People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — VOTE TO INCREASE PENSIONS. [ARTICLE]

VOTE TO INCREASE PENSIONS.

House Committee Favors Veterans of the Mexican and Indian Wars. "Washington, May 16.—The house committee on peusions voted to report to the house a bill increasing the rates of all pensioners of the Mexican war and Indian war from $8 to (12 a month. Representative Caminetti (Cal,) had introduced a bill to give this increase to Mexican war pensioners, and the committee decided to extend it to the Indian war survivors. But one member of the committee opposed the measure, taking the ground that it would open the door for a service pension to survivors of the civil war.