The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-06-19
PENSION POINTERS.
Inquiries Answered and Sugges'
tons Made.

H. ]. L., ST.. Louis, Mo.-The addi-
tiopal bounty act of July IS, 1866, ex-
pired BY limitation June 30, 1880. If you
were assigned to a watch and stations on
the vessel to which you were transferred
from the Mississippi gunboat fotiila, ana
from which you We're discharged, you
were doubtless a member of the crew ana
discharged as such, and for that reason
not entitled to the travel allowance Oh
members of the gunboat tiotlila.
G. S., Napa, Calf your former
claim for invalid pension was made under
the act of June %, 1890, and was not re-
1ected on the ground that you We're no:
OCCASIONALLY disabled, probably you can
get the pension from the date of filling
your former application.
E. F. W., Macon, Mo.-If after taking
an appeal to the Secretary of the Interior
the Pension Bureau issues an order for
q new medical examination, the case may
be regarded as re-opened and the appeal
dismissed. If, however, the examination
was directed by the Department after
considering the appeal, then the case will
be further considered on the appeal after
the examination is had.
d. B., Keeneyville, Pa.-There has
been no new law, court decision or other
ruling emitting to $50 per month those
receiving $24 per month pension. No law
to this effect was enacted during the sec
ond Cleveland Administration.
II. W., Olney, Ill.-An invalid pension
er's wife cannot draw any of his pension
except upon ground that he has deserted
her and she is in neceSsitOuS clrcum-
stances. A pensiOner absent from home
without any thought or intention of
abandoning his wife or withholding sup
port from her should draw his pension as
usual, wherever he is. and send her the
check after he has Endorsed it to her.
Nj, B., San Francisco, Cal.-As you re-
ceived 500 original bounty under the act
Of July %, 1861, on account of your three
years enlistment in May, 1861, you were
not entitled to bounty under the act of
July 20, 1888.
c. R., Philadelphia, Pa.-If drawin ing
pension under the general law and claim
ing increase of pension on penSiOned dis
ability, of course no disability not includ
ed in your certificate or directly due to
pensioned disability could be taken into
consideration in determining title to higher
gate under the general law. The general
law does not provide pension for disabili-
ty not incurred in service and line Of duty.
G. I. S., Winfield. Kan.-The bounty
act Of July 20, 1888, applies only to three
year volunteer enlistments dating prior to
July %, 1861. Your enlistment on July
~, 1861, would not bring you within the
law in any event
]. F., Rochester, Pa-Neither the SOL |
der nor his widow can obtain pension I'M
der the act of June 81, 1890, unless he
received an honorable discharge from each |
Of the terms Of enlistment contracted By |
him during the period Of the war of the
rebellion.
G. b. n, De Leon, Textile general
law pension claims of children who did
not apply till after July /, 1880, and were
ever 16 at date of application and We're
not under 16 on July l, 1880, are still
suspended, pending legislation.
Constant Reader, National Military
Home, Va.-If found not entitled to
higher rate under the general law than he
Is receiving under the act of 1890. the
pensioners present act of 1890 pension
will not be disturbed. If formerly pen
stoned at 81 under the general law on
wound, it is more than likely that the;
rate now under the general law would be
2, 1895, which fixed Sc as the minimum
rate of general law pension after that
date
L. b. L., Hopkinsvile, Ky.-The &C
crued pension of deceased army nurse
IL not payable to ans one, except in the
event of her not leaving sufficient assets
TO cover the expense of last illness and
burial, in which event collection for such
purpose may be made from the accrued
pension.
L. NJ, Big Spring, Neb.-The age OF
the child at the date the soldier. its
father. applied for pension has nothing to
% with the determining of the chid's
title to pension. The application referred
to in answer you mention is the child's
own application after the death of the SOL
der If over Is at the soldiers death the
child would not be entitled to pension un-
der any law short of a special act of Con-
Gress.
A. n. J. P.-The Act of March 3. 1899.
empowers the Commissioner of Pensions
20 pay 70 deserted wife or, in case there
is no wife, to the deserted minor children
Of the pensioner half his pension. The Ma
tional Tribune Soldiers Hand book"
pages 1861, gives this act in full. The
price Of the Hand book, postpaid. is %
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