Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-21
A NEW PENSION BILL.
THE AMENDED ACT PASSES THE SEN
ATE BY A GOOD MAJORITY.
1t is Made to Include Marines AS Well as
Soldiers-An Adjudicatory Board to
Arbitrate Labor Matters-A Scheme
Presented by Senator Logan.

W AsHINGTON, May l9.-At 2 O'Clock the
pension bill was placed before the Senate,
the pending question being that of Mr..
Mcpherson to recommit the bill to the com
mittee with instructions to submit to the
Senate an estimate OF the expense that
would be incurred by its passage Mr..
McPherson's motion to recommit was re-
jected The question REQUIRED on Mr..
Blair's amendment to Mr.. Van Wyck's
amendment, which is to add to the bill a
section providing that no soldier under
this act should receive pension less than
IS month. Mr.. Blair's motion is to make
the provision read mo pension paid under
any law to any soldier hereafter, shall be
rated less than 81 a month" Mr.. Blair
modified his amendment so as TO include
soldiers, marin o. etc. Mr.. Blair IS amend
meut was agreed to. The question recur-
ring on the amendment of Van Wyck as
amended by that of Mr. Blair, the amend
ment rs amended was agreed to- Mr.. Logan
moved an amendment extending the pro-
visions of the bill SO as to cover the men
who served three months. The amend
ment was agreed to by viva voce vote.
The pension bill was brought to q vote
and passed, yeas "a to nays IA. The New
England senators all voted in favor of the
bill.
The bankruptcy bill having been placed
before the Senate, Mr.. Hoar yielded, in or
der to take up the military academy bill,
which was just reported from the commit
tee by Mr.. Logan. The latter bill there
fore was laid before the Senate, but was at
once ordered recommitted.
Full Provisions of the Senate's New PEN
sion Bill.
The pension bill passed to-day by the
Senate is for the relief of soldiers of the
late war, honorably discharged after three
months service, who are disabled and de-
pendant upon their own eXertions for sup
port, and of the dependent parents of sol
diers who died in the service, or from dis
abilities contracted therein. 1t provides
that every person specified in the several
clauses enumerated in section 1893 revised
statutes, who served in military or naval
service tor a period of three months dur
ing the war of the rebellion, and has an
honorable discharge therefrom, and who is
or shall become disabled from any cause
not the result of his own fault and shall
also be dependent upon his own
exertions for support or upon the
contributions of Others not legally bound
thereto, shall upon producing due proof
of the facts, under such regulations as
may be prescribed be placed upon the
list of pensioners of the United States and
be entitled to receive pension during the
continuance of such disability and de-
pendence, at a rate proportlonate to the de-
gree of such disability, and such pension
shall commence at the date of filing the
application therefor. The highest rates of
pension granted under this section which
shall be for total incapacity TO perform
any manual labor, shall be S24 per month,
which is hereby made divisable upon that
basis; for any less degree of disability no
pension paid under any law hereafter
shall be rated at less than 81 per month.