Show press REPLY T ll 11 16 clears milc against alim washington oct 20 ix conn tanner in A loce statement replying lo 10 the Secre letter of july thefil tot allied was given in deepa chea of friday lit denies in the outa t that be defied the on the subject of rating or ins authority in tiie administration of alie bureau lie gives out the letter to which the Ee creary replied tanner in part says 1 I dont propose t j honorable time in the slig hept degree in thia pencil f any existence and where I 1 may d well founded that I 1 leave beai imposed on I 1 shall bo qu ck in dg alie merited by the part ea concerned I 1 defrere to add furthermore that iva a om of the action in these cases meaning the cases of lie pension office employees ft ith that taken by my in several case and find it entirely ent irly favorable to the present adminis ration tanner coin aien ting on the a real laid by secretary nohle on alie law of re rating saya alia when he took the of rice lie found on tun question of re rating aliat the biad been since march 1880 operatis opera g in accordance with the gendered len dered by aa secretary jenig who in the case of charles bation declared that it any case adjudicated under the act of ciari ard 3rd 1878 arre rs of were not it ranted a to a pensioners sio ners disability neither section ncr any other of law prohibits re adjudication watsons wai in part for a pension on a count of sunstroke but be made no claim for that disability until fifteen yeara after ins discharge sir jenks states hit while the presumption from the fart be made no claim until fieten yesra after hs d B chargo is not in favor of the view that the disability was great still lie bolda that the claimant clai mait should hie a chance to phon his d during the period ance hia dia charp ant a Us if evidence should oe tint for any portion of the tune pince his discharge lie has beau d sailed in that period it should be inan as d go aa to correspond the debrea of disability if pe rotary noble sees fit to construct f e statutes so as to make them lesa liberal toabe r than did his eminent democratic predecessor alio re roust rest with him but I 1 am not ahila doin BO be arraign me as b yond reason and the adle of he law various statements ar published over the country about iha abt number of claims of employed emp loyes of alie pension chidi line been a tel on during my incumbency abe fact is that there were ant thirty three all boid there are neaily nol lera emi loyed in the office EO the public caa judge ag well aal can as to the number tor cr pawed on that office in eliat respect suffice it to say that four gentlemen men 0 long eap exp nence in office and of character and capacity in their report to me on the 21 cases broadly empen hed alie correctness of he action in cafe u hereupon 1 immediately called tor the papers in that aaland aae and fin dirig alie cerlini late notice I 1 ad been issued cancelled all proceeding taken in the ase of thirty ahree caba thiry three were amply increase biben and not re bated cases that lie action taken in two other aa light in pirt that in one case injustice lidd kieen d ne tho and that lie had not been granted enough six chaee were reported as hating wrongly heen favored all I 1 he rest were berti fird to as absolutely correct on the 20 h of june a not co to me of the fad that a committee com mitlee 0 imerti gaion had been constituted when they api care a dy d y or so alters ards I 1 allm chief clerk to place the office and all it at their disposal it they dedred de sred tit t ter mi caid roy association with the cm cittee of investigation at the commencement of ita existence I 1 nuver pan the report of the committee on until the afternoon of alio daiy diy I 1 reigned reng ned when I 1 found bec botory nelile at the white house and there friia told by lie president arid S boblo that the report con nothing that in hie lighte nl degree re flecie 1 apan my integrity or d the honesty of my action aa in regard 0 o the assumption ot his insubordination tanner a letter which he sent to the secretary on aug 6 in he ex regret that they had fallen apart and attributes the trouble to too litie personal per communication tle letter boea on to by 1 I lecog niza that I 1 bit in a position where I 1 he the opp of my life to erve our and oar country to them and it to tho full extent the law permits and not one iota beyond I 1 dedire to help yoa to m ke this bianch of the ad so with veterans and people over the at large that in futura there can be no alie support of men who served and buffered idill b given tanner eaid the letter w da neer anett broj and it closed the communication batteen himself and the secretary the caleb numbering inlow re rated during the months of december and january february Alar cli april may june and july rhe proper to which tanner in hia interview refers cov ere a little more than eighteen printed and is dated september bep sll the re cay a were no recoula in the pann on odite choh ing the number oi cases which had been re duding lie feriod in the asid tant oriler and that until jhb period fcc commencing Se pember re raid cases were all in the record among alie reissued for all purposes bom mene encin however with theist of and continuing cauli month alie division has noted on its record of all cf numbered below those which have been fur alie ea of or the raie the ex alii nation that the issue cf certin ciles brought the ork dow n to about july the date when the at a count of march ard 3rd 1889 tok eirot and it alao appeared tint ft much larger proportion of certificates indue 1 prior to hat date hal been ra rated alian of ih ao issued eubah qa enty the V P no 1 waa an hour late yesterday nipping nip ming |