Show COMMANDER TORRENCE TALKS ABOUT PENSIONS His Report on the Pension Bureau Not Yet Made Madei Public MINNEAPOLIS April 1 1 Judge Judge Eli Torrence in chiet of the G. G A. A H n. jus ju Just t back from a conference with the he President on pension matters says the he report of the G G. A. A R. R pension committe committed com corn mitte was submitted submitted to the President over ver a week ago At his request however howver how how- ever ver It H will not be made public for some ome time as the President t has under consideration the election of a successor successor sor or to Pension Commissioner Evans I Judge Torrence In Jn discussing the report je re- re port ort said The committee found no fault tault with the pension Jaws as they now exist but rather with the manner manlier In which the laws have lave been construed and administered by he the pension b bureau A desire C for a change in n the office k o ob of r Commissioner m Y i r rC of P Pensions has been steadily growing for two years past until now it Is almost universal among the veterans Conservative Grand Army men believe anti and nd with good cause that great Injustice has as been heen done to many deserving deser and anti worthy claimants claimant All the veteran soldier soller sol- sol tiler dier ler of the Uhlon desires is that the laws lawse be e Justly and fairly administered and anti that all who are entitled to receive their b bene bene- ne- ne ts shall enjoy tIt tiem em without diminution or r unreasonable delays an ansi that every unworthy un tin- worthy claim shall be bo rejected and over every fraudulent pensioner stricken from the Uie rolls oils The atmosphere of the tho h pension bureau has been such as to create on an Impression by that hat y I the a goi great old a soldiers many d' d is f frauds but It t tarse arse are arc Is worthy attempted tret t of or 1 note ote that according to the last st report of ot the he Commissioner there were out of ot i 11 9 persons convicted of frauds against the bureau burl Qu ast last year vear but ten soldiers of the Civil war of whom two were deserters Many lany convictions were for tor offen against the old soldiers and not Ilot by them The he records show that only one old soller soldier sol sol- tiler dier ler out of has been convicted of fraud raud a against a the government e that hat h Is a wonderfully d good ono showing ow Incidentally Judge Torrence denied that hat he was to be made pension commissioner commissioner com corn missioner nor was he a a. candidate for that hat or any other office I Jf t 1 4 i. i |