Show PENSION FRAUDS Commissioner RAUM says the pension bureau is the most extensive bureau in the world It has a force of 8241 He also says that July 1 there were 523737 claims of persons awaiting action and it is estimated esti-mated that before expiration of the current year there will be upon the regular rells no fewer than 900000 pensioners The Chicago Tribune commenting on V V these hard facts asks why all the Democratic Demo-cratic state conventions go on passing resolutions res-olutions flattering the old soldiers and in favor of pensions The answer is we suppose sup-pose that if the Democrats who are as sincere friends of the veterans as the Republicans Re-publicans are should fail to pass such resolutions res-olutions the Republicans would not only charge the Democrats with hostile sentiments but demand still further pension appropriations It wont do for the Republican party after having got the country into this scrape to require the Democracy to help them out of it The Republicans are the ones to take I the initiative if they dare to And to be frank we see some indications of a disposition dispo-sition in that direction It is said that at the late reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic atDetroit word was quietly passed around that if any more pension legislation legisla-tion were demanded there would bo a split It is further said that steps have been taken to organize the veterans under a banner of pension reform One object is to weed out fraudulent pensioners of whom there are scores of thousands on tho roll Such an organization with an active committee at work in Washington and with an alert lookout on the operations of the shark lawyers will be able to accomplish a world of good V |