The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-09-10
nix That Those Doing Something Else Snap But They Don't They
A VETERANS HARD JOURNEY.
Ma, a orisvlous Experience With Pension
Examiners and Kicks.

Examiners and Kicks.
Washington, d. c., Sept Ga vet.
eran out Ia Illinois has written a bill
OF complaint 10 the commissioner OF
pensions. lie says;
1--WE just got another Of your post
al cards telling me to go before the
dokters TO be examined. I've been
getting these cards bout every mont
since | piled for an increase OF my
pension, two years ago, Two been
pulled round, examined, punched 10
the ribs, sounded In the lungs, and
made to bend over the back OF cheer
and do all sorts OF monkeyshlnes, I'LL
| feel as II orler 10 have salary
with an agent to 90 ahead and stick
up bills
"To begin with YOU sent me TO lot
OF dokters up 10 Warren, aud II took
EN- a half hour to end out that the
reason why they could not find any
circulation 10 my left leg Is because 1t
is wooden leg Three or four times
after that you sent 10 odds and ends
OF dokiers who could not tell the dill
erence between an epleptik symptom
aud a billed khan.
Maybe this is all right and IL may
bee fun or the dokiers. II was fun for
me for a while but now that you order
me back 10 the first too dokters and
probly expec me to start on the same
old clrkus over again, I'm going
70 kick like a brindle stear
Last summer, on account OF the
frlsknesi OF pair OF colts, my wood.
on leg got tangled up and was chewed
to finders In a moin machine. piled
TO the dokter general fer new leg but
he said I'd only had the old one three
years and I'd have to wait two years
more before the government could at
ford to make hole in the surplus by
getting me anuther. Meanwhile my
natural leg, the one brought away
safe from the Wilderness, has took to
the reumatiz TIL I'm almost sorry
didn't drop II when did the other one
"Now, Mr. Commissioner, about
this matter OF increasing my pension,
you may do just as you dam please.
II you think luzing one leg in the vii
derness 10 1864 blotted out the record
OF built through the body at Anti.
tium in 1862, and II you think that the
pension IN getting is full pay for a
set Of busted insides that amt been
runnin Ia order for more than TWEEN ty
years, and never will, this side OF New
Jerusalem, all right.
"But I'm going 70 tell you, just be-
tween us, that when that minnie ball
went through me at A Ititum, it plaid
hell with some important part of my
inwards and plaid it for keeps. 1t cut
something all TO finders. | don't know
whether its my liver or my lungs or
my CUTS and your pet dokters don't
seem to know as much about IL as do.
The plane facts, that's what I'm driv-
ing at, il broke up and busted me from
heel to whiskers, and got busted al
Antitum before my leg was lost aud
the record says 50.
"They wanted to discharge me for
the first built and | would not let EN-.
| was bound TO stick till we busted the
rebellion or the rebels busted me with
more one built through my body,
aud did, and now, you've made so
much marching from pillar to post in
this hide and seek game with the dok-
ters as would have gone to the end OF
the war
"If wasn't good enough to march
then IN damned If I'll do any more OF
it now. so you needn't pay any more
dokters' charges for ma, you've been
actually paying the dokters 800 year
for staving of my claim and that Is
mcre'en you'd had to pay me II you'd
granted my increase in the fust place
You ukere me out OF Citing cent OF
the 1906 and now Pm going to uker the
cussed dokters out Of getting any more
OF it. If go before any more dokters
for an examination you'll have to do
moren send me postal card you'll
have to haul me before EN- with der.
rick.
"Now don't want to be sassy.
amt bilt that way But Mr. Warner II
you expect to bio som out as vice
president of these United States by
buckin agin The honest klame of an
old veteran with one foot in the graiv
and the other dam near it, you're get
tin down more hay than you'll have
time to stack up. You'll make about as
much at that game as the dokter gen
orally will by Vptern wOOden ieOs