| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 59TH
CONGRESS, 2nd Session SAMUEL D THOMPSON February 19, 1907 – Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr Chaney, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany S. 7218) The Committee on Invalis Pensions, to whom was
referred the
bill (S. 7218) granting an increase of pension to Samuel D Thompson,
have examined the same and adopt the Senate report thereon and
recomment that the bill do pass. [Senate Report No. 5173, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session.] The Committee
on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 7218) granting
an
increase of pension to Samuel D Thompson, have examined the same and
report: Samuel
D Thompson, of 3025 Chestnut avenue, Kansas City, Mo., served in the
Mexican war from April 25, 1847, to August 4, 1848, as a private in
Company K, Fifteenth Regiment U. S. Infantry. During the
civil
war he served as a private in the Third Battery Iowa Light Artillery
from October 9, 1864, to October 23, 1865, when honorably discharged. Soldier
was originally pensioned at $8 per month under the Mexican war service
act of January 29, 1887. He is now pensioned at $12 per month
under the act of June 27, 1890, on account of senile debility. Mr
Thompson is 86 years of age, and the papers accompanying the bill show
that he is deaf, nearly blind, and afflicted with other ailments
incident to extreme old age, is totally disabled, and almost helpless.
It further appears that he has no property or resources
except
his pension and is supported and cared for by a married daughter. There are numerous precedents for increasing the pension of the aged and destitute veterans of two wars, and your committee report the bill back favorably with a recommendation that it pass. |