The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-03


Potomac. District Of Columbia
of the order here. by a letter from Com
mander Stone Of the department of the
Potomac. requesting him to be candi-
date and pledging him the support Of
the department. Letters We're also ad-
dressed to prominent Grand Army men
IN New ! ork, who We're requested 10 see
Gen SiclSles and urge him to accept the
proffered support Of his comrades for
the office.
The matter was also taken up by
members Of the local encampment, and
letters were written to all of the promi-
nent organizations Of the west includ-
ing Kansas, and the north, with the re-
suit that before the controversy be-
tween Gen Sickles and the pension
commissioner. Mr.. Evans. there seemed
TO be practically no opposition to his
election in Cleveland. In speaking Of
the matter to the State Journal repre-
sentative Commander Stone Of the de-
partment Of the Potomac said that while
Gen. SickleS may have lost some of his
support promised to him. ii was his
opinion he would be elected. Gen. Sick
les. he said. had not injured himself in
the opinion Of members Of the local de-
partment Of the order, while. on the.
other hand. he had made many friends
here BY his attitude on the inauguration
occasion
One of the principal charges register
~ against EGlSlCn Commissioner l.
clay Evans by the old soldiers is his
ne 1ipulation OF the rules laid down ID
the examining surgeons. Under the
new law. or rather, the amended law
passed at the last session OF congress
regulating the allowance of pensions
under the act of June p 1890. they aver
that Mr. Evans. in order to defeat the
intent of said law. had prepared anu
issued to the examining surgeons
throughout the United States new rules.
srIee
found On medical examination. on or
ders marked Act June "a. $780, should
pe rated. not separately, as has ALWAYS
been the practice. but as a whole Thn
maximum allowance under said act is
but SlZ lit iS claimed that he So rates
the combined disabilities. knowing tha4
the applicant can receive no more. The
certificate goes TO the claim. and under
additional Instruments governing th,a
medical examiners and reviewers in tl,a
pension office, the rate is cut i'm half ana
the claimant allowed but IS instead AZ
the Sl2 to which entitled and provided
by acts of congress
Miss Annie Louise Warn. a voune-
lady of Fort Scott. has made an admir-
able record in the census office at Wash
inEton- A year ago she was appointed
TO operate a punching machine at a
salary OF $50 a month. Making a good
record for accuracy and speed she was
in a few months time promoted to SsO
ana snort time afterward gain pro-
NOTED TO $1,000 a year. and transferred
to the agricultural division of rhe
bureau. where she was assigned a dim
cult task of computing This week
Miss Warn was promoted to a position
OF e0ltOF IN the nnai results division
and rewarded with an increase to 81 =
200. She IS now considered one of the
best experts in this bureau of the gov
ernment, and VIII undoubtedly remain
In her position until the twelfth census
IS entirely completed. Miss Warn grad
uated in the high school of Fort Scott
three years ago at the age of II wears
and year ago was a senior in theIal-a
Erie college, located near Cleveland
when she received her appointment IN
the census Office She is saving her saI-
way through Wellesley college.
The matter OF an appointment Of 81
postmaster at Newton is giving Con-
gressman Chester i Long some ronsfd-
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