Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-08-07
OUR PENSIONED PATRIOTS.
A Quarter OF n Million Persons Draw
ing Quarterly Allowances.
THE LEGLESS AND ARMLESS HEROES OF THE
wAR-EFFECT OF THE NEW PENSION Law
THE HIGHEST PENSIONS AND WHO DRAW
THEM,

THE LEGLESS AND ARMIES HEROES OF THE
WAR-EFFECT OF THE NEW PENSION Law
THE HIGHEST PENSIONS AND WHO DRAW
THEM.
The bill which was passed by Congress grant
Ing an increase of pensions to q certain class Of
pensioners effects quite a large number of the
veterans OF the late war. The bill was popu-
larry known as the $45 bill, from the fact that
this was the highest increase granted, and was
given To those who had lost an arm at the
shoulder joint or q leg at the hip Joint Form.
erly the pension paid for q disability of this
character was $3.50 per month aud the new
Dill provides an increase OF $50 per month.
A statement prepared at the Pension office,
by direction Of the chief of the certificate di-
vision, MIR. j. Il. Smith, shows that there are
only 4o3 pensioners OF this class on the roll who
will become the beneficiaries Of this increased
pension. The small mum Der as compared with
the number Of pensioners in the other classes
indicate, 1T Is said, how lew survive the ampu-
also from these figures that there is greater
danger attendant upon the entire amputation
OF a leg imam that OF an arm, tor there are on
the rolls only ten pensioners who have lost q
leg at the hip joint, while those who have lost
an arm at the shoulder joint number 44S.
The other classes benefited by this bill
are those who have lost a leg or an arm either
above or below the elbow or knee, and who
nave been receiving pension Of $24 or $50 per
month. In both cases the increase Is SO per
month. From the statement above referred to
III Is learned that there are 3, los pensioners
VINO nave lOSt an arm above the elbow, and
Z,O41 VINO have lost a leg above the knee. such
pensioners are to receive u pension Of $50 per
month, an increase of So. There are also $50
pensioners who have lost an arm below the
elbow, and 1,1S5 pensioners who have lost q
leg below the knee. These pensioners are to
receive $50 per month, an increase of SO. The
bill further provides that nothing contained
In this act shall be construed to repeal section
4639 OF the Revised Statutes of the United
States, or to change the rate of SIS per month
therein mentioned 10 be propOrtiOnately
divided for any degree of disability established,
Ior which section 1895 makes no provision"
THE LIST OF PENSIONS
now paid show that in the higher grades the
number of pensioners are comparatively few.
For instance, for what is termed total DISABLE
both hands, both feet, the sight of both eyes
and insanity, the highest pension is paid,
namely, S12 per month. The number of PEN
sioners In THESE classes are as follows Lost both
feet. 81; both eyes, SOL; insanity, 1870. There
are only TWO persons who receive a higher PEN
sion than S1Z per month, one OF whom receives
$I5 per month and the other 500, the latter
being Gen. Black, commissioner OF pensions,
who received this pension by special act OF
Congress. Of the $50, 900 and more pensioners
now on the rolls, the largest number, Co. 6S,
receive 81 per month; the next highest number,
44,l!5, receive $S per month. Then there are
34,639 pensioners who receive 50 per month,
Zo,lo4 VINO receive 81 per month, $3.50 who
VINO receive S12 per month, 5, O2O who receive
va per month, 1927 who receive $40 per
month, 1927 who receive $50 per month,
4,4SS who receive $40 per month and 3,413
VINO receive S14 per month. The grades OF pen
sloners run from 81 per month to S1OO, and the
ABOVE are the classes which contain the great
est number OF pensioners. In addition there
are S34 who receive sou per month, and there
Is one at S4S, one at $47, seven at $45; one at
S4O.2o, one at S42, fourteen at $40, one at
$500, one AT S3S.25, sixty-four at $3.50 and
thlrty-SlX at $50.