St. Paul daily globe., 1893-07-24
JUDGE LONGS PENSION.
1t Is Given Another Airing in the
Press.

DETROIT, July 23.-Justiee Charles
ID. Long, of the Michigan supreme
court, when shown the official state
ment of Pension Commissioner Lochren
regarding the revoking of his pension,
sent from Washington by the Associ-
ted Press. said:
Il have no knowledge of any action
taken by the pension Office in refer
ence to my pension except what
have seen in the public press. l am
board OF surgeons i'll Detroit or Wash
ington for examination at any time that
the department desires it"
When Justice Long was asked in re-
gard TO the facts recited in the telegram,
he gave the history of the wounds from
Which he has suffered for the past thirty
years and the manner i'll which the pen
sion was obtained.
"The first application for increase
was made to Gen. Dudley, and my pen
sion was increased to $50 a month. as L
now remember it. At that time had a
! medical examination by the examining
board of surgeons at Washington. The
next application for increase was made
to Mr.. Tanner when he was commits
sioner. Whether it complied with the
| rules of the department L am not ad-
vised. The application was made upon
the atfidavits filed. l suppose the in
crease was made upon these affidayits
and the affidayits before filed while
Commissioner Dudley was in charge" !"
WASHINGTON, July 23.-Regarding
the pension granted Judge Long, of
| the Michigan supreme court, which has
been reduced by order of Pension Com
sioner Lochren, Corporal Tanner, under
ffHaI ctF-1f ion. fh.a Of
pension was made, said to reporter
today:
The fact is that Judge Long is dis
abled with gunshot wound in the left
hip, and has the arm of the same side
amputated above the elbow. The gun
shot wound reaches through from the
left to the right hip, and the wound has
never healed. The wound requires to be
| dressed from twice day upwards, and
| Judge Long has no hand on that side
| to do the dressing, and has 10 be regu-
larly attended by nurse, who does
| this for him. 1t is true that he is re-
| ceiYing a good salary on the bench. but
! the Almighty gave him his intel
| lect, and he cultivated it after he
came out of the war private soldier,
| and deserves all he gets from it. No
matter with what luxury he is sur
rounded, if you take away that attend
ant and let the old wound alone for one
week, Judge Long would be a dead
man, for it is place that cannot be al
lowed to heal without producing blood
! poisoning"
Maj. w right, the medical examiner,
under whom the pension to Judge Long
was granted, was present at the time,
and added:
The statement that he never made
application for an increase of pension is
all nonsense. He was here and made
application in person. So far as medical
examination is conc erned, it does not
take very much of a medical examina-
ton to determine when man has an
arm off above the elbow"
Now that the press has got started
on this case" concluded the corporal,
there will be plenty more suspensions
ordered, without any better cause. AS
far as | am concerned, | granted the
pension under the belief that it was
only what was due man who had suf-
fered for his country, and, if | were
there again and there were 10000 more
such cases, L would grant them all"