The National tribune., 1895-03-28
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

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. separate sheet OF paper. give full name and adj
dress and mark 1t Correspondents Column" No
attention will be paid to communications not ac-
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requested that a stamp be inclosed for reply by
letter Postal cards will be replied 10 by mail
only. Replies by mail will ordinarily be made
within a week. and II in this column within three
weeiks.l
j. P. H., Oskaloosa Ioua.-Please answer the
following: d married G i'm 1880; child ia
born in 1882: in 1890 G is divorced from d.
and in 1892 ID remarries to Z and dies of dis
ease contracted in the service. His widow, E.,
applies for pension and gets So month. G.,
the former wife, applies as guardian of her
child by d; what rate of pension will she
get as guardian, 81 month or $62 Ansuer
Only 81 a month.
Ifrs. r. w., Do,rns, Rns.-Please inform me
whether when soldier, who is a pensoner.
dies his widow can get the accrued pension
due on his certificate and also get pay from
the Government for the expenses of his last
illness and burial. ARsDer. Upon due appl-
cation and proof the accrued pension will be
paid to the widow but not any allowance for
the expenses of the last illness, as such an al.
l0wance reimbursement expenses, last illness
and buriaD can not be made if widow or
minor child of the soldier survived. Under
the present law the rights of the widows and
minors are ahead of reimbursement claims, and
if the accrued pension has been paid to the
widow or to the minors (if no widow, then
there remains fund out of which reim-
bursement expenses could be paid. To collect
the accrued pension, application should be
made to the Commissioner of Pensions.
l. L., Cor's Mills, Lnd.-Please answer the fol-
lowing and settle my doubts: A pensioner is
drawing 81 a month under the old law and
has applied for additional pension under the
act Of June 81, 1890. and also for an increase
under the old law; now, if he is given PEN
sion OF. say. So month under the new law and
surrenders his old law certificate. can he still
proceed with the old law claim for increase?
Ansuer. Yes; but of course il would not be
likely to receive favorable consideration unless
he was entitled Hereunder to a rate in excess
OF So amonth.
Old Veteran, Ophir. Cal-This State exempts
from the payment of poll-tax all honorably.d
charged Union soldiers. Some contend that in
1868 Congress passed an act promising such ex-
emption for all soldiers who should enlist as vet
Grams. Was any such law enacted? Anstper
No; it is a matter over which Congress has no
jurisdiction. it being within the exclusive
province of the several States.
G.. B.. Springfield, M-Please inform me IA
to the rating under the general law for total
deafness OF one ear and slight of the other
Aasrer. $50 month.
G.. w. W., Cotusd, CdL--Please inform me
whether the teamsters of the Mexican war are
entitled to pensions. Ans,cer. They are not.
8. T. W-tPostoffce omitted, which will
hereafter prevent any attention being paid to
any communications lacking same. as well as to
letters unsigned asks: Where soldier
adopts teaching as his life work and after
years of labor at his chosen profession is COM
PEELED to give up teaching entirely OIL account
of ill health, his disability being permanent,
is he entitled = pension under act of June
%, 1892" Answer. We think SO; we believe
that the law should be SO interpreted as to en-
title in such n case.
j. o., National Home, visa man serves four
years in the volunteer service in the war of the
rebellion and is honorably discharged there.
from. After the war he enlsts in the Regular
Army, and for an otfcnse is tried by general
and Is dishonorably discharged |
the service. How does this affect his title to |
pension under tho act of June "a, 1890? An
swer. In no degree. i