The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-10-07
RAUM'S ANNUAL REPORT.


Now Drawing Money From Uncle Sam.
WASHINGTON, Oct. t.,6.-Theannua report
of Pension Commissioner Raum shows
that there were at the end of the last fiscal
year 531,9H pensioners upon the rolls,
classified as follows: Army invalid PEN
sioners, 1872 800; army widows. minor
children and dependent relatives, 104, ,456;
navy invalid pensioners, 5,29i; navy
widows, minor children and dependent
relatives, 2,460; survivors Of the war of
1872, 4i3; widows of soldiers of the war Of
1872, S,6l0; survivors of the Mexican war,
II, ,l5S; widows of soldiers of the Mexican
war, 6,764.
There were es,es7 original claims al
lowed during the year, being 14,7l6 more
original claims than were allowed during
the fiscal year of 1885, and 6,S35 more than
were allowed during the fiscal year of
1888. The amount of the first payment of
these 66,637 original cases amounted to
So, ,49S,0 ,0i1, being Sll ,036, ,492 more than the
| first payments on original claims allowed
during the fiscal year of 1889, and Sl0,-
179, ,225 more than in 1888.
OF the system of completed files organ
lied by him, the commissioner says in
part: Under the system of completed
files complainant has the right, upon
proper certiflcation that the claim is CON-
plete, to have ii Immediately placed upon
the completed files and taken up in order
for adjudication.
Claims placed upon the completed files
are taken up within week for action,
and ii found complete are Immediately
allowed. III proofs are lacking call is
Immediately made upon the claimant to
supply the deficiency and upon receipt of
the required evidence the claim is again
taken up for consideration.
Up to the last day of June, 99, 9,76l claims
were placed upon the completed files upon
requests made on behalf of claimants
This system has had the effect of enabling
many thousand claimants, whose claims
have been pending from five to 20 years,
to bring their claims 10 the attention of
the bureau for adjudication and allow
ance, and complaints of delay have been
reduced to minimum.
This system throws the responsibility
upon the claimant and his attorney of
having the claim adjudicated and has
proved more satisfactory than the old
system of leaving the selection of claims
for adjudication to the discretion of the
file clerks.
methods of the Office more work has
was ayor ,arfnrn,ad h.fare ~
"n, na,apHn o. isaa ,,he,, 7 ,oo,, .h.
,ho o,,na I'll 90, 90 ,,d;o,t;n's n sh oiai,se
ond issm;n, car,;ti,a,aS sans he ann,'
missioner, had during the period from
July l, 1889, fallen far behind the same
an' no,,hau & ao $50 , % Iuse ~ ~,e ,sao
,hona ,.as an ;nor.,so n oS;nd;oo,;an % 81 -;
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;n annoss 20 ,hn s.,,,o ,'a.;Nd 49,. ,hs,
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n,,nsbar - oar,;aoa,as ,ssnod 60 ~, os,, ..,'.'.
andad J,,no an isso Iss 300. ' ,,".so wv sea. al
| In Isao oyar 1881 q 2eG. ,r,aI nrl,,;n'i 80.
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IN iseo ee ss-. ,a,aI nr;:,;na, nar,ia eaas ouae
,ssued Tor ,h, vear ended Inne On $50