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Show '.tToaii- ASK PEfiSIQi'l , OFSOTTII New Proposal Will Be Put Up to Civil War Men at National Encampment in Milwaukee DBS MOINES, la, Aug.'T. A reaoltitlon proposing that congreaa grant a penakn of 172 it month to every living aoldler, bailor and marine ma-rine who served In the union forces In the civil war and waa honorably discharged. Is to bs submitted to tha fifty-seventh national encampment encamp-ment of tha Grand Army of tha Ra- public, to bs held at Milwaukee beginning be-ginning September I, according ta a general order Issued from national headquarters hers today. ' Widows of such veterans would be granted a 160 monthly pension, provided they live with their hug. bands during tha five years prior to death, if ths recommendations of tha resolution ars followsd out. "it also asks that all pensions ba paid up to tha day of ths death of tba veteran. Tha resolution Is to bs offered by tba department of Ohio. . Another resolution submitted by the Wlnchestsr post, New York U. A. R, recommends thst tha regulations regu-lations for burial services ba amended 4o permit sons of veter- na to perform tha duties tha he-rosa he-rosa of tha older feneration hara found too arduous. - - Tha ft-neral order, iasuod by Juda-o James W. Willet, commander In chief, names a number of offl-eara offl-eara for (ha encampment, tha Hat Including- William P. Wrtfrhe, ChN csao, who will act ss assistant adjutant ad-jutant venoraL |