Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-30

cratic control, it will be found that the
excess of new names added to the rolls
by the Democratic administration dur
ing its first three years exceeds those
added to the rolls during the last three
years of Republican administration by
4S3. 1O5.
| AS to the general pension acts. the
official records show what has been
official capacity for ex-Union soldiers,
their widows, orphans and dependent
relatives since his Inauguration on the
4th of March, 1885. He approved the
act of March 10, 1886, which has in
| creased to $12 per month the pensions
of 1O2, 56S widows, minors and depend
ent relatives of Union soldiers. The
total annual increase in money granted
to these 102, 568 pensioners by reason
of his approval of said act is $4,923,-
264. He approved the act of August
4, 1886, which has increased the PEN
sions of 1902 crippled and manned
Union soldiers of the late war from
$24 to $50, from $50 to $50, and $50
and $37. so to $45 per month. The av-
erage increase in these cases is esti-
mated to be SO per month, or $108 per
year, and the total annual increase in
money granted to these 10, 092 pension
ers, by reason of his approval of the
act of August 4, 1886, is therefore
81 ,O89, 936.
He approved the act of January 29,
1887, which has placed on the pension
rolls 21,704 survivors AMI widows of
the war with Mexico at SIS per month,
or 500 per year. The annual amount
in money which these 81, 704 Mexican
pensioners will receive by reason of
his approval Of this act is $2,Oo3, 584.
He approved the act of June z, 1888,
granting arrears of pensions to widows
from the date of their husbands death,
in all cases filed subsequent to June 80.
1880. All those filed prior to July 1.
1880, were entitled from date of death
OF husband, under the arrears law of
1879-provided, OF course, they estab-
lished their right to- such pension.
The approval of this act of June z,
900 widows of the late war, whose
claims have already been allowed from
the date of the filing of the same. The
average amount in money which these
10, 900 widows will receive by reason
of his approval of this act will amount,
it is estimated, to an average of $1OS
in each case, making total of 81, O0O,-
600, and the allowances of widows
cases which have been filed since June
80, 1880. during the present fiscal year,
will probably increase the amount
paid to such pensioners during the
present fiscal year to over 81, 500, 900.
1t will thus be seen that since the in
auguration of President Cleveland he
has approved general pension acts
which directly and pecuniarily benefit
some LA, 1854 ex-Union and Mexican
war soldiers, their widows and orphans |
and dependent relatives, and that the |
money value of this benefit will be over /,
$4,000, 900 per annum. -I. /
Since the Inauguration of President |
Cleveland he has approved or allowed |
to become laws by limitation over ], POO |
private acts granting pensions, while |
but 1924 private pension acts were |
approved or allowed to become laws |
by Limitation during the entire twenty !
four years that the Republican party |
was in power. There is little doubt |
that before the present Congress adj
journs President Cleveland will have |
approved or allowed to become laws |
by limitation nearly or quite as many !
private pension acts as all of the Re-
publican Presidents from Lincoln to |
Arthur.
The above figures, taken from the |
official records, show beyond cavil or
question that no such iberality to ex-
soldiers, their widows, orphans and
dependent relatives in the matter of |
pensions was ever shown by any adj
ministration in the history of the Re- |
public, and that no former admins |
tratiOn has ever extended the munif- |
icence of the Government to SO many !
of the beneficiaries of the pension laws |
as has the Administration of President |
Cleveland. - Chicago Herald.