The National tribune., 1907-12-19

so days or more and are now receiving
/ less than S12 n month. The measure
grants an allowance of $40 month to
the widow.
| Representative Anthony, Kansas: Bill
pensioning the soldiers of Kansas Mill
tia regiments who participated in the
battle of Westporte and repelled Prices
raid into Kansas in 1864.
Representative Bates. Pennsylvania:
I Bill granting an allowance of S2i per
month to soldiers and sailors who have
attained the age of So years.
Representative Scott, Kansas: Bill to
extend the provisions of the act of
June, 1890. to the survivors of the 18th
and 18th Kan and their widows and
minor children. Mr.. Scott also pre-
Sented measure modifying the exist
| ing laws for the relief of widows of
! civil war veterans. This last gives the
| same pensions to the widows as given
to the soldiers under the McCumber
act. namely S12 at the age of 62 years
| SIS at 20 years and $40 at rs years
1t also provides that widows of soldiers
married since the act of 1890 may be
placed upon the rolls.
| Representative Clark, Florida: Bill
to extend to the veterans of the several
Seminole Indian Wars and to their
widows the benefits of the McCumber
| act of 1907.
| Representative Reynolds, Pennsylva-
mia: Bill granting a $50 pension to SOL
diers and sailors for certain specific
causes since the date of their discharge
| IN the civil and Spanish-American wars.
| The beneficiaries of the measure are
| those who suffer from the loss of sight,
loss of hands, loss of one or both feet,
loss of leg at hip joint, loss of one or
both arms, or who are totally incapaci
tated for the performance of manual
| labor.
| Representative Campbell, Kansas:
Bill to provide pension of $50 month
| to all helpless veterans of the civil
war.
| Representative Hackney, Missouri:
Bill to increase the minimum rate of
pension for widows of civil war vcter-
ans to $l2, and 81 additional for each
minor child. In case of widows death
such child shall receive the amount
drawn by her.
Representative Chancev. Indiana:
Bill granting a pension of $50 to all
| soldiers and sailors who are totally
disabled and who are without income
equal to $3.50 per annum; those SOL
diers requiring the constant attendance
of another person to receive $50. The
widow of such soldier or sailor to re-
ceive a monthly allowance of $12.
Representative Hamilton, Michigan:
Bill to pay soldiers sailors and marines
confined in Confederate prisons the
sum of $50 per month during the re-
mainder of their natural lives.
Representative Ryan, New York: Bill
to amend the 1890 law, giving pensions
to soldiers and sailors who are inca
pacitated for the performance of man
ual labor. Under his bill those who
have reached the age of 80 years shall
receive $50 a month and those at 80
n rpcpivp S4 in addition n
pension paid at the present time.
Representative Pearre, Maryland:
Bill to enable remarked pensioned wild
| ows to receive pensions, and to increase
the widows allowance from $8 to $12
month.
Bill granting $12 pension to all sur
vivors of Indian wars of 1892 to 1842,
inclusive.
Representative aBonynge, Colorado:
Bill to increase the pensions of certain
persons now on the rolls under the gem
eraI laws. 1t directs that all pensioned
for disabilities. who have or shall pass
the age of 62 years, shall be given a
rs per cent increase. At the end of
each period of five years after the age
of 62 years allowances shall be in
creased an additional 10 per cent of
what the soldier is receiving.
Representative Macon, Arkansas:
Dill Tie diloWdlCtS VI every
pensioner on the rolls, serving in the
Mexican War, to $40 per month; all
disabled veterans who have attained
the age of 80 shall receive an increase
to $50.
Representative Hamilton. Michigan:
Bill to amend the McCumber act per-
tanning to Mexican War veterans. All
persons of 62 years or over shall re-
ceive $12 per month; 20 years. SIS; rs
years or over, $40. Those Mexican War
veterans who shall have become totally
incapacitated to receive $40.
Representative Foster, Indiana: Bill
to amend the act of 1890. 1t provides
that persons who are disabled to the
extent that such disability had been in
CURED or contracted in line of duty
and who would under existing laws be
entitled to $72 or more a month, re-
ceive a pension of $50; If disabled to
the extent that he would be entitled to
$50, receive s25 under this bill; if dis
abilities entitle him to receive $50, he
shall then receive $50 per month.
Representative Miller, Kansas: Bill
granting a $40 pension to all soldiers
and sailors who served in the war of
the rebellion for 80 days or more who
are totally helpless.
Mr.. Miller also presented bill to in
crease the pension of every widow of
a soldier or sailor who is now on the
rolls at IS to $12 month. 1t provides.
however, that "all widows who shall
have been legally married to soldiers
and sailors entitled to receive pension
under the act Oh June, 1890, in good
| faith and subsequent to the date of the
passage of that act, and who shall have
continued to live with him for q period
of five consecutive years, shall, upon
due proof of such facts, be entitled to
receive the increase during their widow
| hood, to commence from the date of
the application therefor"
Twelve members of the House have
also introduced bills to increase the
pension allowance of widows from IS
to $12. They are Representatives Rod
enburg, of Illinois; Bates, of Pennsyl-
vania; Lands, of Indiana; Douglas, of
Ohio; Parker, of South Dakota; Fuller,
of Illinois; Taylor, of Ohio; Lefean, of
Pennsylvania; Campbell, of Kansas;
Sulloway, of New Hampshire; Keifer,
of Ohio, and Dixon, of Indiana.
Ex-PrisOners of War.
| c. H. Adams, 143d Ill, Aurora ILL.,,