Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-08-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent. ]

From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, August 20, 1888.
The last Congress made appropriations
ageregnpng a little more than $3.50 900, 900,
Of which more than one-third, or $86, 900,
600, is devoted to the payment Of pensions.
The army and navy, one without soldiers
and the other without vessels, both with a
superubundnnce of officers draw nearly
SAL 900 900. and the Postoffice gets $44,
500, 900 to disti ibute among the impecu-
NOUS star-route contractors. The legislu-
tive, judicial. and executive departments
are put off with only $40 ,000, 900, and the
sundry civil service, which means what
ever may he most conveniently at hand,
ekes out its miserable existence on S23,
6S5 ,575 or just the amount TO quarter of
a dollar that 1t cost TO run the entire gov.
ernment u quarter OF II century ago. Lo,
the poor Indian, whose untutored mind
has an eye for Henry rifles and blankets
red lined which costs our mothers bro her
Sam a little over So 100000, and so on ad
ndusedm.
The enormous sum that Congress had
seen fit to appropriate TO the payment of
pensions hns caused no little criticism by
tie public press all over the country, and 10
acme extent this criticism is justified, not
particularly because Of the amount appro-
priated, but because of the lax provisions
of the arrearages bill, which have opened
| the door to an avalanche of fraud, deceit,
bribery and perjury. While but few
instances nave oeen Dro"eht to liRht ana
pnh'snea, oespile me constant walchin'-
ness OF 'he [ehsion ONCE ~ ~ known 'hat
theSe irauoulent crimes against the ooVern-
ment are hlui''2'ieG ua. a':er eay. by
communion "n" eoiius'o" ~ 10 nale W say
'""' o"e I""''e. oi w" V"'' ""'o"n' VI
money w'.' oe uiIeo'eu anro"sn cnanhe,s
| oPeneo 'a'o we treasury ny TAIN Peilury
,h me es'ne,ls"henl VI Una. olsAoIIly
m"ion e,i''o,es 'ne o'"'n'"". ~ ~ W So"fene"
no" "'oe! 'ne a.re".'ses pi'' Man WIN
no o'ner "Isuo'n.y thah an III growing zoe
mn n'"! u"1e, ,"'' IN" Pou'e upon
'n's pension iun" any 'h"se on WIN money
enohsn 10 se. i,'hse'i up III conlor.apIe
ous'psss. anu now many r's'ances .nere
ae VI '"'Poa'.'on ~" ,"e o'1ei i. i"'ne"t Wy
,"'"e PIeIeut"o"', ,.,, "' a.eieu "'us.ei, ,Io'i',
oy ,"iHeu a'Scna,ses, gnu tne h""oeliets
';o '". .'S'', ~ VI, u". w. puse.'
h, I'o"w ,." "e"ue" =. oS p;'.sh 90 Winp'ms
day was convicted OF bribery and sent tc
the penitentiary for sending SlO0 10 each o
the examining surgeons and another SlO(
TO Com M lssioner Dudley, and this man W al
already worth more than 500 600. A
woman in Baltimore and another woman
~ n"n"'o p";'S pe's":aeu "ner VINE, woMen whoh
o.. s"., and ,La, .noosadeJ i, no,,;u .o P.n,
money. TWAS only by Quarrel over tb
division of it that the crime was unenrthe,
and the criminals brought to Justice. 4
thorough investigation of the names tina
figures ,,pon the pension rolls will develo,
the fact that there are thousands of then
whose names would more appropriated
| grace the roster of n penitentiary. If i'm
man ingenuity is capable of deyisinp nm
7 means of preventing such an abuse of n In,
really intended for The benefit OF the sol