The National tribune., 1897-10-28

or attorney or other person shall demand or
receive any other compensation for his services
| in prosecuting . claim for pension or bounty
| land than such as the Commissioner of Pensions
| shall direct to be paid to him, not exceeding
| $e5; nor shall such agent, attorney or other
person demand or receive such compensation,
| in whole or in part. until such pension or
| bounty-land claim shall be allowed" Any
| person fairly entitled to compensation for
special services actual expenditures In the
prosecution of a pension claim will do well to
| submit the facts to the Commissioners of PEN
| sions 1t is denied that Commissioner Evans
has ordered that all claims for increase of pen
/ sion on new disability shall be put into the
hands of Special Examiner.
c. A. b.. Mt. Holly Springs. Pa.-The act OF
March 2, 1895, provides that the mailing Of a
| pension check, drawn by Pension Agent in
| payment of q pension due, TO the address OF a
| pensioner. shall constitute payment in the
| event of the death Of a peusioncr subsequent
to the execution of the voucher therefor" Ii
the amount of the check does not exceed 800,
it may. on application to the Auditor for the
Interior Department be made payable to the
| person lawfully entitled to it. If the amount
exceeds $500 it may be made payable only 20
the administrator or executor Of the deceased.
WM s., ST. Johns Mich-When a widows
claim for pension under the general law is
pending at Der death and there are children OF
she soldier entitled, being under 16 at the date
of the soldiers death, the widows claim be-
comes merged into the childrens claim. There
is but one claim that of the children, and but
| one fee is allowable.
J. J. f., Camp Point, W.-Invaid pension
granted under the act of june q, 1890, com
mences from the date of filing of the applica-
tion hereunder, whether or not the claimant
is already pensioned under the general law.
1t is not claim for increase of pension in the
technical sense.
II. E. 1.-THE case recently noted in The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE, in which Assistant Sec
| rotary Davis considered the question as TO hon
orable discharge under the act of June q,
1890, is that of Dennis Murphy, Co. G, 4th
Cal, Sept. 9, 1897.
Soldiers Home Ohio.-When second medical
examination is ordered it indicates that the
Pension Bureau is not satisfied with the report
of the first Board, or that for some medical
reason the opinion of another Board is desired.
The case should be heard from within six
months if the proofs are complete Orders for
medical examination issue from the AdJudi-
eating Divisions of tho Bureau. as rule.
Medical examination may be ordered at vari-
Gus stages of the prosecution OF pension
claim. In all claims for invalid pension she
claimant is usually ordered for examination
within few months after the claim is filed.
Assistant Secretary Davis did apparently de-
eide that invalid pensioners drawing SIT per
month should be regarded as entitled to the
$24 rating if additional disability Of as much
as 1-18 were found on medical examination,
but in more recent decision this idea Is aban-
doned, and the former practice again prevails,
under which it must be shown to the satisfac-
ton Of the Bureau that the dsablement from
all causes of service origin is equivalent in de-
gree to the loss of hand or foot.
CampbeH-A widow is not debarred from
pension because OF not having married the SOL
der until after he himself had applied for PEN
sion. The only bar that exists is that pre-
scribed by the act OF June 81, 1890, which de-
MES pension under that act to widows who did
not marry the soldier until after June 26. 1880.
+. o., Excelsior, Kinn.-Ciaims for increase
of pension pensioncd disability have not re-
ceived much attention, apparently, in the Pen
Sion Bureau for some seven years past. The
disposition has been to give attention to the
claims of those applicants not pensioned, or
who claim on new disabilities.