The National tribune., 1898-10-20

Il. c. S., Prescott, Kan.-rf the ''75 aft i
davits' filed in your claim for invalid pen
sion under the general.l law covered all the
requirements of the Pension Bureau it
would seem strange that the claim has not
been allowed. But it is not m re null
tiplicity of affidayits that secure pensions.
There are thousands of affidavits filed in
the Pension Bureau by incompetent attOr-
neys, and claimants untitled to act as
their own attorneys, that are not worth the
paper they are written on as evidence to
establish the claim. Ii your proofs are
completed to the best OF your information,
perhaps an inquiry by your member of
Congress or one of your Senators may Sc
cure for you at least information as to the
official status OF the case. Your attorney
is competent one, and will give your case
every needful attention.
nj. Z. F., Goshen, Ark.-I. is held that
in general a commOn-iaw marriage will be
regarded as arising when widow was
ignorant of the fact that the soldier had
an undivorced wife living at the time of
his marriage, but from whom he suisse
quently obtained divorce, of which facts
the widow did not learn until after the sol
dier'S death.
NJ. f. p, Yuma, Ariz.-There appears to
be no law fixing the fee or charge for the
execution of a pension voucher. Where
an excessive charge is made the pension
er's remedy is to go to someone whose
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j. B. c., Bridgeport, Gonna pensiOner
should not sign his voucher until he can
lawfully be sworn to it, 1t is not unlaw-
full for a person not the rightful owner to
retain pension certificate and voucher
as an accommodation, but it is more pru-
dent not to make a practice of doing So
w. NJ, Mauch Chunk, Pa.-lt is imprac-
ticable to send you copy OF the act of
June, 1864, providing for an increase of pay
of the enlisted men CT the Regular and
Volunteer Armies. The law may be found
in the u. S. Statutes for 1864.
X. l.. K.-When after yeteraniZing man
was promoted to the grade of commissioned
officer, he was entitled only to the accrued
installmentS of the veteran bounty unless
he had served two years under his veteran
enlistment. Pension rate according to
rank, under the general law, is determined
by the rank OF tie person at the time
when the pensioned disability was in
Cured. Rank subsequently attained cuts
no figure in determining the rate of the
pension.
Z +. S. W., Central, Ind.-If you have been
granted an increase without any formal
notice as to the official action on your
claim for rerating, the probability is that
the rerating claim has been rejected.
Unless a wound and its admitted results
have been substantially the same as to
condition and disability therefrom during
the entire pensioned period, no rerating
can be had.
T. II. B. R.-When a soldiers widow
remarries to another old soldier, she may
acquire a new pension title through the
second husband.
Mrs. c. w. S., Sandy Lake, Pa.-All
additional evidence to reopen a rejected
pension claim should be filed with the
Commissioner of Pensions. When the
evidence has been received and cons idered
by the Pension Bureau, notice will be given
Of the result. The pay proper of a Second
Lieutenant of infantry during the war OF
the rebellion was 81 400 year.
o. b. NJ, Hurdland, Mo.-The first pen
sion provision for widows was a resolution
passed by the old ngress, Aug. "a, 1889.
When widow pensioner remarrieS, the
children of the soldier then under 16 are
entitled TO the same pension the widow
would have been entitled to receive until
was a resolution of the old Congress dated
Ang. 26, 1916.
+. p, Savannah, n. Y.-If the soldier
left surviving him widow or legitimate
child, all other heirs are barred from pen
sion.
A c., Higbee, Mo.-Mcdical science
recognizes that certain diseases may re-
suit from certain other diseases, and ap-
plying these principles in your case the
medical officers of the Pension Bureau
hold that your rheumatism cannot be re-
garded as result of the other diseases
in regarding it as result; it may have
been occasioned by the same conditions
that caused the other disea ases, and if you
can trace it back to the service by salts
factory evidence your pensionable title
thereon under the general law will be
recognized. All additional evidence to
strengthen rejected case preliminary to
appealing to the Secretary of the Interior
should be filed with the Pension Bureau.
j. l.. H., Rawson, O.-The prescribed
fee of the attorney of record in any claim,
other than for pension money, pa by the
Treasury Department, is ordinarily 10 per
cent. of the amount collected. In almost all
classes CT claims against the Government
the process of adjudication extend into
months and years.
j. c., Mystic, Iowa.-The only s25
ratings of invalid pension under the gem
eral law are for '' total disability, accord
ing TO rank, of a Major, and for total deaf
ness of one ear and severe of the other
" Total disability rates have long since
lost their original significance The S12
rating under the act of June 27, 1890, is
ostensibly equivalent to the $40 rating
under the general law for inability to per-
form any effective manual labor of any
sort, but in actual practice this degree of
disa Element does not seem to be required
to entitle to the S12 act of 1880 rating.