Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-19

Proposed BY ". W. Rogers and Forwarded
10 NYnshington.

Proposed BY ". W. Rogers and Forwarded
10 Washington.
The following new pension bill was
prepared by VIM w. Rogers, Pension
and Claim Attorney OF this city, printed
in this paper August 30, 1889, and has
been forwarded TO Hon. John O. Pen
dleton TO be brought before Congress.
This bin should have passed four years
ago when COl. Rogers first wrote II, the
country would have been out OF debt
now and the pension business done
away with.
First-That all sailors, soldiers and
marines, who served three months in
the war 1S6l-65, and have an honorable
discharge or certificate, for said service,
shall npOn presentation Of such, prop
erly identified, (as required IN pension
and bounty claims at PRESENT. receive
So, 600 aud a land warrant for l6O acres
OF Government land.
Second-That all widows; II there be
no widow, the soldiers own children; II
the soldier have neither wife nor chill
dren, but a father, brother or sister,
who is an object OF charity, made so oy
misfortune, not by their own vicious
habits, they shall in their order receive
what would have been due the soldier.
Third-That the soldiers and heirs OF
the wars from 1912 to 1861, shall also
be entitled 70 the same consideration;
but the remarriage Of widow shall bar
her right.
Fourth-That those who have lost
both legs, feet, arms, eyes, or the entire
use Of their limbs, shall receive 81, 600
and loo acres Of land.
Fifth-That no person shall hold or
enter over five Of said land warrants.
Sixth-That those VINO do not desire
to accept the above conditions may be
kept the remainder Of their lives at Ma
tiCnal Home for Disabled volunteers
etc.
Seventh-That this shall forever set
tie ali Government pensions, the diner
ence between gold and greenbacks paid
them and their bounty land, and totally
abolish the pension system.
Eighth-The artificial limb law will
not be understood to be affected In any
way by the above.
Concerning this bill Mr. Rodgers said;
"The Government promised 10 pay
these soldiers in gold, and when gold
was worth S9.o2 they were paid In
green backs, worth about 50 80 100, and
the 100 acres OF land promised never
has been paid. To avoid il the cry is
now they receive S4O2 Veteran Bounty
instead. This never was mentioned at
that time, The troops were asked 70
veteranize, and IL there is a soldier yet
alive that understood that he received
any bounty money in lieu OF his 100
acres OF land, please answer me. My
proposition is, in my opinion, TO the ad-
vantage 70 the government. She con-
tracted TO care for her wounded and dis
abled soldiers and their widows and or
phans This mode will settle uD the
West with our own people instead OF
foreigners. Ia five years the amount
paid out will flow back in the way Of
taxes. Suppose the average amount
paid to pensioners TO be SIT per month,
which is about correct, to take the en-
tire roll, and on the increase as the
claimants grow older. We will take,
for instance, ten years time-l2O
months-at SIT per month, and we have
S., O4O, forty dollars more than my
proposition, and we are yet paying PEN
sions for the war of 1912, these PEN
sions range from 81 to 500 per month
and will about average SIT per month";.
Now consider how long Will we be pay
ing for our late war. To pay this at
once will better the COndi-
ton Of our COuntry-pay her
--houest debts, settle up the West, and
aid the soldier, widow and orphan, and
will stop this branch Of government
business entirely, also this grand old
army could not then be used by our
political friends. Twenty-iour years
have these soldiers waited patiently to
be paid and they are as far from it at
present as they were in 1865, but the
best OF promises made by both parties
each campaign. But, nevertheless,
that fat bond holder, who loaned the
government greenback money during
the war, with the understanding he was
10 be paid in same money without any
trouble, received gold with interest in
gold"