Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-09-28
Pension Frauds.

PRESIDENT daILlsOh - AVOA'uB
around for successor to ex-Com-
missioner Of Pensions, Tanner, but
We doubt that he will find one,
capable Of undoing the injury that
Tanner has done. We doubt that
be will be able to find one, who can 4
square Tanners record, so it will
not seriously iniure the Republican
party. Corporal Tanner opened the
eyes of the North to the real pur
pose of the pension agents, and the
Unsuitable demands of pension appli-
cants. Never in any country were
the soldiers Of war so rewarded, as
they have been by the United States
for their services in the civil war,
Yet the Republican Commissioner OF
Pensions was not satisfied to be
governed by strict construction OF
the pension laws, he made it the
policy of his bureau to increase the
pensions on every pretense, or
shadow of pretense. Millions were
being squandered in this way
weekly, and the public debt instead
of being steadily decreased as was
the case under the Cleveland Admin
istration, was being increased. This
called the serious attention OF the
North to this persistent robbery OF
the treasury, and the pressure be-
came SO great, that Commissioner
Tanner, to escape removal, resigned.
His friends set up as defece for him,
that he did nothing personally dis
honest, but, that he made mistakes
In other words, that he did not have
sense enough to conduct the office L.
Be that as it may, his party feels the
blow, and the President is trying tc
ward it off as best he can.
Tanners policy and his immense
: waste Of public funds, have caused
e the best men Of the North to thor
8 oughly investigate and expose tn
whole pension business. In cOlni
this, some Of them are pointing on
e the different classes Of pension bene
Il ficiaries. OF course no one object
j. to real volunteer veteran, who
rs disabled, receiving a pension, bu
+, these Investigations show that abor
t, four .fiflhs of the pensions are nc
III paid to this class.
Of In recent number OF "Puck,
e, picture of New York city recruit
at ing Office is reproduced. 1t WI
ut pro cured from q cut used by Frar
e. Leslie's Weekly in 1864. III
er picture shows the National, Stat
e, county and city bounties paid +
It. recruits and that any individual WI
IN brought in a recruit was paid I
ng showing him where he could get t
ut large bounties. The picture shows
no large sign board with these fgur
IN and words: $4,000 recruits war
'ill ed" and the National, Sta
its county and city bounties amount
les to S777 for each man, and a buildi
rry and swarms OF men erowding in
tire get the bounties.
it'll In mary Of the States the bounti
lde and the prices paid for substitu
the amounted to more than that su
vns Massachusetts, and other States p
as the market value Of those, at Z
this time slaves, to put them in
the Federal Army. Drafts were
ern forced, immense bounties paid,
and substitutes bought on the mari
ngs and thus the Federal Army was 5
any Piled until the South was whip
by mere force of numbers and end
self resources. The whole world
aud open to the North from whence
are draw soldiers and supplies,
fern finally the South was subdued.
put We have no complaint to m
. ON for everything is fair in war.
ners merely wish to point out the fac
ling Southern readers, that all the No
see ern people are not quite crazy on
' I'ce pension question, and there
hopeful signs that they are d.
ven mined to set some limit to the g
on of pension agents and pension a.
were cants.-Commercial-H Herald.
so -ses@'-