St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-01
classification Of the Pension
ers Who Are Now Upon
the Rolls.
Estimate Of the Cost Of Pro-
visions For the Fiscal
Year 1894.
The Report Renews Talk
About Revising the PEN
sion Rolls.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-The annual
report of Commissioner Raum, of the
pension office, was today made public.
1t shows that there we're o76,O68 pen
sioners on the rolls of the eighteen
agencies. an increase of 99,90S in the
last fiscal year. These pensioners were
classified as follows:
Widows and daughters of RevClu-
tionary soldiers, %; army invalid pen
sioners, $50, 74S; army widows, minor
children, ETC., 10S,65S; navy Invalid
pensioners, 5,046; navy widows, minor
children, etc, 1900; survivors OF the
war of 1872, 165; widows of soldiers
of the war of 1912, 6.651; sur
VivOrs of the Mexican war, 1925; wild
oWs of soldiers of the Mexican war, Z,
2S2. Act of June 27, 1890: Army in
valid pensioners. 283, 1884; army widows,
minor children. ETC., 44,G96; navy in
valid pensioners, 1884; navy widows,
minor children. ETC., 1907.
The total amount expended for pen
sIOnS during the fiscal year was $l39,-
O35,613. The annual value of the
pension roll of GIG, l60 pensioners on
June 80, 1891, was $50, 247, 200. From
this amount is deducted Sl,679224. the
average value of pensions Of 2l,6S7 on
the roll June 80, 1891, and dropped from
the rolls during the fiscal year, leaving
balance of SS7, 567, 975. To this
amount, however, is added the sum OF
81, 1893, PAP, due on account of 1854 per-
SONS on the rolls who
Had Not Been Paid
during the fiscal year 1891. and who
were paid out Of the funds of the fiscal
year 1892. The total amount paid on
the above-stated account was 500, 815.2l8,
and the amount paid upon allowances
made during the fiscal year SAG, 1884,
making an aggregate total payment for
the fiscal year of 1892 of S139, 5,612.
The appropriation for the fiscal year
1893 is $145, $50, 900, but taking the cost of
the allowances during the firsl four
months of this fiscal year as basis for
calculation, the commissioner estimates
that there will be deficiency of $l0,-
50S,62l. In making his estimate for an
appropriation Of $l45,000,000 for the
fiscal year 1898, Gen. Raum says there
is much difficulty in reaching the proba-
BILE cost of this service for period so
far in advance. If as many allowances
of pensions shall be made during
1894 as were made during 1892,
the estimated amount will not
be sufficient, but he does not believe
that this will be the case. The com
missioner says that it has been the pol
icy of the Office during the past three
years to detail larger part of the Oific-
ial force upon original claims than upon
increased claims, and as result of
this plan 224, CHI certificates Wer issued
in original cases and 1884 certificates
issued in increased claims under varl-
Gus laws. During the fiscal years of
1893 and 1894, he believes the adjudica-
ton of original claims will be SubStan-
TALLY complete. and that at the close of
the fiscal year 1894 the highest number
of pensioners to be on the roll will have
been placed there.
s- In Favor of Pensions.
Commissioner Raum'S estimate has
had the effect of renewing talk abouy
revising the pension roll in such mant
ner as to cut down the total eXpendi-
lures as much as possible and not do any
violence to pensioners who are actually
in need. Representative ONeill, of
Massachusetts, who is member or the
subcommittee OF the appropriations
committee, charged with the prepare
ton of the pension bill, says he has been
making study of the subject, with a
view to sharp revision of the pension
list and colatpg opinion in congress
from which to make proposition to go
into law, and is his idea that the pen
sion list should be brought down so
as to-
First-Stop the pensions of all soldiers
widows and orphans who do not actual
ly need them in order to live. This
would take away the pension which
such men as ex-CommisSioner OF Pen
sions Black and w. w. Dudley. Gen.
John Newton. president of the Panama
Canal company; Gen. Dan Sickles and
Mrs. John A. Logan and tens of thous-
ands of others are receiving.
Second-Stop the pension of soldiers
widows, who married with view to
finally drawing pensions, having mar
Tied since the war.
Third-Make the pensions uniform
for really uniform claims.
Mr.. O'Nelll believes both political
parties are responsible for failure to
correct pension errors, but he said that
the time has come when the brave and
honest men of all parties will vie with
each other III taking hold Of pension. re-
vision vigorously.