The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-29


taws and Chcaksaws is in progress Th,
Secretary recommends that, before tn.
Land Office is established, the allotments
made to certain supposed spectators by
statute and treaty,of which the Choctaws
complain, be investigated and reconcii
ed
The st.tistIcs fbusiness in the Pension
Bureau during the past year, were made
public some time ago. Secretary Cox, III
treating of the branch of this department
says: THE committee has devoted special
attention and energetic efforts, first, to Il
thorough examination of the evidence pre-
sented in support of pension claims, thus
causing the rejection of such as are ficti
tious and unfounded second. to q search
ing inquiry in regard to the present list of
invalided pensioners, with view to more
lust and inform graduation of the existing
rates and, third, to the ascertainment and
cancellation of fraudulent claims hereto
fore allowed. The actual amount save by
the disallowance of unjust claims cannot
be accurately estimated, but from other re-
forms have mentioned reduction of 81,
$50. 900 has been made IN the amount re-
aaired to pay pensions allowed prior to
the current year The amount OF Invalid
pensions stopped under the last biennial
examinati ms was $44,5S4; ofthese reduc-
ed, $83, 784 /; Of these stopped during the
year by order of the bureau, $21,8 of
these are reduced, $3.50 and 1T other
pensions 80 stopped, $1,000 2ggregating
annually, $167064. During the same
.,,.>> - aon 10 "A fr.,a
ulenr'y drawn by women who had remar-
ried, nearly the whole Of which has been
recovered. The sum Of $6,122,56 was re
ported as retained by attorneys in excess
of legal fees a large proportion Of which
has been restored to the pensioners,
Forty attorneys were arrested for viola
tiOns of the statutes, of whom eighteen
were cOnvicte |, eleven acquitted, three
escaped and the cases Of eight We're pen
ding at the close Of the year. Sixty five
pensioners were arrested for fraud, oil
whom twenty two were con vcted, nine
acquitted, escaped, anu the cases of thir-
ty were pending at the close ofthe year.
" In view of the actual and attempted
frauds upon colored pensionsers and APP
plicants for pensions, in the States O.
Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, y
special commission was apppin ed - make
a thorough investigation. They examin
ed, and reported upon $50 C ses, aud their
labur disclosed an enormous amount Ct
systematic extortlon and fraud upon pen
sioners and the government
IF the balance of the existing appro-
priation in the Pension office remaining
upex pended the lat of July next be with,
held from the Treasury, and applied tn
that service, the amount required for the
next year will be $10,000,000 less than
the appropriation required for the present
fiscal year.
" he Bureau of Education has receiV
ed applications for information from all
the sections of the country, and from
abroad, A large part Of the facts and
Statistics necessary t answer these facts
satisfactorily have never been collected
N0ngress has not authorized the printing
OF auy OF the several reports emanatlng
from the bureau, and the Commissioner
was, until last August, compelled to an
swer by Jurisprudence inquiries made
of him. Three thousand copies of the
clrculars WAS, by my direction, then print
ed They have been distributed, but the
demand has not been supplied. The
Commissioner has prepared condensed
statement exhibiting the present condi
tioA of education in the several States
and containing statistics which, in q col.
lective form, have never been published
It is obvious that the bureau as at pres
nj constituted, has no jdrisdlction To the
vital interests with which to some exteni
it is charged. The Sec etary refers TO the
opinions expressed on this subject IN his
last report"
A considerable portion of the Secreta
lry's report re ates to the public instltu
tious in the District OF Columbus. He
says, concerning the Capitol, that It may
he regarded as completed, and that tht
grounds about it should be put in order
st once For the repairs of the building
and improvement of the grounds he rec
ommends an appropriation OF $4,000
winch is less by $4,000 than The sun
voted ror the present year.
An attempt is to he made to manufac
ture silks in New York or its vicinity or
scale never yet attempted The wal