For example, the sum of $4300 in arrears was declared to be due to a member of the United States Senate, Charles F.Manderson of Nebraska.

Finally, "Corporal" Tanner's extravagant management became so intolerable to the Secretary of the Interior that he confronted President Harrison with the choice of accepting his resignation or dismissing Tanner.

Tanner therefore had to go, and with him his system of reratings.
A pension bill for dependents, such as Cleveland had vetoed, now went triumphantly through Congress.* It granted pensions of from six to twelve dollars a month to all persons who had served for ninety days in the Civil War and had thereby been incapacitated for manual labor to such a degree as to be unable to support themselves.

Pensions were also granted to widows, minor children, and dependent parents.

This law brought in an enormous flood of claims in passing, upon which it was the policy of the Pension Bureau to practice great indulgence.