The National tribune., 1900-04-26
PENSION POINTERS.
Inquiries Answered and Sugges.
ti0ns Made.

B. S. c., Chicdgo.-All substitutes en-
listed for three years after March 5. 1863
and before Sept. g. 1864. were entitled 10
bounty of S100 if they served two years, or
If less than two Years, were discharged
because of the close of The war or because o
wound or injury incurred in line of duty.
q. ". S.-lf Il soldier absentCd himscl
without leave for any period, he was iiab
TO be charged with desertion even though
he did not intend 10 desert, but intended I,
and did return in few DAYS.
C. ID. g.. Fort Dodge, KaH.-Yoar claim
will not be injured by Your failing or refuS
ing TO report for medical examination Will.
the conditions in the Pension Bureau con
dnue unsatisfactory TO YOU. If you are no
satisfied with the action of the Pension
Bureau in the settlement of your case, yoU
have the right 10 appeal 10 the Secretary OF
the Interior for a review of The action taken
pointing out wherein there seems TO you tc
be error.
G. W. r, Coiiinrood, O.-The rating
allowed under the act of June %, 1890. for
complete double hernia is IS per month
This would give You 81 per month more
than you are now receiving for single
hernia. The Government does not furnish
free trusSes unless the hernia is shown to
have been incurred in service and line of
duty. You are free TO take up a home
stead on the public domain under the sol
diers' homestead law. Communicate with
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, Washington, ID. c. .--
II. NH, ROdelm, TeHn.-The Auditor
for the War Department, Washington.
ID. c., is the official who considers soldiers
claims on account of service from which
they have been discharged. The pension
act OF June p, 1890, applies only to the war
of the rebellion. Spanish war soldiers can
obtain pension only by proving to the
satisfaction of the Pension Bureau that
1hQV iiSn1Inlifinl l,n
work OF sound, able bodied man at manual
labor in consequence of disabilities incurred
in service and line of duty.
j. F. W.-If an invalid pensioner for
merly drawing under the general law and
now pensioned under the act of June 27,
1890, thinks he is entitled 10 more than S12
under the general law, he can determine
that question by the filing of a claim for
increase of his former general law rate of
pension. He will have to have new medi-
cal examination under his new application.
The proof filed i'll the rejected widows
claim for pension under the general law will
be considered in her new claim under the
act of June 27, 1880. If she furnished
under the general law claim all the re-
quIred evidence as 10 the legality of her
marriage, etc, she will need TO furnish in
the new claim only the evidence required
TO show her financial circumstances. Her
claim TO the accrued pension due the soldier
at the date Of his death should be settled
promptly, irrespective of the rejection of her
general law claim i'll her own right No
pension claimant is obliged to employ an
attorney. No person can act as attorney
for another in a pension case before the
Pension Bureau without having been duly
admitted to practice and enrolled by the
Secretary of the Interior.
A. B: L., National Military Home,
Kdn:-What you evidently refer to is the
act Of March ?, 1867, providing extra travel
ing allowances from place of discharge to
certain California and Nevada volunteers
of the war of the rebellion. who were dis
charged in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah. or
at other points distant from place of enlist
ment and from which the expense OF travel
ing was extraordinary. Claim may be
made to the Auditor for the War Depart
ment, Washington, C. You need not
necessarily return to California to secure
witnesses to your application.