Show PENSION R 0 B B E pt I 1 EJ S tsie the pas has deell been 1 alay lor for years sl EXPOSED en BY B the W eik vik r reviews the 3 t of corporal corporeal Cor porel tanner and 1 aall ator ilium k bwy ee Em ia candid mind must approve F and wd rip applaud plaud the work that corn commissioner nil lochore is doing in ill revis izil rid purging the pension rolls lie ile I 1 granting every new pension s i on fl fTh ilich ich a just claim is made OU out arc is suspending no pension allo allowable wAlo LA under the law he is is simple topping stopping the payment of millious of government viloney money to men who are not entitled under tile the law to receive it the suspensions include two c classes I 1 a be 3 0 ceases is cases viz those in which the allowance nce has been secured by direct frai fraud vid and those in which chic 11 without fraud on the pensioners part the allowance lias has been made contrary coltran to fo law there were bases cages discovered V in Vi virginia rainia 0 in in 10 W ad about 1000 in new mexico in iii which pensions pension had shad been secured ly by plain fraud and false swear swearing irig for for men who had never been il ir the service at all to strike these croul the rolls was as manifestly I 1 a duty adiv as to stop any other form of ste stealing 0 but thesther r class claes of cases Is is much larger investigation shows that hundred thousand pensions gere are improperly granted alider under gaums order K D i J perverted reverted the plan jn jelt ali lt ait of the law these pensions take about a year I 1 out of the treasury the commissioner is as much bound to suspend such pensions ab aa he would be to lo atop tile the payment of salaries in his effice to persons not employed there every suspended pensioner will have opportunity to make good his claim by further evidence if he can call and every one who does so will be promptly restored to the rolls the rest will be stricken sti icken off because they have no right to bo be there here commissioner lochren is simply enforcing the pension laws with faithfulness as he is sworn to do and as every honest bonest man in the c country desires that lie he shall do lie he is stopping a 11 treasury leak of more than 1 10 per annum this Is is practical pension reform by honest and vigilant administration referring a to the suspension of certain pensions pei inions tho the mail and a nd ez express says ino no alle allegation aaion of fraud is made it is iner merely deiv clai claimed nied that those pensions were wera granted under a misconstruction of tile the law this means advantage e is to bo be taken of every technicality to deprive veterans and their widows and orphans of the provision that a grateful people leopla intended to make for them but the allegation of fraud frau d is is imide moreover it is proved that exten cx tensie sic frauds have been committed by which tho the intention of a grateful people has been scandalously dalou sly and criminally abused 4 there is isa a handy bandy illustration of the true spirit of pension frauds and pension reform over in brooklyn a grateful people lias aas made provisions for the decent burial of impoverished union veterans at the public cot it was a 1 proper and honorable testimony ony of public gratitude for their services nobody objected to it but it haa bag been discovered that the funeral expenses of veterans who ire aro alive have been already paid under this law they having been reported to be dead and also that two and three funeral bills for lour burying ying the same person have been paid aid these swindling im pos positions ali ons upon a grateful people are indefensible and advantage is likely to be taken of every technicality of tho the law to put an end to them it is high bia time that the pretense that every old soldier obtained 6 a privilege to swindle the G government overna ent was rebuked the grand army should bo be first to rebuke it the worlds special dispatches from froin washington report adoth another e r startling discovery made by pension commissioner lochren when tanner instituted his system of otic ic rating 0 by which aci pensions inions already allowed were increased many I 1 1 any of tho the pension office clerks jo joined ined in the grab game all and I 1 n got ot themselves re rated in six sixteen t ce n cases assistant secretary bussey buseey and secretary noble tanners direct superiors declared the re ratings to be illegal and ordered them rescinded but neither tanner nor his successor baum obeyed the order and it is now w discovered that these sixteen pension office clerks most of whom are still in the pension office have gone on oil drawing the increased pensions not only without any authority of law or any right to the money nione 3 but in direct defiance of tile the orders of the secretary of the interior it would probably not be possible to recover the money thus unlawfully filched from the treasury but at any rate men so dishonest and unfaithful should be promptly turned out of the public bervice eer vice the examination of work unda r the rt disabilities Pension st of 1890 reveals such a condit condition iori of affairs that pensions are to bo be suspended until the cases can be reexamined examined re As was shown in judge longs case has been no pre pretense tens of even formal compliance with the law vast sums of public money have been squandered on mendicants mendi cants who choso whoso so pa patriotism t rio t whatever it may inay once have beail been has degenerated into sheer mercenary greed the more th that a t 1 i is S I 1 learned arned concerning eona cona the pension re rating affair tho the more scandalous it appears in addition to the sixteen pension office clerks whose re rating assistant secretary bussey ordered cancelled there were other cases cakes of tho the kind and they have taken about out of the treasury in ill plain violation of law |