Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — PAID OUT TO OLD SOLDIERS. [ARTICLE]

PAID OUT TO OLD SOLDIERS.

Pension Money Distributed to Veterans of Indiana and Their Families. That Republican legislation has been productive of measures applying directly to the old soldier and his interests needs no belter proof than the figures the Indiana pension agency can show. This, agency is next to the largest in" the United States, and the money sent out from it quarterly reaches every part of the State. An illustration of the great good these payments do, and ail under laws advocated by Republicans and enacted by Republican Congresses is shoWn in the instance of Brown county. A resident i of that county who was here the othei I day said this year the agricultural products of Brown had failed, but the pension; money came in to relieve the hard times thus caused. The amount of pensions paid to bldsoldiers, widows and orphans in Brown each year equal the value of its agricultural products. In Marion county the payments last year reached $337,880, and adding to this its apportionment of the large sum paid out on account of originals, reissues and increase cases the great aggregate of $500,000 is shown. ■" At the close of the last fiscal , year, June 30, there were 45,776 Indiana pensioners on the rolls of the agency in Indianapolis, and they drew $6,296, ■ 481, the disbursements of the year go ing into the ninety-two counties of the State as follows: , „ - 5.? *vo COUNTIES* fl S’ : ” ; H : A1en........ -- ........ 268 S 6,T( Adains «... - 607 83, <3 Bartho'omew 721 98,74 Benton.. 15 21.0*.' Blackford 175 23,90 Boone. 68 90,12 Brown - 320 43,>2 Carroll 351 48,07 Cass .. - 563 77.10 Clark..... 576 78,88. Clay 715 97,9* Cdnton 652 89,29 Crawf0rd............ 593 81,21 Daviess 652 79.71 Dearb0rn............... ............. 561 78,831 Decatur «,............... oom* ..... 640 87,6 n DeKalb. .. ... 398 54,51 Delaware. 534 73,13 Dubois 1.. 393 53.82 Elkhart 571 78,20 Fa'etie. - 239 31,‘,0 Floyd - 449 6',4V Fountain 458 62 7z Ftanklin ..... 394 53,fh, Fulton ....- 253 34 .65 Gibson • 473 64,78 Grant.. 701 96,0; Greene « 828 118,4: Ham Iton 649 86,1; Hancock.. .... .;. 439 60, Is Harrison. ....... ...a. 517 70,8*’ Hendricks 601 8.’,31 Henry., 475 65.0 Howard., 537 73,5*1, Huntington. 486 „. 66,5 i Jackson 8:6 110,9. Jasper 225 30,8: Jay...* 514 71.71 Jefferson 679 92,9. Jennings...™. 512 7u,r Johnson... 490 67,! 1 Knox .. 535 73.2 Kosciusko .510 69.8 Lagrange.. 273 37,ui Lake 20’ .2 <.4;. LaPorte 291 39.8 Lawrence 708 96,9 Madison ... ,3.......658 90,12 Marion 2,467 887,8.Marshal 415 56 84 Martin 46S 61, Of Miami 402 63, 7 Monroe 592 81 ,CMontgwniery. .................. 736 100,81 Morgan 663 90,«( Newton....,, 10» 21,4' treble ;. 434 59, t0hi0,............... 149 ... 204 - Orange 468 64,0'.* Owen 58"> 80,1 Parke 360 49,36 ■Pery „... 396 51,2;: Pike..... 5u 77.2 Porter .-. 214 29.30 Posey .; W - : nroski ...777. 252 —— Putnam 499 68,3< Randolph 64S 88,75 Ripley .. 606 82,1 Kush 383 4566 Pcott : 242 38,1 s Shelby 540 73,9'* Spencer 6>3 85.3 Starke 178 Fteuben ............. 408 55.19 St Joseph ....... .... 410 56,1 Sullivan., 6-4 89,57 Switzerland..;.. :. 897 54,7 Tipton ... 424 58,58 Union 11)0 lJt,cr Vanderburg us 70 91 Vermi11i0n............................ 230 39.71; Vigo 1,114 152 57 Wabash ~ 485 fi6,4? Warren 33,a. Warrick „ 432 59.16 -Washington ... 52(1 7‘.f4 Wayne..,...™,™. ................... Gjo 87.65 - ®7 A2,tl! whi-e... 28s »2,7:3 WniFey...... 261 35,74 _ 45,7 ml 45

In addition to the above there wa disbursed some $605,025 to 4,420 pensioners temporarily residing in variouStatai and Territor'es of the United States. Probably about the same" amount was paid from other agencies to pensioners now residing in Indiana. During the fiscal year 1889 and 1890, under President Harrison’s administration, the Indianapolis agency disbursed, in addition to the annua l amount given above by counties, some $3,082,969 to pensioners of the various counties of the State on account of original, reissue and increase cases issued during the year, making a' grand total of $9,984,475. The :ip portionment of the $3,082,969 paid to pensioners on account of original, reissue and increase cases among tbo various counties will add nearly 50 per cent, to the amount paid annually to pensioners of each county in the State. .Anticipating the allowances that will be made under aet of Jnno 27, 1890, there will be a large increase in the amount paid discing th< fiscal yehf ending .June 30, 1891." Since Jude 30 inpiuia»& haA Already readied ■nearly 08®, w®i. the amount'is ' * * •"