The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-27
BLAIR PENSION BILL.

The following is the full text of the new
pension bill giving no pension of less than
a a month, or $4s, a year. At present
there are men drawing pensions of 81, q,
and g per month for the loss of toe or a
finger.
Be 1t enacted, etc.: That every person
specified in the several classes enumerated
in Section 1898, of the Revised Statues of
the United States, and the amendments
thereto, who served in military or naval
service, as mentioned in said section, for
three months during the War of the Re-
belllon and has an honorable DISCHARGE
abled from any cause not the result of his
own fault and shall also be dependent up-
on his own exertions for support, or upon
the contributions of others not legally
bound the1eto, shall. upon making due
proof of the facts, under such regulations
a as may be prescribed by the proper
sioners of the United States, and be en-
titled to receive pension during such con-
tluuance of such disability and dependence,
at rate proportionate to the degree OF
such disabilities, and such pensions shall
commence at the date Of filing an ap-
pi nsn.3on therefor The highest rate
which shall be for the total incapacity to
perform any manual labor, shall be $24 per
month, which is hereby made devisable
upon that basis for any less degree of dis
ability; provided that no person entitled
existing laws, or such a. may be-
hereafter enacted granting pensions for
disabilities contracted in the military
or naval service of the United States
and In line of duty greater than
that provided for herein, shall receive the
benefits OF this act, but any applicant for
hox
therefor pending, or who shall hereafter file
bis application for such pension, may, BY a
declaration over his signature at any time.
elect to prosecute his said claim under this
act, or under the general laws, and his pen
sion, ~ when 9 allowed, If prosecuted under
such election; provided further, that no
pension paid under any law hereafter shall
be rated at less than 81 per month.
Sec. =. That in considering the claims of
dependent parents, the fact aud cause Of
death e.e; and the fact that the soldier left no
shown as required by law, it shall be
necessary to show by competent and
sufficient evidence that such dependent
parent Is without other present means Of
comfortable support than his or her own
n manus1 lapor, or the contributions Of
support, and such as may be found to be
entitled to IS a month under existing laws
as modified by this section, shall receive
IN lieu thereof $12 a month from and
after the approval of this act.
\, Sec. 8. That in all applications under
me genera! pension laws, including this
ACT, where it appears by record evidence
that the applicant was regularly enlisted
and mustered into service, that fact shall
be conclusive evidence of soundness at the
time OF his enlistment except in case Of
Sec 4. That no nerson oh II, ho ,,,+;+,.a
to more than one pens ion at the same time
under any or all laws of theUnited Stated.
whether such pensions shall have been al.
ready obtained, or shall be hereafter oh
tanned, unless the act under which pension
Is claimed shall especially so declare.