Show SCANDALS IN THE PENSION BUREAU Corporal TANNEU commissioner of pensions pen-sions is playing in hard luck Only a few days ago the country was treated to a scandal in the administration of the pension pen-sion bureau the like of which was not developed de-veloped during previous administrations since there was any pretence of honesty in the executive departments When TANNER was made commissioner he selected as his secretary his close friend GEOHGE B SQUIIICS who seems to be something some-thing of a professional G A R man Like TANNER SQCIHES was a great talker having chinned himself into prominence He had not been an officeholder ficeholder and the s quel warrants the assertion as-sertion that it is well for the country that his abilities had been exercised in another an-other direction The commissioner was taking credit for rushing the business of his office through on double quick every few days a dispatch coming over the wires to tell us how expeditiously tho work was being performed Pensioners whose ipend l n n of allowed wondered mg UiU ms were uu u u why it was that if the corporal were doing so much they could not hear from their applications plications but the explanation came along the other day when it was developed that Secretary SQUIUES had been railroading special cases through the bureau dividing the fees in 8000 cases with the attorney attor-ney who was his partner in the little scheme It has not transpired trans-pired how much SQUIRES pocketed through the industry for which the commissioner com-missioner got the credit though its it-s said that the secretary will note > not-e under the necessity of drawing a salary from the government for some cars if he shall wisely invest the income of his few weeks in office As a matter of course SQUIHES was removed when the exposure ex-posure came for although his record as a Grand Army agitator is great it would hardly do to keep him in the place Besides sides it would involve the building of a cell in the bureau in order to keep the fellow honest It has been published that within an hour of his removal from the secretaryship SQUIUES was put into another fat position that of timber inspector but this statement lacks verification Now comes the news a HERALD special bringing it that another of TANNERS friends is even dirtier than SQUIUES This time it is VAN BKUXT the pension agent at Brooklyn who was unceremoniously bounced > by the secretary of the treasury a few days ago It seems that VAN JHUXT was bad out of office as well as in One of his offenses was the desertion of his wife and the taking up with another woman whose money he appropriated and whose sealskin sacque he pawned It is to be hoped that the returns are all in and that the pension bureau will contribute tribute no more to the lists of scandals and sconndrels in government service It is also to be hoped that Corporal TAXXClt will in time learn that the fact that a man once wore the blue is not always a certificate of honesty integrity morality and capability It may be humiliating to make the confession confes-sion but it must be admitted that there arc instances of exsoldiers falling a little below be-low the standard of perfection |