News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-26
Vermont Pensions.
THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM
RECENT DEMOCRATIC SLAUGHTER.

THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM
RECENT DEMOCRATIC SLAUGHTER.
From the Burlington Free Press.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 23.-The
Senate passed a resolution, dated
April II, 1894, which reads as fol-
lows
That the Secretary of the Interior be. and
is hereby, directed TO inform the Senate Of
the number OF pensioners whose pensions
have been suspended or cancelled since the
4th day Of March, 1893; the number Of such
pensioners whose pensions have been restored
TO the rate they were drawing at the time of
such suspension or cancellation the number
names, postofiice address and rate Of those
pensioners whose pensions have been par
italy restored since that date, and the cause
of the reduction of the rate they we're draw
ing at the date of the suspension or cancella-
ton, and also the number of those who have
been fully restored to the pension roll at the
rate they we're drawing at the time of sus-
pension or cancellation, and the number.
names. postoffice address and the cause of
suspension or cancellation OF those whose
pensions have been entirely suspended or
cancelled.
In accordance with this resolution
the Secretary of the Interior has
transmitted to the Senate under date
of June 26, 1894, a statement of the
number of pensioners whose names
were suspended between March 4,
1898, and May 10, 1894, and re-
sumed at the same rate; the number
of pensioners in whose cases pay
ments were suspended during the
same period upon which no further
action has been taken; the number
of pensioners whose rates were re-
duced, also the number of pension
ers whose names were dropped from
the rolls, during that period.
The statement shows that the num-
Der suspended and resumed at the
same rates was $500, the number
still suspended 326, the number re-
duced 3,014 land the number dropped
2,671.
The Vermonters whose pensions
were reduced or dropped during the
period mentioned above, and the
cause for which such action was
taken, are as follows:
Reduced-For the reason that the
pensionable disability did not exist
in degree to warrant continuance
at former rates, under the act of
June 81, 1890: Alfred A. Betterly,
Brattleboro, $12 to So; Guy D.
Boynton, Hinesburgh, s. to Sc;
Joseph Clifford, Bennington, s. to
So; James Granger, Middletown
Springs, $12 to So; Thomas H. Cor
don, Wardsboro, $12 to IS; William
Masters, West Salisbury, So to Sc;
Henry B. Norton, Island Pond, $12
to SIS; Henry H. Paine, Cambridge.
Sc to S.; Homer Sherwood, North
Underhill IS to Sc; Joseph A. Star
bird, Saxton's River, SIS to Sc; W.
S. Swift, Pittsfeld, IS to Sc.
Reduced under the general law
Moses Collins, Brookfield, $12 to
10; John Dutton, Brandon, $25 to
II; William Miner, Richford, $17 to
10; Edwin c. Potter, st. Johnsbury,
SIS to 10; William Walker, Spring
field, $S to 6.
Dropped for the reason that
the soldiers deserted, or were dis
honorably discharged from the
military or naval service, under
the army invalid act of June 81,
1S90-James Robinson, West Paw
let, rate $12; and under the general
law, John Tobin, Dandy, rate So.
Dropped for the reason that they
were not ratably disabled for earning
a support by manual labor-Edward
Emery, Washington, rate SIS; George
Jeffs, Proctorsville, rate So; Edwin
H. Putnam, Brattleboro, rate So !;
John Van Drum, Chester Depot, rate
So; George W. Williams, Upper
Waterford, rate Sc.
Dropped for the reason that the
disabilities for which they were pen
stoned had ceased to exist in a pen
sionable degree-Samuel Hill, Green's
boro, rate So.