Show PENSION AGENCIES AGEN IES ABOLISHED BY BILL REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE Washington Feb 4 The house com corn committee committee on appropriations today re ro reported ported favorably the pension pens on bill for forthe forthe forthe the fiscal year ending June 30 1909 The bill as reported abolishes the pen pension pension pension sion agencies located at Augusta Me Boston Buffalo Chicago Columbus 0 O Concord N H Des Moines De Detroit Detroit troit troll Indianapolis Knoxville Louls Louis hue Hie Milwaukee New York City Phil Philadelphia Philadelphia adelphia Pittsburg Pitts burg San Francisco anti and Topeka and az consolidates them In i central distributing agency at Wash Washington ington The bill reported carries a to total total total tal pension appropriation of his less than the aggregate aggregate aggregate gate estimates esthe the exact sums avail aall available available able by toy the constitution of the ag n neles des cles 0 Will Expect Saving The radical change In the pension agency age cy system was decided upon by bythe bythe bythe the app committee In ac accord accord accord cord with the recommendations of Secretary of the Interior Garfield and Commissioner of Pensions Warner Varner af after after after ter exhaustive consideration in sub subcommittee committee The secretary of the Inte Interior nor llor told the committee that under this consolidation of the eighteen pension agencies hi in one central agency would be saved to the th government in m expenses In the first year of ot operation t and annually thereafter and that under the new system all pen pensioners pensioners could be paid as promptly as they are ar now paid by the eighteen agencies and without inconvenience The Immediate saving will be b in salaries of pension agents on account of rent of ot the New York of offices offices offices in clerk hire and 1500 in cost of examination and inspection of agencies Grand Total of There was paid to pensioners in the last fiscal l year the total sum sumo of 01 o and the total pensions paid for all aU wars and for the regular establishment singe sin the foundation of or orthe the republic was Although the number of clerks In Inthe inthe Inthe the pension penso bureau was less in the fiscal ficaI fl cal year ye r 1907 than In the previous year says the report the applications applications applications for pensions filed flied In the fiscal year 1907 1901 were as against 22 the previous year ear There is now living says the re report report r port too no soldier or soldiers widow of the Revolutionary R war and there is no pensioner soldier living Irving of the war of 1812 but at the end of the that last I sl fis fiscal fiscal fiscal cal year there were on the roll wid widows widows owe of soldiers of that war |