The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-13
GREAT PENSION ROLL
Whole Number on June 80 Was &c.
OLA and Still Growing.
Total Amount Paid Out During the Year.
0I39,949,517-NewP Plan Regarding
soIdiers' HOmes-Seheme to
Aid Immig grants

WASHINGTON. Nov. THE first an
nual report of Commissioner of PEN
sions II. Clay Evans to the secretary OF
the interior was made public yester-
day. A summary follows:
There were added to the rolls during
the year the names of so, l0l new PEN
sioners and there were restored to the
rolls 3,97l pensioners who had previ-
ously been dropped, total of 54,o72.
During the same period the losses to
the roll were 81, $50 by death, 1,074 by
remarriage of widows and mothers,
1,s45 by legal Limitation (minors), 2,6ss
for failure to claim pension for three
years and 1850 for other causes, an
aggregate of II, 122. The whole num-
ber of pensioners on the rolls June 80,
1897. was 9T6,014. The gain over the
previous year was 8, S36. 1t will thus
be seen that the pension roll has not
yet begun to show any diminution,
though it has been anticipated for sew
eral years.
The report gives the number of west
ern pensioners and the amounts of
pensions disbursed for the fiscal year
1897 as follows: Missouri, 53,257 PEN
sioners, 81, 226, 425.04; Kansas, 40,s43
pensioners. SO, 2s4. 1876. SO; Indian terri
tory, 1855 pensioners, $685., ,003. 81; Okla
homa, 0,1T2 pensioners, ss11, ,209. 10.
Seven widows of revolutionary soldiers
and nine daughters of revolutionary
soldiers are still on the rolls
During the year "a, 454 pension GER
tificates were issued, of which number
SO. iOl were original allowances and
the balance were reissues, increases,
restorations, etc. During the same
period 70, 234 claims of various Glasses
were disallowed. This number, how
ever, does not include claims which
were made for higher rates of PEN
sions. The amount disbursed for PEN
sions during the year was $lSe, e49,-
T1T.S5. This exceeds the amount dis
bursed during the fiscal year 1898 by
81, 5O4, $50. 1S.
New Plan for soIdiers' Homes.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-The annual
reports of the board of managers of
the United States soldiers homes, soon
to be submitted to congress, will show
that all the homes are filled to the full
limit of their capacity and that in GER
tain localities there are many worthy
and dependent soldiers entitled to
these privileges who have to be turned
away because of the present over
homes. Additional appropriations for
new quarters consequently will be
asked for by the board and will, of
course, receive the earnest support
of those representatives who have
homes located in their districts. But
these recommendations will run coun-
ter to a new proposition which In
speetor General Breckenridge will
l. -. l.. k-n
for consideration. This contemplates
the use annually of about 500, 900
from the regular appropriation for the
support of the homes for allotments to
those dependent soldiers who can
not be provided for in the homes be-
cause OF lack of accommodations. A
number of meu at present are Ia homes
who would much prefer to go outside
and live with their families If they
had an allotment Of So or $40 a month
maintain them In the homes. In this
way, Gen. Breckinridge figures it out.
Q sufficient number of vacancies will
be made in the homes to pro-
vide for those who are unable to OBJ
tain admission.
scheme to Aid Immigrants.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Senator Fair
banks. of Indiana, has gone to New
York for the purpose of making an in
quiry as chairman of the committee Oh
immigration into the plans and pur-
poses of company which was or
gsnized in that city last year to re-
usvs the government of its care and
responsibility concerning immigrants.
The object of this organization is q
mixture of business and benevolence.
1t proposes to erect q building upon
Ellis island. adjoining the immigrant
depot, which shall be ., hotel. hospital,
information bureau, forwarding agency
and land Office, and combine all
other necessary aids and agencies for
the benefit of the strangers within
our gates,
So far as known here the COM
pany proposes to take charge of all i'm
migrants upon their arrival in New
York, feed and shelter them at a nomi-
nal cost as long as they wish to stay
under its protection, find them homes
and employment in such localities rs
seem suitable to their condition and
welfare, arrange for their transporta-
tion and for the purchase of land II they
have means-in short. to stand between
immigrants who have no friends to
look after them and the rest of the
world.