The National tribune., 1895-12-26
SERVICE PENSION.
What the Comrades All Over The COun-
try Say About Il.

am In favor Of Service Pension at SO
per month. / think that would suit the
occasion real well. The time has arrived
wren we should have it. As far as | am
concerned L am willing to do all in my
power to get the pas age of the bill through
Congress. L have written to our Congress
man. and urged him to help all he cau.-C.
ID. HARVEY, Co. K, 9th Iowa Cav, Kenwiek.
Iowa.
have just read your paper and find that
you are booming the Service Pension Bill
for the old soldier. The law to pay not less
than SO per month to all soldiers who served
80 days and over is very good one. l
should like to add an amendment TO that
law, as follows An additional 81 per month
be added to each soldiers pension FIVE years
after this bill is passed. and an addi Ional -
per month 10 years after this bill is passed.
This is reasonable request that would
make a pension OF Sl2 TO AL soldiers 10 years
hence, and | do not think that any Congress
man could make fight against this BILL
j. W. HARRISON, ArmOurdale, Kan.
am heartily in favor of the Service Pen
sion, which would be q great help TO us all
in this time of need.-WM. Il. DART, Nc
KeespOrt, Pa.
am constant reader Of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE, and / am more than pleased to see
your firm stand on Service Pension. The
only fair and just way to start pension legis-
lation is by the 50 Service Pension, and as
soon as times admit try it again Comrades.
rally for the fight and help The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE to fight our battles, time is short
with most of us.-J WIER, Co. X, Oath
Ohio, Nebraska City, Neb.
think there ought to be Service Pension
Bill passed by this COngess and this Winter,
but III ought to be so per month; still, we
would be satisfied with 50. What we need
most is TO unite on one plain demand for our
rights, and stand firm until they are granted.
We can gain nothing by having number
of separate bills proposed. | think your
paper can make this fight for us better than
any other, as there are so many of different
opinions. We want justice done by us, and
that is all; and, in my opinion, a service
pension will help great many that no
other would. We have waited now 80 years
for this; if it is not done soon most of US
will be past need of pension, as we are no
longer young.
l will renew my subscription before my
time expires. MORIARTY, ir., Ser
geant, Co B, 96th n. Y, Queensbury, n. Y.
the Service HSnSlOn Dill Is ali
right j also think that the old vets of my
kind ought to be helped. 1 served two en-
listments-one in the 22d Me. and one in
the 1st Me. III. A. l received three wounds
in the charge on the line in front of Peters
burg, June Is, 1864, and afterward received
another injury and contracted rheumatism,
from which L have never recovered The
rheumatism induced heart trouble. For all
this | receive a pension of S14 a month.
How gladly would | give this up TO be as
well as / would have been had | not
received these hurts.-CLIvE C.. TRACY,
Wexford, K. /.
It gives me great pleasure to read your
ad yocacy of the Service Pension Bill. That
is the only way that those who have no pen
sions will get them under the present Adj
ministration. They have defined down the
new law until it is no better than the old
law. / have been rejected twice, and shall
not apply again, though my disabilities have
made me a cripple for life.-EDwARD
SMITH, Soldiers Home, n. j.
I am in favor of Service Pension. 1
think that the time has come when all old
soldiers who served not less than 90 days in
the Union army or navy should be placed
on the pension-roll, and those that draw less
under the old laws should be raised TO 50
month. Keep the ball rolling.-RoBERT
POWELL, 18th U. S. G. T., Macon, Mo.