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Show Senator Smoot's To Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, the thanks of 300,000 widows and their children and kin fl arc due and will be given with a spontaneous earnestness that comes from the fullness of the heart. Senator Smoot, who is one of the most forceful and influ-ential influ-ential men in the senate, went at this mattcr of increasing pensions ot civil war widows with an earn- fl estness and determination that would not accept rebuff or fajl- fl lire. lie has always been a real friend of the veterans and their widows, and they are under deep obligations to him for his con-stant con-stant and effective services in the Section 314. That from and after the passage of this Act the rate of pension for a widow of an officer or enlisted man of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States who served in the Civil War, the War with Spain, or the Philippine Instir-rection, Instir-rection, now on the pension roll or hereafter to be placed on the pension roll, and entitled to re-ccive re-ccive a less rate than hereinafter BBBJ Hi provided, shajl be $25 pen month; and nothing herein shall be construed con-strued to affect the additional allowance al-lowance provided by existing pension pen-sion laws on account of a helpless child or child under sixteen years of age: Provided, however, that this Act shall not be so construed as to reduce any pension under any Act, public or private: And providcd.furthcr, that the provisions provis-ions of this section shall be administered, ad-ministered, executed, and enforced en-forced by the Commissioner of Pensions. Passed by the Senate and House of Representatives and approved by the President. I October 6, 1917. |