The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-13
TIE NEW pIsAB1L1rr BILL.
The Great Additions Il will Make 10 en-,
Number and Cost OF Pensions.

WAsuINeToS. June 12.-Nobody can tell
how much money will be taken out OF the
Treasury by the disability pension bill on
which the conference committee agreed. With
the estimate OF Chairman Morrill, at $S5, 600.
600 year, to begin with. the chances are that
it will be much greater. One thing that
can he smelly relied on is that the pension OK.
penses hereafter will reach. at least. $l40,-
100000 year.
The bill az It stands contains four sections
and furnishes pensions not only to disabled
soldiers and sailors. but to dependent parents.
widows, and minor children up to the age OF
16. The Senate has succeeded in excluding
the House provision for paying a pension to
soldiers and sailors on reaching the age OF 60.
and to their widows on arriving at the same age
That was direct provision for n service pom
sion without disability or dependency. under
which all surviving veterans and the widows OF
deceased veterans would have been added to
the pension rolls MS fast as they reached tho
statute age. 1t was estimated that the aRgre-
gate cost Of service pension upon the basis
OF sixty years would be 81 .333. 109.s20 About
three-fourths OF this would be payable within
the next twenty-five years. at an average an
nual cost OF $41.523. 1872. A reduction on ao-
count Of some pensioners already on the roll
would leave the cost al $4O.3i9.696 year.
But as an ofrset to this increase OF cost. pres
ent and prospective, the Senate's proposal to
make the disability pension $12 month has
been agreed to. whereas the amount fixed In
the Morrill, bill, as passed by tho House, both
for the disability and the age service pension,
was only So Accordingly a large portion OF
the saving which might have been made By
has been lost by the rejection also Of the other
portion. The feature OF dependency as an ele.
Eli the has been stricken out Of
sons who served three months or more. and
suffer from mental or physical disability OF
own vicious habits. which inoapacitates them
from the performance OF manual labor In such
SUPPORT" The calculations 10 the Senate G" were
on different basis, ana thus Tvs, an additional
The fee aoWed o the penon AGENT Se
unaer the House PHI il was only hait shs. SpR.
added to a great increase in the ordinary
growth Of the pension rolls and Of pension or
act passed =. few months ago, increasing to
e72 month the pensions for total disability
ance Of another person. The other lie the ad-
dlton OF facilities at the Pension Office for set.
pensons have been issued during 9th The eleVen
months ending June than were issued during
the twelve months Of The previous year: Last
to or restored to the roll and deductinR those
that were dropped from death or other causes,
therefore. look for net increase OF about
$4,000 names during the present year There
we're on June 30 of last year 4S9.725 pension
this number up. to perhaps $4,000. But MI.
Cannon. when the conference committee's re-
port on the Disability bill was accepted ty
large majority in the House. rejolced that
100000 more names would Re added and the
pensions OF $4,000 increased. That would bring
the total OF names up to 735. 600 not to reckon
other sources Of increase In years to come
Such an army. OF pensioners was never be-
fore known. and such an annual outlay for
pensions would not have been thought possible
at the end Of tho war. Twelve years ago tho
cost Of ponsions was actually decreasing and
was only about $27.O00.00O n year. Now 1t has
reached prodigious sum- and there is no say.
ing whore 1t will STOP