The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-15
NOT SATISFIED.
New Pension Bill Does Not
Please the G. A. r.
Gen. j. X. Hudson Secures Ad-
verse Action at HOltOn.
TEXT OF THE MEASURE
Passage of Resolution Came Al
together Too Late.
Has Already Become Part of the
National Law.
TEXT OF THE MEASURE

enacted by congress. Some Republicans
claim the bill was what the national G.. |
A. r. encampment endorsed and asked |
for; others assert that the bill as it be-
came a law will not improve the condi- |
lions against which the C. A R. mem |
bers have been making their attacks
on the subject of pensions.
The trouble started at the Holton en-
campment when D. r. Anthony intro
dueed a resolution thanking congress
for passing and the president for sign
ing this new law.
J. K. Hudson moved that the Anthony
resolution be laid upon the table and
with A. W. Smith and P. H. Coney sue
ceeded in having the resolution to table
adopted
Gen. Hudson claimed that the bill was
not what the old soldiers wanted and
presented a resolution which was adopt
ed as follows:
Resolved, That we most emphaticaI-
" disapprove of the pension bill known
as the Gallinger senate bill 1477, which
is an imposition and will place pension
claimants in no better condition than
now. We declare ourselves op-
posed to such a bill and urge our repre-
sentative in congress to secure it's de-
feat, and in lieu thereof give US a. ser
vice pension law or laws that can not
be juggled with or misconstrued, and
that are definite and unambiguous; but
we do not in this ask for an increase
OF the rating of pensions as now provid-
ed by law"
The Congressional Record in report
ing the passage of the law recites the
fact that Gen. Dan Sickles, one of the
members of the committee designated
| by the last national encampment of the
| G.. A. R. was present during the con-
| sideratiOn of the bill in the house. The
| G. a. r. named a committee which re-
| ported the preparation of the Ga1linger
| bill. Curtis and Calderhead of Kansas
/ during Gala ion Of
| law that it would not go far enough
| towards the purpose for which it was
aimed However, the law was passed
| and signed by the president before the
| Holton encampment adopted the resolu-
| ton calling upon the Kansas delega ton
in congress to urge and work for its de-
| feat.
Under the old practice one disability
from one cause was required to be suf-
| hc1ent to secure pension. Under the
new law all the disabilities incurred are
aggregated. Formerly a disability must
show the applicant entitled to a S. pen
| sion. U~&r the new law disabilities
| are so classified that they each carry a
| 81 rate, the minimum pension being Sc
per month; the maximum $12.
The new law as amended passed by
congress and signed by the president
is, emitting the enacting clause, as fol-
lows:
Section ?. That all persons who
served 80 days or more in the military
in the late war of the rebellion and
who have been honorably discharged
therefrom and who are now or who
hereafter may be suffering from
any mental or physical disability or
disabilities of a permanent character,
not the result of their own vicious
habits, which so incapacitates them
from the performance of manual labor
as to render them unable to earn a sup
port, shall, upon making due proof of
the fact, according to such rules and
regulations as the secretary of the in
terror may provide, be placed upon the
list of invalid pensioners of the United
States and be entitled to receive a pen
sion not exceeding S12 per month and
not less than Sc per month, proportioned
to the degree of inability to earn a sup
port; and in determining such inabil-
| 1ty each and every -infirmity shall be
| duly considered, and the aggregate OF
the disabilities shown be rated, ano
such pension shall commence from the
date of the filing of the application il
the bureau of pensions after the pass
age of this act, upon proof that the dis
ability or disabilities then existing anC
shall continue during existence of the
same: Provided, that persons who are
now receiving pensions under exiStins
| laws or whose claims are pending il
; the bureau of pensions may, by ap
plicatiOn to the commissioner of pen
sions, in such form as he may pre-
] scribe, showing themselves entitled
thereto, receive the benefits of this act
/ and nothing herein contained shall b.
T so construed as to prevent any pen
sioner hereunder from prosecuting hi
claim and receiving his pension unde
any other general or special acts: Pro
vided, however, that no person shall re
ceive more than one pension for tn
same period; and, provided further, tina
rank in the service shall not be con
sidered in applications filed under thi
act.
Section 3-That if any officer or en-
listed man who served ninety days O
more in the army or navy Of the Unite
States during the late war of the re
| belliOn, and who was hOnorably dis
charged, has died, or shall hereafter di,
= leaving a widow without means of SUP
: port other than her daily labor an
: an actual net income not exceeding So
j per year, or minor children under tn
: age of sixteen years. such widow shall
upon due proof of her husbands dealt
without proving his death to be the re
Q suit of his army service, be placed O
: the pension role under date of the az
: plication, therefor, under this act at tn
9 rate of IS per month during her widow
: hood and shall also be paid 81 per mont
n for each child of such officer or enliste
' man under sixteen years of age; an
: in case of death or re-marriage of tt
n widow leaving a child or children
4 such officer or enlisted man under til
o age of sixteen years, such pension sha
? be paid such child or children until tt
age of sixteen: Provided, that in cas-
e a minor child is insane, idiotic, or othei
7 wise physically or mentally helpless, tt
= pension shall continue during the lii
II of said child, or during the period
= such disability and this proviso sha
:, apply to all pensions heretofore granite
- or hereafter to be granted under this
8 any former statute: And such pensiC
2 shall comm renee from the date of al
pIication therefor after the passage
, this act: And, provided further thu
Il said widow shall have married said so
u = der prior to the passage of the said a.
p of June 81, $780,
y This is the first newspaper publicatic
le of the complete new law.
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