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58TH CONGRESS, tHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
2d Sessin. . No. 2266.
CHARLES H. AVERY..
APRIL 6, 1904.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be
printed.
Mr. SULLOWAY, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted
the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 5124.]
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill
(S. 5124) granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Avery, have
examined the same and adopt the Senate report thereon and recom-
mend that the bill do pass.
[Senate Report No. 1770, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 5124) granting an
increase of pension to Charles H. Avery, have examined the same and report:
This bill proposes to increse from $12 to $ 0 per month the pension of Charles H.
Avery, late of Company H, Twelfth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry.
The military records show that Charles H. Avery enlisted December 9, 1861, as a
private in Company H, Twelfth Maine Infantry, and was honorably discharged May
11, 1864, by reason of physical disability from gunshot wound of left shoulder received
in battle at Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863.
Claimant is now a pensioner under the general law for gunshot wound of left
shoulder at the rate of $12 per month, and can obtain no higher rate at the Bureau,
his claim for increase having been rejected February 9, 1903. He also filed a claim
at the Bureau June 29, 1888, for additional disabilities, malarial poisoning, disease of
heart, neuralgia, disease of stomach and bowels, and partial loss of sight of right
eye; but this claim was rejected December 18, 1900, on the ground of no record and
claimant's inability to furnish medical or other satisfactory evidence of service
origin and continuance.
In support of his claim for additional disabilities claimant filed evidence of com-
rades and neighbors to show that these troubles were contracted during his military
service. His comrades testified that his malarial poisoning originated in the
swamps of Louisiana in 1863, and that he complained during service of his stomach,
bowels, heart, and right eye. His neighbors testified to his impaired health result-
ing from his wound and other troubles continuously since the date of his discharge
and return home from the Army.
Claimant is 68 years of age. When he was last examined, November 5, 1902, he
was rated $12 for gunshot wound of left shoulder, $10 for disease of left eye, $4 for
malarial poisoning and disease of stomach, and $4 for rheumatism, or a total of $30.
Medical and other evidence filed with this committee shows that claimant is totally
disabled for manual labor by reason of malarial poisoning, rheumatism, and result-
ing disease of heart and liver. It is also in evidence that he is dependent solely on
his pension and has no other means of support.
It is highly probable, as the evidence indicates, that.claimant's disabilities are all
the result of the hardships and exposures endured in the Army. In view of his
faithful service, his wound received in battle, his total disability and destitution,
your committee report the bill back favorably with a recommendation that it pass.
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