The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
CONGRESSIONAL PRIVILEGE.

CONGRESSIONAL PRIVILEGE.
United States Senators and Members
of the House of Representatives are priv
LEGGED to request that the status of pen
sion and other war claims be given the
claimants through them. Their commuDi-
cations are, as matter of courtesy,
promptly answered, while communications
from the claimants and their attorneys
must wait to be considered in their regular
order.
If the proofs in a claim are complete,
and it is called mp by Senator or Repre-
sentative, it will be taken up and promptly
what proofs are still lacking to complete
the claim, the Senator or Representative
can, by calling it up, promptly ascertain
the necessary requirements. IL the proofs
i'm claim are not complete. and the
claimant knows that the last call from the
Bureau for additional evidence or infor-
nation has not been complied with, it
will not avail anything to have the case
called up, because it can not be finally set
tied until the requirements are filed.
In calling up pension claims Senator
is restricted to the claims Of persons who
are bona fde residents of the State he rep
resents; and each Representative is re-
strctej to the claims or those who are
bona fide residents Of the Congressional
District he represents; and neither the
Senator nor Representative is permitted to
call up such cases at the request of an
attorney.
In writing to Senator or Representa-
tive with reference to n pension claim, the
claimant should not fail to give him the
number or certificate number of the case.
and the name of the soldier or sailor, and
the company and regiment or vessel in
which he served.
- Al,
United States Senate. Washington, D.
c." and Representatives at the House of
Representatives, Washington, ID. c."
DISCHARGE IN CORRECT NAME.
The act of April IA, 1890, provides as
follows:
THAT the Secretary of War and the
hereby, authorized and requested to issue
certificates of discharge or orders of ac-
ceptance Of resignation, upon application
and proof Of identity, in the true name
of such persons as enlisted or served un-
der assumed names, while minors or other
wise, in the army and navy during the
war of the rebellion, and were honorably
discharged therefrom. Application for said
certificates of discharge or amended
orders Of resignation may be made by
or on behalf of persons entitled to them
but no such certificate or order shall be is
sued where name was assumed to cover
a crime Or to avoid it's consequences"
A person who enlisted under an as
sumed name to avoid the consequences of
desertiOn from former enlistment is held
not to be entitled to q discharge in his
true name.
MISSOURI HOME GUARDS.
The act of May Is, 1886, provides rs
follows:
THAT the Secretary of War be, and he
is hereby, authorized and directed to fur
nish, upon their several applications there
for, q certificate of discharge to each and
every member : of the Missouri Home
Guard whose claims for pay were adjudi-
Gated by the Hawkins Taylor Commission,
under the act approved March 25, 1862,
and the several acts supplemental there
to-" 81
OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY, 1861.
An act Of December 10, 1902, provides:
'"That the officers and enlisted men of the
LIST Regiment Ohio Volunteer Light Artil-
lery three months service), furnished by
the State Of Ohio under the call Of the
President Of the United States issued on
the 18th day Of April, 1861, and which
rendered actual military service under the
command Of officers of the United States
and in cooperation with the regularly or
ganizcd military forces of the United
States during the period for which said or
ganization was enlisted and was in active
service, and that the Secretary of War
be, and he is hereby, authorized and direct
ed to issue certificates of discharge upon
due application and satisfactory proof of
identity, for all honorably discharged mem
bers of the said organization: Provided,
That no pay, bounty or other emoluments
shall become due or payable by virtue of
the passage Of this act"
CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST DISCHARGE.
The act of March 3, 1873, as embodied
in section 224, Revised Statutes, provides:
"Sec. 224. Whenever satisfactory proof
is furnished to the War Department that
any non-commissioned officer or private
soldier who served in the army Of the
United States In the late war against the
rebellion has lost his certificate Of dis
charge, or the same has been destroyed
without his pE1vity or procurement thal