Show COMMANDER OPINION I 1 I 1 about pensions pension 9 clatters G A R M nan a u anzio no fraudulent pensions log lo auf aug 6 5 commander ln in chief W weissert Weiss e issert crt of the tie i 0 A R who arrived here her e today when asked a about bout pension at eald mv my position as commander of the whole grand army is summed up in a brief brie order forder that I 1 issued issued after my election in september that order was that every member of the 0 A it having been obliged to encourage the honor an and purity of public affairs are requested in rage they know aw of receiving a pension fraudulently to 0 report the same promptly to the commissioner at washington all 1 0 A it men agree chattney ney bey encourage in every instance striking the rolle rolls anybody drawing an illegal alleg pension but members nien ibers of the tile 0 4 A R as well as a ell all patriotic fill vitt lens zens object most seriously to lo 10 all those hose drawing and ana who served honorably during I 1 the te war being beilig called frauds u d bummer bu bounty ol 01 anty ju lumpert ferij and thieves I 1 e L especially especial y when pa martlea r tt e ti making hose assertions were in n belth e r a army dur I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ing the war and d do not cite a single case caso where the law is being defeated many people forget 0 get that soldiers eold lers of the late war are catl citizens ert as well as its V yete rauf Mein hers af the 0 A it were so anxious n reou to enforce the laws of the land I 1 between 1 1861 86 1 an and d 1 W 5 t that h n t th they e 0 offered ff e re d t their h e i r lives for 0 r th that t p purpose u r po s 0 a and n dy t they li e y h have av e f failed il i led to bearoff hear of anything hat that lias has changed their minds since they squelched the rebellion and aregust are just as anxious to enforce the laws now as s they were in tit 1801 1861 and they are anxious is that not only the pension laws but all 1 others be enforced |