Show LOVE ONE ANOTHER The ReRatings of Employees of The Pension Bureau IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISION About I Day In Court ln The Departments The Entry of Timber and Other Lands The 3000Ton Cruisers < WASHINGTON Sept lOTlio ELwna Capital Cap-ital says The report of Messrs Ewing Campbell and Bruce the commission that investigated the pension office though closely guarded by the interior department officials is gradually becoming known I is known that the report takes up each re rating case separately and each case is an exhibit in itself Stress is laid upon the Tact that Deputy Commissioner Hiram Smith jr received over six thousand dollars dol-lars as a rerating This action of his comes in for severe criticism in the report Whether Smith has returned this 50000 or not the report does not state Smith receives re-ceives his pension at the Topeka agency Secretary Noble in view of the report of the commission has himself questioned Mr Smith as to the facts attending his rerating The report also condpmns Squires especially es-pecially for his action in making cases special spe-cial It states that Squires possessed the stamp of Tanner as commissioner and affixed af-fixed it to papers without the commissioners commission-ers knowledge The number of such cases a very large number is given and Commissioner Commis-sioner Tanner criticised for his carelessness in thus entrusting his official prerogative to a mere private secretary who violated the confidence reposed in him The names of the pension office officials who caused themselves to be rcvated form u conspicuous conspicu-ous part of the report Several were discharged dis-charged at the time by Secretary Noble and they now point to the fact that the o ic who received the largest amount of all Deputy Commissioner Smith is still in office A member of the board that made the investigation intimated to a reporter that the chief culprits were still in position private posi-tion but life would soon follow Tanner into This evening Mr Tanner telegraphed I Private Dalzell to know whether his letter had been stolen or had reached the public in some other manner Speaking to a reporter for a local paper regarding the rerating of Deputv Commissioner Com-missioner Smith he said all these rerating cases come before him last May and while the matter was under discussion there were present in his office General Low Wallace General Barnuni of New York and a dozen newspaper men There was not he says the slightest criticism a to the justice of re rating these pensions Tho case of the deputy commissioner was I with the others and Tanner does not remember re-member it particularly The commissioner declined discuss his letter or the report I of the investigating committee which has not yet been made public I |