The National tribune., 1908-03-26
THE VOLUNTEER RETIRED LIST.


The bill introduced in the House to
create volunteer retired list was con-
sidered at length by the Committee on
/ Military Affairs, and the vote upon re-
porting it to the House was a tie, so
thatrit was laid ON the table and con-
sidered as definitely killed for this ses-
sion Immediately, March 13, Mr.. Full
Ter introduced the following bill, which
was referred to the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
| bled, That upon written application to
the Secretary of War, and subject to the
conditions and requirements hereinafter
contained, the name of each surviving
officer of volunteers in the United States
volunteer army of the civil war shall be
entered on roll To be known as the
volunteer retired list Each person so
entered shall have served as an officer
or an enlisted man a term or terms in
the whole not less than two years in
said volunteer army between April Is,
1851, ant July Is, 1865; he shall have
been honorably discharged or shall have
resigned from said. service; he shall not
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not have been retired; said application
to be accompanied with proof of the
! identity of the applicant and both the
application and proof to be under oath:
Provided, That an officer who lost an
arm or leg or who resigned or was
discharged from said service because
! of wounds received in battle, if other
wise qualified, shall be entitled 10 re-
! tfrenent without reference to the length
of h:s service in said volunteer army
Sec. 2. That each applicant whose
name shall be entered upon said list
shall be entered as of the highest rank
held by him while serving in said vol
unteer army, and when so entered on
said list he shall be paid, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, three-fourths pay, ac-
cording to his actual rank, which pay
shall be the same as that now or here
after received by retired officers of like
rank in the Regular Army. and shall be
paid in like manner, such pay TO begin
on the date of fling his said application
with the Secretary of War and to con-
/ tinue during his natural life: Provided
That the retired pay of any officer shall
not exceed the full pay of a Captain of
Cavalry of the Regular Army: Provid-
ed further. That the provisions and linn
itations of this act shall apply to volun-
teer officers of the Navy and marines
VINO shall have served as officers or az
enlisted men not less than two years
in the active service of the Navy be
tween the dates mentioned in the first
section Of this act; and that any such
officer who shall have served in said
volunteer army navy or Marine Corps
terra or terms in the whole less than
two years, but not less than nine
months, shall be entitled to the provi-
sions and limitations of this act and
shall be authorized to receive, each ac-
cording to his term of service, an
amount bearing such proportion to the
retired pay granted herein to the same
rank for the service of two years as his
term of service did to said term of two
years.
Sec. 3. That each person who shall
receive pay under this act shall thereby
reiinquish all his right and claim to
pension from the United States after
the date of filing said application, and
any payment of such pension made 10
him covering period subsequent to the
filing of his said application shall be
deducted from the amount due him on
the first payment or payments under
this act. The pay allowed by this act
shall not be subject or liable to any at
tachment, levy. lien or detention under
any process whatever; and persons
whose names are placed upon said list
shall not constitute any part of the
United States Army.
The advocates of the measure have
some hopes that they will be able to get
consideration in both Houses for the
bill now pending in the Senate.