The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-29
FRIEND Of SOLDIERS
Senator.Baker'S EnviabIe Rec
ord Exhibited.
AID TO 1884 CLAIMANTS
He Has Effectively Extended
During His lncumbency.

Leavenworth, Kan, July 2S.-In the
Kansas campaign for the United States
.senatorship, now in progress, the veter~
ans of the state are taking an active
part and nearly all Of them are aiding
Senator Lucien Baker. The record Of the
senate and pension department in Wash
ington show the soldiers of Kansas never
had a better friend in either house of
congress than Senator Baker. During the
last session Of congress he secured the
passage Of thirty-seven special bills, and
has called UP in the pension bureau and
aided 1854 veterans and widows Of veter-
ans to secure pensions. The back pen
sion money paid these soldiers and their
widows and brought into Kansas,
amounts TO over $500, 900.
The senate records show that Senator
Baker secured the passage of thirty-sey-
en- special pension bills for Kansans. OF
these thirty-seven bills, twenty-three were
approved by the president. eleven are on
the house of representatives caIandar for
passage. and three claimants died while
the bills were pending in the house after
passing the senate.
OF the 1854 pension claims that Senator
Baker aided in getting through the pen
sion bureau 1,201 were for soldiers and
1S3 for soldiers widows. The list of
these names shows that Senator Baker
aided veterans in every part of the state
A clerk has tabulated the 1884 names by
counties and while it is too long for pub
lIcation it shows that Senator Baker
aided 1S4 veterans at the Soldiers Home
here to get pensions and that Wyandotte
county comes next with 106 Sedgwick
county was next highest with 70, and
from this number in the various coun-
ties in the state drops down gradually to
one each in Edwards, Stevens and Logan
counties.
In every case, without exception, where
the soldiers or the widow of soldier
Of either the civil, Spanish or Philippine
wars have applied in person or by letter
to Senator Baker to aid them in getting
a pension he has tried TO do so. That the
soldiers of Kansas of all three of the late
wars look on Senator Baker as friend is
shown from the fact that the enormous
number of 10,122 pension claims in ad-
dition to the thirty-seven provided for by
special bills and 1884 already aided by
him and allowed through the regular bu-
reau have applied to him to aid them.
Senator Baker has a set of books
where in he places the names of all sol
diers and widows who apply to him to
aid them in getting their claims adjusted.
One book contains the names of those
who will have to be aided by the passage
of special pension bills along with memo
randum on the army careers of the appli-
cants. The other books contain the
names of thousands of applicants who
expect to get a pension through the pen
sion bureau. This book shows that there
are hundreds of Kansas veterans Of the
civil war who feel that they are entitled
to pensions or an increase in their
fonthly allowance, in addition to many
of the younger soldiers of the Spanish
American and Philippine wars.
Senator Baker is in a position to great
" aid Kansas soldiers. He is now the
second member of the senate committee
on pensions, and in the event of another
change in the committee viii become
chairman This not only gives him great
influence in reporting to the senate and
securing the passage Of special pension
bills, but makes his position gilmore than
ordinary weight with the pension bureau.
He is now so located on the committee
as to take a Inactive part in shaping pen
sion legislation, and should he be re-
turned to the senate for another term will
be in a position to afford great aid to the
thousands of Kansas soldiers, old and
young, who have applied to him to assist
them with an adjustment of their claims.
The names and addresses Of the thirty
seven persons whom Senator Baker Sc
cured the passage of special bills for are
as follows: Louan A. Perry. Wallace.
Allen Buckner Baldwin; J. A. Southland.
Stockton; Elender Herring. EIsmore; Jacob
Saladin, National Military Home. Sarah
r. Burrell, Wichita: Chas williamson.
Washington; Harrison Garfield, Mime
apolis; O. ]. Lyon Sabetha: Diana Clark
Phoebe Riley, Russell: Ed
ward L. Ruby. Garden City; Eli ]. March
Fort Scott; James Richardson. Junction
City; Margaret II. Kent, St Louis. No,
formerly Of Larned. Kan: Washington
Baker, Girard; Jane Dykes. Stafford:
John Carr. Arkansas City; John T. Sears.
Oakley; August c. Pyle, National Mill
tary Home; John w Craig. Arlington:
Rosa L Couch. Leavenworth; VIM.
Blades, Sterling; Mary S BeIding. Hor-
ton; Michael Lochard, Osborne: Wn.
Taylor, Mound City Thomas Jackson.
Newton; F. w. Baker. Arlington: Alfred
Herring. Leavenworth: Thomas C. HUI
Savonsburg; Irene Rosenthal. Leaven-
worth; A J. Arnett, National Military
Home; Chas Ross, Medicine Lodge: D.
n Morey. Clay Center: Isaac y. Cinssna
oawego; julia Van Wicklen. Kansas
City; Edythe NJ Muck. Haven.