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Show uu STATE PENSION OF THE WAR YETERANS Hartford, Conn., June 30. Tho house of representatives has passed a (bill to pay Civil War veterans a state pension of $30 a year In lieu of exemption ex-emption of $1,000 worth of real or personal property taxation The pension system will also bo extended to Include widows and parents par-ents of soldiers and sailors. Since passage. It is claimed that the cost to the state will be at least $200,000 a year There are G.500 veterans In the state and opponents of the mea sure claim that old soldiers aro likely to como here simply to get thU additional pension. The senate hns yet to act on the matter. |