The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-03
Stuart's Questions In The Age- Herald Answered from All
 Oyer the State SOME OLD VETERANS
 MISSED ENTIRE YEAR All Others Short and all Anxious to Know the Reason-Many Urge an Investigation of the Mat
 ter Immediately.

days ago, asked the following questions: 1. How much pension, money was paid to you for the year 1907? Did you get the promised $30? How much is due for 1907? What you received on the first day of October, 1907, is not to be included in the amount due you for 1907, because October l. 1907, was the beginning of another fiscal year.
 ?. How much pension money did you receive from October 1, 1907, to Sep tember 3O 1908? How much is still due for 1908?
 5. How much pension money has been September 3O 1909? How much is yet due for 1909?
 The following are some of the answers received:
 Short Two Years. Notasulga, Ala, August 30, 1909 Dear Sir-Seeing your statement of Au- gust 2S in the Birmingham Age-Herald, will write you at once. For the year 1907 l received the full amount of $3O. For 1908 the amount was short s7 50. For 1909, $5.6o short, making a total of SIP 10 short J. P. CHILDERS,
 Ex-Confederate Veteran.
 Very Heavy Loser. Brundidge Ala, August 30, 1909. Dear Sir-In answer to your question re- garding the amount of pension money received for the last two years will say that on October l. 1907, I drew $12.5O, and failed to get the s3O. received on Janu- cn drew the same this year Q9Oy except July, when drew $6.90. I do not know for certain, but it looks as if we were knocked out of one years pension. We should have drawn on October l. 1909, $42.bO. Hoping you will thresh the matter out so that we will get what is due us, am, very truly yours,
 w. c. JACKSON, Company B, Fifteenth Alabama. Receipts Cause Surprise. Calera, Ala. August "A, 1909. Dear Sir-I see in the issue of The Age-Herald for August g some questions to Confederate Veterans who are on the pension list. L How much money was paid you in 1907? According to your call culation the fourth-class pensioners in Shelby got nothing -$sO. ?. How much did you receive in 1907? Answer. s425O; due for last quarter, $75O g. How much pension money has been paid you from October 1, 1908, to September 1. 1908? An swer, s44.25; due, $5.75.
 I am In position to know, and find that the Fourth class pensioners in Shelby and Chiffon counties are due, since 1909, $43.25, and the other classes in propor- ton. This is including the sSO withheld in 1907 and $13.25 besides that. You may say that with the lavish expenditures of the present administration I am surprised that we have received as much as we have. Hoping that other comrades will be prompt in answering your questions, am, yours fraternally, SAM H. FISH.
 Roberts Was Short.
 Marion, Ala, August 25, 1909. Dear Sr-In answer to ypur questions in The Age-Herald as to whether all the old veterans received their full pensions for the years of 1907. 1908 and 1909, will say that on October l, 1907, I was to re- ceive $25 that being the amount paid fourth-class pensioners. At that time the quarterly payments began, and I only received $12.50, leaving a balance of $12.50 for 1907. On October 1, 1908, received s, and on July, 1909, received s6.9O leav- ing a balance due for 1908 and 1909 of s1S1O. which, with the $12.5o due for 1907, makes $25 Yours respectfully,
 W. H. ROBERTS.
 Received Only $5.
 Troy, Ala, August 29, 1909. Dear Sr--I read your piece in The Age Herald, and may say that I am one that has received only $ for the payment due July. 1909. For the rest of the time I have received $12. 50 for each quarter. If there is any way to get what I have been knocked out of should certainly appre- ciate it. Yours truly,
 J. R. HANSON.
 Critioizes the State.
 Birmingham, Ala, September 1, 1909. Dear Sir-In reply to your request as to the pension money received by me, wish to say that for the year 1907 I did not receive l cent In 1908 I received for the first quarter 12.50; for the second quar- ter 8. and for the third quarter ss.
 I want to say that the state of Alabama by and through its legislature has done less for its old veterans than any state in the south. It is time that they assert themselves and see that they get what is due them. ROBERT BEASLEY.
 Nothing in 1907.
 Dadeville, Ala, August 29 1909. Kind Friend: Of the $50 pension money due me in 1907 l received nothing. In 1908 received $A, and in 1909 $44. For 1907 the amount of unpaid dues Is 80; for 1908. $6; and for 1909. $6. thus making a total of $42. I have thought that some man ought to get behind this gross neg lect who has an education Yours truly,
 w. c. HASTEN.
 Short All Around.
 Troy. Ala. September 1, 1909. Dear MT. 6tuart-In answer to your
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