Show the pension investigation 1 march 3 the sub com cittee of the house committee on pensions today to day examined commissioner rau ru with reference to the estimates of pension en to appropriations for the next fisca fiscal year ear the tile commissioner boner said last year la 1 OW had been spent for ni medical edical cami examinations a ions and tl this I 1 ear 1 w would nl bo be spent ent which iier w would 0 bring that work up t to date the actual amount of money expended on ac account of pensions during the first nix six months odthe of the year was about forty three millions are on hand forthe for the remainder of the fi fical cal year witness bad estimated that if re to ratings i were generally followed they would cost asked about the tile re 1 aorta I in circulation tion as to the circumstances connected with i re rating of powell an all illinois poli politician t c an by commissioner black asked ask ed was that general IV W 11 lowell secretary nobles candidate for commissioner of pension said payson this very thing when will attention was called if t it was what knocked him out dangan asked if secretary noble had by letter requested e ted black to favorably consider fo POW wells ells case bussey could not state enloe asked askell how it was general W IV V dudley had been re rated without the facts appearing on it re record cotI kussey said dudley was legally re rated under an act ine increasing the pension for the loss of a leg at the knee boint lie re rating did not go back to the date of disability but to 1880 1886 the date of the act increasing the pen pension penion ion why the record did id not show re rating ho he did not know unless it was because the claim was for a disability to enloe cluey mud said tile greatest abu abuse w the pension office had to contend with was the tile practice ofton of congressmen res pushing pension claims lie ile dad did not not aee see how the tile practice could be stopped except mol by 1 law aw busbey believed believe that commiss commissioner 1 er I 1 taunt managed the office with efficiency and integrity enloe inquired if it brissey approved ali the practice of giving gu ing pen pensions ions 0 to o persona er os of means bussey replied in fit th the negative and said it was prohibited b by the thre recent elit law inloe cited the instance of one case in which an all ohio woman worth morth was getting a pen pension penion ion ll bussey usey replied t that hot li ins is office was con constantly stan aly anve investigating st legating such violations Mo lations of the tile law adjourned senator sawyer from the committe commit teon post offices and post roads today to day reported to the senate a bill in III the nature of a substitute providing pr that after the first of july next all articles of mail the third and fourth class clas be comprehended in one class to be known as third class matter postage to beat be at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof the joint english and united states commission on oil the tile hering bering nea sea fisheries held a long session this afternoon and practically concluded their deliberations 1 he ile members members are pledged to searf secrecy ey and it Is impossible to obtain any official information mation as to the result of their conferences there is good reason however tor for the prevalent belief that the commission ars failed entirely in their endeavors to reach a satisfactory agreement as to the best method of conducting the seal eal fishing industry etli with a view to the preservation of he the species |