Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — THE NEW PENSION BILL. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW PENSION BILL.

Pensions for Disabled - Soldiers and Dependent Parents. The bill for the relief of dependent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who are now disabled and dependent upon their own labor for support, Which recently passed Congress, reads as follows: Be It enacted, etc., That in considering the pension claims of dependent parents, the fact and causes of death, and the fact that the soldier left no widow or minor children, having been shown aB required by law, it shall bo necessary only to-show by competent and sufficient evidence that Buch parent or parents are without other present means of support than their own manual labor or the contributions of others not legally bound for their support. Provided, That no pension ailowed uudor this act shall commence prior to its passage, and in case of applications hereafter made under this act the pension shall commence from the date of the filing of tho application in the Pension Office. Sec. 2. That all persons who served three months or more in the military or naval service of the United States in any war in which the United States has been engaged, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from mental or physical disability, not the result of their own vicious habits or gross carolessness, which incapacitates them for the performance of labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, and who are dependent upon their daily labor for support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such rules and. regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide in pursucnoo of this act, be placed on tho list of invalid ; pensioners of the United States, and be 1 entitled to receive, for such total inability to procure their subsistence by daily labor, sl2 per month; and such pension shall commence from the date of the tiling of tho application in the Pension Office, upon proof that tho disability then existed, and com tinue during the existence of the same in the dogree herein provided : Provided. That persons who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims are pending hi the Pension Officei may, by application to the Commissioner of Pensions, in such forms as he may prescribe, receive the benefits of this act; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow more than one pension at tho same time to tho same person, or pension to commence prior to the passage of this act: And provided further, That rank in tho service shall not bfe considered in applications filed thereunder. Sec. 3. That no agent, attorney, or other person instrumental in the presentation und prosecution of a claim under this act shall demand or receive for his services or instrumentality in presenting and prosecuting such claim agreater sum than ;5, payable only upon tho order of the Commissioner of Pensions, by the pension agent making payment^of the pension al.owed, except in cases heretofore prosecuted before the Pension Office, when, in the discretion ol the Commissioner of Pensions, a fee of SlO may be allowed in like manm r to the agent or attorney of record in the case at the date of the passage of this act; and any agent, attorney, or other person instrumental in tho prosecution of a claim under this act who shall demand or receive a sum greater than that herein provided for, for his service in tho prosecution of the claim, shall be subject to the some penalties as prescribed in section 4 of the act of July 4,1834, entitled “An act making appropriation for the payment of invalid and other pensions of < the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes.” Sec. 4. That section 4710 of the Kevised Statutes is hereby modified so that the same shall not apply to this act: Provided, That this act shall not ajjply to those persons under political disabilities. And no person shall be pensioned under this act for any disability incurred while engaged in the military service against the United States. The extraordinary De Poicliers was thir-ty-six w hen Henry 11., then Duke of Orleans, and jost half her age, became attached to her, and she was Held as the first lady and the most beautiful woman at court tip to the period of the monarch's death . and the accession to power of Catherine de Medicis. Mrs. Minks —ls there is so much trouble, getting honest officials, why not have rej course to palmistry? Mr. Minks—Palmistry! “ Why, yes. - The palmists claim that ! they can distinguish the hands of a thief at j first glance.” “No use; politicians never show their hands until after election.” Ninon del’Enclos, the most celebrated wit and beauty of her day, was the idol of three generations of the golden youth of France, and seventy-two when the Abbe de , Bonds fell in love with her. I Lons XYI. married Mme. deMaintenon when she was forty-three.