Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — What an Eye is Worth. [ARTICLE]

What an Eye is Worth.

Representative O’Neil says that one of the first pension eases he worked through under the Cleveland administration was f?r a constituent who had become entirely blind. The rate of compensation was 172 a month. Immediately he began to get letters from other constituent!! who had lost an eye in the military service and were getting $lB a month, insisting that their pensions be raised to $36. They argued that if the loss of two eyes entitlod a veteran to $72 a month it was a plain and simple mathematical verity that the loss of one eye should be rated at half that sum.—[Milwaukee Sentinel.