The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-02-05
SERVICE PENSION.
Views Of Comrades Interested in the
Proposed Legislation.

MrS. Nancy "A. StrIDley, OF COfiamer
Ind. writes: MY heart would go out ii
thanksgiving for such boon as $12-a
month Service Pension. I have So 9
month and have a little piece of ground
and q slanty on it. try to save 81 Q
month to pay on it as l can keep a few
chickens and have a little garden. But
1T is hard work, for l am So years old
My husband, Richard NJ. Stribley, went
out in the first call and stayed till 1865
His two brothers were killed at Stone
River, and my brother, ]. w. johnson
served in the S4th Ind. l have not heard
from him for 30 years, and would be sc
glad to do So"
George n. Chaffee, 50th Pa, Lerays
vile, Pa. favors the Per Diem Service
Pension Bill. ....
John II. Stevenson, First-Lieutenant
Tooth Pa, 1911 Garfield Ave, Allegheny
Pa, is strongly in favor OF a service pen
sion. He says that hundreds of Posts
have Endorsed the bill introduced last year
by Senator Quay in the Senate and MIR
Graham in the House, giving Sc pei
month to old soldiers between so and 81
years; IS to those between So and 60; So
to all over GO years old.
c. E. Adams, Sacramento, CAL, who
volunteered in 1861, served three full
years and never applied for a pension
says that The National Tribune's attitude
OIL the $12-a-month service pension hits
the mali square on the head.
. j. w. Davidson, Evansville, Ind, says
that our editorials in behalf of the S12-a-
month service pension are opportune. All
the forces should now be lined up in sup
port of SCOTS joint resolution. The
greatest bugbear in the way is the re-
ported 100000 pending claims. If these
claims were carefully revised it is prob
able that one-haf of them would be found
to belong to dead men. A revision should
be made at once and the dead eliminated
The committee would have a safer basis
to figure on. The Scott measure cannot
become effective till July, 1904. The in
creased mortality Of the next two years
and the reduction of expenses proposed in
the Scott measure will be such Is will
require very little increase, il any, in the
present appropriation to meet the require
ments OF Sl2-seTvice pension after July,
19G4. Press the Scott resolution.
At regular meeting of the Old Sol
diers' Republican Club of Vanderburg.
Ind, strong resolutions were adopted in
favor of service pension of not less than
Sl2 a month for each surviving veteran,
and the same sum for the widows of such.
A copy of the resolutions was forwarded
to the Senators and Representatives from
Indiana, with an urgent request that they
take prompt action to secure the ipassa &c
of such legislation.
]. "a. Harold, Dewitt, ILL.,, who served
three years, holding every Office from Cor
poral to Captain, wants everybody to
unite for S12-a-month service pension.
and keep the ball rolling until the army
OF Specials and Examiners is wiped out,
and every mans honorable discharge is
his pension certificate. He is now 65
years old, and wants the matter hurried,
so he can have some benefit of his PEN
sion before he dies.
Comrade W. o. Richardson, Co. II, I'd
Ky. Cav, Big Clifty, KY, is an enthu-
siastic supporter of the proposition to give
a service pension to all veterans who have
reached the age of GO years.
w. II. Binnix, Co. B, 14Sth ILL.,, Wy
moose, Ill, while short-term man, agrees
with others, that pension should be proper
toned according to length of service.
While Comrade Binnix did not enlist I'M
til April, 1864, he saw some hard service
before his musterout in September, 1865.
s. W. Atkinson, Sergeant, 1st w. Va.
Cav, West Alexander, Pa, hopes that
our great Government, with its hundreds
OF millions locked up in it's Treasury, will
give its faithful veterans a $12-a-month
Service Pension. He says: "The time
will be short for the youngest of us to
draw it, SO it need not be grudged."
FL. F. Gould, Kenduskeag, Me-, saws
that the time is past for any other bill
than a $12-a-month Service Pension, and
that we should close our ranks and be a
unit on that.
A. j. Shelton, Cos. q and B, list Tenn,
Bruceville, Tex, writes: keep up the
fight for the $12 service pension. 1t is
just" -
Jos. Hoy, Co. I, 63th Ohio, Winthrop,
SOAK, indorses the Service Pension bill
outlined by Comrade E. D. Lloyd, as
amended by Jos. Heisser, Co. B, 18th
Iowa.
s. ]. Stofer, Co. Fl, 18th Ind. Cav, R.
K: No. l, South Bend, Ind, advocates the
following legislation: Twelve dollars per
month, IN addition to any pension now
drawn by soldiers; discontinue all Exam
ing Boards, and discharge all clerks not
actually needed for the transaction of pen
sion business; register the name of every
soldiers wife and date of marriage, the
same to be certified by the County Clerk;
widow to be given $12 per month from
date of soldier-husband's death, without
pIooI, turtHer tndu aforementioned GER
tificate of County Clerk.
A. ]. Wright, Second Sergeant, Co. f,
18th Mo. Cav, Mt. Moriah, Mo-, seconds
the service pension proposition put forth
by Comrade E. D. Mont, with the excep-
ton that he believes the 9O-days men
should receive So. Comrade Wright served
from Feb. Is, 1864, to April 9, 1866, and
participated in Is battles and skirmishes.
He was with Wilson's Cavalry az ponton-
Ter, and was at Macon when JEFF Davis
was captured. Later, Comrade Wright
went to the Plains. He was granted a
$12 pension in 1884, but this was cut down
to S. under the Cleveland Administration.
Albert W. Kelly, Co. F, 9Th Ill. Cav,
2135 Adams ST., Ogden, Utah, writes: 81
second Comrade Joseph Heisser's motion,
and all stand pat"
George LAUDER, First Lieutenant, 1O6th
Ohio, Wilmington, o., writes. "Seeing the
call of Comrade Heisser, Placerville, Cal,
to line up in solid phalanx and ask