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57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
1st Sssion. 1 No. 2444.
PARMENAS F. HARRIS.
JuNE 11, 1902.---Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to
be printed.
Mr. SAMUEL W. Smn, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, sub-
mitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 8542.]
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 8542) granting an increase of pension to Parmenus F. Harris,
submit the following report:
This bill proposes to increase the pension of this soldier from $8 to
$30 per month. -
Parmenas F. Harris, the soldier named in this bill, now 57 years of
age, who served as a private in Company I, One hundredth Ohio Infan-
try, from August. 9, 1862, to June 20, 1865, when honorably dis-
charged, is now a pensioner under the general law at $8 .per month,
on account of disease of respiratory organs, result of typhoid fever
and smallpox of accepted service origin.
A claim for increase of pension, filed in October, 1900, was rejected
in 1901 upon the ground that the disability of accepted service origin
did not warrant a rating in excess of $8 per month, and a claim on
account of catarrh of head and partial deafness was rejected upon the
ground that any disability from catarrh was covered by the approval
and rating for disease of respiratory organs, and that deafness did not
exist.
When last examined, on February 20, 1901, the board of surgeons
recommended a rating of $6 for bronchitis, $4 for nasopharyngeal
catarrh, and the board of surgeons then found him to be greatly
emaciated, debilitated, and suffering also from dyspepsia.
There has been filed with your committee the petition of the benefi-
ciary setting forth that the Pension Bureau had denied him an increase
of pension; that he was suffering from disease of the respiratory
organs, disease of liver, rheumatism, asthma, heart disease, and gastro-
intestinal trouble; that he had no means of support except his pension,
and that all the property he owned was 3J acres of land, with no
buildings or improvements thereon, and this statement relative to his
financial condition is corroborated by the affidavit of two citizens of
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