receive pension at the rate of So per month;
| or, If while acting such nurse, she shall have
contracted disability which still continues, she
shall receive pension at the same rate as private
soldier for like degree of disability, to commence
on the passage of this act.
That section 1894 be amended to read as follows:
| No person shall be entitled to pension by reason
| of wounds or injury received contracted i'll the
service of the United States subsequent to the 9th
| day of July, 1863 unless the person who was
| wounded or injured or contracted the disease was
| in the line of duty in actual service.
That section 1896 be amended to read as follows:
| Every commissioned officer of the Army, Navy, or
Marine Corps shall receive SUCH and only such PEN
sion is provided i'll the preceding section for the
rank he held at the time he received the injury or
contracted the disease which resulted in the dis
ability on account of which he may be entitled to
pension.
That section AIS be amended to read as follows:
If any invalid pensioner has died, shall here
alter die, or II any person entitled to an lnyaild
| pension, having an application therefor pending
has died shall hereafter die the accrued pension
due to the date of death in such shall be paid
to the relative relatives of such person in the fol-
lowing order of precedence, namely: FIRST, his
widow; second his child children under 10 years
of age; third, his mother fourth, his father;
fifth his orphan brothers and sisters under 10 years
| OF age: Such accrued pension shall not be con-
sidered part of the assets OF the deceased nor
liable to be applied to the payment OF the debts OF
said estate in any whatever but shall lnure to
the sole and exclusive benefit of the person or per-
sons who are herein declared to be entitled to the
| same.
That section 47l9 be amended to read as follows
TIL" t;iiure of any pensioner to claim his or her
for three years after the same shall have
: due shall be deemed presumptive evidence
I'll. -uch pension has legally terminated by reason
OF Tie pensioners death. remarriage recovery from
the disability. or otherwise, and the pensioners 5,
name shall be stricken from the list of pensioners.
subject to the right ofrestoration to the same on a
| new application by the peusioner, or, If the PEN
sioner is dead by the widow or minor children en-
|
Sec , That the act to remove the disability of
| those who. having participated in the rebellion.
have since its termination, enlisted in the Army OF
the United States and become disabled, approved
| March 3, 1871 shall not be construed TO apply to
those who under like conditions. have enlisted in
the Navy or Marine Corps of the United States.
Sec. 3. That the act entitled IAN act to increase
the pensions of certain pensioned soldiers and SAIL
! ors who have lost both their hands or both their
feet, the sight OF both eyes in the service of the
country" approved June II, 1873 be, and the same
| is hereby, amended to read as follows:
| THAT all persons who, while in the military or
naval service of the United S.ates and in the line
of duty, shall have been permanently and totally
disabled rs to require the regular personal aid and
attendance of another person, by the loss of the
sight of both eyes by the loss of the sight OF
| eye the sight of the other having been previously
lost by the loss of both hands, by the loss of
both feet or by any other injury resulting IN total
and permanent hclplessnesS, shall be entitled to a
pension of S72 month Prouided That the increase
of pension shall not be granted by of of
the injuries herein specified unless the same have
resulted in permanent total helplessness requiring
the regular personal aid and attendance of another
person: And provided further, That the pension here
in provided shall commence June II, 1875 II the
disability existed in the degree herein set forth
otherwise the pension shall commence provided
| by existing law
| Sec. t. That the act entitled 'An act to restore
pensions in certain cases." approved June 9, $780,
shall be construed as to include within its provis
ions all officers and enlisted men of the Army and
their widows and minor children
| Sec. 5 provides for pensions TO officers and SOL
diers of the Regular Army on the peace establish
| ment, disabled subsequent to 1870. and prior to
March D. 1861 by reason of wound injury received
or disease contracted i'll line of duty
Sec. 8 provides for pensions to relatives in the
| cases of commissioned officers mentioned i'll the pre-
cedng section who shall, while in the service of the
United States, die by reason of wound received
| in actual service.
| Secs and relate further to those mentioned in
Sections and g.
| Sec. o. That for the purpose of settling accounts
| now existing. or which may hereafter exist be-
tween the agents for paying pensions andthe United
States, commission is hereby created to consist of
| the Third Auditor aud the Second Comptroller of
| the Treasury and the Commissioner of Pensions the
| said commission to have the power and authority
to direct the settlement of cases in which overpay
| ments erroneous payments have been made by
| pension agents through msiutormation.
Ayers Sarsaparilla marveously braces up
the system; purifies and invigorates. Every in
valid needs it.
Godey's Ladys Book has been called "the
phoenix of literature" 1t has survived the