IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
February 28, 1891.—Ordered to be printed.
No. 2563
Mr. Paddock, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT:
[To accompany H. R. 9583.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. E. 9583) granting a pension to Belinda Jane Phillips, imbecile daughter of Isaiah Phillips, Company F, Thirtieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, have examined the same and report:
The facts in this case are correctly set forth in the report of the House committee hereto annexed. Said report is adopted by this committee.
HOUSE REPORT.
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 9583) granting a pension to Belinda Jane Phillips, submit the following report:
Belinda Jane Phillips is the daughter of Isaiah Phillips, late of Company F, Thirtieth Iowa Volunteers. Her father died at Vicksburg February 20, 1863 while in the service. Her mother remarried October 18, 1874.
The claimant drew a pension as the minor child of said soldier until she arrived at the age of sixteen years. She is now twenty-seven years old, and is and has been since her birth deformed, imbecile, and wholly dependent upon others for support. Since the time of the discontinuance of her pension no one has been receiving a pension on account of said service of Isaiah Phillips.
The affidavits of the mother and of two persons who have known the daughter, and are acquainted with the facts, fully substantiate the report.
Your committee therefore recommend the passage of the bill, amended as follows: Strike out all after the word " pay," in line 6, and insert "to her legally constituted guardian for her use a pension at the rate of eighteen dollars per month."
Source: Reports of Committees Of The Senate Of The United States For The Second Session Of The Fifty-First Congress, 1890-‘91, Government Printing Office, 1891; Pg. 246
