Show i iby ty by g gIn In the days day's news is printed a astory astory story which shows that there were still on the pension n rolls of the government at the close of the fiscal year June 30 1924 widows of soldiers who fought In the War Val ValI of 1812 to the number of f 33 who are aie In receipt of a pension and I yet that war has been ended years that of ot the war with MexIco Mexico Mex Mex- Mexico ico there were wen still surviving and nd carried on the pension roll 31 sql sql- diers and 1437 widows that on account account ac account ac- ac count of service prior to 1891 In various Indian wars soldiers and 2937 were in receipt of pensions pen pen- In the long Iong ago it is recalled that when the Civil war ended in 1865 that the rolls of the Union army showed that more than two million men had b been en in the army that in 1856 on June 30 O O. O th that t the number number number num num- ber of pen pensions lons on the roll was and the amount paid that year year to pensioners was 5 88 Then th the the- roll began to climb arid add the highest number on the roll was reached in 1898 when the roll showed or one- one third of the number who were in I service The highest number of Civil war widows on the roll was in 1912 when they numbered The figures regarding pensions tensions are unusually interesting for th they y show how well the government takes care of the m men n who were ready to make the supreme sacrifice e ein in order that the government might live Coming Coining down to the present the figures show that on the pension pension pen- pen sion roll at the end of the thel fiscal year June 30 1924 there wee pensioners a net loss to the roll loll during the year iJ f from froma a total of at the beginning of the year And of the number on the rolls on an n June 30 1924 Civil war soldiers numbered as ag against on June 30 1923 a decrease of wl while I of the widows minor children and dependents in receipt of ot pension on June 30 1924 the number was a decrease df The num number r of deaths of or Civil in the fisc fiscal l year I 1924 were as against in 1923 and the deaths of Civil war widows minor children an and dependents dependents de dependents de- de in 1924 numbered 1296 as against in 1923 j The number of Spanish war solI sol sol- I diers on the roll June 30 1924 was as as' against on June 30 1923 while the number of widows minor children and dependents of Spanish war soldiers on the roll on June 30 1924 was as against on June 30 1923 By glasses lasses the pension roll roIl on June 30 1924 showed soldiers widows 2263 minor children helpless children and 67 army nurses And these statistics partly from memory from partly arpy from from I i departmental mental reports tell an in in- in inI I story It might be added that the number number number num num- ber of pension claims allowed since the establishment of ot the system to total total total to- to tal nd the total amount paid paie from from 1790 1790 to June 30 1924 reached the great tofal total of ot 6 36 |