The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-09-12
PENSION POINTERS.
INQUIRIES Answered and Sugges.
tons Made.

B. F. L., Quincy, Ill.-No bounty was
allowed for enlistment in the Veteran Re
serve Corps, or Invalid Corps, as it was
first called. Hancock's Corps of Veteran
Volunteers was not organized as an IN
valid corps. but was designed to be corps
of veteran soldiers fit for active field sery-
ice The extra $500 advance bounty al
lowed for enlistments in the corps did not
apply to eniStmentS of veterans IN the
Veteran Reserve Corps, which was essen
tally an invalid corps.
L. n. Buffalo, \. Y.-AnyOne who has
a Government claim pending is claim
ant. Section 4701, Revised Statutes, de-
claring that the term of service shall be
construed to extend TO the disbandlng OF
the organization, is applicable in deter
mining period of service in pension claims
under the act of June 81, 1890. 1t means
that regiments whose discharges We're
made out and dated at some place in the
South for instance, but were not actually
discharged and paid off till some days
later at some place in their home State,
shall be considered as in service up 10
date of actual disarmament. This proyl-
sion would affect men who We're with the
regiment or sick at home or in hospital,
and who would be entitled to discharge
with the regiment. The third paragraph
of section 1888, Revised Statutes, relates
to State mlitiamen not in L. >. service
but serving as a militiaman under COM
mand of a L. S. officer, or to independent
or individual volunteers who served for
The time being with U. S. forces, and who
in either instance were wounded or IN
jured in engagements with rebels or in
dams while in such service. Claims I'M
der this paragraph must have been pros
ecuted to a successful issue before July
4, 1874 The order, No. pa, of the Com
missioner of Pensions, dated Sept. z,
1893, provided that the maximum rate of
So should be allowed claimants for in
valid pension under the act of June u,
1890, who were 10 years of age or more,
1t being understood that they must be
otherwise entitled under the law. The
mere facts that they were 20 years of age
and were claiming pension under the act
of 1890 would not entitle them to ST..
q. s. service of 80 days or more is re-
CURED.
S. L. H, Lima, Ohio-In every In
stance where an invalid pensioners wife
refuses to live with him, she has no law
full claim to half his pension, under the
act of March 3, 1899.
II. j., Falkville, Ala.-The act of
March 3, 1885, provides: THAT all APP
plicants for pensions shall be presumed to
have had no disability at the time of en-
hstment; but such presumption may be
rebutted.''
VI. b., CnllllcOJne, A1O.-1NO Id" was
passed by the last Congress to grade pen
sion according to age. Such a proposed
law was considered, but not finally acted
on.
W. 81. P, Petersburg, Ohio-1f the
hernia was incurred in service and line of
duty a truss may be obtained, notwith-
standing the soldier is not now pensioned
under the general law.
L., Carlisle, Ind.-It must be shown
that disabilities claimed on under the
general law existed in the service. In the
absence of official record this may be
Gone by evidence showing the fact and
circumstances of origin or showing exist
ence in service subsequent to the alleged
time of origin.
Reader, New Hampshire-If married to
the soldier subsequent to his service and
subsequent to March 8, 1899, the widow,
In order to obtain pension under the gen
ersl law, must show that she and soldier
lived together continuously from marriage
till his death.
E. c., National Military Home, Ind
Ruling No. 257 of the Commissioner of
Pensions, dated Feb. 2S, 1894, dropped all
ratings for degrees OF deafness less than
nearly total of one ear, and provided that
the schedule of reduced deafness rates
prescribed by Ruling 245 of December 4,
1891, should be operative over the entire
period from Aug. q, 1883.
Subscriber, st. Paul, Minn.-Addrcss
the Commissioner of the General Land
Oflicc. Washington, D. c., requesting that
pamphlet containing land laws, etc, be
sent to you.