The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-09-15
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED.
PRESIDENT ASKED TO ABRO-
GATE A RULE.
Appeal for Moro Liberal Treatment OF
Widows-CommittecN Named to Appeal
4! the President, and to Go Before Com
Cress.

In the closing hour of the Crane
Army encampment the report OF the
pension committee, which was recon-
mitted with instructions to the com
mittee to embody therein the desires Of
the encampment relative to the pension
laws, was again presented, The report
was accompanied by resolutions drawn
by the committee and the encampmen1
a. once adopted them unanimously.
They were as follows:
"Your committee on pensions re-
spectfully presents this supplemental
report pursuant to the instructions Of
the encampment.
1--WE respectfully direct attention te
Section Al of the revised statutes Of
the United States which reads as jol'
lows: THE commissioner of pensions
shall perform under the direction OF
the secretary of the interior 'sMch dute,
In the execution of pension and bounty
laws as may be prescribed by She pres
ideyt
Resolved, That this encamps1entre'
specifically represents to the president
its earnest conviction that Rule 225,
now In practical effect in the adjhdica'
ton OF claims for pensions, under Sec
ton OF the bet of June 81, 1s90,in the
pension bureau works grave injustice
10 worthy eX-soJdiers and ex-soAaiersi
and we express the hope that yorSwill
find it censisteA1 with your duties as
an executive officer to abrogate this
rule and re-esta blish the principle as
defined in Rule Is4. Under the opera
tloa of Rude 1914, formulated and put
into, effect soon after the passage
offtais act, unquestionably responsive
to pnblic sentiment and based upon
sound legal propositions, in word,
the simple expression of the letterand
spirit, of the, law, zoe, 900 names were
addecs to the' pension roll of there
publiGs and 't0'whicss NO objection was
heard ior years aftey it's prOmulgatioo.
Resolved, Chat this encampmensre-
spectfrsry represents that the practice
i'm the'rension Bureau in barring widow
claima1 Is who-liave' ~, income of SOFA
year, is not warranted by the terms OF
the law, and we warmly endorse the
recon mcndat ioa of the commissioner OF
pensions TO successive secretaries OF
the inter 5or thai the Mauitatio bt-in-
creased toS25O year.
4sResol ved, That the. command sr~in-
cliTef appoint committee of five COM
rudes to present to the president GER
sitfed copy of theactiom of this ncitiou-
nj escamismenti with an expression OF
our earness desire. for jsrstice only; tic
our comrades and the widows anflor-
cneDs of cur,deasiunder the letter. and
spirit of tlss'la
Resolved, That this commi ttee" Is
hereby au shorizesl' and directed, in the
event that il is 3eternined thai relief
may not he aece9ded by the admins
trptive officers OF the government, TO
present to~Oongress n request for tho
aanendm e.s of, tas law in such form as
20 make certain the true intantion ,oi
the statutes as, we believe ia; can be
constructed as hsreiD presented.
I. The reg0rte was signed BY r.. R.
Brown, Ji.W. Barst, John Palmer and
Charles Clark Albums. The committee
RS suggestedi in, tine report, was, ap
pointed, consisting Of the taarsigners
of the report, together wish, General
Daniel Ssnkles- of New York.