The National tribune., 1899-03-23

benefit of the period of his service in the
perfecting of his title to the land home
6teaded.
J. NJ. S., Roxbury, Mass.-Your claim
simply illustrates a too common state OF
affairs in the Pension Bureau, years elaps-
ing before any action whatever, appar
entity, is taken, and then weeks growing
into months and years while the claimant
waits the next movement Of the official
machine.
I. S. R.-f you were court-martialed
for desertion, however unjust such action
may have been, ii is probable that part of
the prescribed penalty was the forfeiture
oil all bounty and pay due, and this for
feiture can be removed only by special
oct Of Congress. The chances OF success
before Congress would be small, unless
your case be one OF exceptional merit and
hardship.
Mrs. NJ. J. O., above. You cannot sell
your original homestead right.
7. b. b., Elizabeth, lil.-You would
probably not be regarded as entitled to
recognition and pay as a member OF Il
volunteer engineer regiment prior TO your
actual transfer 10 such regiment.
L. A. S., Dennison, Text is still held
that 10 be entitled TO pension under the
act Of June 81, 1890, the soldier must have
had an honorable discharge from each and
every term Of enlistment contracted dur
ing the period Of the war OF the rebellion.
This holding is not applicable TO claims
under the general law on disability OF
service origin.
u. c. H., Kutztown, Pa.-Thc rate OF
pension under the general law for loss OF
index finger is So per month, since March
2, 1885. The established rating is "4-1S. u
l.. n. H., Vermillion, N. VI you do
not care 10 prosecute your old claim, which
you say you abandoned years ago, but i'm
which the Pen Rnrpat, has lat La
called for evidence in response 10 an in
quiry made in Il later claim for increase
on pensioned disability, you are not
obliged TO do so. You can inform the Pen
sion Bureau that you do not wish Ia
prosecute said claim.
Ohio.-Whle the widow is living and
draws pension, the allowance To a per
mancntly helpless" child is only 81 pei
month. When the widow dies rcmar.
ries the IS or the Sl2 (or as the case may
be- OF the widow goes 10 the child. There
was no misstatement in the former an
swer in this column 10 which you refer.
a. NJ. C., Franklinville, n. Y.-The re-
married widow Of a Mexican War soldier
cannot now obtain pension for the period
OF her widowhoOd, nor can the children
for the period of their minority, as there
is no penSionablc period under the law
relating 10 pensions on account OF that
war. Nor is the case any different with
respect TO widows and children OF the In
dian wars from 1882 to 1872
g.. W. W, Macon, Mo.-Evidence es
tablishes nothing in the Pension Bureau
unless it is regarded there as sufficient
for the purpose to which il is directed.
The quantity of affidavits or the rank OF
title OF persons giving testimony is of no
weight unless the Pension Bureau re
CARDS the testimony as sufficient. As
you abandoned the disabilities on which
you originally based your claim under the
general law and took up new disabilities,
your pension under the general law could
commence only from the date you alleged
the new disabilities, and not from the
date you first claimed under the general
law. There is no fixed rating for the
various diseases from which pensionable
disability springs. If in consequence of
disability of accepted service origin you
are wholly incapacitated for the perform
B ence Of any effective manual labor of any
sort, you could obtain a rating Of $50.