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Show PENSION EXAMINERS TENDER RESIGNATIONS WASHINGTON. April 20. Nine of the ten pension examiners constituting the Board of Review were separated from the Government service today. Commissioner of Pensions Warner transmitted the nine resignations to Secretary Hitchcock with , the i recommendation that they be accepted, ac-cepted, and Mr. Hitchcock took the desired de-sired action without delay. The resigned examiners assert that representations rep-resentations were made, to 'them, purporting pur-porting to come from "the commissioners, commission-ers, that should they hand in their resignations matters would be relieved and restorations would be made at some date in the .near future. Commissioner Warner, however, made no such representation repre-sentation to the Secretary of the Interior.. - The difficulty involving the Board of Review W89 Its spproval of several pen- sions to applicants whoee'only claim was enlistment in a Pennsylvania and a New . Jersey regiment of volunteers for service in the Civil war. but the services cf whom were never availed of by the Government. |