The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-01
VETERANS DEMAND
GREATER PENSIONS
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Their Resolution Provides for
0ne-Third Increase.
UNAN M0USLY ADOPTED
Rate Suggested, 10 Cents on Property
and 5 Cents on Poll
FROM 10 ON PROPERTY AND 8 t-2ONfOLL
They Want twenty Thousand Dollars For the
Maintenance Soldiers H me and Five
thousand For the
Hospital.
UNAN IM0USLY ADOPTED
Rate Suggested, 10 Cents on Property
and 5 Cents on Poll
FROM 10 ON PROPERTY AND 3t-20NfoLL

The Confederate Veterans have de-
manded greater pensions.
Last year the fourth class pensioners
got less than $1,000. Other classes were
almost as meagrely provided for
The total amount paid to veterans last
year BY this State was $11S,OO0. Next
year, if the Legislature adopts the figures
suggested bw the Veterans Association it
will pay $4,000, which, though a pitt
fully meaere sum for the six thousand
veterans and veterans widows who are to
be supported by it, is an increase OF one
third over the appropriations for last
year.
These bronzed old fellows deserve more
than the State can ever pay, for they
Tough a brave fight when the odds We're
against them, and though they lost all
save honor, they won the admiration OF
the whole world for their courage and
bravery.
1t viii be a black day for North Caro-
lima when more recently sustained obli-
cations or am other causes makes
North Carolina forget or neglect even
one Of those grizzled old warriors who
uCSltdlcu UOl NifCh peru tdILt " OAftli
State.
At the meeting of the State Confeder-
ate Veterans Association the Committee
on Soldiers Home and Pensions reported
back in lieu Of the resolution submitted
them he following recommendation
First. That this convention memorable
the General Assembly of North Carolina
to appropriate for the maintenance of the
Soldiers Home an annual sum of $4,000
and for The erection Of new building and
the preservation ana repairing Of the
present building the sum of $1,000.
Second That the pension tax be in
creased from is cents on real ana per-
scIal property and 10 cents on the poll
10 GEMS On prcperty and Il cents or the
poll
Third. That ar Confederate soldiers,
whose record is honorable who have
reached the age Of seventy years and
who fer any cause have become unable
10 support themselves and who are not
possessed of property TO the amount Of
$500 and all widows Of Confederate SOL
diers WHO were married pricr 70 the
cessation Of the war and have reached
the age of six y-iva years, and who from
any cause are unable TO support them
selves ard who are not possessed Of prop
cry 10 the amount of $500, shall be en-
rolled upon The pension list as pensioners
Of the fourth class
Fourth That there be 10 further spe-
cial pension legislation.
Fifth. That copy of The address OF
General Carr and the memorial and petit
ton Of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, presented and read by Miss
Bessie Henderson,, be forwarded with
your resolutions 10 both Houses of the
General Assembly.
The recommendation was signed by the
entire committee, as follows: Comrades
A. B. Strorach. j. 4. Bryan, G. S. Fer
guson, e. A. Osborn and w. J. Woodland
The resolution provoked much discus
ci