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Show The Mexican Pension Bill in the House. Washington, April 5. After the call of States for the introduction of bills, the Speaker announced the unfinished business to be the motion to suspend the rules and pass the Mexican pension bill. Agreed to, yeas 158, nays 68. The following is the text of the bill: That the Secretary of the Interior be directed di-rected to place the names of all surviving officers, soldiers and sailors who enlisted and served in the war with Mexico for any period pe-riod during the years 1845, 1846, 1847 and 1848, and were honorably discharged, and their surviving widows, on the pension roll at the rate of 8 per month from and after the passage of this act, during their lives. Section 2. That the Secretary of the Interior In-terior is directed to make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry this act into effect, provided that where it shall appear that the discharge is lost, secondary evidence "may be -permitted, and where it i shall appear that an applicant has received I a land warrant, that is all sufficient evidence of an honorable discharge, unless the evi-dence evi-dence shows that he procured it by fraud, and, provided further, that this act shall not apply to persons under physical disabilities. |