The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-25
PAYING PENSIONS.
Full Text of the Pension Bill
Passed by the Senate
Yesterday.

Washington, d. C.. May 19.-The full
text of the pension bill as passed by the
senate to-day is rs follows:
Be il enacted, etc, that every person
specified in the several classes enumerated
in section 1858 of the revised statutes OF
the United States and the amendments
thereto. who served in the military or ma
val service, as ment Toned in said section,
for the period of three months, during the
war of the rebellion and has an hon
orable discharge therefrom, who
is or shall become disabled from
any cause not the result of his own fault
and shall also be dependent upon his own
exertion for support or upon the eontrlbu-
tons of others not legally bound thereto,
shall upen making due proof OF the facts
under such regulations as may be pre-
scribed BY the proper authority, be placed
upon the list of pensioners OF the United
States and be entitled to receive pension
during the continuance OF such adyis-
ability and dependence at a rate proper
tionate to the degree of such disability, and
such pension shall commence at the date
OF filing an application therefor.
The highest rate of pension granted
under this section, which shall be for total
incapacity to perform any manual labor,
shall be S24 per month, which shall be
made divisible upon that basis for any less
degree of disability, provided that no per,
SON entitled to, or receiving an Invalid
pension under the existing laws, or such
as NAV be hereafter enacted, granting pen
sions for disabilities contracted IN
the military or naval service
of the United States and IN line
of duty, greater tEan that provided FOL
herein, shall receive the benefits OF this act
but any applicant for such invalid pension
having an application therefor pending
or who shall hereafter file his application
for such pension, may by a declaration
over his signature at any time elect tC
prosecute his said claim under this act, Of
under the general laws, and his pension
when allowed, if presented unde
this act, shall commence iron
the date of such election; provided
further that no pension paid under an.
Law hereafter shall be rated at less than :
per month.
Sec. . That in considering the claims o
dependent parents the fact and cause o
death and the fact that the soldier left NJ
widow or minor children having bee
shown as required by law, it shall be neces
sary only to show by competent and sui
fcient evidence that such dependen
. parents are without other present means @
! comfortable support than his or her ow
manual labor or the contributions OF other
not legally bound for his or her support
) and such as may be found to be entitled .
> IS month under the existing laws mod
fed by this section shall receive in lie
I thereof SD month from and after tn
. approval of this act.
Section 8. That in all applications I'm
; der the general pension laws includin
: this act where it appears by recorded ev
: dence that the applicant was regularly eI
: listed and mustered iuto the service, ths
> fact shall be conclusive evidence II
? soundness at the time Of his enlistmen
4 except in case of fraud.
Section 4. That no person shall be en-
4 titled to more than one pension at tn
a same time under any or all law
= of the United States whether sue
: pension shall have been already obtaine'
. or shall be hereafter obtained unless Il
/ act under which such pension is elaine
. shall especially so declare.
4 The bill now goes to the house OF repr
sentatiyes for concurrence.