Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-09
PENSIONS FOR THE DISABLED.
The BiIl Passed by the Senate Yester-
 day.

The 8iIl Passed by tbe Senate Yester- day.
 WASHINGTON, March 9.-The bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers and sailore, etc., as passed by the Senate to-day provides that in considering the pension claims of dependent parents the fact and cause of death and the fact that the soldier left no widow or minor
 children having been shown as required bylaw
 it shall be necessary only to show by compe-
 tent and sufficient evidence that such parent
 or parents are without otler means
 of support than their own manual
 labor the contribution of others
 not legally bound for their support. Provided that all pensions allowed under this section shall commence from the date of the passage of this act or from the date of
 subsequent dependence and shall continue no longer that the existence Of such dependence. All persons who served five months or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the war of the rebellion, and who have been honorably discharged there frcm and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from mental or physical disabili ty not the result of their own vicious habits, which totally incapacittates them for the per- formance of manual labor, and who are with out other adequate means of self-support, shall upon making due proof of the fact ac cording to such rules and regulations as the
  be placed upon the list of invald pensioners of the United States and be en- titled to receive SIP per month and such pension shall commence from the date of the filing of the application in the pension office after the passage or this act upon proof that the disability then existed and shall continue during the existence of the same. Provided, that persons who now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims pending in the pension office, may, by appli- cation to the commissioner of pensions in such form as be may prescribe, receive the benefits of this act, and nothing herein con tained shall be construed to prevent any pensioner hereunder from prosecuting his 1 claim and receiving his pension under any other general or special act, provided that no person shall receive more than one pension for the same period; and provided further, that rank in the service shall not be consid- cred in applications filed hereunder. If any invalid pensioner has died or shall hereafter die leaving a widow, minor child or children under eighteen years of age, or in case there be widow minor child or children. dependent mother or father, such widow, minor child, or children, or mother, or father, shall be placed upon the pension roll at the rates established by law for widows, minor children and parents without regard to the cause of death of such pensioner, provided that said widow was ! married to the deceased pensioner prior to the passage of this act. All pensions granted to widows under this CT any other general law shall take effect from the date of the death of | the husband of such widows respectively, 1 but not dating back of the passage of this act. The increase of pensions of minor chill | dren shall be at the rate of $5 per month in
 stead of $2 per month as now provided by l law, and in case a minor child is insane, l idiotic otherwise helpless, the pension l shall continue during the life of said children or during the period of such disability.