The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-22
THE PENSTON RTLL

4uo pcuSlOn JILL DIS pdSSCu by Uuc
senate few days ago, which is said to
be devoid of the Objectionable features
of the one vetoed by President Cleve-
land, 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 child or children having been
shown as required by law, it shall be
necessary only TO show by competent
and sufficient evidence that such pa
rent or parents are without other means
Of support than their own manual
labor or the contributions of others not
legally bound for their support, pro-
vided, that all pensions allowed shall
commence from the date of the pass
age of the act, or from the date of sub
sequent dependence, and shall con-
tinue no longer than the existence of
such dependence. All persons who
served three months or more in
the military OF navAlj service of The
United States during the war of the re-
bellion, and who have been honorably
discharged therefrom, and who are
now or may hereafter be suffering
from mental or physical disability,
not the result of their own vicious
habits, which totally incapacitates
them for the performance of manual
labor, and who are without other
adequate means of self-support, shall,
upon making due proof of the fact ac-
cording to such rules and regulations
as the secretary of the interior may
provide, be placed upon the list as in
valid pensioners of the United States,
and to be entitled to receive S12 per
month, and such pensions. shall COM
mence from the date of the filing of
the application in the pension office
after the passage of this act upon
proof that the disability then existed,
and shall continue during the ex-
istance of the same: provided that
persons who are now receiving PEN
| sions under existing laws, or whose
claims are pending in the
pension Office, may, by an
| plication to the commissioner of pen
sions, in such form as he may subscribe,
| receive the benefit of the act: and moth
| ing therein contained shall be con-
strued as to prevent any pensioner
hereunder from prosecuting his claim
and receiving his pension under any
other general or special act; provided,
however, 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. If any invalid pensioner had
died, or shall hereafter die, leaving a
widow, minor child or children under
eighteen years of age, or in case there
be no widow or minor child or children.
a dependent mother or father, such
widow. minor child or children, or
mother or father, shall be placed on the
pension roll at the rates es-
tablished by law for wild
ows, minor children or parents
without regard to the cause of death OF
such pensioner, provided that said wild
sioner prior to the passage of this act.
l All pensions granted to widows under
| this or any other general law shall take
l effect from the date of the death of the
husband of such widows respectively,
but not dating back to the passage of
this act. The increase of pensions for
minor children shall be at the rate of
50 per month instead of 81 per month,
as now provided by law, and in case a
minor child is insane, idiotic, or other
| wise helpless, the pension shall con-
tinue during the life of said child, or
during the period of such disability.
There are hundreds of disabled SOL
diers all over the country, whose dis
ability is due, directly OF indirectly, to
exposure while serving in the war, but
| it is impossible to make anything like
a positive proof of that fact. II is