MAX WAGNER, A 26TH INF USV
MANILA. (Received October 2, 1900-7.32 a. m.)
ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Washington:
Killed between Pavia and Santa Barbara, Panay, October 1, Second Lieut. Max Wagner, Company A, Twenty-sixth Intantry.
MACARTHUR.
MacArthur, Oct 2 1900, 0732am, Wagner
Arrival of the Dix.
The United States freight transport Dix. formerly the Samoa, arrived from Manila via Nagasaki yesterday. Her only cargo was the remains of 325 officers, soldiers, sailors and civilians who died in the Philippines and have been sent here for final interment. Four of the bodies are unidentified, owing to the marks and numbers having been removed from the graves by some vandal. The remains of
Lieutenant Howard M. Koontz, Forty-fourth Volunteer Infantry;
Chaplain J. Leland, First Tennessee Regiment;
Lieutenant D. D. Pasco, Eighteenth Infantry;
Lieutenant Max Wagner, Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry, and
First Lieutenant Charles R. Ramsay. Twenty-first Infantry,
were among those brought home.
Arrival of the Dix
SENATE
57th Congress, 1st Session
Report No. 1297
JENNIE M. WAGNER.
APRIL 28, 1902.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 5202.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 5202) granting an increase of pension to Jennie Wagner, have examined the same and report:
This bill as amended proposes to increase from $15 to $25 per month the pension of Jennie M. Wagner, widow of Max Wagner, late second lieutenant, Twenty-sixth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain.
The military records show that Max Wagner served as private in the Signal Corps, United States Army, from November 23, 1885, to February 18, 1890. He Was appointed second lieutenant and signal officer, United States Volunteers, June 9, 1898, to rank from June 2, 1898; accepted the appointment June 14, 1898, and was honorably discharged December 5, 1898. He was appointed second lieutenant, Twenty-sixth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry, July 14, 1899, to rank from July 5, 1899, and accepted the appointment July 19, 1899. He was killed October 1, 1900, while en route to Post Pototan, Panay, P.I., on road between the towns of Pavia and Santa Barbara, death being caused by gunshot wound in head, inflicted by insurgents.
Jennie M. Wagner, the claimant under this bill, is now receiving a pension of $15 per month under the general law and $2 per month additional on account of each of the soldier's two minor children under the age of 16 years. She has nothing but this small pension for the support of herself and her children, and she is very much in need of relief. Her husband has a good record, and the tragic circumstances of his death and the necessities of the claimant fully justify an increase of her pension. Your committee therefore report the bill back favorably, with a recommendation that it pass when amended as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Jennie M. Wagner, widow of Max Wagner, late second lieutenant, Twenty-sixth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month in lieu of that she is now receiving, and two dollars per month additional on account of each of the minor children of said Max Wagner until they reach the age of sixteen years.
Also amend the title so as to read "A bill granting an increase of pension to Jennie M. Wagner."
FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 1024-1028. 1902,
June 4, 1902
Private. No. 882
Jennie M. Wagner,
Pension increased.
CHAP. 1024. —An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jennie M. Wagner.
Be it enacted the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Jennie M. Wagner, widow of Max Wagner, late second lieutenant Twenty-sixth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month in lieu of that she is now receiving, and two dollars per month additional on account of each of the minor children of said Max Wagner until they reach the age of sixteen years.
Approved. June 4, 1902.