The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-01-23
WORKING HARD.
Judge olbson's most important bills
summarized.

Judge oIbson's most IMPORTANT bills
summarized.
During the shor. time Judge Gibson
has been in congress he has already
shown that he is the unwavering friend
Of the old soldiers and thier widows
and orphans. The TINES wishes 1t
had room to treat his various genesal
bits a, length; bu, it must content IT'S
seif with mere summary. The
"Southern cyclone" a. an enthusi-
astic Westerner called him, on hearing
his speech on the bosd bill, has Ia
troduced, beside the above, ever 50
many pension bills.
A bin to prevent the Commissioner
Of Pensions dropping pensioners
from the rolls after the pension has
been drawing 40 much as three years,
unless they are convicted in court
for obtaining their pensions by fraud,
or in case of married women who
re-mMry or live in adultery.
A bin to restore to the pension rolls
all pensioners who have been dropped
because Of conscription into the rebel
army and TO pevent any more such
pensioners from being dropped by
the Commissioner.
A bill 10 pay all the members OF
the National Guard Of East Tennessee
IN Blount, Loudon, Sewer, Jefferson
and Knox counties and it gives them
and their widows right to apension.
A bill to increase the pension Of all
soldiers who are totally disabled by
blindness, incapacity to use their
limbs, insanity, or other infnnities to
Fifty Dollars per month where their
disabilities have originated since
the war,
/. A bill to give every honorably
discharged Union soldier who served
Blk months and has reached the age
Of sixty-two a service pension of
Twelve Dollars per month.
A bill to pay Two Dollars per day
to every Union soldier for each day
he was confined in rebel prison and
to put them on the pension rolls, if
they are not already pensioned, at the
rate Of Twelve Dollars per month.
A bill to pay the Home Guards Of
Scott county and to give them and
their widows the right to a pension.
A bill to repeal so much of the new
pension law as requires widow to
prove that she is without the means
of support other than her daily labor.
a bill to restore to the pension
rolls all widows who have heretofore
been dropped because of adulterous
Capitalization where they prove that
the original charge was false, or thai
they have been living chaste and
moral lives for the last five years, and
to restore to the pension rolls all
widows who were dropped because Of
re-marriage, who have now no means
of support, except their daily labor
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/ A bill to pay arrears from the FL
ing of the original claim Of all soldiers
who were shipwlecked on the Sultana
Steamboat in April 1865, and to give
their widows ike right.
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Also bill to prescribe the plead
ings, practice and proof in the pros
ecution of pension claims which ydoes
away with a large number of the
technicalites IN the Pension Office
and enables any pensioner to draw
from the day his original claim wa:
filed, and providing that if the disa
bility existed within one year after
the soldier was discharged it will be
presumed to have originated while he
was in the service and in the line O.
duty. 1t prohibits claims going into
the hands of Special Examiners, un
less fraud be shown, and prohibits s
claim remaining in the hands of {
special examiner for a longer time
than six months. 1t prohibits thu
Commissioner waiting longer thar