The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-10-19

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made for thi, purpose wu, ia l,.s.
That year It gave them S2l .O0O. thcr.
beng only 1000 veterans to apply.
1t has grown annually until it has
reached the present amount. This
roll includes, as in South Carolina, a
ie" negroes. Ia 1902 these pensions
IN Mississippi, paid on p pro rata basis
dividing a gross sum, became 80 small
that most Of the veterans got little
over y month. a home has been
established ct Beauyoir on the gulf
coast, the old home of Jefferson Davis,
which has been reproduced at St.
Louis. About 20 veterans have al
ready been admitted. The home was
purchased and equipped and is being
maintained by the Sons and Daughters
of the Confederate veterans. The sous
raised the purchase money, $4,000,
and the daughters the money for the
equipment and maintenance, about
$4,000. Confederate soldiers who are
INDECENT are exempted from all privi-
lege taxes except that of retailing
liquors and running pool and billiard
tables.
The constitution of Louisiana au-
thorizes an appropriation for pensions.
Fifty thousand dollars was at first ap.
propriated, but by act 73 of 1900 this
was amended by granting $75, 1000 an
nually for pensions. AS q result
Louisiana is carrying on the -o!l 2 ,04.9
pensioners; 513 are drawing $3.50 per
month; 52l are drawing 50 so per
month; and LOIS are drawing
$3.50 per month. Like South
Carolina, this State publishes
the nance Of her pensioners, and thus
far they make puny volume of 4s
pages. The conditions are very
severe. The report of the State board
OF pension commissioners, which the
Evening Post correspondent recently
received. opena as follows:
'The board relies upon the non pan
stoned Confederates throughout the
State for the necessary inform alton to
purge the pension list Of unworthy ma
terial, if any, and to aid in making
the pension list roll OF honor and
pride to every veteran Of the State"
Considering that the State is now pay
ing in pensions one .hundreths
part as much as goes into Ohio, for
the present at least it's officials may
be reasonably assured that there is no
large amount of padding. Federal
pensions to the amount of $880,000 go
into Louisiana annually to Union vet
erans, doubtless negroes in many
cases. Louisiana also has an arrange
ment for giving State land in 16O.acre
lots to Confederate veterans suffering
from certain specified wounds.
Arkansas in 1897 established certain
rates and then appropriated only $35,
600 with which to pay them, with the
result that each pensioner received in
the appointment but 81 per cent. of
the allowance of the State pension
board. The next year the sum was
made $55, 900, the amount being de-
rived from quarter mill tax for that
specific purpose.
Texas is large State and richer
State. The appropriation for the year
ending August 81, 1903, was 5000 900.
For the next two years it will be $780,
600 each.
In 1895 Arkansas provided that
blind veterans should receive $75 an.
nually. This approximates one
months payment for the same dieabil.
ity under federal law. In 1901 Ar.
kansas changed its annual tax for Con-
federate pension fund from one.
fourth of mill to -fourths Of .
mill.
Florida in the same year provided
that an annual tax Of one mill should
be levied for the pension fund.
MOsby' Long Lost Hat