Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-26
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. 4 NEW PENSION MEASURE To Care For The Disabled
 Veterans. BOSTON TO HAVE 4 CARDINAL. A Bloody Tragedy At New
 Canaan. CONGRESS AND THE TRUSTS. Ninety Victims Of The COlliery Horror.
THE GRAND ARMY BILL

To Pension Disabled Veterans and De
 pendent Relatives of Deceased Sol
 diers.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Senator Davis, from the committee on pensions, to-day re- ported favorably bill introduced by Sena- tor Manderson, and known as the Grand Army bill, to pension exSsoldiers and sailors who nre incapaeitated for manual labor and provide pensions for dependent relatives of deceased soldiers. The bill has the same ob- iects in view that were contemplated by what was known the dependent pension bill vetoed by the President during the last Congress. It is believed that the new bill by the more explicit manner in which it's purpose is stated obviates the principal ob- jections raised in the Presidents veto. The bill has the unanimous endorsement of the pension committee. The first section of the bill declares 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 it shall be necessary only to show that the parent or parents are without other means of support than their own manual labor. A proyiso to this section fixes the time for the commencement of pension from the date of the passage of the act CT from the date of subsequent dependence and de clares that the pension shall continue no long CT than the existence of such dependency. In this respect it differs from the vetoed bill, which provided that no pension should com mence prior to the passage of the act and in case of applications hereafter made the pen sion should commence from the date of the filing of the application. By the second geo. ton of both bills pensions at the rate of $12 per month are granted all persons who served more than three months and were honorably discharged and who may hereafter be suffer ing from mental or physical disability not the result of their own vicious habits or gross carelessness. They differ, however, in the language by which they define the degree of disability which shall entitle a person to @ pension. On this point the new bill reads: Disability which totally incapacitates them for the performance of manual labor, while the language of the vetoed bill read: Disability which incapaciated them for the performance of labor in such degree as to render them unable to earn support and who are depen- dent upon their daily labor for support. The new bill also limits its provisions to those who served in the late rebellion, where as the vetoed bill extended to soldiers of any war in which the United States was engaged The bill further differs from the vetoed bill in the addition of another section granting pension to the widow or minor children unOer elSuIceu years oI age, or III case there is no widow or minor children to dependent mother or father without regard te the cause of death or the pensioner. The section also increases the pension of minor children from g to $5 per month and declares the pension of idiotic or helpless minors during life or the period of disability The>section in rela- ton to the fee of pension agents is amended by fixing maximum fee of $10 instead Of allowing a fee of $5 with discretionary power in the commissioner of powers to in crease the fee to $10 as the vetoed bill pro- vided. The remaining section providing that no person shall be pensioned who is un- der political disabilities, or who incurred his while engaged in the military ser vice against the United States, differs Tn no respect from the bill vetoed by President Clsvsland.