| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 59TH
CONGRESS, 1st Session JOHN W CREAGER March 1, 1906 – Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr Campbell, of Kansas, 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 a pension to John W Creager, have considered the same and respectfully report 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 when amended as follows: - In line 7, after “Infantry,” insert “war with Mexico.” - In lines 7 and 8 strike out “pay him a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month.” - Add
after “and,” in line 7, the words
“Company G, Twenty-eighth Regiment Iowa Volunteer - Amend the title so as to read: “A bill granting an increase of pension to John W Creager.” |