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The National tribune., 1893-10-12
THINK OF 1T,

Last year there were 10,029 invalid cases
allowed under the general laws. One of these
had been pending since 1921 years; so
had been pending 80 years; 427 had been wait
ing 10 years; 6l8, IL years, and so on. The
aggregate of the years in which the whole
10,029 had been pending was $1,000 This
makes the average time for each case hung
up in the Pension Bureau five and one-half
years, or nearly half as long again as it took
to put down the rebellion.
That aggregate of 55,306 years represents
over nine times the age of the world, accord
ing to the Mosaic account. All together the
claimants have waited for the settlement OF
their cases % times as long period as has
elapsed since the birth of Christ, and 455
times as long as that since the Declare
tion of Independence.
If the papers in each case weighed one
pound, and they had been handled on an
average four times year, the mere mechan-
zeal labor of lifting them up and laying them
down again has aggregated the immense
sum of 2,21s,655, 496 pounds, or 1,109, 1874
tons. Surprising that the army of 100000
men which Mcclellan led across the PotO-
mac weighed an average of 80 pounds each
there was enough mechanical force expended
in merely handling these cases to hare lifted
up the entire Army Of the Potomac, and
carried it long way toward Manassas
Junction.
This is the prompt settlement of the
claims of every deserving veteran y!
This is the way "the Nations justice is
meted out to its deserving defenders"!
Let the comrades get out their pencils and
figure the thing over for themselves.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12
ANNUAL VALUE OF THE ROLL.

The annual value of the pensiOn-roll for
the year ending June 30, 1893, was s130, 510,-
1894 The remainder of the $156, 740 46z14,
or 1920, 2S7 80, went to pay long-accumu-
lating arrears on cases that had been lying
in the Pension Bureau for years awaiting
allowance.
If the business in the Pension Bureau
were only brought up to date, the annual
pension expenditure would at once drop at
least S26000OOO, and thereafter would de-
crease rapidly as death carried off the PEN
siOners.
This is a strong argument for making
every case Especial and settling it at once
1t would reduce the expenditures to q
business-like basis that people could under
stand, and there would be DO expressions Of
discomfort at the largeness of an expenditure
that was seen to greatly decrease every year
as tens of thousands of pensioners crossed
the Dark River.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

WE are now engaged in great fight The
outcome must either be disastrous defeat,
which will bring untold miseries to the COM
rades and their dependent ones, or decisive
victory which will give US peace for the
rest of our days. The thing must be fought
to finish non. THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
is leading in the fight, and deserves the sub
stantial help of every veteran. None should
be absent from its roIl-call See that you
answer to your name, and that your neigh
boring comrades do. the same.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12
THD NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
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AGESIS.-We employ no agents. THE
NATrONAI. TRIBUNE has many volunteer cam
vassprS and they are generally honest ana
faithful: Itt persons who confide their sub
sCrit,fions 10 them must be their own judges
of their responsibility. The paper Will toe sent
only on receipt Of the subscription price
ADDEs ESSES, RENEWALS, E4C.-Ad-
dresses viii be changed as often as desired,
hut each subscriber should in every case give
the old ..S we'll as new address In renewing
subscribers should be careful to send us the
label on the last paper received, and specify
arv corrections or changes they desire made IN
name address.
CORE Esp ONDENCE. - Correspondence is
solicited from every section in regard TO Grand
ARMY Sous of Veterans Pension. Military Ag-
rit-,llfIIral industrial and Household matters
and letters 10 the Editor will always receive
prompt attention. Write on ONE SIDE OF the
DafspT only We do not return commnnlcaflonS
or manuscripts unless they are accompanied
by a request TO that effect and the necessary
postage. and under no circumstances guarantee
their publication AT any special date.
Address al communications 10
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
Washington, ID. @.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

THESE are momentons times for the old
the coming session of Congress. The
comrade who is not taking the paper
will lose mueh news every week OF
the keenest interest to him. He will
be lost without it, for it contains
much directly relating to him and his in
terests that he can find in no other paper.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE costs only two
cents a week, and he cannot afford to be
without it.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12
LET THE TEST BE MADE.

Weeks have rolled by since we first urged
the Commissioner of Pensions to take the
decisive step of ordering an examination of
1000 cases, taken consecutively, and half
each from the beginning of the third years
respectively of the administrations of Com
missioners Black and Raum.
The reasons that then impelled US to urge
this step appear to us even stronger than
they did then. The people demand exact
facts in regard to the character of the pen
sion roll. They are very weary of the wild
charges that have been made by the pension
haters against pensioners. They are not
satisfied with the defense made, which has
not been supported by official facts and
figures. They want TO have definite state
ments made by the officials of the Govern
ment as to the character of the men to
whom large portion of the revenue is paid.
If the veterans of the country can stand
it to have such an investigation their enemies
certainly can. The veterans everywhere
ask for such an investigation in their own
vindication. Certainly they should not be
refused.
No good reason has been given, or can
be given, why the examination shall not be
made.
We still hope that the Commissioner of
of ordering it.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 12, 1893
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL

One which is Net "Purged,' and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension Roll
there are the names of 1928
survivors and z .2S2 widows. and
something over 1000 cases were
pending at latest reports. This
makes "a total Of 5.497, or sew
eraI thousand more men than
the United States had i'm Mexico
at any one time during the war.
These all receive either s. or
$I2 n month.
Among the names are those
of the widow of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. a New Yorker by birth.
who was Acknowledgement of
the United States Army at the
outbreak Of GIse war. and used
his position 10 aid the rebels in
preparing for the struggle. He
resigned his position To become
AdjuIant-Gencr Of the South
ern CCEfederacy. and Officialed
as such until tEae rebellion coli
1apSed. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing a pension since June
g. 1857.
The widow Of Thomas J..
'SlOneWaH'') Jackson. vino
was next 10 Lee fise most pOpu-
Iar commander Of the rebel
armies.
The widow Of Mai .-Gen. George
T.. Pickett. WHO commanded a
division in the rebel army.
The widow Of 8zaj .-Gen. Gideon
j. PILLOW, WHO commanded a sii-
Vfsion i'm the rebel army.
The widow Of Lieuf.-Gen. A.P.
Hill. who commanded one of
the three corps Of Lees army.
The widow Of Sidney SIniiI,
Lee. who was dismissed from
the Navy for "going over TO the
enemy" and afferWard became
commodore i'm the rebel navy.
Brighten. JAS. h. Chalmers.
who was FORESTS chief lieu
tenant.
Mai.-Gen. Dabney HI. Maury.
who commanded the rebel
troops AT the battle OF CE,icka.
saw Bayou.
Hon. y. 3. Naxcy. late United
States Senator frOns Texas. Wha
has been drawing Isis pension
since May 70. 1857. He was q
MajOF-GeEeraI i'm the rebel
ARMY.
Hon. Jas. Y. George, Senator
freEn mississippi, and who
served i'm the rebel army as a
Colonel. The number OF his
cePfisi cate il I5.2I4.
Hon. 4. III. COEquiif. Senator
from Georgia. WHO MAS a Major
General in fEie rebel army
draws "a pension under ceriif
cafe I9.I99.
The widows above mentioned
are Of men WHO were edHcates
"a the Government expense. ans
afGerward fought 10 destroy fII,
Government. They went Ola lil'
roll at Once, while last April
there were pending the claim
OfI45.J2O widows Of Union sol
dieTs who had not yet been abb
10 get On the roll.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12
OUR GOLD WATCHES.

We have reduced the prices of all our
watches to keep abreast of the recent de-
cline incident to the times. 1t cannot be
expected that such a condition will long
prevail Take for example the Waltham
repeater, that formerly sold for at least $135,
now offered at sos. This is below what the
watch cost the manufacturer. 1t will never
be offered at such price again short of the
life of generation, if at all.
The moral of the situation is: Save money
by buying now what you went while it Is
cheap.
See our offers in another column.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

The more subscribers THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE has the better the chances for
victory in the present fight. If this fight is
won, then we can enjoy victorious peace for
the rest of our lives
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

For the week ending Oct. there were
1880 cases allowed in the Pension Bureau.
from the work of the previous week. The
Pension Bureau has about 5000 employees.
A total allowance of 1,7s0 for six working
days shows that it took II men an average
of nearly one day to allow each claim.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is household
necessity in most veterans families, and
should be in all. The comrade is at dis
advantage who is not regular weekly
reader.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

IF veteran, and not already on the lists
of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, do not let q
week go by without placing yourself in
touch with your old comrades. They will
welcome you into the grand army of its
readers
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

Total amount paid on account
Of bonds and interest notes.
principal, interest. and pre-
miuIn, to bOndhOlters 10 June
80. 1893. since and including
fiscal year 1861:
Principal $I,79f.399,I 1910
Interest .. 2.J3I. 769. 22A.I7
Premiums IIO. s63. 3s6.zI
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is the only
great paper in the country which fights
steadfastly and indefa.igably for the vet
Grams and their dependent ones. Every
veteran and friend Of the veterans
should be a subscriber for it. By taking
and circulating it, they help their own cause
in the most effective way.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

firmly of the opinion that % years after the
close of the rebellion is abundant time for
the Government to take to settle pension
cases growing out of it.
1t firmly believes that common sense,
justice and humanity alike demand that the
whole business shall be promptly closed mp
by the settlement of every claim now before
the Pension Bureau before the last day of
the coming calendar year.
We do not want any undeserving man
pensioned, and do not want any claim
rushed through without proper considera-
ton, but we do insist with the utmost earn
estness that if man has a right to pen
sion it should be given him at once, and if
he has no right he should be informed of it.
1t seems TO us that this is so clear as to be
beyond question.
Declarations by political conventions in
favor of giving every deserving veteran a
pension are all well enough in their way,
but this sort Of thing has been going on for
% gears, in which time hundreds of thou
sands Of deserving veterans have died before
they were able to get their claims allowed.
Now the thing do is to demand that this
thing shall end by specified date We
believe that date should be Dec 81, 1894.
This will give the Pension Bureau So work
ing weeks in which to dispose of the III $50
cases before it at the beginning of this fiscal
year. By disposing Of an average of II ,28S
cases a week, ii can settle every claim before
it in that time. The allowances under the
predecessor of the present Commissioner
Appropriated 5000 week for weeks at
time. This was without taking into &C
count the reflections. Counting an average
total Of II ,255 allowed and rejected cases
week is therefore not an impossibility.
There should be force enough put into
the Pension Bureau to attain this average.
If it be necessary to double or treble the
clerical strength this should be done without
hesitation.
We believe that every one of you COM
rades who have an application pending
should at once write to your Senator and
Representative setting forth how long your
case has been pending, what its merits and
your needs are, and urging them 10 take OF
assist in such steps as may be necessary TO
secure the settlement of every pending pen
sion case By Dec. 81, 1894. Let your appeals
the feelings of the comrades on this score.
Remember that there is no use in writing to
your Senator or Representative to prosecute
your OWN claim, or to make it special ia any
way. They are far too busy men even to
attempt this. What is wanted is that they
shall secure sufficiently large force in the
Pension Bureau to make aH claims special,
without favor or distinction, and close them
up by Dee 81, 1894.
Let us all do this at once, comrades, for
our own sake, and for the sake OF the widows
and dependent ones of those comrades who
are yOiceless in the tomb.
Comrades who have not applications
pending should write, all the same, in the
interest OF their needier comrades
BE sure aud Urite rithia Mc coming peek.
Yours, in F., c. and L.,
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
AN OPEN LETTER.
/ To Hos. Wa. LoCHREN,
Commissioner Of Pensions.
CoNEADE: Weappeal to you, and through
you TO tie Congress and the people of the
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

IT every subscriber to The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE viii make it his duty TO get at
least one additional subscriber to the paper,
ii viii be put in position to help the COM
rades most effectively.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

DO not fail to do your duty and secure
at least one additional subscriber for The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

There is absolutely but one course for the
veterans, and that is to organize for reso-
Lutte aggressive fight, from start to finish,
against this inquitous scheme of the pen
sion-baters. Its carrying ont will bring
incaIculable grief and injury to them. 1t
can be prevented if the veterans will only
rouse themselves to concerted, vigorous re-
sistance. Public opinion is strongly with
them Let them stand together, shoulder
to shoulder and they can win the victory
and overthrow their enemies.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

THE PENsfoN-H ATERS' PROGRAM.
What is undoubtedly the agreed-upon
program of the pension-haters appears in
two-column article on the first page of the
New York World, with the big head lines:
The National tribune., 1893-10-12
Total S4,446,O3I,74

II you want to help in the fight subscribe
for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and get your
veteran neigbbors to do the same.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

by the would-be robbers that the men whom
they propose to rob are disabled, and there
fore pensionable, and that the robbery is of
men who have but few years more of life
in which to enjoy the meageT sums which
the Government has so grudgingly bestowed
upon them Was there ever more un-
bIushng avowal Of premeditated wrong
doing?
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

CoMRADE reader, will you not see that
you send in another subscriber before the
passing of week?
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

EVERY additional subscriber for TIE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE is a recruit for the
army that is fighting for veterans rights.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

This is only the beginning of the program
of the pension-haters. 1t is only that portion
of it which deals with the pensioners under
the Disability Bill. In time we shall doubt
less have from them anequally sweeping one
announced for the pensioners under the gen
eral laws, and an attempt will probably be
made to "save" another S129000,000 on
them
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

rT5rEo At ne ssaroT rosT Otaos As stooDoss "srrsa
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

There is a cold-blooded brutality in the
proposition that grows more startling upon
consideration. While loudly protesting that
the men whom it proposes to rob of 500 000,-
900 are not disabled, and therefore not per-
sionable, it admits that they have only Ii
years. expectation of life." This is from
33 to SO per cent. less than men of the pres
ent average age of the veterans should have.
Let us assume that the average age of the
veterans to-day is So years. The following
table, taken from the Insurance Year Book
for 1893, shows the expectations of life
which are made the basis of insurance in
various countries, and by different great
companies:
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

It may be objected that the insurance
tables are based on selected lives that
is of men whose condition was so good as to
enable them to pass :he examination of the
insurance medical experts. To this is the
ready answer that The pensioners were also
once "selected lives" and passed much
more rigorous physical examination at en-
listment than is required of an applicant
for life insurance Any disablemen., there
fore. over their fellow-men can be legiti-
mately attributed to their army service.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

The average of the above is s. 946-almost
exactly Is years. To say, therefore, as the
above article does, that the veterans whom it
is proposed to cut off only have II years ex-
pectation of life, is to admit that their bodies
are so enfeebled that they can, at most, only
look forward to about two-thirds as many
years as the men of the same age who did
not go through the war.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

One which is Net " Purged,r and i'm Which
There Are No Suspensions.
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

There is, therefore, downright confession
The National tribune., 1893-10-12

That you are In fuii sympathy with your
old comrades we do no, doubt for an instant.
But we ask for nothing On the ground of
mpathy-everything on the basis of
simple, even-handed justice. We ask you
to deal with this matter precisely as you
would with any business coming before
your court under the laws of the State of
Minnesota. In such a case you would
merely consider what the law intended to
accomplish, and how it could be made TO
attain the end in view with the utmost
certainty and promptness. In this matter
the people of the United States, and the
| Congress representing them, have always
! serving disabled soldier and the widow of
| such shall be pensioned at once-not after
not merely those who may chance to be
| living some time in the remote future, but
those ,cl.o are alire to-day. We are confident
that Congress will give you the means to do
this if you will ask it. Even if it ehould
neglect or refuse, you will at least have
cleared yourself of responsibility for the
continuance of the National scandal of de
lay.
Sanguine that this appeal will fall upon a
willing ear, we beg leave to subscribe our
selves,
Yours, in F. c. & L.,
! The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
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70 the Princesss brother, the King OF Greece, and
10 the Crown Prince of Greece and his wife.
DEATH or LIE vIEUX CHAPEAU.

Very little alusion has been made in the English
papers to the death OF a very notable In his
way. this being Harry Jennings LIE Nieux
Chapeau" as he was called in France. where he
trained horses for nearly half century among his
employers being the late Count de Lagrange the
Due de Morny, NJ Paul Aumont and the Prince
D'Arenberg. with most Of whom he quarrellcd
sooner or later; for. excellent trainer as he was,
he possessed Of temper the reverse OF amia-
bic. and did not even cherish fraternal feel
ings for his brother Tom. TO whom he would often
allude in terms the of complimentary. lie
quite character the French turf until
failing health compelled him TO give his profes-
sion. Much amusement was caused by his reply
TO d proposal that he should consent 10 a division
OF the stakes after one of his horses had run
dead heat. "Je partage jamais. pas meme
avec mon femme" Soon after this his wife died
and old Harry Jennings took to himself another,
much his junior Mr.. Miner of the
Dowager Duchess of Montrose, ard came spend
the last few years OF his life in the neghDor-
hood of Newmarket. where he died last week quite
blind but very rich EDMUND YATES