New Pension Bill Before Congress

The new pension bill that was agreed upon by the G. A. R. at its last encampment, and which passed the Senate on January 8, is now being discussed by the House of Representatives. It provides that all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the civil war, who were honorably discharged, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from any mental or physical disability or disabilities of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor so as to earn support, shall, upon making proof of the fact, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding $12 per month and not less than $6 per month, proportioned to the degree of inability to earn a support.