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or otherwise helpless minor child during the 

 continuance of disability, were adopted, but 

 they were afterward thrown out by the Senate. 

 An amendment offered by Mr. Ingalls, of Kan- 

 sas, providing for arrearages, and one offered 

 by Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, for pension- 

 ing Mexican War veterans, were also rejected. 

 The Senate then passed the House bill March 

 16, without a division. The President ap- 

 proved of the measure March 22, 1886. 



March 1, 1886, Mr. Eldredge, of Michigan, 

 moved to suspend the rules and pass the fol- 

 lowing bill for pensioning veterans of the Mexi- 

 can "War as reported from the Committee on 

 Pensions : 



Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior 

 be and he is hereby authorized and directed to place 

 the names of all the surviving officers, soldiers, and 

 sailors who enlisted and served in the war with Mexico 

 for any period during the years 1845. 1846, 1847, 1848, 

 and were honorably discharged, and their surviving 

 widows, on the pension-roll, at the rate of $8 per 

 month, from and after the passage of this act, during 

 their lives. 



SECTION 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is au- 

 thorized and directed to make such rules and regula- 

 tions as are necessary to carry this act into effect : 

 Provided, That where it shall appear that a discharge 

 is lost, secondary evidence may be permitted ; and 

 where it shall appear an applicant has received a land- 

 warrant, that shall be sufficient evidence of an honor- 

 able discharge, unless the evidence shows that he pro- 

 cured it by fraud: And provided further. That this 

 act shall not apply to persons under political disa- 

 bilities. 



April 5, the motion was carried by the fol- 

 lowing vote : 



YEAS C. H. Allen, C. M. Anderson, Baker, Bal- 

 lentine, Barbour, Barksdale, Barnes, Barry, Beach, 

 Bennett, Blanchard, Bland, Bound. Boyle, Brady, C. 

 E. Breckinridge, W. C. P. Breckinridge, Burnes, 

 Bynum, J. E. Campbell, Candler, Catchings, Clardy, 

 ClementSj Cobb, Cole, Conger, Cooper, Cowles, Cox, 

 Crain, Crisp, Croxton, Curtin, A. C. Davidson, E. H. 

 M. Davidson, Dibble, Dockery, Eden, Eldredge, 

 Ells berry, Farquhar, Findlay, Fisher, Fleeger, Foran, 

 Ford, Forney, Fuller, Funston, Gay, Geddes, C. H. 

 Gibson, Glass, Glover, Goff, E. S. Green, W. J. Green, 

 Hale, Hall, Halsell, Hatch, Hayden, Heard, D. B. 

 Henderson, J. S. Henderson, Henley, Herbert, Her- 

 man, Hiestand, Hill, Holman, Holmes, Howard, Hut- 

 ton, Irion, J. T. Johnston, T. D. Johnston, J. H. 

 Jones, J. T. Jones, King, Kleiner, Laird, Landes, 

 Lanham, Lawler, Le Fevre, Lore, Lovering, Lowry, 

 Markham, Martin, Matson, McAdoo, McCreary, Mc- 

 Millin, McEae, Morrill, Morrow, Murphy, Neal, 

 Neece, Negley, Nelson, O'Ferrall, O'Hara, J. J. 

 O'Neill, Owen, Payson, Peel, Peters, Plumb, Ean- 

 dall, J. W. Eeid, Eichardson, Eobertson, Rogers, 

 Eyan, Sadler, Saycrs, Seney, Seymour, Shaw, Single- 

 ton. Skinner, Smalls, Snyder, Sowden, Springer, 

 Stahlnecker, Charles Stewart, W. J. Stone of Mis- 



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B. Weaver. Wellborn, Wheeler, A. C. White, Milo 

 White, Wilkins, Willis, Wilson, Wolford, Worthing- 

 ton-156. 



NAYS G. E. Adams, Arnot, Bayne, Blount, Bou- 

 telle, Bragg, T. M. Browne, Brumm, Buck, Bunnell, 

 Burleigh, Cutcheon.Daniel, Davis, Dawson, Dingley, 

 Dprsey, Dunham, Ely, Everhart, Felton, Gallingcr, 

 Gilfillan, Grout, Guenther, Hammond, Harris, Haynes, 

 llempliill, T. J. Henderson, Hewitt, Hiscock, llitt, 

 Hopkins, James, La Follette, Long, Lyman, McComas, 



McKinley. Millard, Norwood, O'Donnell, Charles 

 O'Neill, Osborne, Parker, Payne, Perkins, Perry, 

 Phelps, Price, Eeagan, T. B. Eeed. Eomeis, Scrantou, 

 Sessions, Steele, Stephenson, J. W. Stewart, E. F. 

 Stone, Swinburne, E. B. Tavlor, 0. B. Thomas, Till- 

 man, Turner, Wait, A. J. Warner, Whiting 68. 



NOT VOTING J. J. Adams, Aiken.J. M. Allen, J. 

 A. Anderson, Atkinson, Belmont, Bingham, Bliss, 

 C. E. Brown, W. W. Brown, Buchanan, Burrows 

 Butterworth, Cabell, Caldwell, Felix Campbell, J. M. 

 Campbell, T. J. Campbell, Cannon, Carleton, Caswell, 

 Collins, Coinpton, Comstock, Culberson, Dargan, 

 Davenport, Dougherty, Dowdney, Dunn, Ermeutrout, 

 Evans, Frederick, Eustace Gibson, Grosvenor, Han- 

 back, Harmer, Hepburn, Hires, Houk, Hudd, Jackson, 

 F. A. Johnson, Kelley, Ketcham, Laffoon, Lehlbach, 



iU-Uiltllt, U.LUI4U,I1, iJJ.UIilUlJl, 1YJ.U11CI, V^iUCS, V^UUl \Vcllte, 



Pettibone, Pidcock, Pindar, Pirce, Pulitzer, Eanney, 

 Eeese, Eice, Eiggs, Eockwell, Eowell, Sawyer, Scott, 

 Spooner, Spriggs, St. Martin, W. J. Stone of Ken- 

 tucky, Strait, Struble, Tarsney, I. H. Taylor, Zachary 

 Taylor, J. E. Thomas, Throckmorton, Townshend, 

 Trio-g, Van Eaton, Van Schaick, T. B. Ward, Weber, 

 Welt, Winans, Wise, Woodburn-99. 



In the Senate, May 18, 1886, Mr. Blair, of 

 New Hampshire, reported the following sub- 

 stitute from the Committee on Pensions : 



Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior 

 be and he is hereby authorized and directed to place 

 on the pension-roll the names of the surviving officers 

 and enlisted men, including marines, militia, and 

 volunteers, of the military and naval services of the 

 United States, who, being duly enlisted, actually 

 served sixty days with the Army or Navy of the United 

 States in Mexico, or on the coasts or frontier thereof, 

 or en route thereto, in the war with that nation, or 

 were actually engaged in a battle in said war, and 

 were honorably discharged, and to such other officers 

 and soldiers and sailors as may have been personally 

 named in any resolution of Congress for any specific 

 service in said war, and the surviving widows of such 

 officers and enlisted men : Provided, That such wid- 

 ows have not remarried : Provided, That every such 

 officer, enlisted man, or widow who is or may become 

 sixty-two years of age, or who is or may become sub- 

 ject to any disability or dependency equivalent to 

 some cause prescribed or recognized by the pension 

 laws of the United States as a sufficient reason for the 

 allowance of a pension, shall be entitled to the benefits 

 of this act ; but it shall not be held to include any 

 person not within the rule of age or disability or de- 

 pendency herein defined, or who incurred such disa- 

 bility while in any manner voluntarily engaged in or 

 aiding or abetting the late rebellion against the au- 

 thority of the United States. 



SECTION 2. That pensions under section 1 of this 

 act shall be at the rate of $8 per month, and payable 

 only from and after the passage of this act, for and 

 during the natural lives of the persons entitled there- 

 to, or during the continuance of the disability for 

 which the same shall be granted : Provided, That sec- 

 tion 1 of this act shall not apply to any person who is 

 receiving a pension at the rate of $8 per month or 

 more, nor to any person receiving a pension of less 

 than $8 per month, except for the difference between 

 the pension now received (if less than $8 per month) 

 and $8 per month. 



SEC. 3. That before the name of any person shall 

 be placed on the pension-roll under this act proof shall 

 be made, under such rules and regulations as the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior may prescribe, of the right of 

 the applicant to a pension ; and any person who shall 

 falsely and corruptly take any oath required under 

 this act shall be deemed guilty of perjury; and the 

 Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be stricken 

 from the pension-roll the name of any person when- 

 ever it shall be made to appear by proof satisfactory 



