| SENATE 59TH
CONGRESS, 1st Session JOHN W CREAGER April 2, 1906 – Ordered to be printed. Mr Burkett, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany bill H. R. 14909) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 14909) granting an increase of pension to John W Creager, have examined the same and report: The report of the Committee on Pensions of the House of Representatives, hereto appended, is adopted and the passage of the bill is recommended. The House report is as follows: John W Creager, was a private in Company K, First Regiment Indiana Volunteers, from June 17, 1846, to June 14, 1847, in the war with Mexico, and he is now receiving the pension of $12 per month allowed by law to the survivors of said war. The claimant also rendered a long and honorable term of service from August 14, 1862, to July 31, 1865, in Company G, Twenty-eighth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in the civil war. Mr Campbell, the gentleman who introduced the bill in the House, certifies that he knows the claimant personally; that he is about 78 years of age, has nothing but his pension, and is a sufferer from paralysis agitans to such an extent that he is unable to feed himself. In view of the claimant's long and honorable service in two wars, and in the light of his advanced age and necessitous circumstances, the passage of the bill is respectfully recommended. |