Show I OUR PENSION ROLL ROLLI I Tae Tue I pension roll r is being shortened j v death leath according to the report of the th thI I C 1 of ot pensions a synopsis s of litch Y was published yesterday This I spite of ot the fact tact that there thele is a net ii ot for tor the fiscal year 1905 as s 8 1 with the fiscal focal year 1904 t 4 c statement that th the number of ot pen penI I loen Is growing gowing smaller is justified o y the fact that while wh O in ln September ast af t the total reached the million mark in increased for tor a ft period of ot four tour months thereafter the aggregate num of ot pensioners is now under a mil mU hor rind and nd It seems likely to dwindle i graduallY from now on I Ilbe The rue government has bas dealt generously b by the men who fought rought for it toro More han ban 1 has boon been disbursed in pensions since ce the nation was found fouti founded ed pa a and more than of ottha this lies has hC bell been been paid out on account of ot the I 1 it war wor r The cost of ot the pensions con cn I the tho cost oost ot of that wal tim the nione w I tM thC or at l lUf a f to sd as honestly deserved d d it it That there theve have been 1 e n many nany nan instances In which h un undeserved undeserved undeserved deserved pensions were paid Is not dis disputed d disputed 5 l but a a more Careful watch is de be being e eing ing kept k pt now It is a 0 surprIsing fact that th t there are still nearly survivors of at the civil chu war on the pension rolls roi a 3 net decrease of ot for tor 1905 1805 as compared with 1901 19 i Of the pensioners who h died during the Ute year upwards of ot o OOOO were were pre vet veterans veterans erans arans of ot the civil chU war r The difference between this total and the net decrease Is la accounted accounted for tor by b the th number of ot ap tP applications filed and allowed Although more than forty years yeaTs have hae passed since tho the restoration of peace it will be many years yet before betote the thelast thelast thelast last civil war pensioner passes passes off of the tho pension rolls roUs It was only a short time ago that the last pensioner of ot the rev ray revolutionary l war passed away The indi individual vidual was the widow of a 0 revolution revolutionary ary 81 soldier She had married him while she was very ery young oun and he was Vr Vrold vy ry old If Ii history repeats itself It will be bea a ft 5 hundred years ears before b toro the civil war m books are closed And by that time many billions of dollars will have hae been bean paid out The pension list for the war with Spain has hu not yet et assumed ed formidable proportions nor is it likely to do go so because comparatively few tew mo man wore engaged in it |