St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-24
THIS WILL PLEASE, TANNER.

Senator Manderson in a Letter
Taffies Himself and the Pension
Boss. ~:
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. Ex-senator %
Charles f. Manderson this, evening
handed the following letter to Corporal
Tanner concerning his rerated pension,
to a reporter:
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 23.-Hon- James Tan
neE Commissioner of Pensions, Washington
My Dear Sir: returned to my home yester-
day after an absence ofunearfy two months
during which time have been beyond mail
communication, having been during great
part of the time in Alaska with the senate
committee on Indian affairs. With my ac-
cumulated mail find blank voucher trans
mltted by the United States pension agent
at Des Moines, Iowa, to be exc
cuted and returned to him that
reissued Pension Certificate No. 53647, cor
recting the rate from SIS to $50 per month
from March lS, 1865. Accompanying this
blank application is the reissued pension
closure stating the facts of its issuance, and
that a check for the amount due me will be
forwarded on my return of the voucher prop
erly executed Before my
DEPARTURE FOR THE ALASKAN TRIP -
Il had been stated to me by parties claiming
to know that the pension bureau had rerated
my pension without any application or
knowledge on my part, and had even read
/. in some newspapers the false statement that
/ had received about 1000 due me under
the rerating The letter, certificate and
voucher received by me to-day are the first
formal or official notification I have received
: that the bureau OF pension .lOn its own
motion, had issued new certificate grant
out in the assertion that this action on the
part of the officials of your bureau has not
only been without my application. but has
been without my agency or suggestion, di-
rectly or indirectly applied, and without my
knowledge that it was to be done, or was con-
templated. Not that such application by me
and such rerating by you would be Just and
right under the law and in common fairness,
bat / make the statement that the exact
truth may be understood. Il have read to-day
In papers issued during the past few weeks
SO much of untruth maliciously written. and
SO much that it is unjust to you and unfair to
me, that feel outraged and indignant For
your administration of the affairs Of your
Office with. proper regard to the law of the
country, which does not recognize soldiers
pension as a bounty or charity, buta as his
contract right, and looks upon the republics
obligation to its defenders not as duty, but
as privilege, you are to be broken down by
OUTRAGEOUS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and personal abuse. So far as my own case
is involved it is not material what may be
said or written concerning me. l will pur-
Droval of my own conscience, uninfuenced
by clamor and not fearing abuse, courtiug
fair criticism and desiring the good opinion
Of the just.
Senator Manderson then recounts his
services in the war, and concludes:
doubt if would ever have made applica-
ton for such increase, but you have seen fit
to take up nv case without my knowledge,
and, with the kindness of comrade, himself
q grievous sufferer from wounds, have done
that which you believe just and right under
the law you are sworn to administer. For this
THANK you most sincerely, but under this at
tack upon you there must be left no room
for doubt or cavil as to the full propriety
of your conduct. The medical and legal
experts of your Office have acted upon the
records as made in your office and including
the SIX examinations made since the war
(the record of none of which have l ever
SEEM have declared that was unjustly rated.
Before can execute the voucher received,
or take any other steps in this matter, de.
sire that there should Tea
RIGID AND SEARCHING EXAMINATION
by medical experts as to the extent of the
present disability. Thanks to careful life
and abundant vitality have no expectation
of an early death, and know my remaining
a competent medical board could give me
the assurance that my pains and ills are
mere fgments of the Imagination. and
that am whole in body and sound
IN mlnQ. FOr Sucn result WOulu almost De
willing to apologize for having fought on the
right side Of the War of the Rebellion /,
therefore, respectfully ask that you, or the /
honorable secretary of the interior, designate
a board of medical examiners somewhere in
the country charged with the duty of making
physical examination and report the facts
as to my condition. If this request shall be
complied with, please advise me Of the time
and place, my only preference being, in view
of other engagements, that it should be after
Oct. 1.