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58TH CONGRESS, t SENATE. REPORT
3d Sesron. } No. 3707.
PETER A. PURDY.
FEBRUARY 6, 1905.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. McCUMBER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the
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The Committee on I9nsiois l wl~q was referred the bill (S. 6966)
granting an increase of p ion erA. Purdy, have examined the
same and report:
This bill proposes tncrease from $12 to $30 per month the pension
of Peter A. Purdy,'Tate of Company H, Fourteenth Regiment Wis-
consin Volunteer Infantry.
The records of the War Department show that Peter A.. Purdy, the
claimant, enlisted May 28, 1861, as private in Company I, Fifth Wis-
consin Infantry, and was honorably discharged November 12, 1861.
He again enlisted February 5, 1864, as a private in Company H, Four-
teenth Wisconsin Infantry, and was honorably discharged October
9, 1865.
Soldier is now a pensioner under the act of June 27, 1890, at $12
per month for total disability, the result of disease of lungs, rectum,
and heart, chronic diarrhea, and partial paralysis. He has never made
a claim under the general law.
It appears by the last report of the claimant's examination, which
was made at his home May 24, 1904, that he is totally disabled and
absolutely disqualified for the performance of manual labor. He was
shown to be suffering from disease of heart, rated at $16; disease of
kidneys (Bright's disease), rated at $16; disease of rectum, rated at
$6; paralysis, rated at $16, and senility, rated at $16, and the examin-
ing surgeon reported that the sum of these disabilities totally incapaci-
tated claimant for manual labor and that they were permanent and cer-
tain to progress to the bad and entitled him to $30 per month.
Claimant is 62 years of age. It is shown by a petition of his neigh-
bors, filed with this committee, that he is totally incapacitated and needs
an attendant all the time, and that he is without means of support save
his pension of $12 per month.
Your committee are of opinion that soldier's advanced age and
deplorable condition and extreme poverty, coupled with his faithful
service, warrant the increase proposed in the bill, the passage of whi.,h
is recommended.
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