Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — IMPORTANT PENSION RULING. [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT PENSION RULING.

Partial Disability, Nut of Service Origin, * Will Not Establish a Claim. Probably the most important pension decision ever sent from the office of the Secretary of the Interior to the Commissioner of Pensions was filed Saturday. It is believed by those in high authority in the Pension Bureau that it will reduce the payment of pensions under the act of June 27,1890, between 115,000,000 and $20,000,000. It involves the repeal of an order passed by General Raum, and a return to the language of the statute requiring the disability, not of service origin, to be such as to prevent the applicant from earning a support by manual labor. The order repealed by this decision was known as No. 164 which directed that ail claims for a pension under this act of Jane 27, 1890, should be rated the same as like disabilities of service origin and that all cases showing a pensionable disability, which if of service origin would be rated at or above sl2 a month, should be rated at sl2 a month. - -