Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-22
nony OF more than 80 physicians show

mony Of more than 80 physicians show
it to be genuine
/ charge further that in their efforts
to sustain the accusation Of fraud they
perverted testimony favorable to me
and that material facts i'm my favor
we're purposedly ignored or obscured.
In support of the correctness of my
plea to your honorable body and the
charges made therein quote from the
report of Special Examiner Harms
berger made in 1898.
1T may be presumption on my part
to mention anything about the merits
of the case, but | see no justice in the
Government recouping the soldiers
pension on account Of fraud there be-
ing no fraud on the part of the pen
sioner, either expressed or implied,
misrepresentation or otherwise"
Reconsidera of my case being de-
MED by the Secretary Of the lneriOr
leaves me no other course than to ap-
peal to your honorable body, asking
that you investigate the action of the
Commissioner Of Pensions and the Sec
retary of the Interior in Withholding
my pension and denying me restora-
ton to the pension rolls.
As proof that reconsideration has
been refused me, I submit the append
ed letter marked "A, in which It Will
also be noted that the Secretary rec
commended relief by special act Of Con-
gress Why? Because relief so grant
ed would begin with date of approval
of the act and relieve the Department
from paying the arrears due Such
recommendation, however. was not
made by the Secretary without recog-
nizing some merit I'm my case.
| am not looking for sympathy, but
simple justice and If / have ever OBJ
tanned one penny pension money by
fraud I have no desire to evade the
consequences Of such an act, but I re-
peat there is not a single particle of
evidence in possession of the Govern
ment showing me guilty Of or a party
to fraud
am a helpless paralytic made so by
my service to my country, and now
pauper in an almshOuse hospital be-
meath and within sight of the dome of
the capitol I gave my life-blood to
save, without means and consequently
with but few friends, unable to feed or
clothe myself. and for more than 80
wears a sufferer of indescribable tor
ture and for the past IA years a pau
per. made so by the action of the Bu-
reau Of Pensions
My only hope for relief is through
your honorable body, and l trust and
pray it will not be denied,
Very respectfully
DANIEL OBERLY.
Late private Co. p, saith Pa. Vols.
Certificate No. 81 ,855"
The appended lecture before the
Medical Academy Of Cincinnati, Ohio,
I'm 1897, Of which Oberly was the sub
ject bears out the allegations Of the
petition:
"This subject was a soldier in the
Union army during the War Of the Re
bellion. He received a musket bullet
in the neck. which injured the YER
tebral column of the laryngotrochial
tubes and large blood vessels Of the
oesophagus, sternum, and scapular.
"The synovitic membrane and ten
dons Of muscles Of lower limbs in
fact. all the continuities of both the
pneumogastric and sympathetic nerves
are affected. He lost his speech and
sense of taste. and partly the sense of
sound. His jaws are partly locked.
His legs take a triple twist during To-
comotion. Food has to be frequently
forced by pump into his stomach.
QUESTION: What is the explanation
Of this marvel?
THE CHAIR: / hold that the remark
able and lamentable condition of this
invalid is not a psychological mystery
I hold the subjects condition Of par
aIvsis of right side and both arms
shoulders, neck and throat is the al
rect result Of a gunshot wound OF tne
neck. There is absolutely no evidence
OF syphilis, on which account the
Government denies him pension, and
claim the Government to be entirely
unable to harmonic with known tacts
and Justify a prOgnosis Of a more en-
capalis character, complicated by trau-
matism Of the neighboring parts OF the
chest and the upper limbs, and is not
in line with expert medical knowledge
and decidedly dangerous to perfect
standard of law.
QUESTION: What effect has this con
dition on his mind2
THE CHAIR: He knows all the news
and much history. In whisper ne
can converse about the greatest events
of the world. His remarks are both
instructive and entertaining, and he Is
of sound Judgment in business mat
ters."
WHO is RUNNING THINGS2