Show FIGURES ON PENSIONS annual report of commis lioner murphy urphy IVl INCREASE OF pensioners total number 11 how on the tha rolls amounts to a not net gain of over previous year I 1 required for tensions teni reni for 1690 1896 07 eions by tho the commissioner regarding changes of laws Pens pensioners loners in the tha silver allver producing states washington se sept pt 1 1 I domicle 1 I murphy commissioner of 0 pensions has hab made lila ills annual report for the ascal year i june SO 30 WC to secretary francis lie he says there were added to the rolls durins during tile the bear ear new pensioners and ami there were restored who haid had been ay l iy dropped a total or of dining the samo same period the losses ceru by deaths ml 1141 by geniar biage Wi dowL 1631 by legal limitation 2552 because ot of failure to cairn c ali pension for three years and 93 2323 13 for other causes an aggregate aBEre eato of 0 1033 the net gain over the previous year was only und and it may be liaf safely tely as burned that the roll bence foith mill AIM how a marked and steady diminution unless congress should enact still more liberal than are now flow upon our statute books a the he rate ot of mortality adiong our pensioners particularly amone those who served in ili the lid war ot of thu Is rapidly in ill cran croaa 1 10 ln 1 alio lie decrease during the year M ar 1 L aa ilg that of any ing period lit in the history ot of tile the bureau burva ct tile the whole number of pensioners on oil the june JUDO 10 40 WM 16 wn wit s while the bolls lolls show a 11 bright gain caan in number 01 over er the 3 year car tile the amount DISBURSED FOR fon PENSIONS was avas a decrease of 0 2 na as compared with the previous year there were pension claims I 1 pending at the close of 0 tire the fiscal year W UI being applications for or increases made by persons now flow on the rolls although All Alt houch houth last years estimate of 0 fur pensions was more inore than w was necessary for the past fiscal I 1 vear car tile alie duplicates the I 1 estimate fur the next fiscal bocar car stating ing ine that lie he believes the adjudication of oe cases will make the lull amount necessary s ary it I 1 la lila ills Intent intention lun to husn tile the s settlement ett lement of 0 cases its 03 rapidly tu as possible an estimate of IL laanE 2 AO 14 1 made for miscellaneous expenses the commissioner says tile the payment by vouchers has worked satisfactorily anil and opposes a return to lu personal payments some difficulty has been experienced perien ced in ili the execution ot of vouchers vou cheis lit in germany and the state slate department has been requested to furnish bureaus information as to what persons have authority to administer oaths there here are united states pensioners tit in germany regarding the revision of the pension list the says there la is no foundation for the erroneous impression that it Is the Intent intention lon still bill further to revise the lists as tile pursing purging nf 1 I the rolls commenced in 1893 has been entirely accomplished it ought to be understood however that there still exists the pose to maintain the pension pens ion roll us its tile the NATIONS TOLL ROLL OF HONOR concerning prosecutions lie says offenders Offend against tle the pension laws laiva have been NO BO rigorously prosecuted during the last three years chilt criminal work of the law division has been less envil through the efforts of the law department anti and the special examination division there has haa been refunded to the united states dui ing th tile year of ahli li was recovered as the outcome of the civil suits the year indictments were found and there were 24 22 recommendations for prosecution the number of convictions wag avas ca tile the number of sentences 1 I 1 am glad clad to state that the rigorous measures instituted toy by my predecessors have apparently violators of the pension laws arid and tendered the bu business sinews of procuring fraudulent pensions unsafe and oil table commissioner commends the work of the special examiners and sale ais that the additional force of 0 should be conti tilled d Th alie ecott boht of oc this llila force dullard dui ins the year was ile hu saya tile the pension building la Is at present I 1 inadequate tor for the and makes some suggestions us aa to improvements lie he recommends an increase Inci caso 0 of 13 32 per month in pensions reli to bun Fun ivors nt nc the Ilex mexican ican war arid and almo recommends pensions to widows or of 0 and soldiers who ulac died from ca causes s ini ing in the service prior to march 4 1861 ile he recommends the passage of 0 the bill pending lit in congress for the codification of 0 the pension lawo lawil |