Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — IMPORTANT PENSION RULING. [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT PENSION RULING.

Assistant Secretary Bussey. Friday .rendered a decision in the matter of tb« claim of Joseph P. Smith for an increase of peniion on the ground of new disabilities, in which he overruled the act of the Commissioner of Pensions in allowing au attorney’s fee for $lO. The claim for Increase was made under the act of June 27, 1890, and the Assistant Secretary hold) that all such claims should be treated a) itrlctly increase claims, whether new disabilities arc claimed or not, for which 1 fee of only #2 can be allowed. It is sale that probably* two hundred thousand claims will be affected by this decision. Austria will increase her peace effectivi »t a cost of 20,000,000 florins aunually.