The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-29
TENSION BILLS
that BENEFIT
VERMONTERS
Interesting News From
Our Washington
Correspondent

e program of immediate leglSla-
pn in the Senate after the dis
~ bsition of the Bonus bill and be
re the upper branch of Congress
tiers upon its proposed pre-
ection recess.
Something like score of these
lis, some of them presenting hun
eds of names Of would-be pen
oners and including all told about
twenty-five Vermonters or their
ives or children, are now on the
enate calendar. 1t is proposed to
bnsolidate all these so-called ON
bus bills into two main groupings
hich Senator Bursum, Chairman
the Committee on Pensions, in
[nds to lay before the Senate at
early date and press for action
ithout further delay.
If this program is carried out it
i'll end long and wearisome per
Ids of suspense and anxiety for
lany petitioners, not a few of
HON have been recommended for
lvorable legislation several times
efore without such action in their
uses.
In addition to the score of cases
eferred to in this correspondence
month ago several more widows
4 Vermont soldiers are named as
eneficiaries in the latest Senate
ension bill reported upon by the
ommittee on August IT. They are
rs. Abbie Holbrook, Waterbury;
ermont; Mrs. Eliza w. Cobb,
Wellesley, Massachusetts,; Mrs.
mma F. Carter, Concord, New
hampshire; and Mrs. Nellie Leahy
.eene, New Hampshire.
The infirmities of age (she is
ow 78) and extreme restitution
ent Mrs. Holbrook to the Water
u1y Poorhouse, according to the
Committees report, and the bill
her behalf would grant her dur
be- her remaining days a pension
# $50 month. She is the widow
Manlius Holbrook who enlisted
November II, 1861 in Company E,
econd United States SharpShoot-
rs, and was transferred in Feb
uary 1865 to Company G, Fourth
ermont infantry. He was honor
bly, discharged July 10, 1865. 1t is
n record that he was shot in the
light hip during his service. Twice
as her application for pension
cen rejected by the Bureau on
echnical grounds.
The Pension Committee evident
had some first hand knowledge
t the salubrious climate of YER
\ mont, for in its report that body
embarked that malarial poisoning
x is so rare in Vermont as to lead
b serious doubt as to the correct
ess Of the diagnosis" in the cases
f Mrs. Eliza Cobbs late husband
PANEL r. Cobbs, a veteran of
company I, 18th Vermont Infantry
b which outfit he saw service from
september 3, 1862 to AugLo. 5,
4 1868. The Committee felt that
ince this soldier had drawn a pen
ion for more than half a century
y reason of diseases of the heart
nd liver contracted in the Army it
vas mot improbable, impossible,
T unreasonable to suppose that
hey were factors in the fatal re-
ult." Accordingly pension of $50
month was recommended in be-
alf of this widow, who is now SO
Fears of age.
Elery H. Carter, whose widow,
Emma F., is recommended for
tension Of $50 month, served
f wo months and two days, accord
* ng to the report in Company A,
N 1th Vermont Infantry, having en-
sted August 8, 1862 and having
zen discharged October II, 1862
n surgeons certificate for gun
x hot wound of right wrist. On tech
\ ical grounds Mrs. Carriers appli-
& alton for pension has been twice
a isapproved by the Pension Bur
au, and now at the age of So she
physically unable to work and
a arn her own support.
Although Thomas F. Leahy,
e unassigned Vermont Infantry"
lad served but IS days after en-
sting as substitute, he became
i pensioner in 1883. The Commit
4 Zee took the ground that since
YRS. Leahy was recognized as the
legal widow of this soldier and was
flowed and paid the accrued pen
4 ion due to him at the time of his
y cath she was entitled to $50 a
month, and SO recommends.
A favorable report has been
nade by the Senate Committee on
claims upon bill introduced this
nonth by Senator Dillingham; en-
titled "a bill for the relief of
George Hewitt Myers" BY its pro
#isions the Secretary of the Treas
4 ry is directed to pay to Mr. Myers
\ resident of Washington, the sum
f $4,000 for damage and loss
ustained by him by reason of the
occupancy of his warehouse by the
ublic Printer from June 80, 1918
10 June 80, 1919. The bill origin
Ply called for the payment of
819,94068.
Il Mr. Myers comes from an old
Rutland, Vermont family, his faith
n p having been one fthe founders
4 the Vermont Marble Company
Among his extensive Washington
Holdings is a warehouse at Il M
$treet, N. E. According to the re-
$ort of the Committee it is we'll |
Established by the evidence that
Nhe floors of this building were
BADLY overloaded by the then Pub
Nc Printer, Corelius Ford and that |
She property was thus seriously da-
haged. The report sets forth that |
the evidence of this injury is |
furnished through the repeated |
Offices given to the Public Printer |
. y various officers of other De- |