Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-12-08

quired TO pay pensions allowed prior :.
the current year. The amount of invalid
pensions stopped under the last bien-
NAL examinations was $44,554; of thos.
reduced, $83,7S4; of those stopped dnr.
ing the year by order Of the bureau. S21
oS5; of those SO reduced, $5,316; and Of
other pensions so stopped, SO, $40; aggne-
eating annually $167,O62. During the
same year the sum of go, 103 A was fraud.
ulently drawn by women who had remar.
ried, nearly the whole of which has been
recovered. The sum of S6122 SO was Re-.
ported as retained by attorneys in excess OF
legal fees, large proportion of which has
been restored to the pensioners Forty at.
toFneys were arrested for violations Of the
statutes, Of whom eighteen were convicted
eleven acquitted, three escaped, and the
cases OF eight were pending at the close Of
the year Sixty. f1ve pensioners were arrested
for fraud, Of whom twenty-five were con.
victed, nine acquitted, four escaped. and
the cases Of thirty were pending At The
close of the year.
I'm view Of the, actual and attemp,ea
frauds upon colored pensioners and appE.
cants Tor pension, IN the States OF Alabama
Mississippi and Tennessee, a special con-
mission was appointed to make a thorovob
Investigation They examined. and reportei
npon IoO cases, and their labor disclosed
an enormous amount of systematic eytor
ton and fraud upon pensioners and III.
government &4s4 7S@4-@ W
II the balance of the existing a,nro.
prlation in the Pension Office remaininn
unexpended the 1st of July next he win.
held from the Treasury, and applied to tha,
service, the amount required for the next
year VIII be $1O,0O0,000 less than the an.
preparation Tor tee present fiscal wear :
zine Bureau OF Education has received
applications for information from all the
sections OF the country, and from abroad
"A large part OF the facts and statistics nee
essary 70 answer these inquiries satisfaa.
torily have never been collected. Ctngres.
has not authorized the printing of any of
the several reports emanating from the bu-
reau, and the Commissioner was. until last
August compelled to answer by CORES
pondence inquiries made of him. Three
thousand copies of the circular of ipfor-
nation was, by my direction, then printed.
They have boen distributed, but the de-
mand has not been supplied. The Com
has prepared condensed state
ment exhibiting the present condition of
education in the several States, and con
tanning statistics which, in collective
form, have never been published 1t sob
vious that the bureau, as at present consti-
tuted, has no jurisdiction to the vital inte-
rests with which to some extent it il
charged. The Secretary refers to the opin-
ions expressed on this subject in his last
report"
A considerable portion of the Secreta
rvs report relates to the public institutions
in the District of Columbia He says, con-
corning the Capitol, that it may be regard
ed as completed, and that the grounds
about it should be put in order at once.
For the repairs of the buildings and i'm
provenent of the grounds, he recommends
an appropriation Of $4,000, which is less
by $4,000 than the sum voted for the
present year.