The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-04-03
THE PENSION BILL.
Senator Davis Dependent Pen
sion Bill Passed by the
Senate.
Greenville Inundated---0 Opera
ted in the Countrywide
in a Convent.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram,
Senator Davis dependent pension bill
went through the senate to-day just as 1t
was reported from the senate. Efforts were
made bv several senators to amend the bill,
but without avail.
The full text of the bill is as follows:
In considering the pension claims OF de-
pendent parents under the provisions OF
this act the fact Of the death OF the soldier
and sailor and the fact that he left no
widow or minor child or children having
been shown as required by law, it shall be
necessary only to show by competent and
sufficient evidence that such parent or
parents are without other means OF support
than their own labor or the contributions
of others not legally bound for their sup
port; provided, that all pensions allowed to
dependent parents under this act shall COM
mence from the date OF the filing of the ap-
plication hereunder, and shall continue no
longer than the existence of their depend
ence.
That all persons who served three months
or more in the military or naval service OF
the United States during the late war OF the
rebellion and who have been honorably
discharged therefrOm, and who are now or
who NAV hereafter be suffering from mental
or physical disability, not the result OF
their own vicious habits, which lncapacI-
tates them from the performance OF labor
to earn a support, and who are dependent
upon their daily labor or on the contri bu-
tions of others not legally bound thereto,
for their support, shall, upon making due
proof of the fact according to such rules and
regulations as the secretary Of the interior
NAV provide be placed upon the list OF in
valid pensioners of the United States,
and be entitled to receive twelve
dollars per month; and such pensions
shall commence from the date OF the
filing of the application in the pension OF
flee after the passage OF this act, upon proof
that the disability then existed, and shall
continue during the existence or the same.
Provided, that persons who are now reCeiv-
ing pensions under existing laws, or whose
claims are pending in the pension office,
NAV, bv application to the commissioner OF
pensions, in such form as he may prescribe,
showing themselves entitled thereto, receive
the benefits of this act; and nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to pre-
vent any pensioner hereunder from prose
cutting his claim and receiving his pension
under any other general or special act: Pro-
vided, however. that no person shall re-
Ceiye more than one pension Tor the same
period; and provided further, that rank in
the service shall not be considered in appli-
cations filed under this act
That if any officers or enlisted man who
served three months or more in the army
or navy of the United States during the late
war of the Rebellion and who was hOnOra-
bly discharged, has died. or shall hereafter
die. leaving widow, minor child or chill
dren under sixteen years Of age, or in case
there shall be no widow or minor child or
children a dependent mother or father, as
such dependency is defined under section l
Of this act, such widow, minor child or
children or mother or father, shall be
placed upon the pension roll at the rates
established for them by law without regard
to the cause of death OF such officer or en-
listed man: Provided, that the cause of
death of such officer or enlisted man was
not or is not due to violation OF the civil
or military laws or the result OF vicious habits
7 and that said widow was married to the de-
| ceased pensioner prior to the passage OF this
act All pensions granted to widows under
| this act shall take effect from the date of the
death OF the husbands of such widows, but
not dating back of the passage OF this act:
| That from the date of the passage OF this
| act this increase of pensions iOr minor chill
| dren shall be at the rate of 81 per month";
| instead OF 81 per month, as now provided
| by law, and in case a minor child is insane
| or idiotic, or otherwise hel pless, the pen
sion shall continue during the life of said
| child, or during the period of such dis
| ability.
That no agent, attorney or other person
engaged in preparing, presenting or prose-
| cutting any claim under the provisions of
| this act, shall directly or indirectly contract
tor, demand, receive or retain for such serv-
ices in preparing presenting or prosecuting
such claim, a sum greater than $40, which
sum shall be payable only upon. the order
of the commissioner OF pensions by the
pension agent making the payment Of the
| pension allowed, and any person who shall
violate any of the provisions of this section,
or who shallA wrongfully withhold from a
pens1oner or claimant the whole or any
part of a pension or claim allowed or due
such pensioner or claimant under this act
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and. upon conviction thereof shall fol
each and every offense be fined not exceed
ing $780, or be imprisoned at hard labor not
exceeding two years, or both, in the dis
crerion of the court.