Show INDIAN WAR PENSIONS Commisisoner of Pensions Says Record Rec-ord Pay by United States Will Be Accepted as Proof The following extract from n letter received yesterday by Senator Rawlins from the Commissioner of Pensions In answer to an Inquiry will be of Inter 9sLto manyold veterans oC the iln dlan warM Hon Joseph L Rawlins Salt Lake City UtahIn response to your attached at-tached communication of the 17th meL received In the Bureau on the 2d Inst In which you state that a number of persons In your State volunteered and rendered soivlce to the United States In the various Indian wars enumerated in the act of June Z 1902 but that In some Instances rolls containing their names were not made up and fed In the t War Department or discharges regularly issued apd Inquire what can be done by the Bureau to supply the missing rolls and furnish substitute proof which will be satisfactory to the Department I have the honor to advise ad-vise you that the Bureau In the adjudication ad-judication of claims arising under said act as well as under the act of July 27 1S92 Is governed by the determination determina-tion of the service of the applicants thereunder by the reports from the Wan Department or where no record br service In those wars Is on file In I the War Department by reports from i the Auditor of the Treasury Department I Depart-ment for the War Department The act referred to is that of June 2 1002 which provides That where there Is no enlistment or muster Into the service oC the United Unit-ed States Sn any of thu warn mentioned In this e the record of pay by the I United Slates shall be accepted as full and satisfactory proof of such enlistment enlist-ment ond service |