People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Fixing Rate of Pensions. [ARTICLE]

Fixing Rate of Pensions.

There is much comment on the recent order of the commissioner of pensions, concerning the new ruling for fixing the rate of pensions under the disability act of June 30, 1890. The order is plain and explicit and is intended to carry out the full extent of the law. It reads as follows: 1. A claim for pension under the second section of the act of June 27, 1890, can only be allowed upon proof of mental or physical disability of a permanent character not the result of the claimants own vicious habits, incapacitating him from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render him unable to earn a support.