Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-14
GRANTS OF PENSIONS.
Commissioner Blacks Annual Report
Shows AN Enormous Increase of Claim

Commissioner Blacks Annual Report
Shows AN Enormous Increase of Claim
ants.
Washington special telegram
The annual report of the Commissioner
of Pensions is as follows:
During the fiscal year ended June 80. 1883,
there were added to the pension rolls 6O,252 new
names the largest annual increase in the history
of the bureau making total of 452,557 pen
sioners on the rolls, at the close Of the year. us
children, aud dependent relatives, 81 revolu-
tionary widows, SO survivors of the war of 1872,
107s7 widows of those who served in
served in that war The names OF
a previously dropped were q, restored est to the
ing the year. During the Same period 1890
were dropped from the rolls on account Of death
to the rolls OF 46, $50 names l,l66,916 pension
claims have been filed since 1861, and 737 ,2Oo
claims Of oil classes have been allowed since
1861 has been 1865, 1855, 44I. Incre Sc Of pen
sion was granted in 45,71s cases. The ag-
gregate pensions is S56,707,221, IN increase
during the year was s78,775, $50 IN H.
crease over the previous year of 1908 $50.
The total amount disbursed by pension agents
for all purposes was S7964f, l46 The cost at
tending such disbursements was in the aggre-
gate S3 262524, it being fraction less than per
cent. of the total expenditures OF the bureau.
pOS0o
was ss2,o3s, 1886, being 2la per cent OF the total
estimated gross income OF the United States
Government for the period The total eXpenti-
lures of the Government for the fiscal year 1888
were S267, So SO1, SO that the amount expended
for and on account of pensions was nearly 81
per cent. of the entire outlay of the Government.
There were filed during the yenr47, $40 applica-
tions for original pension, 11,7S9 widows, 2, 4l6
dependent mothers, and l, 1913 dependent fathers,
making total of 657U4. The highest number of
claims on account Of the late war was received
from Ohio; Indiana followed next, then New
York and Pennsylvania, and from Montana,
Utah, and South Carolina none were received.
Up to June 30 last u, 5S1 claims We're filed I'M
der the Mexic III pension act, 1878 being sur
vivors and 1893 widows. All completed cases
cases-have been allowed. The reflections were
1891 survivors and COL widows claims, mainly
because the applicant hal not arrived at the re-
quired age of 81 years. OF these Mexican clai
but ,S92 We're unsettled on June 30, the evidence
filed being insufficient. The spirit of the law
compromise with those VINO willfully violate
the pension law, and no prosecution of those who
sinned through ignorance and who are willing to
make restitution when the same is demanded Of
them"
over IS per cent of all pensioners are paid by
quarterly payment is due, and payments can not
be made more rapidly without multiplying the
agencies.
The total number OF special pension acts
which have become laws from 1851 to 1885 is
2,OO1, and from 1885 to 1888, during the present
administration, 1859. total of 1870 OF the
latter 1911 were vetoed. In the fiscal years from,
July, 1882, to June 30, 1856, there were issued
1911 221 certificates of all classes, and during
the three following fiscal years, from July 1,
crease for the last three years OF los, 316 certi
Gates.