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57TH CONGRESS, t               SENATE.                         j REPORT
   1st Sewsion.   (                                              No. 920.






                         HELEN V. RORER.



                   MARCH 31, 1902.-Ordered to be printed.



Mr. ScoTT, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following


                             REPORT.

                        [To accompany H. R. 1938.]

  The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R.
1938) granting an increase of pension to Helen V. Rorer, have examined
the same and report:
  The report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of
Representatives, hereto appended, is adopted and the passage of the
billis recommended.
  The House report is as follows:
  Jonathan T. Rorer, the officer named in this bill, served as first lieutenant and
captain of Company I, One hundred and thirty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
from August 9, 1862, to April 5, 1865, when he resigned by reason of contusion of
abdomen, with injuries to the viscera and spinal column, thereby producing partial
paralysis to the lower extremities, received by an accident to the steamer Georgina
in the night of January 9, 1865, by colliding with the schooner John Walker on the
Chesapeake Bay.
  His claim to pension on account of said disabilities was rejected by the Pension
Bureau on October 26, 1875, on the ground that the disabilities were not received in
line of duty, it appearing in evidence that the officer was granted leave of absence
on account of family affairs, and while returning from such leave to rejoin his com-
mand he met with said accident.
  He was pensioned under the act of June 27, 1890, at $12 per month for total
inability to earn a support by manual labor by reason of injury to spine and disease
of lungs.
  The services of the officer are fully set forth in the following statement of Gen J.
Warren Keifei on file in the Pension Bureau:
                               HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE,
                                   TjinRD DIVISION, SIXTsi ARMY CORPS,
                                   Camp near Washington, D. C., June 1, 1865.
  I take pleasure in commending Jonathan T. Rorer, late brevet major, One hun-
dred and thirty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, for gallantry in action, assiduity in
performance of his duty as an officer, skill and good judgment upon the field of battle,
temperate habits, intelligence, and exemplary character.
  Major Rorer served upon my staff in the double capacity of acting assistant adju-
tant-general and brigade inspector, acquitting himself in both positions with honor
and credit to himself.
  Major Rorer participated in the battles of Brandy Station and Orange Grove, Va.,
November, 1863; in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Tolocotomy, Cold
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