Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-08
many benefit BY
new PENSION LAW
CIVIL AND MEXICAN WAR VET.
ERANS AND THEIR DE-
PENDENTs GAIN.
MONTHLY ALLOWANCE
AUTOMATICALLY RAISED
Bsnsfieiaries Need Not Make Ap-
p,ication to Obtain Benefit. Of Law
Recently Observation-Disclosures viii
Be Paid Pen.ioner. Wh.r Check.
Arp Received in July.
IBy e. G. Dougherty.l

lBy E. G. Dougherty.I
Washington, May S.--Iowa citizens
who served in the war with Mexico
and the civil war. and their widows
and their children. will be financially
benefited by the Fuller bill, which
has just been signed by the president
and becomes operative as far as the
increased payments of pensions is
concerned with the government
checks that will be received by those
entitled to them on July 4.
The Fuller bill automatically In
lcre'ases Che pensions OF men serving
in the civil and Mexican wars to $50
a month, unless they were injured
and blinded making them SO near
helpless as to require regular personal
aid and attendance, when the pay
meIlt is SIC q month. In the case
Of widows Of soldiers who served in
/ these wars, the Fuller bill increases
their pension automatically to $50 a
month, provided the marriage oc-
CURED prior to June 81, 1905.
III the cases of civil war veterans
who, lost one hand or one foot or
were totally disabled in same, the
monthly stipend is $50. Similar in
cresses are provided in cases where
the injuries are less severe and do
not totally disable one. The bill
likewise grants army nurses who
served in the civil war a pension of
$50 . month. and dependant parents
OF men who served in the war OF
1S61-5 also will receive monthly pay,
ment OF $50.
No request from the soldiers or
widows is required by the
pension bureau to make the
increased rates effective. tho
it was stipulated today by Gay
lord NJ. Saltzgaber. commissioner OF
pen.,ions. ttAt the increased rates
can not be paid prior to the checks
that will be written and dispatched to
those entitled to them early in July
fer payment Of the quarterly allow
ance due on July 4. Applicants for
original pensions-that Is those now
already on the government pension
Solll--are tUQuired by the law to
MIKE propee declaration Of their
cases before the increased payments
viii be allowed.
The bill also provides that each
child under Is years Of age OF an
officer. or an s enlisted man who
served In the civil war will be paid
atstl1e rate of IS month. In cases
: where the widows have remarked OF
shaveAdied, the entire pension due will
be payable to the minor child or
children.
Sykes Pleads for Aid for Railways.
Advocacy Of additional federal aid
to the railroads with which to in
creaae their rolling stock was argued,
hefol.e the house COMMITTEES on in
terstate and foreign commerce this
week: by President Sykes, OF the Corn
Belt Nest Producers Association. Mr..
Sykes informed the committee tina.
stool; shippers were compelled to
suffer delays OF between 80 and go
days in their shipment OF their stock
to market because Of the Inadequate
facilities Of the railroads. He main
tanned that the financial loss to the
shippers OF the country by reason OF
the failure of the railroads to furnish
suf6,ient rolling stock to move the
shipments had almost reached a
demoralizing condition, and he urged
that federal assistance be forth
coming at once to remedy, the situa.'
ton. Mr.. Cykes recommended that