| Show THE PENSION ROLL according its ti ali lie annual ir report or of 11 clay evans a of Pena pendent lont for tile limal filowat nar n 34 ar ending juno bit 3 11 tho the pension roll Is up lip of 11 sur ur and ami or do df 1 li nant no nt and ll al 11 army nursed to 0 i thorn hom iet eler ear vaa mas bald p alil till 1314 b of n R VA mai 94 ill moro more than thai ever before tho the borage of mch each cloas class of pensioners I 1 la 8 olto also higher tho the cot cost of at 01 torn r alys rya lee fees c ato to brought ilia iho total ox up to being 1644 ita la co afee than ni tho lie appropriation if tho ho pay monta ants for or penol lons for tho the year ar re aa e a follon fol lown m general law h tie saoe account of asa deft 1 paid pata to attorneys were acro 9 against bamo in iam ai wl total number ot of claims tiled filed during the vear allo allowed adl restored ica lored total allowance including indrea 09 M lelal claim ending juno 39 ass juno june 30 Is aw tho rho total to pensioners since iii A during the same peeled ment to examining surgeons Burg cong to cies and for or sula Cs and at latencies aten or a c recesses of 0 the pension bureau tho the number of pensioners residing in foreign countr loot lit 13 to whom 1 1 paid jH 0 of thin thim number reside ill hi canada CunK la in ireland ai M in germany and 1 I in englard england there aro are tour four our aur w m idols ate and seven eoven surviving oil dabeh U III ter of 0 tile revolutionary war on tn the bolln 71 hiram cronk crank of new york Is tho the only suro surviving pensioned soldier 0 15 tho the lr ot of isil file Is 69 99 efura of ace 11 tho the of 1 idous of tho the war ot of to p 1911 oil account of tho the indian wora lag soldiers HerB and am 99 aro bior merlc in th mexican war thero there aro are enrolled WH soldiers Bold lers and 1179 wil willouis louia juno 30 1 isai tho the total number of nera ia being 2195 25 less en than on iho elio namo date dalo lit in a the report pays days that considerable p pro res freaa a havo have been mado tit in up elb tho arrears of mork oric in tile thoi bureau ell ahi mark on original c balms la 19 practically current and and the vork mork a of f ordering medical examinations in increase claims la Is bein beans pushed yo SO that very little time now clappes between dates of ailing ond and ordering the r medical n oil lical examinations tile commissioner r p ports this the wark in far better condition than at any time since april tho the commissioner calla attention to the fact that tho the order 2 issued juno 9 alch prodded ded tor for a readjustment or of rates of 0 pension previously granted under the operations of order no lil irl Is at fiill ill in force but lie states that no revision slon of rates latea under said order lies has been made under his administration 0 tho the year claims of 0 all classes were rejected ld tn lit the bureau A careful analysis of the causes of rejection of at so eo many cams cealma Is 1 riven given 1119 that a largo large percentage of rejections occur in 1 I I 1 in III alch additional allon allo unco menco of some dome kind la Is lalord A full nil and detailed explanation ax to ill the causes of delay sri in tho the of 0 claims li joe front from aich which 1 that bat in nearly ovey every eye ot of u unusual tune a delay del I 1 ay the ilia fault lies with claimants ur or attorneys attorn and not mith tho the hureau in order that the present prea rint co complex I 1 x afi y font ont of pen may mar bo be t and to lo secure A i more mora uniform practice lio in th llin future the appointment or 0 a commission on the revision of tile tho taus laws rules a and it regulations is recommended recommend od I dalanon Is suggested extending elio benefits of tile act ol of juno june 27 low to cormons nho ho birvon 1 in the iho army an I 1 afterward vo voluntarily unta rily eted in tho the union at niev or navy prior to juno 1 IF and were honorably elio rc ori or of I tho he law biennial of aho vho leave been recently discharged from ill demice heri ife N recommended belle no way in which bleh tho the recovery of a from causes can bo 0 determined I 1 tho apal of the act of juno june 7 ai itta IMI removed all limitations limitation OM as to date dale of filing chims liy by S it a booked for to ilia mid end that no pension bention hall 1 im granted to dato data prior to the dm dato of filing the iho 0 tho ill net of juno 7 aits S tile iho r report pay aya holds liolis out inducements elect and onrod a a prom to tile alio aplous to ti wo lilo fraudulent claims irrl df largo larco sums am n it li 14 a bad hiu liaw that thai ell cilmo calme and tho lh government has hut but little opportunity to A it ik cire fully prepared claim under tibe alila law lw complaints have bren nindo mano against ills iho bureau tor for tho the iHo opapo of I 1 taft he pensions of 0 those uhn lio enlisted er r accepted corneli comal belons lit in the war nith spain cheso pon pen plans ceased by of law owl ami not tov hv any order or instructions from the bu bureaus rp to thin aits tho the number of ro nanti of tor for ver verciell viell in the war with tells hoon reported an ai thiren of ilia navy ariy four tit if tile regular ormy army and bilty blaty sels alx of thu rho war of tho the re ko lo ailt of ml cases called in which action hns has been inken inich hv by the ilin department in from the iho action of the iho bureau I 1 the lie bureau mall reversed tn in MI and many of those were cases tit in chich the iho elverel ul verel nallon coll had been taken before april wr wf tho ilia stales thit the pon plou plan law laves are perna cn rouf rolat that their filter by bv the has ahna cr e n Il beral and ell their administers maluno inn bv tho tha bureau hall hafl been and 14 1 now fac air ninee liberal than it liw ataa adaa riving tho the boncile or of doubt in ill foor ot of the soldier |
