Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-16
OFT u MWAnS
BENEFIT BY ACT
CONFERENCE PENSION BILL WILL
. GIVE ADDITIONAL MONEY TO
LEAST 100 VETERANS.
PLEASED OLD VETS
Warriors Unfit for Manual Labor Will
Draw $50 Per Month--Young Sol.
diers Do Not Come In
For Additions.

At least half Of the 200 veterans OF
the civil war in Ottumwa will be bene
flied by the conference pension Dill
signed Saturday by President TAFT.
| Many OF the veterans who were DIS
| abled in service, and are now unable
! to do manual labor, will make applica-
ton to come under the provision of the
| bill that will entitle them to $50 per
month. This feature Of the bill does
not consider length OF service or age
of the pensioner. Any soldier VINO
has reached the age Of 81 years and
served ninety or mere days in the war,
will receive a pension Of $l3 per
month. For serving more than ninety
days, the pension will be as follows:
Six months, $3.50 per month; one
year, $14 per month; one and one-half
years, $14.5O per month; two years Sl5
per month; two and half years.
$3.50 per month; three years or over,
SIG per month.
The bill provides increased amounts
to soldiers who have reached Sc years
and older up to $50 per month and to
those wounded and unable to perform
manual labor, the maximum pension is
$50 per month.
The New Law.
The law reads as follows:
Be it enacted, ETC.,
That any person who served ninety
days or more in the military or naval
service of the United States during the
late civil war who has been honorably
discharged therefrom, and who has
reached the age Of 80 years or over,
shall, upon making proof Of such facts.
according tosuch rules and regulations
ntar re -
provide, be placed upon the pension roll
and be entitled to receive a pension as
follows:
In case such person has reached the
age of 81 years and served ninety days,
S13 per month: six months, 1880 per
month; one year. s14 per month; one
and a half years, $1450 per month; two
years, SIS per month; two and a half
years, $3.50 per month, three years or |
over, SIS per month.
In case such person has reached the |
age Of S. years and served ninety days,
SIS per month: six months. $3.50 per
one year, s16 per month; one |
and half years. $3.50 per month;
two years, s17 per month: two and q
half years, SIS per month; three years !
and over, s1s per month.
In case such person has reached the |
age Of 70 years and served ninety days, |
SIS per month; six month, S1s per
one year. $50 per month; one !
and half years, $3.50 per month; two
years, s23 per months, two and half |
years. S24 per month: three years or |
over, S25 per month.
In case such persons has reached the |
age of IS years and served ninety days, !
s21 per month; six months, $22.50 per
one and a half years, $27 per month;
two years or over, $50 per month.
Maximum for Injured Veterans.
That any person who served In the |
or naval service of the United |
States during the civil war and receiv
ed an honorable discharge, and who
was wounded in battle or in line Of
duty and is now unfit for manual labor |
by reason thereon. or who from dis.
ease or other causes incurred in line Of
duty resulting in his disability is now
unable to perform manual labor, shall
De paid the maximum | 's'on under
his act. to wit, $50 per month, without
regard to length of service.
That any person who served sixty
lays or more in the military or. naval
service of the United States in the war
discharged therefrom shall, upon max
ng proof of such service. be entitled to
receive a pension of $50 per month.
All of the aforesaid pensions shan
commence from the date Of fling of the
applications in the bureau of pcnsi",,S
after the passage and approval Of this
.ct: Provided. that pensioners who arr
q years of age or over and who
low receiving pensions under existir-
avs. or whose claims are pending n
he bureau of pensions. may, by aDpi~
,ation to the commissioner of pensions.
n such form as he may prescribe, re-