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Show Speaking of the famous pension order which Judge Parker snys ho would abrogate ab-rogate and then ask Congress to enact . into law, Judge Lochren, who was Commissioner of Pensions wlion Clove-land- was President, defends the order, and does not see why any one should object to It. He himself made Just such an order when he was Commissioner, and nobody ever, criticised iL He considers con-siders Commissioner Ware's ruling entirely en-tirely right and reasonable. "I don't think it Is any usurpation of the powers of Congress at all," says he; "it i simply promulgating a rule that I serves to carry out the intention of Con- gross In passing that act," referring to the statuto under which the prder was Issued. This Is high Democratic authority au-thority in support of tho order, higher authority, In fact, than Judge Parker's in opposition, for Judge Lochren understands under-stands the pension legislation of,the country far better than Judge Parker docs. |