The National tribune., 1902-07-31
PENSION POINTERS.
Inquiries Answered and Sugges'
tons Made.

WAS on
S. A. H.. Bennington, Vt-As you
served more than two years, you became
entitled to and received 500 bounty un-
der the act of July %, 1861, and there
fore are not entitled to bounty uader the
act of July 20. 1883, Notwithstanding your
enlistment for three years before July Y,
1851.
C. w. H. Elliott, Iowa.-No bill to
raise the minimum pension to SD per
month was passed at last session OF Con-
greSs.
C. W., Rochester, N. UT is sup
posed that not less than $50 worth" of
rating is necessary to obtain the minimum
rate of Sc under the pension act of 1880.
Under the general law lis or 2-1S (Sl or
So disability will entitle to the So rating,
as the act of March 2, 1885, provides that
81 shall be allowed for all ratings general
law less than Sc.
T. NJ. D., National Military Home, Ind.
Money received as pension is not exempt
for payment as alimony to a divorced
wife.
c. S. H, Wanda, Pa-The following is
a copy of bill, II. r. 12,141, which
passed the House of Representatives on
June 16, and will probably be considered
by the Senate at the next session: BE it
enacted, etc, That section 410S of the
laws of the United States governing the
granting of army and navy pensions, be,
and the same is, amended to read as fol-
lows:
Section 470S. The remarriage of any
widow, dependent mother, or dependent
sister entitled to pension shall not bar her
Fight to such pension to the date of her
remarriage, whether an application there
for was filed before or after such mar
riage; but on the remarriage of any wild
ow, dependent mother, or dependent sis
ter having a pension such pension Shall
cease: Provided, however, That any wild
ow who was the lawful wife of any Of
icer or enlisted man or other person in
the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the
United States, as described i'll paragraphs
i, 2 and of section 1858 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, during the
period of his service in any war, and
whose name was placed or shall hereaf-
ter be placed on the pension roll because
of her husbands death as the result of
wound or injury received or disease con-
tracted in such military or naval service.
ard whose name has been or shall here
after be dropped from said pension roll
by reason of her marriage to another per-
son who has since died or shall hereafter
die, or from whom she has been hereto
fore or shall be hereafter divorced, upon
her own application and without fault on
her part, and if she is without means of
buppOTl OtueF ludu ueT UailS ldDOI. as ue-
fined by the Acts of June y, 1880, and
May 8, 1900, shall be entitled to have her
name again placed on the pension roll at
the rate now provided for widows by the
Acts of July IA. 1862, March 3, 1873, and
March 10, 1856, such pension to COM
mence from the date of filing of her ap-
plicatiOn in the Pension Bureau after the
approval of this Act: And provided fur
ther, That where such widow is already
In rpceipf Of n npnSiOn from tho VTnited
States she shall not be entitled to restora
ton under this Act: And provided fur
ther, That where the pension of said wild
Ow on her second or subsequent marriage
has accrued to a helpless or idiotic child,
or a child or children under the age of IL
years, she shall not be entitled to restora
Gon under this Act unless said helpless
or idiotic child, or child or children under
16 years of age, be then a member or
members of her family and cared for by
her, and upon the restoration of said
widow the payment of pension to said
child or children shall cease.
"Sec. 2. That the provisions of this Act
shall be extended to those widows other
wise entitled whose husbands died of
wounds, injuries or disease contracted dur
ing the period Of their military and naval
service, but who were deprived of pension
under the Act of March 3, 1865, because
Of their failure to draw any pension by
reason OF their remarriage.
''Sec. 3. That no claim agent or other
person shall be entitled to receive any
compensation for services in making ap-
plicatiOn for pension under this Act"
B. u. j., Co. II, S0th n. Y. Vols.-A
pension will be stopped whenever it ap-
pears that its allowance was due to an
error of fact or an error of law, or to
fraud. If an invalid pensioner under the
general law is wholly unable to perform
nal 1al
bllity due to service, he is entitled to $50
per month. No one is in danger of losing
his pension simply because he persistently
applies for an increase he believes is law
fully due him.
I. C. NJ, Morrisville, Vt.-Your hav-
ing appealed from the rejection OF your
former claim for increase does not debar
you FROM filing a new claim for increase
In the Pension Bureau.
S. Y, Stryker, Ohio.-The dependent
sister being over 16 when the mother
(who was pensioned) died, can obtain pen
sion only by special act of Congress. Con
suit an attorney or your member of Con-
gress
w. C. NJ, Millersburg, Pa.-The boun-
ty act of July 20, 1888, applies only to
eIllistments in the volunteer army, not to
the navy or marine corps.
Rev. D. W., Wilkins, S. C.-If an ap-
plicant for invalid pension under the gen
eral law cannot obtain the testimony of
any Of his commissioned officers as to the
origin of his alleged disabilities in serv-
ice, he is required to furnish the evidence
of comrades ON this point. This is not
matter of law, but of official regulation
No evidence filed in pension case is de-
stroyed. 1t remains Oh file with the claim,
even if the claim is never completed.
j. s., Oakland, Cal.-The bill, S. 1850,
which passed the Senate, and subsequent
ly passed the House with amendments,
which remain to be considered by the Sen
ete at the next session of Congress, stands
rs follows:
''Bt it enacted, etc, That from and af-
ter the passage Of this act all persons on
the pension roll, and all persons hereaf-
ter granted a pension, who, while in the
military or naval service of the United
States and in the line of duty, from
wounds, injuries or disease originating
prior to Aug. 4, 1856, shall have lost one
hand or one foot, or been totally disabled
IN the same, shall receive a pension at
the rate of $40 per month; that all per-
sons who, in like manner, shall have lost
IN arm at or above the elbow or leg at
or above the knee, or been totally dis
abled in the saIae, shall receive a pension
at the rate Of SAG per month; that all per-
sons who, in like manner, shall have lost
an arm at the shoulder joint or a leg at
the hip joint, or so near the shoulder or
hip joint or where the same is in such a
condition as 10 prevent the use of an ar
tifcial limb, shall receive a pension at
the rate of $55 per month, and that all
persons who, in like manner, shall have