The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-10-11
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THE PENSION ROLLS.
Report of the Maine Pension Agency.

Report OF the maine PENSION agency.
The annual report of the United
States pension agency at Augusta for
the fiscal year ending June 80 shows
that there were H., 723 pensioners on the
rolls on that date as against 1899 June
80 1905, a loss of 276.
The Maine pensioners of June 80,
1906. wer classified as follows: Regular
establishment, inyalids, II: widows, ETC.,
80: Civil War, general law, 1856; nurses,
two: widows, etc, 2307. Civil War act
of June y, 1890, invallds, 6932; widows,
etc., 22S6; war with spain, invalids, 100;
widows, etc, 43; War of 1912, widows,
%; war with Mexico, survivors, IS; wild
oWs, %; Indian wars, survivors, one,
widows, six.
The Maine agency disbursed in pen
sions during the year 81, 49,, O24. IA.
There was paid out for salaries $4,000:
clerk hire, SS761.66; contingent expens-
eS, $40 IS.
There is some talk here that the Au-
gusta and Concord, n. H., pension
agencies may be consolidated. The dis
bnrsements at Concord were 50, 900, 597-
so. Of the is agencies in the United
men,s smaller than the m total OF the
disbursements of both Maine and New
Hampshire agencies.
NEARLY ONE MILLION PENSIONERS.
Pension Commissioner Warner re-
ports that at the end of the fiscal year,
| June 30th last, there were on the pen
sion rolls the names of 9S5,911 persons,
a net decrease of Il, 40 during the year.
| The total number of persons on the roll
| during the year was 1,0333, 4l5. The
| pensioners stricken from the rolls num-
| bered AZ, 444, of whom death claimed
| 300.
There is still one Revolutionary war
widow on the roll. The number OF war
! of 1912 widows decreased from 776 to
| $50. At the close of the fiscal year
there were 6S4.6OS survivors OF the civil
war on the rolls. There were $40 help
less children of civil war soldiers on
| the roll and one of soldier of the war
with Spain.
| The annual value of the roll for the
fiscal year was S136, 237, 749. That is
the amount that would be required to
| nav the pensioners on the roll on June
| 3Oth if there were no changes by death
or otherwise during the year. While
there has been decrease in the num-
| Der of pensioners the value OF the roll
| is nearly as great as it was the preced-
| ing wear. This is explained by the Pact
that the ratings are being increased as
the soldiers grow older. The average
annual value of each pension increased
| from S136 90 to $13S.1S.
| The disbursements on account OF first
payments was S6,152, 1872, which sum
was paid to Ill ,SO3 persons, an increase
of 2,7S7, 900 over the preceding year.
At the close of the year there were
pending the claims of 1872, 453 persons, a
| decrease during the year OF 3S, 600.
Since the beginning of the civil war
Congress had passed 1925 special pen
sion bills, Of which 10,417 are still in
operation, causing the disbursement OF
| 81 937, 620.
The first session. of the 59th Congress
was prodigal in the passage of pension
bills, its record being no less than ), oO7,
| the great majority of these granting
pensions of S24 and $50 a month. Only
553 were granted to persons who had
never been on the pension rolls, the
Others being reservations and increases.
Topeka, with s15,957, 754 Of disburse.
ments; Columbus, $14, sol, and In
dianapolis, S1O,219,OOO, continue to be
the leading agencies for the payment OF
pensions. Pittsburg disbursed s6,351,
sol. The greatest disbursement within
State lines went to Ohio veterans, who
drew s14, s35, 900, Pennsylvania coming
next with s13,225,941, and New York
third with $11.S35, 900.
American pensioners are to be found
in every corner of the world, 5,26S re-
ceiving their vouchers at foreign ad.
dresses, 1851 being in Canada, 602 in
Germany, 1875 in Ireland and 391 in
England.