Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-06

Commissioner Blacks Annual Report
shows AN Enormous Increase Of Claim
ants.
The annual report of the Commissioner
Of Pensions is as follows:
tuPr,yiwef 8 aovearsI saeays .aodad- -Jnne 20 lssA
names the largest annual increase in the history
of the bureau, making total OF 452,ooi peh-
sioners ON the rolls at the close Of the year, al
follows: 1886 invalids, 9292o WIDOWS, mlIo4
children, and dependent relatives, 81 revoia' o,a
tiouary widows, J6 survivors OF the war OF lolz,
l07s7 widows of those who served IN
that war; 5000 survivors of the war Win
Mexico, and 5,1A widows OF thess VINO
2O2s previously dropped We're restored 20 the
rolls making an aggregate OF bz2oO adde ogi, ~,
ing the year. During the same pe.ioai 90 oath 5o,I1
and var. GUS other causes leaving net increase
10 tho rolls Of 46, $50 names; l,l66,916 pension
claims have been MED since ieoi, a anu 'S s;nce
| that da.e The amount paid for pensions since
| 1851 has been $963, ,055, ,44I. Incre Sc OF pen
rsS.ts sion was Ssssons ssSnsea is an increase
| Of S3 88l,5 $40. The amount OF pensions pald
during tho year was S7S,H5, S62 an In IN
| crease over the previous year OF %, Uo, ~.
| The total amount disbursed by pension agents
| for all purposes S796l6, ,l46 The cost at
| tending such disbursements was IN the aggre-
gate 50 262 524 1t being fraction less than per
| Cent az the total expenditures OF the bureau.
| The total amount expended for al! purposes
was ss2 O3s 9s5, being M1s per cent OF tne tota,
|
| Goyarnmenf for the period. The total expendi-
| tures OF the Government for the hscal year loo,
were S2G7, 81 ,SO1, so that the amount e1pehueMu 81
for and on account OF pensions was nearly o.
per cent of the entire outlay OF the Government
There were filed during the year AZ $40 applica,
tions for original pension, IL ,7S9 widows. 2,4io
dependent mothers, and ,6SS dependent fathers
making a total OF 65 7O4. The highest number o
claims ON account Of the late war was receivee
from Ohio; Indiana followed next, tnen New
York and Pennsylvania, and from Montana
Utah and South Carolina none were received
. I'm to June 30 last %, 561 claims were nled un
der the Mexican pension act, 19,7SS being sur
yivors and 6,793 widows: All completed case
~ this class-165 529 survivors and 5,l95 widov
! cases-haye been allowed. The rejections wer
, 292l survivors, and COL widows claims mainl
} hecaua aa the applicant hal not arrived at the re
ouired age OF tSl years. OF these Mexican claim
, but 1 eo2 were unsettled on June 80 the evidenc
! | bIed being insufficient. The spirit OF the la'
division OF the bureau, says the report, Is n
' compromise with those VINO wllliuLy uolns
4 | the pension law and no prosecution OF those wn
q | sinned through ignorance and who are willing
' make restitution when the same Is demanded
o them" la =
4 the pension agents within ten days after u
' ouarterly payment is due, and payments can n'
!. be made more rapidly without multiplying u
a The total number OF special pension &C
r which have become laws from 1861 TO 1883
i | O0l and from 1895 to 1853, during the preset
! COMMUNICATION, 1862 total OF 3,3TO. VI u
n latter l9l were vetoed. In the hscal years ITO
! July 1882 to June %, 1856, there were issu
n 1gl. .22l certificates Of all classes. and dur1
n the three following hscal years, Lom Juiy
Il crease for the last three years of l6s $40 cert
a | oata