| Show THE PENSION BUREAU it la is noted as aa a somewhat curious circumstance that the post of commissioner of pensions presumably more clerical than executive is one of the hardest birdest to fill acceptably within the entire civil service department under the lait laa lai t previous administration the office instead of being mea curably obscure and engaged in routine work of such a severely disciplinarian character that the people did not care to pay ht attention to it became and con linued to the last the most attractive and interesting cynosure in the republic the openhanded open handed manner in which corporal tanner la lleti out the funds to all comers in fact his previously announced intention of being good to the buys started up the interest and it kept growing until finally his bis superior officer had bad to protest then take a hostile attitude the result of which was that the frank and ready corporal found his neck under the official blade then came the incumbency of green B baum the scandal relating to his bis son and many other objectionable features contin continuing u ing to the close and serving to k keep beep the pension bureau in the fore from froia of the governments choicest bric a brac it is claimed by the perennially belligerent li now new york sun that the melting of the surplus was wall enough of itself to cause another and juster theory of 0 n to obtain it to la generally gene raHy ad d now ow that the government has hag been at least go generous nerous and lax enough and that henceforth a more careful policy should be adopted it la is aleo generally admitted that if there la is any way sy of detecting past fraud in the pensions bonit lists liete anil and preventing future fu fraud d that way should be followed loll iwed an fortunately it to is not an easy thing go 0 find that way but it looks just juet now sig a if the new incumbent of the office judge thomas lochren 61 onota were on a voyage of exploration having that object in view he be is so BO quiet yet attentive to and attracts so BO little attention to his work regarding diug commissioner hochron it is recorded that he was a gallant foldier aldier of the civil war and is a member of the grand army of the republic so that there cau can be no realm for supposing that he be will not be anxious to do I 1 ustice justice to every merl tori aas applicant for a pension he has baa ast dst at upon the bench and should have therefore the instinct and the habit of dome years ago he was a candidate didace for united states senator and came near being elected it is the opinion that there has been favoritism and not justice in the treat daeng and disposal of pension claims and if such has been the tradition of office a chi ought to be ex geow now 1 if la is of course a most unenviable taace ice to fill or attempt to fill yet ft is one in which tho the incumbent baa the opportunity more than ever at 4 this particular ar juncture of doing a reat public service it would be unjust however to look for too much mim from him or to throw upon him too much responsibility most of the extravagance and rottenness of the pension bunting and pension monger ang ng business bu elness rests with fays days the sun in which neither side has bag had the courage to insist that even IV jim its treatment of the union vote veterans rions fabe or the civil war the government should abt be regarded as a benevolent iusti L ti aution |
