Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — TURPIE'S PENSION BILL. [ARTICLE]

TURPIE'S PENSION BILL.

Senator Turpte has introduced a service pension bill, which provides that any officer or private who served in the civil war shall be granted a pension at the rate of 1 cent a day a month for the time he served. Every pensioner receiving under this act less than (8 a month is to have his pension increased to that amount up on reaching tho age of sixty years, and to sl2 a month if incapacitated from manual labor. The period of service is to rate from the time of enlistment to the date of discharge, (except in cases where pensioners have been discharged on account of wounds before the expiration of their terms of enlistment, when they are to be paid as if they had continued to serve. The bill is specifically a service pension bill, and it is provided that the pensions granted under it shall be in addition to any invalid pension granted for disability incurred in the line of duty. The war against the saloon at Greenwood has resulted in a suit for damages against the saloon-keeper and the owners of the property, based on the recent decision of the Supreme Court, I