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56TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1st Session. No. 766.
FREDERICK E. VANCE.
MARCH 27, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. BAKER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 7322.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R.
7322) granting an increase of pension to Frederick E. Vance, 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 (H. R. 7322) proposes to increase the pension of this soldier, now 57 years
of age, from $12 to $50 per month. He served as a member of Company A, First
Minnesota Cavalry (Mounted Rangers), from October 9, 1862, to October 20, 1863.
He is now pensioned at $12 per month under the act of June 27, 1890, on account of
total inability to earn a support by manual labor by reason of paralysis agitans,
disease of rectum, and general debility; and this allowance of pension was based
upon a certificate of medical examination of April 2, 1891, which stated that his gen-
eral appearance was one of marked debility; muscles of body shrunken and atro-
phied; that he walks with shuffling, short steps, every voluntary muscle of his body,
excepting those of the face, constantly trembling. Muscles of arms, hands, neck,
body, and limbs constantly agitated except when asleep. Mind weak, but not much
affected yet (in 1891). That he is very weak, almost helpless, and requires an
attendant. Hemorrhoidal vessels of the rectum were also found diseased. This
board of surgeons rated him at $72 per month.
There have been filed with the committee in the Fifty-fifth Congress testimony of
the county officers of Clay County, Kans., and of a number of other citizens, showing
that the soldier was in December, 1898, entirely helpless, unable to feed himself, and
requires a constant attendant; that the care falls upon his wife, who is an invalid,
and they are without means to employ help; that a brother of the soldier has assisted
in taking care of him, but the brother's own poor health does not permit him to do
more than watch.
The surgeon of the western branch of the National Military Homa also certifies
that the soldier was an inmate of the said home for three days, from September 21,
1897, to September 23, 1897, suffering with paralysis agitans and rectal disease, unable
to care for or drr -s himself, very emaciated, and requiring a constant attendant.
Owing to the fact that there was no nurse on duty at nights i the home, the soldier
could not remain there, and was then returned to his own residence.
A member of this committee stated his personal knowledge of the man, and that
he is in extreme poverty, constantly growmg weaker with his disease, and requires
the constant care of others, day and night. From his own account of his service,
there was just reason for believing that the disease came from an injury received in
the service by the fall of a horse, but the comrades who witnessed it are all dead.
Your committee recommend the passage of the bill.
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