City is only one of several points where a great saving could be made to the Government, providing a sufficient number of commissaries are provided for such detail. New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas points: Difference on rate from 10 to 20 cents in favor of Kansas City SAMUEL HANSON. MARCH 27, 1900.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 5503.] The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5503) granting an increase of pension to Samuel Hanson, have examined the same and report: The report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives is in part as follows: The soldier named in this bill served as a corporal in Company A, Tenth Regiment, and as sergeant-major of the Tenth and Twenty-ninth Maine Volunteers, from October 3, 1861, to October 18, 1864, when he was honorably discharged, and while so serving received gunshot wounds in the left leg and left foot while in action against the enemy, and he was pensioned on account of said wounds under the general law at $3 per month from discharge, and at $4 from January 22, 1890. He is now a pensioner under the act of June 27, 1890, at $12 a month, the maximum rating under said law, on account of said wounds and rheumatism. A claim for restoration to the old law, filed November 22, 1897, and in which increase of pension was claimed on account of rheumatism as a result of the wounds of foot and leg, was rejected by the Pension Bureau upon the ground that such rheumatism was not a result of the wounds and that the disability from the wounds alone did not warrant a rating in excess of $6 per month. The soldier alleged that rheumatism first set in about six months after having been wounded, and that it first settled in the wounded foot, and there is testimony with the papers in the Pension Bureau tending to show lameness and swelling of foot since about 1866. The soldier, who is now 61 years of age, was last examined in September, 1898, before the board of surgeons at Saco, Me., who rated him $10 for the wounds of foot and leg, and stated that the wound of foot is sensitive and interferes much with walking. Rheumatism is described by these surgeons as affecting the thighs and left knee, and causing extensive chondroma involving all the finger joints and all the knuckles of both hands, the little toe, heel, and outer side of left foot, disabling the man from doing any manual labor. There has been filed with your committee the testimony of Dr. John Lord, of Biddeford, Me., to the effect that owing to the enlargement, stiffness, and anchylosis of the joints of fingers and toes total inability to perform labor is cause 1, and that the soldier is also suffering from an enlarged liver and from diarrhea, and that his character and standing in the community are of the best. Proof is also on file showing that the beneficiary is without means of support and unable to do anything toward the support of himself and wife. A photograph showing the condition of soldier's hands has been filed with your committee. Your committee are satisfied that the rheumatism from which this soldier is suffering in such a severe form is traceable to his service of three years in the Army, and recommend the passage of the bill. The foregoing report is adopted and the passage of the bill recommended. 1st Session. CALISTA F. HALL. MARCH 27, 1900.-Ordered to be printed. No. 724. Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 2681.] The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 2681) granting an increase of pension to Calista F. Hall, 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. HOUSE REPORT. The beneficiary, now 53 years of age, is a pensioner under the act of June 27, 1890, at $8 per month, as the widow of Joseph L. Hall, who served as first lieutenant of Company E, Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers, from September 15, 1862, to August 5, 1863, when he was mustered out with his company, upon proof that she married the officer March 17, 1888; that he served for ninety days and more during the war of the rebellion; that he died March 17, 1899, and that she was without other means of support than her daily labor. The officer had been a pensioner as a first lieutenant under the act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873, at $12.75 per month from discharge, and at $17 per month from June 28, 1879, on account of an injury to left hip received near Gettysburg on June 3, 1863, while in line of duty. The injury was described in a medical examination of 1879 as a "thickening of the synovial membrane of the left acetabulum, head of femur enlarged, thrown outward and upward, and causing shortening of limb, considerable tenderness, and very imperfect motion, and while able to move about with the aid of a staff, he is wholly incapable of manual labor." An examination of February 21, 1898, described the disability then as causing much crepitus in hip joint, the great trochanter much more prominent on left side, due probably to rupture of capsular ligament, allowing the head of femur to slip partially out from the socket. The public record of vital statistics of Hardwick, Vt., shows that the officer died March 17, 1899, at the age of 80 years, of marasmus, deformity of hip, and hemorrhoids. In support of the claim filed by this beneficiary under the acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873, she filed the testimony of Dr. J. J. Martin, of East Hardwick, Vt., to the effect that he had treated the officer for four years prior to his |