The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-22
ARE AF TER EVANS
Resolutions Bitterly Arraign
Pension Commissioner.
WANT HIM REMOVED
Forty Similar Papers Are
introduced.
I HIM REMOVED

There has been much bitterness and H.
feeling among the veterans while mere
expressed toward Pension Commissioner
H. Clay Evans. and yesterday. when me
order for presenting memorials was
reached, Judge Thompson of Burungame
offered the following:
''E. P. Sheldon Post No IS, G. A R
ITO the Seventeenth Annual Encampment
Department Of Kansas. Greeting.
az. P. Sheldon post No. 50. G.. A R., the
| largest post IN Usage county Kansas.
| hereby memorializes the seventeenth an
nual encalnpment department of Kansas.
G. A R., concerning a matter of grave
importance TO the loyal veterans Of che
nation and to the Grand Army OF the Re
public.
| This post calls the attention Of the en-
campment to che action, as well as the
non-action, of Hon. H. Clay Evans, com
missioner Of pensions Of the United States
OF America, and arraigns him as totally
unworthy OF the high trust IN him re-
| posed by The civil administration.
I'VE charge him with needelessly and
| I.uth!essly wounding the sensibilities Of
| loyal soldier citizens by his covert m
situation that everyone OF them who ap-
| plies under the laws OF his country for a
| pension, and who, having been examined
! by the officers appointed by the govern
ment. has been placed on the rolls, had
| obtained the same by fraud and misrepre-
| sentation; and he thus tends 70 make a
| To1f OSb o- oF M
I'VE charge him with permitting public
| prints and journals TO revile and censure
without cause the surviving heroes Of the
civil war and the defenseless widows and
| orphans OF our dead comrades without
denial or rebuke.
1--WE charge him with inexcusaBle mac
| ton and unseemly delay in the consider
alton OF meritorious applications when all
requisite and necessary proofs required
! by the law to establish the same have
already been filed in his office; at a time
when increasing years. multiplying dis
| abilities 20 labor, and approaching power
ty and want cry out for unhalting vlgor
! and wise celebrity in the adjudication of
claims.
1--WE charge him with lack Of candid
dllI 1diT JuuSul6UI III ESTABLISHING TuleS III
his department which are calculated and
intended to delay conclusions upon appl-
cations and, after adjudication, TO prevent
the re-opentng and re-hearing of the same
upon new and additional proofs in less
than one year thereafter.
I'VE charge MIN with unjust and I'm
manly criticism Of a large class OF honest
and worthy pension attorneys. when.
without discrimination, he falsely insin-
uated that for proofs they present pre-
pared testimony, and obtain pensions for
clients by methods both dishonorable and
unworthy.
1--WE charge him with an utter absence
of sympathy for the old soldier, and
wanton disregard of the duties of the high
office which he dishonors.
And for proof we make proffer Of the
records and files of his Office, the public
journals of the land and the wounded and
Iacerated hearts of our comrades.
1--WE therefore invoke the united assist
ance of the encampment, as well as of
every veteran and loyal citizen, to place
the matter before the president Of the
United States, 70 the end that the present
incumbent of the office of commissioner of
pensions be removed, and his place filled
with another who shall be worthy, cap
able and patriotic.
civilian THOMPSON,
GEORGE w. .DOTY,
'W. c. CHATFIELD,
~. H. BURKE,
"C. Z. WOOD,
E. z. Henslip of Gambia post, Usage
county, then offered these resolutions:
Whereas. The seventeenth annual en-
campment Department of Kansas G. A.
R., believes that the charges preferred by
the f. P. Sheldon post No. So G. A. R.
Department of Kansas, which are herein