The evening times., 1897-04-17
EVANS WILL Be THE BOSS
Commissioner of Pensions Will
Tolerate No CIiques.
HE HAS MADE A DISCOVERY
1t VIII Enable Him to Replace DEM
ocrats On a Great Many Examining
Boards With Republicans-LOng
List of Applications for Office
Filed With Secretary Gage.

Pension Commissioner Evans has struck
the popular chord here since he took hold
| OF the Pe nsion Bureau. With characteristic
| aggressiyeness be started cleaning out the
| office. He has ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS that he
| will be the sole boss, and that the pension
| department for the next four years will
not be dominated by the usual rings and
cliques that have u the past controlled the
| pension service.
Lace yesterday, while going through the
records, Commissioner Evans made a start
| ling discovery, which viii prove a great
blessing to the Administration, which, as
a result, viii now be able To dispense twice
| as much patronage as it expected.
Under the civil service rules Comm ssioner
Evans found that the aggregate fees of
all examining pension boards must be
$500, or the boards could not come under
| the civil service law.
Going through last year S records it was
/! found that a majority of boards in the
country had not made $500 in fees. Com
missioner Evans, while astonished, was
much gratified at the result OF the Inves-
| tigation, as a big avenue for the distri-
button of patronage had been opened sp.
No time was lost in repor ting the dis
crepancy to the President, who expressed
much pleasure over it.
At present nearly every board in the
| country is composed of Democrats. Now,
where YER possible, the latter VIII be re-
| placed by Republicans. The first change
made was in the Akron, Ohio, board yes
| terday All the Democrats were replaced
by Republicans.
The policy OF the pension departme Mt viii
be TO lose no time from now on In substi-
tuUiag Republicans for Democrats on every
pension board, whose receipts last year did
not aggregate $500. 1
1t is thought by the pension authorities
that the number ofpensions in the District
of Columbia will be greatly augmented dur
ing the Administration OF President Nc
Kinley, because of the thT0ng of old SOL
diers who will be drawn TO the Capital,
and who will establish a permanent resi-
dence here. There are at present S,236
pensioners living in the city of Washington
and the aggregate of their pensions is
81 1888, All
The number OF pensioners on the rolls OF
the Washington agency is 54,959, which
makes the local agency of greater magni-
city, Milwaukee, Pittsburg, Buffalo, De
troit, Louisville, San Francisco, Augusta or
Concord. The Washington agency is out
classed by that at Topeka, with 104, 55S;
Columbus, with 104,034; Chicago, with
$4,000; indianapolis, with 72,000; Phila
delphla, with $4,000: Knoxville, with
% 900, and Des Moines, with $4,000
The roil uf the Washington agency cUns
tains the names OF two survivors OF the
war OF 1912, and pays pensions to 395
widows OF soldiers OF the war of 1912.
Pensions are disbursed at the local agency
to 7S5 veterans OF the Mexican war, and
to $50 widows OF soldiers who fought in
that war. There are twenty-thrce
survivors of the Indian wars on the rolls
and the names OF forty-nine of their widows.
The pensions paid through the Washington
agency, under the general law are: Army,
invahds, 1886; nurses, so; widows, A.
452. Navy, invalids, $50; widows, 572.
Tn ler the actof June %, 1890 Army, inva-
lids, %, 1913; widows, ,354. Navy .invalids,
1850; widows, $40.
Attorney General McKenna has gone to
Philadelphia for a few days recreation.
He will return to this city early next
week
Orders have been issued by the Navy
Department as follows: Civil Engineer C.
c. WOlcott, order detaching from League
Island revoked, detached April 2S and as
signed to Puget Sound station, May 3;
Civil Engineer F. o. Maxon, order de-
taching from Mare Island revoked, de-
tached from Mare Island, May 10, to
report at League Island, May IL Civil
Engineer R. E. Peary, order to Mare Island
revoked; Civil Engineer r. O. Hollyday,
detached from Puget Sound, May 8, and to
report at Mare Island, May 10; Chaplain
W G. Cassard, ordered to the Indiana,
April &c.
Early this morning Secretary Gage was
handed the list of applications for appoint
ment to office, which appears in his office
with the regularity Of the rising SUM- The
list contained these names and the public
positions wanted:
j. E. Callaghan, Pensacola, Fla, to be
collector of customs at Pensacola; J. A.
Dilashan, Bowman, Ca, to be collector OF
customs at Savannah Ga; T. F. johnson,
Savannah, Ca, to be collector of customs
at Savannah, Ca; John Rooney, New
York city, to be collector of customs
at New York city; D. c. Wilson, Beaufort,
s. c., and M. NJ. Hutson, Beaufort S. c.,
to he collector of customs at Beaufort, s.
c.; B. P. Chalfield, Aiken, S. c., to be col
lector Of customs at Charleston, s. c.; A.
T. Jennings, Charleston, s. c., and E.
81. Deas, Of Darlin gton, s. c., to be
collector of customs at Charleston, S. c.;
w. 81. Farley, P Paducah, KY, to be surveyor
of customs at Paducah, KY; z. T. Neat,
Louisville, KY, to be surveyor OF customs
at Louisville, KY; T. P. Flaherty, New
Orleans, La, to be assistant appraiser at
New Orleans, La; a. ]. de Ia Vergne, New
Orleans, La, to be appraiser at New Orleans,
La; @. 2. Woodbridge, Brooklyn, N Y,
to he assistant appraiser at New York city
Capt. II. G. Potter, who was recently re-
instated by Secretary Bliss as chief OF the
mineral division of the General Land
Office, assumed the duties OF his posi- ton
today. He received many congratulations,
congratulaterS handshakes and bouquets
from the clerks in the division and from
other friends S. altered through the de-
partment.
Mrs. Emile NJ Gillespie, OF Nebraska, a |
widow of a soldier, was today reinstated |
as laborer in the Department OF Agri- |
culture.
Sudden Death at Center Market.