The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-15
rhn Sow pepen4ent pen.Ion BIll.

The bill grant pensions to ex.soldiers
and sailors, etc, which passsd the SEN
ate recently, provides as follows:
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 low,
n shail be necessary only to show by
competent and sufficient evidence that
| such parent or parents are without other
means OF support than theirown manual
labor of the contributions Of Others not
legally bound for their support. Pro-
yided, 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 than the exist
ence OF such dependence.
All persons who served three months
or more in the military or naval service
Of the United States during the war Of
the rebellion and who have been honor
ably discharged therefrom, and who
are now, or who may hereafter be, suffer
ing 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, according to such rules
and regulations Of the Secretary OF the
Interior may provide, be placed upon the
list of invalid pensioners OF the United
States. and be entitled to receive SD per
month, and such pension shall COM
mence from the day 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 existence Of the
SAME. Provided, that persons who are
now receiving pensions under existing
laws, or whose claims responding in the
Pension Office, may by application to
the Commissioner Of Pensions in such
form as he may prescribe, receive the
benefits of this act; and nothing herein
contained shall be construed rs to pre-
vent any pensiOner Hereunder from pro-
scouting his claim and receiving his pen.
sion under any other general or special
net. Provided, however, that no person
shall receivGmore than one pension for
the same period; and provided, further,
that rank in service shall not be consid-
cred in applications filed hereunder.
II any invalid pensioner has died, or
shall hereafter die, leaving Il widow, mi.
nor child, or children under eighteen
years OF age, or in case there be no
widow, or minor child, or children, de-
pendent mother, or father, such widow,
minor child, or children, or mother, or
father shall be placed upon the pension
roll ut the rates established by law for
widows, minor children, and parents,
without regard to the cause OF death OF
such pensioner, provided that such
widow was married to the deceased PEN
sioner prior to the passage OF this act.
All pensions granted TO widows under
this or any other general law shall take
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 s.
per month instead Of g per month, as
now provided by law, and in case mi
nor child is insane, idiotic, or otherwise
helpless, the pension shall continue dur
ing the life OF said child'or during the
period of such disability.