St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-09
LATE PENSION RULINGS.
Recent Decisions Not Inconsistent
With Republican Precedent.


New York Times.
We have referred heretofore to the
failure Of the leading Republican papers
to publish the explanations given to the
press by Commissioner Lochren, of the
pension bureau, and Judge Reynolds,
assistant secretary of the interior, con-
corning the recent decisions relating to
pensions granted under the law of 1890.
Our attention has been called 10 a Spe-
cial dispatch from Washington, pub
iisheu in the Philadelphia Press of July
81, when dId contain some of the i'm
pOrtant facts that were emphasized in
the letters of Judge Lochren and Ju dge
Reynolds.
Speaking of the ruling of May 81,
1895. by which Raum'sH illegal 'Order
No. 1854" was revoked and foundation
laid for a correction of his unlawful
work, the Washington correspondent
OF the Press said.
"Ihis same ruling was made by As
sistant Secretary Bussey OH Jan. Z. 1898,
but Commissioner Raun kept on in the
old way and stirred up all the adjudi-
eating divisions of the pension office
to renewed activity in grinding out the
daily grist of admitted claims, in de-
fiance of this decision. 1t may be truth
1ullN Sdlu IIldI HO ulu OCol uH W tue
very day he was relieved"
Ii Raum'S ''beSt' was the grantin of
pensions illegally with the greatest
possible rapidity, in defiance of law and
of the decisions and instructions of his
superior officers, what would his worst
have been? We direct attention to the
positive assertion that the important
ruling of Judge Reynolds IN the Ben
nett case, the ruling which has been the
object of so loud and so persistent a
partisan Outcry, was repetition of a
ruling of Judge Reynolds Republican
predecessor, made two months before
the close of President Harrison's term,
and insolently defied and violated by
the Republican commissioner, Raum.
In the same dispatch the Press CORE
spondent in Washington said:
I'm his decision in the Heike case,
rendered Jan. z, 1898, Secretary Bussey
repudiated the whole business (the
practice of Raum under his illegal
sOrder No. 1912, and laid down the
very principle which is now being car
ried out by Assistant Secretary Rey-
nolds."
Aud in explanation of the course
taken by Commissioner Lochren under
the ruling of Judge Reynolds, which
was a repetition Of the ruling of BuSSey,
the correspondent went on to say:
1.-THE new pension policy now being
enforced grew out of the very neeessi-
ties of the case. Under Order No. 164,
more invalid pensioners were enrolled
| in two years than bad been enrolled in
| the previous thirty years, and the an
nual expenditure was doubled with the
prospect of another duplication if the
same ratio of certificates issued should
| be kept up for two years longer"
We commend these facts, published
by so prominenta Republican paper as
the Philadelphia Press, to the attention
of the Chicago Inter Ocean. the Boston
! Journal, the indianapolis Journal, the
New York Tribune. and other leading
papers of the party, which appear to
have overlooked them, or to have under
taken to withhold them from their read
ers. We must add that the Press itself
seems In these days to have forgotten
that Ii published them only five weeks
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