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58TH CONGREse, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
3d Smsion. No. 4319.
HENRY W. GAY.
FEBRUARY 6, 1905.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered
to be printed.
Mr. SULLOWAY, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted
the |lowing
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[TcL mpan S.2031.] ~
The Committee o \0l'id Rsions, to wnom was referred the bill
(S. 2031) grantingI increase of pension to Henry W. Gay, have
examined the same and adopt the Senate report thereon and reconi-
mend that the bill do pass.
[Senate Report, No. 3186 Fifty-eighth.Congress, third session.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2031) granting an
increase of pension to Henry W. Gay, have examined the same and report:
This bill propses to increase from $12 to $24 per month the pension of Henry W.
Gay, of East Corinth, Me., late of Company H, Fifteenth Regiment, Maine Volun-
teer Infantry.
Claimant is shown by the records of the War Department to have enlisted in Com-
pany H, Fifteenth Maine Infantry, December 26, 1861, and to have served therein
as private, corporal, and sergeant until July 5, 1866, when honorably discharged at
Charleston, S. C., thus showing over four and one-half years of continuous service.
He filed and established a claim under the general law and was pensioned for
malarial poisoning of service origin at the rate of $4 per month from March 31, 1885,
which was increased to $6 per month, February 1, 1888; to $8 per month, July 10,
1889, and to $12 per month, October 21, 1891, this last being his present rate. His
last claim for increase, filed September 21, 1897, was rejected January 2,1902, on the
ground that his pension of $12 per month was commensurate with the disability from
pensinned cause.
Claimant also filed a claim under the general law September 21, 1897, for an addi-
tional disability-rheumatism-which he alleged he contracted at Morganza Bend,
Louisiana, in June, 1864, but this claim was rejected January 2, 1902, on the ground
of no hospital record, and no competent or satisfactory evidence of service origin or
existence at discharge.
Soldier was treated while in the service, as shown by the records, for mumps,
debility, acute diarrhea, and pneumonia. Evidence obtained by a special examiner
of the Pension Bureau shows that he contracted malarial poisoning while in service,
and for which he is pensioned, and also indicates that he suffered from rheumatism
in Louisiana in 1864, and that at discharge he returned home debilitated, worn out,
and broken in health, suffering from malarial poisoning, rheumatism, and later from
heart disease, from all of which he is now afgicted,
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