HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.
![handle is hein.usccsset/usconset30068 and id is 1 raw text is:
57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
£d Hessi on. No. 3512.
FRANK E. FREEMAN.
FEBRUARY 4, 1903.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered
to be printed.
Mr. HOLLIDAY, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted
the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 3632.]
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 3632) granting an increase of pension to Frank E. Freeman,
have examined the same and adopt the Senate report thereon and
recommend that the bill do pass.
[Senate Report No. 2424, Fifty-seventh Congress, second session.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3632) granting an
increase of pension to Frank E. Freeman, have examined the same and report:
This bill proposes to increase from $12 to $30 per month the pension of Frank E.
Freeman, of Knightstown, Ind., late of Battery B, First Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Light Artillery, who served from July 15, 1863, to July 22, 1865, when honorably
discharged.
Claimant is now receiving a pension of $12 per month under the act of June 27,
1890, for total inability to earn a support by manual labor, due to disease of eyes.
He made claim under the general law, alleging that he contracted disease of eyes in
service, but he has never been able to find any of his old comrades by whose evi-
dence he might establish such a claim, and he has long since abandoned it.
Claimant is about 55 years of age. When last examined, December 1, 1897, he was
found to be totally blind and requiring the regular aid and attendance of another
person. His disability was rated at $72 per month.
It is shown by evidence accompanying the bill that claimant is a poor man, with-
out property or means of support except his pension of $12 per month. He served
for two years, and it may be that his loss of sight is due to his service. Apart from
this, however, he is totally blind and poverty stricken, and your committee are of
opinion that he should have an increase of his pension.
The bill is therefore reported back favorably with a recommendation that it pass.
0
H R-57-2-Vol 3-1](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.usccsset/usconset30068&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)