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55TH CONGRESS, ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
2d Session. . No. 853.
THOMAS S. TEFFT.
MARc 29, 1898.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to
be printed.
Mr. CASTLE, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 8299.]
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 8299) granting an increase of pension to Thomas S. Tefft, have
examined the same and the evidence, and respectfully report:
This bill as amended proposes to increase from $12 to $30 per month
the pension of Thomas S. Teift, of Belmont, Allegany County, N. Y.,
who served from August 11, 1862, to June 30, 1865, when honorably
discharged.
There is no record of disability or treatment while in service, but
there is evidence to show that he contracted rheumatism in line of
duty, from which he now suffers.
Claimant says he was at the front all the time and was never excused
from duty for a day while in the service. This is to his credit, and
does not disprove the fact that he contracted rheumatism in the
service.
He filed a claim September 7, 1887, under the general law, based on
rheumatism, but that claim was rejected August 22, 1895, on the
ground of no pensionable degree of disability shown from alleged
rheumatism since date claim was filed. No results.
July 8, 1890, he filed a claim under act of June 27, 1890, based on
loss of both legs, failing eyesight, and rheumatism, established the
same, and was pensioned at $12 from date of filing for disease of heart
and loss of both feet. His feet were lost by reason of his being acci-
dentally run over by a railroad coach in 1882. He wears artificial feet
a part of the time, but part of the time can not do so in consequence of
the sore condition of the stumps, and thvn he has to get around on his
knees, on which he wears leather pads. He is employed as assistant
by the clerk of Allegany County, N. Y., but earns but little. He is
unable to work part of the time. He has large ulcers on the stumps of
his limbs; also has nervous prostration, general weakness, and diabetes.
He has a family, consisting of a wife and seven children. It is shown
that he has no income or means of support except his $12 pension and
his small earnings.
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