Show fEVER HERO IS s REWARDED RE Senate Restores Annuity To Medical Martyr of Spanish War l liv Bv T J IlU T Ml lit Con c WASHINGTON April 14 Joh i I Kissinger inger crippled Honor lIonor Mien Mich hero who In n the tile war his health to de- de dc elop the tile Irus which gave science conti 01 of the vellow ellow fever was remembered by co congress evell eve In the rush rusl of the closing hours or orthe orthe the last session As a result of ot senate action Kissinger nih Mill ill continue to receive a government go annuity of ot 1200 ana ano the bill for 1700 sent him by the government will wilt be canceled I Official action was taken after the Ogden Standard Examiner and an 1 associated newspapers through At out the h United States S had called 11 at- at attention nt to Kissinger Kissingers s being forcen to use live and support his family on o 3 33 39 cents cent a day pension GAL LAl TI IL Probably no stranger Granger trail of Ie complexity C ever oer er was as fol- fol lowed loed than that by which Congre Congress Congress- Congressman man James C Mien Igan finally saved a competence tv to n I K In 1907 a pension of ot 12 a month was authorized In 1911 Senator tol Shiveley Indiana chairman of the thi senate pension committee committe had baa en- en enacted en I acted a bill giving Kissinger an an- an anI an nulty o of 1200 a year I Following the Institution of the thi budget the budget officer dl discovered cov- cov covered ered the double and In- In Informed informed In Informed formed the pension office That bu- bu bureau bereau bu reau had no knowledge of or the Shi- Shi cloy cley act net I Legal advisers od said Kissinger had been dra drasin drawing IDi two two pensions I contrary to h Irs livy v A letter was wan patched to Kissinger directing him to remit by New York Yort Yo J the draft draft the amount of pension he be h had drawn under the original award after the enactment of th the thi 3 annuity law Of course FL mit T The e army bIll bili therefore was so 90 worded as to sos sus- suspend pend payments of the annuity en- en entirely entirely irely until the 1700 in overpayments ments had been offset ACTS Cl'S McLaughlin finally succeeded 11 a getting a 0 provision reinstating tho full 1200 annuity and forgiving all ments made by the pension office attached to the third lone bill I Senate report In 1 1911 1011 11 said of nger He was one ono of the bravest SOl SOl- SOldIers soldiers I dIers diera who served In the American ear Bar aI For exhibition of moral courage his submission to toI Inoculation of ot the lellow ellOW fever I seems unsurpassed oo 00 |