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57TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
2d Sesion. . No. 2945.
JOHN H. KEHN.
FEBRUARY 9, 1903.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. BURTON, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 3353.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R.
3353) granting an increase of pension to John H. Kehn, have exam-
ined 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:
John H. Kehn, the beneficiary, now 72 years of age, served as a sergeant in Com-
pany K, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, from June 24, 1861, to May 25, 1864, when
e was promoted to first lieutenant of Company l of the same regiment and was h6n-
orably discharged July 8, 1865, on tender of resignation, accompanied by a medical
certificate showing him to be suffering from eczema of the scrotum.
Medical records of the War Department show that he was under treatment at dif-
ferent dates for dysentery, diarrhea, contusion, and remittent fever.
He is now pensioned under the general law at $25 per month on account of total
deafness of the left ear and severe deafness of right ear and injury to testicles.
Claims on account of rheumatism and disease of lungs and the effects of sunstroke-
were rejected upon the gr6und that a pensionable disability from these causes had
not existed since the filing of the claim; and a claim on account of disease of eyes
was rejected in July, 1900, upon the ground of no record of treatment in the War
Department and claimant's inability to show the origin of the same in service, etc.
The officer alleged that he received a sunstroke in July, 1864, and that in 1891 his
eyes began to fail, and that he had been totally blind since April, 1894, and medical
examinations beginning in July, 1895, show that he has been totally blind since
that time by reason of atrophy of the optic nerve and operation for cataract, and that
by reason of such blindness he requires the personal aid and attendance of another
person.
The affidavit of the beneficiary filed with your committee sets forth that he
received a sunstroke; that his sight became defective; that with the aid of glasses,
however, he was able to see moderately well; that in 1894 he became totally blind,
since which time he had required the attendance of another person; that all the
property he owns is a cottage of four rooms, valued at about $500 and encumbered
for $132, and personal property amounting to about $75; that he has no income aside
from the pension of $25 per month, which is insufficient for his and his wife's sup-
port in his present helpless condition, etc.
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