The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-02-04
PENSIONS.
Arkansas.


sion should discriminate between those VINO |
served three months and three years. Inc
time has come for carrying out the promises
Of the grand Lincoln.
Frank L. Hicks, late private, Lieutenant,
Captain and Major w. Va. Vols, Carroiton,
Ill.,, hasa scheme for a Service Pension that |
will give So month to all who served 90 |
days and less than one year. 50 to all who |
served one year and less than two, and S12 |
month to all who served over two years. All |
pension agencies to be abolished, and pensions |
paid by check direct from Washington.
Illinois.
Austin Cruver, 37th ILL.,, Chicago, H., |
thinks that the Service Pension ought to
pass, as partial reimbursement for the loss |
preciated money.
Indian Territory.
Thos A. Williams, Co. Z, list Ark, Paw
Paw, l. T.: The comrades of the Indian
Territory and western Arkansas are with one
accord in favor of the Service Pension. 1t
will free them from the war that has been
els and soldier haters.
Kentucky.
Adam RAIDER, Co. A, 47tb KY, Welchburg,
KY: / hope that THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
will keep up the fight to the victorious end
for the Service Pension. / am IN favor OF
Maj. Picker for Commissioner of Pensions.
Maine.
John E. McKenney, Eliot, Me-: / think the
old adage as true now as ever, In union
there is strength, and if the veterans will
unite on Service Pension Bill, we can,
think, bring pressure enough to secure Its
passage. Comrades, let us reason together,
and pull all together for Service Pension at
the next session of Congress "We are now
an army for which there are no recruits )"
the tide is bearing us on a few more short
years and the final muster-out OF us all.
Michigan.
Lunsford III. Stanley, Co. X, 18th Ind,
Negaunee, Mich: / am for the Per Diem
Service Pension Bill There is the most
equity in it, since it will pension those who
served longest and saw the hardest work.
L. III. Stanley, Co. X, 18th Ind, Negaunec,
Mich: / think that since the Per Diem Bill
is started on the legislative road, we had
better toe up to it, and try and getit through,
and then raise it to So afterwards.
Missouri.
A. L. Galloway, Co. f, 25th H., Quitman,
Per Diem Bill, which he feels is the only
just one. At the close of the war his regi-
ment, a veteran one, was sent to the Rio
Grande to enforce the Monroe Doctrine,
while regiments which had come out in the
last year of the war, receiving big bOunties,
were discharged and sent home. He thinks
it rank injustice to put the men of his regi-
ment and those of these short-term ones on
the same level.
Minnesota.
Warren Oman, Co. c., 154th n. Y, Moor
head, Mimi, thinks that a proper administra-
ton of the Disability Law, and a repeal of
the limitation to the arrears of pensions are
about all that we should ask for. This will
come nearer justice than any measure yet
proposed. A man should be entitled to PEN
sion from the date of incurrence of his dis
ability.
Geo Forsyth, Co. G., list MINI. III. A.,
Cleveland, Mimi: / take my stand with THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE in favor of the straight
Service Pension.
Nebraska.
Timothy Bresnahan, North Platte, Neb. {:
As am drawing $12 month, the passage of
| the Service Pension will not help me any,
| but I should like to see it passed for the
DenenG OF OtnerS.
J. III. w. Harris, Co. F, s5th Ind, Fair
| bury, Neb.: / heartily indorse the Service
Pension; also THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and
| Maj. Picker for Commissioner of Pensions.
New York.
| Edwin Rose Post, Sag Harbor, N. Y,
| unanimously Endorses THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE Service Pension Bill.
E.S. Austin, Co. NJ, list Md. Cav, Glens
Falls, N Y. prefers a Per Diem Pension
Bill to the Service Pension. :.
IL. Cochran, Co. H, 18th lows, Cohoes,
N. Y, is very glad that there is no truth in
the rumor in regard to THE NATIONAL
| TRIBUNE's suspension. The comrades could
not do without their indelatigabIe champion,
| and for his part he proposes to take the pa
| per as long as he lives. Mckinley cannot do
better than appoint Maj. John A. PickleI
| Commissioner of Pensions. He is a true
friend and an able man, who understands
the pension business thoroughly, and will
administer it fairly, with o strong leaning
| toward his old comrades
| Geo. W. Fordney, Co. F, 9Th M. s. NJ,
Yoncalla, Ore: cordially indorse the Ser
vice Pension Bill published in The Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE of JAN IA; also, Maj
Picker for Commissioner Of Pensions.
Pennsylvania.
John Sager, Co. F, 121st Pa, New May
vile, Pa. thinks that if the Service Pension
will give pensions to those loyal Southerner:
| who were pressed into the rebel army, bu
afterward escaped and did good service fol
the Union, it should be hidden Godspeed
He knows of Lawrence Thompson and his
brother, who did this; joining one of oul
Maryland regiments and fighting calamity
and all the time with ropes around theil
necks, for capture meant death. They were
each wounded twice. He would like to heal
from them.
A. J. Robson, Co. K, 18th Pa. Cav.
Eauinunk, Pa, was prisoner for IL month:
ut AndersOnville and elsewhere. He strongly
fayors the passage of the Service Pension.
VIM j. JONES' Co. II, 1881 Pa, was con
scripted into the rebel army. but made hi:
escape, and afterward gave the Union II
months of active service. He received al
honorable discharge. but has been unable te
get pension, on account OF his service in thu
rebel army. Around him are or 10 com
rades in the same fix. He earnestly hope
that the Senate will not strike out the frs
section of the Picker Bill, which allow
pensions to such as he.
Walter Herman, Co. B, 13Sth Pa, New Ok
ford, Pa, is disguised with the Board of Exam
lining Surgeons as at present constituted
| They seem to want to make money by re