Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-09-19
Useful Information About Pensions.

the Maine campaign.
Useful Information About Pension,
There are 26, 875 disabled soldier
pensioned at 81 per month-$24 pc
month.
Loss of both hands entities the lose
to pension Of 800 per month.
Twenty-seven widows and tw,
daughters still draw pensions on tn
revolutionary war rolls.
There were dropped from the pen
sion rolls in 1889, 16, 1907 names.
Total pension expenditures since 1861
(thirty-eight years., $1,052, 228, 423
War expenditures for 1865, "a, $50,
$50, 400.
The pension agent at Columbus, O..
has to sign checks, by his own hand
at the average rate Of S33 per day
counting 800 working days per year
Immoral conduct Of a pensione6
widow terminates her pension. If hel
dead husband has children under IL
years of age, the pension lin such G
case) is not continued to them, except
by very expensive methods.
| Amputation of an arm at or near the
shoulder joint, or leg at or near the
hip joint, entities the applicant to $45
| per month.
Each minor child (under 16 years OF
vge) is entitled to 81 per month.
The decrease Of pensions of the war
Of 1912 in 1889 was 1,026 Increase
OF pensioners of the Mexican war in
1889 was 2,107.
The average annual value of each
widows pension (of the civil war; is
$151.01.
There are five invalid soldiers PEN
stoned at 81. &c. and eight at 81. 66a
per month.
Pension for the loss Of both feet, or
the loss of sight OF both eyes, $72 per
month.
No service pension was granted for
Indian wars.
Artificial limbs furnished by the war
department will be renewed every five
years. or communication given instead,
as follows: Artificial legs, SIS; arms
$50; feet $50.
Pension for total deafness, $50 per
month.
The legal fee to be paid to pension
agent or attorney by applicant Gf no
special bargain is made) is $40 only.
II a pensioner is imprisoned for
crime his wife Cor the guardian of his
children) may draw his pension.
Indian pensioners in the Indian ter
ritory are required to be paid direct by
the pension agent, in standard silver.
at least once a year.
cne-half of all penalties and forfeit
ures on public lands, and all moneys
from the sale of naval prizes, are APP
piled to the payment of new pensions.
Citizens of Montana who served dur
ing the Nez Perces war may receive
pensions if disabled.
Pensions may not be attached OF
seized by or under any legal or equita-
| BILE process whatever.
Pensions cannot be legally pledged,
mortgaged, sold, assigned or trans.
! ferred.
But one pension is allowable to one
person at the same time, unless the
second pension states that it is in add.
ton to the first.
Pensions are paid quarterly.
OF the 10, 1913 army invalid claims
filed in 1880, only rs, 972 have beer
| allowed.
Pensions for total disability, $72 per
| month.
Only about 60 per cent OF the invalid
claims (soldiers' claims as distinguished
from widows claims) filed since 1861
have been allowed.
If pensioned widow marries hei
| pension ceases.
Forty-two and three-quarter mill
| ions of dollars have been paid to pen.
sioners of the war of 1912 since 1870,
and Of the Mexican war since 1865.
The number of rejected claims ir
1889 was 56, 679
Ohio filed the largest number O
claims in 1889, viz, 11,613. New
York was second with 7, 225.
The average annual value of eacf
| invalid pension on the civil war rolls
at the close of the fiscal year 1889 was
$125.S4.
There were 40, COS claims pending
June so, 1889.
We are now paying about S. 900,
600 annually to pensioners of the Mex.
lean war and the war of 1912 alone
This is more than three times as much
as we paid on the same accounts dur.
ing the five years preceding the civil
war and nearly double the highest an
nual payments on the same accounts al
any time before 1861.
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