The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-20
Icy OF PaSsioNERs,
..,,nts h-se Hundred thou 10
ReinforcenS,- CT the Way 70 JON IL

sano 60, TIE Ne10 Yori sun
Prom AnC. l5-Tbe most re-
WAsHlNo. 'sage in TIE address OF zen
markaoie - md Army veterans at Bos-
Alyer TO lDo itch declar. d that more
ton was tos' o1r,l.catiols have been MADE
than 5lo,OOJ t,Lpner of pensions under the
u tee CO lInls'ii law and ne Informs me thas
uew dlsaolh'! p a' c7miug IN at the rate OF
aT1lca-ion are
about lov ~ tney eli come fTom' IL Is eV
Where 90 I'm. that the numoer Is
dent, To Deslub had been expec' ed, or at
outrunnlhe ~ 10 the discussion Oh tue
least intlliA'sI ~oress It was then estimated
measure :! ,Cber of applicants oul.Ls one
that Tue H,.ronld he alb Jut ZoO'Ve'' anu
mrs re first three nlo'l il1,orsd "a nave
Wl'hA1 is officially ueC -u.s or 60
the M 800 900, and 10 o! De 40 ss dar
prodlglous s-act the experience OF
Ia tbs 49,, law recalls that OF the
the dlSa m law. which cost ABOUT
arrears much as some OF lts
,el unes mates. and also that OF the act
advoca e. ,i1enendept rsvolufi onary pension
OF lSloIoI ~ the number OF oenenclarleS
ers, under - - be S74, and turned out to De
was 1pnTress in those early days OF tee
81 ,,es dealing with soldlers nuIhoeteH
couIuJ snds but in ours IL Is oeaiAns w. VIZ,
BY ln lno5e Of thousands; then IL was s.aItieu
nun hat it had incurred extra opllgaUi9 IN:
70 IN .nora than a million, Du1 tno NJ, ne
onility bill isinvolViNS 49, -. rna q all
aolI'I ,ast;on recurs, however, "ne o Ill
Inc csndidatss for pensions can pos
these DC" NocTni1ed. Gen. Alger IS reported
EoIy 10 Ia that even the grand army
to naso taIj within 250,OJO how many
could nov t ths civil war were still surviv-
solulei - ~ would give an enormous margin
ing Iua .oi1tv. ut he made the statement
10! uuce. .'"o massage of the disability bill In
pllor W ' NV that it was better not 10 try
ofoeI ~ its cost beforehand, but to 60
go and pass it any "ay. commissioner
mi'JIev about eight years ago estimates
- +ofsl uumber Of enllslments IN tne ciVA
r ,ror at 2.7SO,17S. Deduchng from q I oeS
wal a s-ments be got a balance OF 2,Oo5,-
ta9 o.+iaI individual enlistments. or
90 LING at that time VINO had not
tr o1G Tor tensions there were l,OO9.459,
app ;ia those VINO had so applied numbered
last spring Commissioner Raum revised
-, estimates and put the total nutIber OF
'"rjon soldiers, excluding re-enllstments, at
. 5IS az From this number the deduction
s. 10 assertions and the deaths in attic or
"a I,saass or other cause eft l, 702, 0G9 alive
y! .ha cISse of the war. Then. calculating
on the usual iahty rates. he found that
tba probable number Of Survivors, for jan:
1880. was 1,246,0S9. Df these 3f3, lO3
were already then on the rolls, SO that the
ror,oin5sr numbered but 81, 1887. We
tT-tbar find that at that date the number of
,nvsnd claims PENDING vas 1890, which
vii give a balance, in round numbers, of
con O10 survivors not included in these
classes. ooo ooo
And now, it appears more than 100000
anDIications are already made for pensions
under the disability bill while the torrent
has still head enough u produce 10000 a
day. which. continued even for only a
month. would obviously make another 3O0,-
90. 1t must 6ccoriingy, in view of the
figures already given, bea matter of some
ast0nishment where the applicants come
from. and also how many survivors of the
war there can be who are in ordinary
health and strength. Forllthough, as Gen.
Ager conn lateltly remarked, the dis
ability bill gives pensio. to any soldier or
sailor who was hononpy discharged,
after service Of ninety days or
more, no matter what his
financial condition may be-" yet at
hast he must be suffering from a mental
\ physical disability of a permane t
tracter, not the result Of his own vicious
pits, which incapacitaes him from the
tformance Of manual labor in such a
free as to render him unable to earn a
port II, therefore out of q number
survivors, who bad not already applied
lor received a persion, we nave these
ldreds Of thousands additional, who are
tfying that they are unable TO perform
tual labor, the wondering inquiry must
as to how many veterans are not
+ lncapacitated.
msy be explained, however, that the
bill fixes the rate Of pensons at $12 a
ftn, and, since this is a higher rate than
existing pensioners have, a large part
Re applications are doubtless for repen-
tng at the new rate 1t was estimated
Pc House that there would be SO, 600 such
Again, the new bill makes provision
lenSlols for dependent parents Of sol
and sailors, and also for children.
ty' large part of the existing PEN
Isl Is not for survivors of the war, but
e widows and children of the dead.
~ all these facts into consideration, it
re lntelIlgible that the supply of sur
g soldiers has really not been ex-
ed even by the astonishing rush of be-
30O, 900 and 100000 new applications
" made and now going on.
lie nothing but the official report of
hSlon Office can show the exact state
pension roll to-day, and also of its
O'iNe increase, there are yet some
vi making an estimate on the sub
Inc last annual report showed that
we're 4S9, ~ pensioners on the rolls al
ginhlng OF the last fiscal year The
uluon Tor the previous year had been
tuoO was perhaps an average OF
Increase Tor several former years.
81 increase for the year before. how
nau oeen 1880 names, which was ar
ai growth. During the last twelve
euere has been almost unprece-
activity IN adding names. Still
suppose the total net iucreasf
oue year to have been only
over 4J,OO0 from ordinary routine
We should have on the rolls
oeg.Aning Of July So, 00) pensioners
AZ nave to cons der 100000 apolica
iuer tue disability bill, Increased :,
In rJ ol iO,o0J a day. Supuosing thes,
Yucatl0nS to stop at 100000, although
t. ouers no hints on that subject
So supposing that $4,000 of thesS an
are from pensioners already or
- as eSVlmated IN congress, we shoulr
Fee balance of $50. 900 new annlica
n nsen II only 60 er cent. of ties
0o oeeSslul' we should still have a tota
new names added to the list
III of ~" 1,d the $4,000 already estimated
ol 4o, 600 on the pension roll
4InIeht that this is verv consarve
punctuation cf xvba+ - NOneoi va