Show The paymentsor pension account arc decreasing at a rapid rate in spite of the outcry against the great pension burden Thus the payments on pen rion account for the year ending June 30 1002 amounted to JlJ7IOO7il whoro ns the estimate and appropriation for the same was MrJlil 1 > 30 and the pen uion payments for the year ending Juno 20 inoi amounted to 0582231 1 ahoiv intf a decrease in thu your Jtmict cIouM of SLMSlW over the yonr before Thlrf In spite of additions from the Spanlah and Philippine wars and the liberality of Congresa in passing special noiwloir I bills It iBiiow more than thirtyseven I years since thcr Great Yai cloned It la 1 Inevitable that the yean from now on will deal much harder with the veter i ans of It than the years that are l pact have done and this roll of honor will gradually disappear The PrcahloiuH tributes to the old veterans are noble ones sind they Mils express the beat sentiment o the country but their time on 1 earth Is now gelling painfully short and the thinning of the ranka bceomea grievously swift |