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3557 I (1897)

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54TH  CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I REPORT
   2d Session.                                              No. 3035.





   THE   INVESTIGATION OF THE SOLDIERS' HOME AT
                    LEAVENWORTH, KANS.


 FEBRUARY  24, 1897.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.


 Mr. GROUT,  from  the select committee  to investigate the Soldiers'
        Home  at Leavenworth,  Kans., submitted the following

                           REPORT.
                      [To accompany H. R. 10357.]
  The  select committee appointed to investigate the soldiers' home at
Leavenworth,  Kans., under the following resolution, viz-
  Resolved, That the Speaker is hereby authorized to appoint a committee of five
members, who shall be empowered to examine and report to this House upon the
plan, practical workings, and management of the National Home for Disabled Vol-
unteer Soldiers at Leavenworth, Kans., and any speciftic complaints which have been
made as to the workings and management of said Home, and to recommend, by bill
or otherwise, what may appear to them to be necessary to insure the most effective,
economical, and hunano application of the funds annually appropriated by Congress
for the support of said Home; and for that purpose said committee is authorized to
sit during the sessions of the House and during the recess of Congress at Leaven-
worth, Kans., to examine said Homne, to send for persons and papers, also the books,
accounts, papers, and all other matters and things pertaining to said Home and the
conduct of any manager or officer thereof, to administer oaths, and to employ such
clerical and other assistance as may be required for this work. The Clerk of the
House, upon the order of the chairman of said committee, shall advance, out of the
contingent fund of the House, such sums as may be required to meet the current
expenses for clerk hire and other services, traveling and other expenses, not exceed-
ing $2`000, sail amonnt to be promptly accounted for by proper vouchers duly certi-
fied by said chairman-
would  respectfully report that on the 19th day of November, 1896, a
quorum  of the committee met at Leavenworth, Kans., and remained  at
said Leavenworth taking testimonyand personallyinspecting said Home
until November 28, when they adjourned to meet at Washington, D. C.,
on the 9th of December, 1896, where from time to time they took addi-
tional evidence until the 26th of January, 1897; when further testimony
seeming necessary at Leavenworth, Hon.  Vespasian Warner, a member
of the coin mittee, was authorized by the full committee to hear witnesses
at that place, which he did until the 6th of February, when the testi-
moiy  was closed.
  One hundred  and eighty-seven witnesses have been examined by your
committee; also a mass of documents, exhibits, and papers, and a large
number  of letters received. The testimony, filling 1,118 pages, has been
printed in fall, and is submitted herewith ani made a part of this report;
also such papers as seemed necessary to a fair and full understanding
of the matter by the House.
  The committee  have received from the contingent fund of the House
$3,000 to meet  the expenses of the investigation, including expenses
of committee, of witnesses, stenographer, clerk, messengers, deputy

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