Phthisis 3 Gastritis 158 Enlarged or congested liver 116 Enlarged spleen 316 Inflammatory condition of intestines 53 Irritability of bladder and incontinence of urine 76 Nephritis 5 Hemorrhoids 11 Varicocele 61 Inguinal hernia 3 Rheumatism 26 Myopia 19 Slight eye strains 29 Slight deafness, due to quinine 17 Chronic nasal catarrh 9 Sprain of back 3 Old dislocation, right shoulder 1 Gunshot wounds, left forearm 2 Badly set Colles fracture 1 Secondary syphilis 2 Suffering from pains in the muscles, especially the calves of the 471 legs and lumbar region, loss of weight from 10 to 30 pounds, accompanied by more or less debility Relapses of fever continuing to recur up to January 4, 1899 87 Up to June 30, 1901, 477 claims for pension have been filed in this bureau on account of service in said regiment for disabilities alleged to have been contracted during the brief term of its existence. I am fully convinced that a small pension of $6 or $8 per month for alleged obscure disability, such as diarrhea, piles, rheumatism, impaired hearing, bronchitis, etc., is conferring a misfortune upon a young man—in fact, a lifelong misfortune—for the reason that it puts him to a decided disadvantage in the race for a livelihood always thereafter in the way of securing employment. The fact that he is drawing a "disability" pension puts him on the list as disabled and unable to perform the amount of labor that is expected of a sound man, and it seems like misplaced generosity on the part of our government to thus place a handicap upon the young ex-soldier in his search for employment, as it is well known that a large percentage of the young men that served in the war with Spain depend upon manual labor for a livelihood. Mr. Eugene F. Ware, the late Commissioner, issued the following table to show the difference between the regulars and volunteers of the Spanish-American War: