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4067 1 (1901)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32342 and id is 1 raw text is: 56TH CONGREss, SENATE. RaEORT 2d e No. 2323. LEALDES F. LAVERTY. FEBRUARY 19, 1901.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. AILEN, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 11798. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 11798) granting an increase of pension to Lealdes F. Laverty, 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. HOUSE REPORT. This bill proposes to increase the pension of this soldier from $24 to $50 per month. This soldier, now 56 years of age, who served as a private in Companies C and B, Thilrt-fourth lowa Infantry, from April 6,1863, to August 15, 1865, when he was honorablydischarged, was pnioned in 1885, under the general law, at $8 per month, Commencing September 24, 1881, on account of rheumatism and resulting disease of hart. of servic-e origin; was increased to $12 per month from May 18, 1887, and to P4 per month from June 25, 1890; and he is now in receipt of that pension. HL9 claim for increase of nsion, fild March 23, 1897, in which he alleged that he is totalI diabi from a I manual labor, and that much of the time he requires assiance to d res and undress, wa ted March 9, 1899, upon the ground that his disability did not warrant a rating in excess of $24 per month. In supp of his claim for increase of pension ie filed the testimony of several neiuhbors to the effect that they knew him to be unable to perform any kind of manual or physicial labor whatever, owing to serious disease of the heart, caused by itflamnator -rheuiatism of service origin. The certificate of medical examination of August 25, 1897, made by the board of surgeons at Guthrie, Okla., upon which the action of rejection of Mar ch 9, 1899), was ned by the Pension Bureau, rated him $8 for rheumatism and $17 for disease of heart, and in that certificate the board of examining surgeons stated that the comnbined disabilities entitled the soldier to a rating of $24 per month, the disability being quivalent to the loss of a hand or a foot. lis condition is described in that certificate as follows: Rheumatism: All joints of hody tender: musc!vs of back very tender; no swelling, enreent, atrophy, or contraction; motion limited one ixfli in back and large ant,: claims to be often confined to bed. SI 14--1

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