Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-04-12
PENSION MATTERS.
Tho Commissioner OF Pensions Reports tho
Progress OF Work In His Department.

Tho Commissioner OF Pensions Reports tho
Progress OF Work In His Department.
WASHINGTON, April 7.-General Raum,
Commissioner OF Pensions, yesterday
submitted the following report OF the
rapid progress recently made In adjudi-
eating claims:
Hon. John Noble. Secretary OF the Interior:
Dear Sir: On ID cember IN last issued an
order requiring that m examination OF tho
claims pending In the once should be male
and that all cases which appeared to be
complete should DO placed upon wnat ! de-
nominated the complete files" AS 70.
suit OF this examinations SLSN cases
were placed upon this list ana
the adjudication divisions were re-
quired TO spend i've days In each week
In their examination. Some days later IL.
sued further order, which provided that
claims would be placed upon the completed
dies" upon he application OF the c!aimants
or their attorneys, upon p oper statement
OF facts showing that the Eases were com.
plete. Since the issuing OF that order $3.50
cases have upon motion been placed upon
the completed fles-ln all 52.6D.
Dur ng the D st three months b2.229 OF
these cases have been acted upon. and there
now remains but SO cases on the uncom'
pleted files. And applications ut the rate
upon IN average OF $50 per day are received
for placing cases upon these files. These
orders also required that one day In each
week should be devoted by the adludcatlng
divisions exclus .vcly to making calls Tor
additional evidence In pending claims
As q result 81 this arrangement Tor
the transaction of the business OF the
ONCE, we are now sending out calls
In nj out 5000 cases per month and ad1udi-
eating over 1900 per month, so that we are
actually handling about 5000 cases per
month. During the month just ended 1876 !.
pension certificates were issued, being, "a
find from the records, the largest months
work ever performed by the bureau. OF
these s. 1871 were upon original applications
During the p,st five days $40 certificates
were Issued. of which 2,l6l were originals.
take pleasure In informing you that the
business of this Office Is now In such con-
dition that every cl'im placed upon the
completed files" will be t,ken up and acted
upon within the week following the day It is
so placed upon the files, As the business s
now arranged In the Office will be able by
the last of May to cause the examination OF
every claim pending In the office on
january / last, have every claim al.
lowed that Is completed and call Tor
evidence made In those not completed. II
10 proper TO state thar now have section
In each adjudlcatlng division for Issuing
orders for IN, dcal examination In all rend'
Ing claims for increase Of pension. These
examinations when made will fix the date
upon which the increase OF pension Will Do
gin where parties ars entitled t. increase
and In a very short time the work OF order
ing these examinations viii dispose OF the
accumulated bu -iness, after which time the
orders fer examination In new cases will be
made from day to day as the cases are hled
| In the Office. Very resDcctfully,
GREEN i. RAUM Commissioner