Hardin County, Iowa Daniel Bushman - Pension Increase of pension for Daniel Bushman Serial-Set-ID: 4574 S.rp.1439, Mar 14, 1902, 2 pgs. 58th Congress, 2d Session Senate Report No. 1439 Daniel Bushman _____________ March 14, 1904.—Ordered to be printed. ______________ Mr. McCumber, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following Report. (To accompany H. R. 2928.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 2928) granting an increase of pension to Daniel Bushman, have examined the same and report: The report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives, hereto appended, is adopted and the passage of the bill is recommended. The House report is as follows: Daniel Bushman, now 60 years of age, served as a private in Company L, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, from December 30, 1863, to December 20, 1865, when honorably discharged. He is now pensioned under the general law at $14 per month on account of disease of eyes and resulting loss of sight of right eye. Claims for increase of pension were rejected, the last one on January 22, 1904, upon the ground that the disabilities of accepted service origin did not warrant a higher rating. The soldier alleged that he was also a sufferer from rheumatism, piles, and partial deafness, but inasmuch as he did not allege these disabilities as of service origin no consideration was given to that allegation by the Pension Bureau, it being of course evident that these diseases had no connection with the disease of eyes for which pensioned. A medical examination made on April 4, 1900, rated him $17 for the disease of eyes with resulting loss of sight of right eye, $6 for deafness, and $17 for piles. One of March, 1902, again rated him $17 for the eye trouble. The last certificate of medical examination, made December 30, 1903, stated that there was not even perception of light in the right eye, and that there was a tumor which projected forward and downward from the upper part of the orbit; that the tumor was firm and smooth and slightly movable by the fingers. It further showed that the lids of the left eye were slightly thickened and showed signs of an old inflammation. Medical testimony filed with your committee sets forth that the beneficiary is afflicted with rheumatism, partially deaf in the right ear, and totally blind in the right eye, and also has a severe case of piles, all of which render him unfit to perform manual labor. Petitions signed by a number of residents of Eldora, Iowa, and one from the E. C. Buckner Post, No. 1454, Grand Army of the Republic, of that place, also filed with your committee, request Congress to pass a special act increasing the pension of the soldier in order to meet the requirements of a person in his condition. Aside from the disease of the eyes and resulting loss of the sight of the right eye of accepted service origin, this soldier is shown to be a great sufferer from rheumatism and piles, hence an increase of his pension from $14 to $30 per month is deemed just and proper. The passage of the bill is therefore recommended. Submitted by Cathy Danielson Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.