Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-06-01
Enormous sums for pensions.
GETTING LARGER EVERY YEAR-FIG
URES BY HON. H. ST. G. TUCKER.


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''TO furnish basis for an lntelllSent
estimate as to where the present pen
sion policy will carry the government.
Representative Tucker, OF virginia,
has prepared statement OF starting
figures. According TO the report OF the
Pension Commissioner tnere We're on
June 80, 1891, 676, l6O pensioners on the
roll. According to the SINE report
there were on that date 6SS, SO SURVIVORS
of the army and S79,9O0 dead soldiers
not yet represented by widows or de.
pendent relatives, making total OF
1865, 457 persons entitled to be placed
on the roll under existing laws: VI THIS
number 92o. Alb had placed their APP
plications on file in the PENSION olhce
on or before June ~, 1871. IN tne lasG
fiscal year the payment OF 676,Ooo pen
sions required the expenditure OF Sis,
0,O0O, and Mr.. Tucker calculates, on
the most conservative basis, that IL VIII
require to pension those whose applnica-
lions are now before the PENSION once
and whose claims, according 10 the
Commissioners estimate, VIII De allow
ed within period OF three years, the
enormous sum OF Sl62, 1oo.ooO more
which, added to the present annual ex-
penditure, gives graud total OF $751;
OO0,OO for pensions alone.
1t will be observed that. Mr.. tucker
makes no allowance for decrease by rea-
son of the death OF the pensioners OF a
dlsallowance OF claims. Ihese ueduc-
lions, he argues, are much more IMAM
balanced by the TACT That at least ooo'-
O0o persons entitied TO pensions nave
not yet placed thelr appilcations on
1lle. But, 1or the purpose OF get1lng
the most CONSERVATIVE estiinaIe posi-
Die, Mr.. Iucker increases tle ueath,
rate In nlgher fatlo IMAM is Iolloweo
in the estimates OF the Fenslon Com,
missioner ana sui Il1los tllaI at tIe .,t emu
OF three years the government VIII De
required to pay the enormous sum OF
S2oo, oo0,ooo year, or more thah nan
as much money as was appropriated
during the long session OF tne blllloh-
Dollar Congress.
These ngufes are mace even more
graphic by comparison WIFI Cne money
spent annually by the great foreign
countries 70 MAINTAIN theIr Pe1slou
lists. MI. Iucker mas tnat Ufea a6
Britain has standing army OF loS,oVV
men, 1or the maintenance OF Whlch
she pays $gl,ooo,ooo annuaidy; france
mas standing army OF oS9,O O IN men, 1or
winch sne e4pends $lSl'Voo.oCo; Uer o
many, with standing army OF 44o,oUo
men, eXpends $So,oOo,Ooo; Austrla' Win
an army OF 2o4, Ooo men, pays OUT S4O,
OOo,O wy; RUSSIA maintains an army OF
aSO,o IVY men, Ior Whlcn sne pays $l:o,
00o,ooo, ana the Onlteo States, WIN us
little army OF 2o,ooo men, spends nearly
$40, OOo,OOO every year.
treat Britaln paad Ior pensions s,d IN
1871 ABOUT S2!, uVQ,oou, fraHce Palu ?SS,-
OO0,VOO ana VIII thls year pay put ss5'-
wv, IVY; the German empire pays OILY
$l3,o oo,oQo annually; "a austria ISL ?Is'oVo,,
G0o, ana RUSSIA, $io, ooQ'Ooo, wn me = 6ne
United states pald last ye @no S Saio,ooo
ooo, an amount nearly ?oo,Voo'Voo III eA-
cess OF the grand totai palo Ior pen
sions by an the countries enulneraCeu
ABOVE. Inc tolal cost ol pensions ~
Ureat bfllain Is Apout o per CENT. VI Ihe
TOTAL expenditures iof goFeTnneital
purposes; IN france IL Is less tHan per
cent: IN Germany ABOUT Per cent', IN
Russia apout per CENT whlie III tne
OhiIeu States IL is luliy 90 per ceIe u
ana PROMISES soon 10 pe more ti1ah oV