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Show ONLY. A Fr.W OF THEM. Tanilon Claim not Presented by Attorn? to ba Adjudicated at Oari. Washington, Feb. 2. Secretary Noble is taking active measures to expedite ex-pedite the adjudication of claims in the pension bureau. Funicular attention is being given to those cases which are not presented by attorneys and to cases which for some reason have been in the bureau for a long time. In this matter the secretary is receiving the earnest co-operation and assistance of Commissioner Commis-sioner Haum. An examination of the records of the pension bureau discloses the fuct that there are only about 12.000 cases on tile which are not represented rep-resented by attorney. These will be taken up by a board 'appointed for that purpose and pushed to a final determination. determi-nation. This board is required to use every cure that could be taken by an attorney, and to fully consider and justly weigh every favorable fact disclosed dis-closed in the record of these cases. In other words, full and complete justice is to be done in every instance, and technicalities of construction or presentation presen-tation of these caes are not to be taken advantage of. The claimants are to be assisted, not hindered. These reforms have already been started in their course, and it is expected they will result re-sult in good to all concerned. |