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58Tm CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
2d Session. No. 1.410.
BENJAMIN F. MILLER.
MAnon 14, 1904.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Scorr, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT.
(To accompany H. R. 9081.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R.
9081) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Miller, 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
bill is recommended.
The House report is as follows:
Mr. Miller, now 59 years of age, who served as a private in Company D, Seventh
Pennsylvania Cavalry, from February 24, 1864, to August 23, 1865, when honorably
discharged, never applied for pension under the general law, but is now pensioned
under the act of June 27, 1890, at $12 per month, for total disability the result of
rheumatism, left varicocele, and left hemiplegia.
When last examined, on June 20, 1903, which examination was made at his home
as he was unable to report before the board of surgeons on account of his inability to
walk, the board of surgeons found complete paralysis of the left arm and left leg; that
claimant drags his leg when walking; that there was rheumatism affecting the right
shoulder, with tenderness over the sciatic nerve and pain in the muscles of the right
leg.
The examining surgeon then stated that the condition of the soldier from paralysis
would be permanent.
Medical testimony filed with your committee sets forth that the soldier is now
utterly helpless and speechless, requiring the aid of a second person.
Other proof filed shows that he has no means of support except the pension of $12
per month; that he has nothing to look forward to for support; that the Masons and
G. A. R. comrades have contributed toward maintaining him and his family, other-
wise he would have become a borough charge.
An increase of this soldier's pension to $30 per month is in line with numerous
precedents, it being shown that he is helpless from paralysis and in destitute circum-
stances.
The passage of the bill is therefore recommended.
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