Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ol the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. FAVORS INCREASED PENSIONS House Committee R<'|«irts gSO Minimum Bill for ’(it-’OS Vets. Washington, D. C. t Sept. 19. — The house pension committee reported favorably today a bill granting a minimum monthly pension of SSO to the veterans of the war between the states. Their widows would receive S3O a month and their children 16 years old, $6 a month, while nurses would receive S3O a month. The measure would add $65,000,000 to the pension roll In its first year. “Speedy enactment of the bill 1* a matter of great urgency,” declared the committee report, pointing out the Increased cost of living and the ages of the veterans. The bill would grant $72 monthly to all totally disabled veterans and S9O a month to fhose who suffered such disability in service.