The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-10-09
PENSIONS.

| TIE annual report Of Commissioner
Raum, Of the Pension Bureau, submitted
TO the secretary Of the Interior, shows that
on June 3o 1901. there were 676.I6o pen
sionefs borne upon the rolls OF the bureau,
hcing i3S,st6 more than were carried On
the rolls at the close oi the last fiscal year.
| d They are classified rs follows: Widows
and daughters OF Revolutionary soldiers,
25; pfmy invalid pensioners, 4 s. s97 army
widow s,n'Inor children. etc 1903, 557 navy
invalid pensioners, s,44o; navy widows.
minor children. etc, a,s6s; survivors Of
the war OF 1919. $50; survivors Of the
Mexican war. 10 37o; widows oftoldiefs
OF the Mexican war, 6,07o.
Following are the number Of pensions q
the several classes gtanttd under the act
OF June AZ, 1890; Army invaIid pensioners,
o7.I36; army widows, minor children, etc
is,,c9; navy invalid pensioners, 1916;
navy wIdows. minor children, etc t,436.
During the last fiscal car first payments
were paid upon 49,, 100 original claims, re-
quir!ng $3i,39t,s3s for their payment.
This 10 an increase In the number OF or
igna' paymenta over the year 1890 Of o.
s3s. The aggregate cost, however, was
81 ,oS7, jog less
There wers 2aa,sst first payments of
every description, requiring t3s, $50. .s74,
being 500 .sos lees than was required Tor
the f3o.si4 frat payments made during The
last fiIseal year. The average value OF
first Payments made during the year was
s2Jo. .35, and The average value oi fret pay
msn,s on claims allowed undsr the act Of
June ~. 1890. was t7i.ss. The average
value Of fra. payments for the proceeding
year was s4ss.7t. being reduction In the
average FIRE, payments Of Fa46 81.
TIE aggregate annual value OF the 676..
TO pensions on the roll June 81. 1881, was
ss9,a74. 200. and the average annual value
Of each pension was $3.50 -. and the av-
erage annual value OF each pension under
the act Of June ~, 1870. xas Siai.si.
The total amour. dIsbnrsed on account
OF pensions. expenses, etc. during The fiscal
year was SIoS.s4s.9s97i,as a. compared with
Sto5 ,4o5, $50. 10 disbursed during the pre-
eedins fiscal year. so that Il appears thai
s5s,sI6 pensioners were added 10 the rolls
during the iseal year jus, closed. at an In
creased coat TO the nation Of sI2.oss. .o6o as
compared ~iih the expenditures for the
previous Gseal year, and said expenditures
include s4.3sT.3t7 paid upon vouchers re-
mslnIng unpaid 5, The close Of The year
Pensions we.e gran;cd each OF The last
four ears IA follows: 1883. 1878; 1870.
I4s..9s; 1899, tst.6ss; 1891, ssas6s.
"tn the condget Of the business ior the
pas, year, Ia addition 10 the adjudication Of
completed cases, II has been a prime oo-
ieei," Esys the commissioner, ''to put a.
many cases az possible In train for COM
pleiion. with thls end In view Col. q
orders were made for medical examinations
and 474.eso medical examinations have
actually been received. 34s,S67 reports
from the War Department have been re-
celved. giving the military and medical
history in a. many eiaIms."
purlng the las, year so.sas pensioners
were dropped from the rolls for various
causes. and of this number I5.23o were
dropped by rt ason OF death. In 1890 the
loss TO The pension rolls by the deeease of
widows and dependent mothers and fathers
was at the rate Ct IS per 1000; in 1890.
35 per thousand, and In 1891, IS per 1000
II IL estimated that OF the soldiers who
served the country during the late war =
oo4,ssS we're killed In battle or died during
and since the war. On June 80 Las, I,4,7so
of thete deceased soldiers were represented
on the pension rolls BY their wiaows or
other dependents.
There are about !. sos.7o7 soldiers of the
Union now living, and Of the survivors
sso,isS are now on the pension rolls.
There are. therefore, 65S,s49 survivors
who are MT pensioneJ. ard $40, ,9os de-
ceased soldiers not represented on the pen
sion rolls. There were fs4,St7 congress.
Ional calls for the condition OF cases made
dudne the pat fiscal year, being an average
OF more than FIVE hundred per year.
In concluding his report the eomnis-
sloner says that on an average about 3d.
600 pension certificates are being issued
each month and that during the current
year he expects that as many as 100000
claims will be adjudicated, for which he
believes the present appropriation of $685.
473.oss viii be amply sufficient