The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-20
THE PENSION QUESTION AGAIN.
HUMBOLDT. KAss. July s. II

HUMBOLDT, kASA JULY o 1871.
Hon. CHAs F. SCoTT, lola Kansas
Dear sir:-wben you shin the ground to
general discussion Of the pension laws. l have
no disposition to follow you. There is no ques-
ton involved as to which Is the proper inter
probation Of the pension law OF W ,,v. r.,
rect accounts of these matters or preverted
ones. You know the difference Mr.: Scott be-
tween an order to furnish evidence Of sdd1tion'
al disability and an order for medical exam.
ination. You know. or ought TO have known,
the kind OF an order that the men In question
received. You know, or ought to know, that 10
unless increasing disability due to advancing
age or other cause may be 20 considered
When an old soldier receives an order Tor
medical ana ySG tell yGu5 S b.
cut of unless he can furnish evidence OF add.
tional diss bility," then you are misrepresentins
the facts In the case You misrepresent tnem
ing the proper inquiries into the case. I asked
YOU to state the facts as they are. A. you DO
not see fit TO do 30. see have asked too much
Just a word, though, in reply to the last Of
your article In the REGISTER OF July O. All men
admire loyalty: 1t is a noble attribute, but the
man who makes his living By jumping ana
tackled whether Ii be covertly or openly, In
'front.' flank or rear. whose business II Is TO and
who does defend his party under any and all
to criticize q man who becomes tired Of hearing
his party vilined ffty-two weeks In the year
'''' 49, '' 49, sincerely Yours.
J.F. FLYNN.
In order that our readers may judge
for themselves as to the truth Of DR..
Flynn's charge that we have misrep-
resented the facts, we copy herewith
the two forms of notice which the pen.
sioners are receiving. The first was
received by J. E. Henderson, who is
getting a pension Of $500 under the
new law and reads a. follows: tOmlt.
ting address and signature.)
You are hereby directed to report yourself for
medical examination TO the Board Of Examin-
ing Surgeons Dr. Fulton's ONCE. n side, p.
square lola, Allen county. Kansas within three
menths from date hereof.
The second order, received by G.
M. Nelson who has been drawing .
pension of $40 month under the new
law, reads as follows:
You are informed that the medical evidence
on file in your case does not show that you are
suffering from a mental or physical disability
which incapacitates you for the performance OF
manual labor in such degree as to render you
unable to card support so as to ent1tle you 10
a higher rating than S. a month. under the act
of June q. $500 Thirty days will be given you
from the receipt hereof In which to file any evi.
dence that you may wish to file to show the ex.
tent to which you are incapacitated for manual
labor. Your case will thereupon be reconsid-
ered and if the testimony filed warrants such
scuon yont present rave sna DC am1"er ,t 70
shall not be satisfactory or shall not have been
furnished the action of reduction above indi.
Gated will be taken without further notice at
the expiration of the period above stated.
Now it certainly seems to us that
both these orders do ask for evidence
of additional disability. The second
does so in express terms. And the
first implies the same demand, for If
the evidence now on file is sufficient
why should the pensioner be ordered
to take new examination? At any
rate DR.. Flynn must admit that the
facts are now before our readers, and
we leave them to Judge whether we
have misrepresented them.
We want to say right here that we
have never, either through the REG
lister or personally, advised any PEN
sioner to disregard any notice he may
have received from the Department.
Reports which have been circulated
to the effect that we had done 80 are
false. On the contrary we
have always expressed the hope that
every pensioner would comply as far
as possible with every condition I'M
posed, so that the Administration
may have no excuse for doing an in
justice.
We presume Bro. Flynn intends to
in the last paragraph Of
his letter that the editor of the REG
lister makes his living by dumping
and following ouch" every time his
party is attacked. But that is great
mistake. He makes his living run
ming newspaper. And it is the
other fellows who Jump and hollow