| SENATE 57TH
CONGRESS, 1st Session ISAAC RHODES May 5, 1902 – Ordered to be printed. Mr Turner, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany S. 4727) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4727) granting an increase of pension to Isaac Rhodes, have examined the same and report: This bill as amended proposes to increase from $12 to $24 per month the pension of Isaac Rhodes, late of Company B, First Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry who served from July 29, 1861, to September 9, 1864, when he was honorably discharged. Mr Rhodes's post-office address in No. 525 Sixth street, Detroit, Mich. He is 80 years of age and receives a pension of $12 per month under the act of June 27, 1890, for total inability to earn a support by manual labor, due to disease of skin, deafness, and senile debility. He filed and established a claim under the general law and was pensioned December 17, 1886, for disease of skin of face, the result of erysipelas, at the rate of $4 per month. His pension was increased to $6 per month April 18, 1888, and several claims for increase subsequently made were rejected on the ground of no increase in disability from pensioned cause. According to Mr Rhodes's last medical examination, made April 29, 1896, he is wholly incapacitated for manual labor by reason of disease of skin, deafness, and the debility of age, and for these troubles he is rated $30 per month. His financial condition, as shown by his petition filed with the bill, is one of dependence. He has no property and no means of support except his pension. He served faithfully for over three years, and there are numerous precedents for increasing the pensions of the aged, needy, and totally disabled veterans of the civil war, and the facts stated above bring this case fully within such precedents. The bill is therefore reported back favorably with the recommendation that it pass when amended as follows: In line 8 strike out the word "twenty-five" and insert in lieu thereof the word "twenty-four." |