Show TENSION BUREAU A Statement Showing tie Number of Original Certificates Issued WASHINGTON July HA statement prepared at the pension bureau shows that between April 1 last when the present pres-ent administration ot the bureau took formal direction of its affairs and July 1 17044 original certificates of all kinds were issued Of these 2345 were invalid certificates under the act of June 17 1890 and 9043 widows certificates under said act making a total of 11297 original certificates cer-tificates issued under that act for the first three months of Democratic power I is also shown that there were issued 2369 additional pensions under the act of June 27 1830 making a grand total of 13606 certificates issued under that act during I the first three months of the Democratic I control of the pension bureau I The total number of original certificates certifi-cates of all kinds issued during tho fiscal year ended June 30 1893 is 121628 of which 99207 are under the act of June te 271890 and 244 issued to army nurses There were also issued during the Ipast fiscal year 33693 certificates granting additional ad-ditional pension under tie act of June 27 1890 During the fiscal year ending June SO 1892 there were issued 222297 original certificates and the net increase to the rolls was 193903 As the total number of certificates issued during the fiscal year just closed are but 821528 it would seem that 101 309 less certificates have been issued for the fiscal year 1893 than for the fiscal year 1S92 and as the loss to the rolls during the past fiscal year from death remarriage re-marriage etc will amount to at least 30000 it will be seen that the net increase in-crease to the rolls during the past fiscal year will be but 91628 against 190908 or a difference of 109280 less increase for the fiscal year 1893 This statement is made as a refutation of the statement that not a single pension certificate has been issued under the dependent pension law since the present administration came into power |