Evening journal., 1892-12-01
A BIC PENSION LIST.

ss6.ocs Now on the Rolls and the Num-
her Increasing sIos. 100000 tho Isti-
mated Amount TO be PAID Ont Next
Year.
WASHINGTON. Dec. THE annual re-
port Of Green b. Raum, commissioner OF
pensions, made public today shows Tint
there were ON the pension rolls june 80,
1892, $40. 05S pensions. an increase during
the year Of la0.aOs There were added
to the rolls during the year 222. 93i new
pensioners and 2,457 pensioners pre-.
viOnsly dropped were restored TO the lists
During the year 1906 persons were
dropped from the rolls.
The total amount expended during the
fiscal year was $l39 OBS 6i2. For the
present fiscal year Sl4l, 956 900 is APP
propriated and. taking the COST of the
pension allowances during the first
four months Of this fiscal year
as basis of calculation the
commissioner estimates that de
fciency appropriation Of S10,50s, 62l viii
be necessary to supplement this years
appropriation. An estimate of Sl65.
600 600 is submitted for the next fiscal
year but Commissioner Raum SAYS that
if as many allowances of pension shall
be male during the fiscal year 10 come
as during the fiscal year ended June 80
| last this amount will not be large
enough He says, however that IL Is
difficult TO forecast pension payments so
| far in advance and that as congress will
! be in session no embarrassment will
arise IL his successor, in the light of the
actual cost of the work for the FIRST six
months OF the next fiscal year, finds that
a further appropriation viii be needed.
Under the dependent and disability
pension act 92o,0j1 claims have been
filed, Of which number 403 $50 have
been allowed The pension payments
under the law mp TO September 30. 1892,
amounted TO S76 494, 443.
The commissioner heartily commends
this disability law
During the past fiscal year 224 0i1 GER
tihcates were issued in original cases
and 10 ISL i'm increase claims. Commits
sioner Raum is of opinion that If this
policy be pursued until the close of the
fiscal year 1894 that the adjudication Of
original claims will be substantially COM
pleted and at the close of 1894 the high
est number Of pensioners ever TO be on
the rolls will have been placed there
There are 449, $40 original claims pending
of which number 109. 600 are apparently
complete It is important TO bith for
the claimants and the government TO dis
pose of the original cases as soon as Dos
sible, as first payments, which date from
filing of declarations. are at the average
rate of Sll month. The number Of
claims Of all kinds pending October r.
1892, was ass. O6l of which 353. 43i wee
filed under the disability act.
The revolutionary and 1912 warrants
are rapidly dwindling. Only twenty
widows and two daughters Of revolution
ary veterans are on the former roll. The
survivors of the war Of 1912 on the rolls
now number only 1865 against 2sl q year
before
Mr.. Raum closes with a comparative
statement of the work done under the
Cleveland and Harrison administrations
He says: "The total number of original
certificates issued from March 4, 1899 TO
October 81, 1892, was 500 565, and the
total number of pension certificates of
all Glasses issued during said period
was 635 01S, while during the
period from March a 1880,
to October 81, 1888. the number of
original certificates issued was 1856 160.
and the total number certificates issued
during the period was 402. 3S5 being an
excess Of original certificates issued dur.
ing the period of your administration
of 334, 796, and an aggregate excess of
all classes Of certificates Of 432 663
The average cost of the government
of each certificate granted during the
Cleveland administration, the com
missioner says was S2l 30 and during
the present administration at $lO4 Al, and
he adds: 1.-THE work of the Office was
very far in arrears when this admins
tration took charge of the Bureau of
Pensions, while today the business is as
nearly current as it can be made.