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56TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1st Session. No. 225.
FREDERICK HIGGINS.
JANUARY 31, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. QUARLES, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany 8. 2209.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2209)
granting an increase of pension to Frederick Higgins, have examined
the same and report.
This bill proposes to increase the pension of Frederick Higgins, late
of Company G, Thirty-first Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry,
from $12 to $50 per month.
The military records show that claimant served from November 7
1862, to July 8 1865, and was present for duty with his command
during the whoie of this period. The hospital records show that he
was treated during service as follows: January 14 to 17, 1865, for
headache; February 1 and 2, 1865, for catarrh; March 11 and 12,
1865, burn; April 22 to 27, 1865, for bruised knee; May 3 to May 5,
1865, for diarrhea, and June 30 to July 2, 1865, for abrasion.
In May, 1891, he was allowed a pension under the act of June 27,
1890, at the rate of $12 per month. He made a claim under the gen-
eral law September 25, 1884, alleging that at Bentonville, N. C., in
March, 1865, while on a retreat with line of skirmishers, in attempting
to jump a ditch he missed his footing and fell in said ditch, causing
rupture of right side. He was unable to establish this claim and it
was rejected March 13, 1888, because of his failure to furnish the
necessary evidence.
Examining surgeons, January 14, 1891, report that claimant has
double scrotal hernia, not retained by truss, tumors at least 7 inches
in diameter, for which they rate $17 per month.
In view of his good record and badly disabled condition your com-
mittee are of the opinion that his pension should be increased to $25
per month.
The passage of the bill is therefore recommended, with the following
amendment:
In line 8 strike out the word fifty and insert in lieu thereof the
word twenty -five.
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