The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-07
on account of disabilities or death resulting

on account of disabilities or death resulting from army and navy service.
 The number of persons remaining on the rolls June 3O Is93 ~ho are pensioned under the act of June P, 1890, which allows pensions on &C., count of d. cath and disability not chargable to army service was Ib9, lS5
 The number added to the rolls during the years was l?3,634 and the number dropped was 5ao9o. The first payments on pensions allowed during tho year amounted to s33,?j6,549 9a This includes arrears, on the accumulation be- tween the time from which the allowance of present dates and the time of actually granting the certificates although the law of lsD per mits pensions for disability not related to mili' tary service yet as q requisite to its benefits q disability must exis, incapacitating applicants from the performance of manual labor to such degree as to render them unable to earn support
 Execution of this law in it's early stages does not seem to have been in accord with It's true inten ion, but toward the close of the last ad. ministration an authoritative construction was given to the statute and since that time this construction has been followed is had the enect Of limiting the operation of the law to it's intended purposes The discovery having been maue that many names had been put upon the pension roll by means of wholesale and gigantic frauds, the commissioner suspended payments upon number of pensions which seemed to be fraudulent or unauthorized pending complete examination, giving notice 10 the pensioners. inorder that they might have an opportunity to establish, if pos sble, the justice of their claims notwithstanding apparent invalidity.
 This, understand, is the practice which has for q long me prevailed in the pension bureau, but after entering upon these recent investiga- iioEs the commissioner modified this rule so as not to allow, until after complete examina-
 tion, interference with the payment of a pension rot aitog ;ther void, but which merely had been fixed at rate higher than that au.
 thorized bT law. I am unable to understand why frauds m the pension ofice should not be exposed and corrected with thoroughness and
 vigor. very name fraudulently put upon these rolls is Q wicked imposition upon the kindly sentiment in which pen sions have their origin Every fraudu- lent pensioner has become bad citizen:
 afiidavits to support of Q pension have made
 perjury more ommon, and false and undeserv.
 ing pensions rob the people not only of their
 money but of the patriotic sentiment which
 the survivors Of q war fought for tee p eserva- | tion of the union ought to inspire Thousands Of neighborhoods have their well known fraudu- lent pensioners, and recent developments by
 the bureau establish appalling conspiracies to
 establish benson frauds By no means the
 least wrong done is to brave and deserving
 pensioners, who ought not to be condemned to
 such associations
 Those who attempt, in the line of duty, to | rectify these misdoings should not be accused of
 enmity or indifference to the claims Of honest veterans. The sum expended on account of
 pensions, for the year ending June D, IssI, was
 si56,7io i67li. The commission estimates that
 sibS.OO9O)0 will be req fired to pay pensions
 during the year ending June 30 1894
 o r Indians umber about 24s,0J5 Most Of
 them are located on i6l reser ations containing Sd,l 52l acres and About 10000 Of these
 Indians have to a large degree adopted civilized
 customs Lands in severalty hay been all tied
 10 maDy,f them Such allotments have been made to i0,000 individuals during the ast fiscal
 year, embracing about 100000 acres, The
 number of Indian government schools open
 during the year was l95! an inc ease of l2 over
 he preceding year Of this total i71 were on reservations, Of which 73 were boarding schools and e were day schools
 Twenty boarding schools and five day schools supported by the government were no located
 on reservations, The total number of Indian children enrolled during the year as attendants of ail schools was 2i .lS8 an increase of 1,23l over the enrolment for the previous year. 1 am sure that secular education and moral and religious teaching must be important fac | tors in any effort to save the Iudian and lead him civilization. believe. too, that the re- | lnquishment of tribal relations and the holding
 of land in severalty may. in favorable condi- l. tons, Rtd this cOnSummatiOn IL seems 10 me, | however, that allo,ments of land In severalty 1 Ought to be made with great care and circum' -specsiona -r'as"f -'.s s@'f-''''t | The appropriations on account of the Indian bureau Ior the year ending June B. ls9L
 amount to sTe5, i9ss % a decrease as compared
 with the year preceding it of SIS7. l3l9 g. | The vast area of land which but short time
 ago constituted the public domain is rapidly
 falling into private hands. It is certain that in | the transfer the beneflcent intention of the government to supply from its domain homes | to the industrious and worthy home seekers is
 often frustrated. Though the speculator who | stands with extortionate purpose between the | land office and those who, with their families, | are invited by the government to settle on the | public lands, is despicable character who
 ought not to be tolerated, yet 1t is dim ;ult 10 | thwart his scheme
 | The recent opening to settlemen Of the lands | in the Cherokee outlet embracing an area of | $500 C. acres notwiths tanding the utmost care l in framing the regulations governing the selec- | tion of locations and notwiths tanding the pres | ence of United States troops, furnished an OK hibition, though perhaps in modified degree, | of the mad scramble the violence and the | fraudulent occupation which have accompanied | Igevious openings of public lands. concur | with the secretary in the belief that these out | rageous incidents cannot be entirely prevented | without a change in the laws on the subject,
 and hope the recommendations iR that direc'
 tion will be favorably considered