Show to perfect a record of service in the civil war washington NOT 3 pensions for millionaires is one of the new developments under the executive order of last year making age the only disability necessary for the granting of a service pension according 10 commissioner of pensions warren the application of a millionaire tor a pension has been recently favorably parsed upon he does not want the pension according to the commissioner on account of the money it carries with it hut simply to ernecl bis record of honorable service in the civil war this view of the age disability order is bu ing taken by many well to do veterans who would not otherwise apply for pensions the fact that they are eligible and had performed stipulated in behalf of the government and that the government Is willing 5 recognize this service by a pension aej the accompanying records of the makes the service pension a desirable addition to family records the commissioner does not look upon this claim of pensions as an undesirable burden for the government to bear he takes the view that the money distributed is used by the applicant to ant in the case of the millionaire pensioner he has knowledge that the recipient has just anada a bequest of a hundred thousand dollars for benevolent purposes |