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56TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1st Session. No. 1114.
JOSEPHINE A. HALEY.
MAY 1, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. TALIAFERRO, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 3481.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R.
3481) granting a pension to Josephine A. Haley, 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
bil'is recommended.
HOUSE REPORT.
Henry W. Haley, the soldier named in this bill, applied for pension in the Pen-
sion Bureau June 5, 1880, alleging that while acting as a scout for Colonel Lowe, of
the Fifth Iowa Cavalry, he received an injury to the thigh by a gunshot wound
which resulted in rheumatism. This claim was rejected September 8, 1883, upon the
ground that inasmuch as the claimant was not an enlisted man in the military estab-
lishment title to pension could not obtain under the general pension laws, but on
September 30, 1890, Congress passed a special act for his relief, and by virtue of that
act he was pensioned for gunshot wound of left thigh and resulting deformity at $16
per month, commencing from the date of the passage of said act.
The report of the Senate Committee on Pensions upon which the special act was
based is hereto attached, and fully shows the facts in the case.
Mr. Haley died September 19, 1896, presumably from heart failure, he having been
found dead in bed; and Josephine A. Haley, the beneficiary named in this bill, and
now 62 years of age, has pending before the Pension Bureau a claim for the pension
which accrued between the date of the last payment thereof to the soldier and the
date of his death; and in support of said claim filed proof showing that in 1862 she
was married to one William A. Phelps, who was a sergeant in Company E, One hun-
dred and sixteenth New York Infantry, and who died in the service August 23, 1863;
that she drew a pension on account of her first husband until her remarriage to one
Roderick W. Gordon, in 1877; that her second husband, Gordon, died in 1883; and
that in 1888 she was married to Henry W. Haley, and lived with him as his wife to
the date of his death; and from letters of the beneficiary on file in the Pension
Bureau it appears that she has not a dollar of money, no income, and is badly crip-
pled with rheumatism.
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