Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-01
To Which the Attention Of President
Roosevelt is Called.
THESE ARE FROM THE INSIDE
And Mr.. President, tho Man who IS WFIllng
Them is Evans Peer, Socially Financially
and intellectually 80 The Facts Furnished
Sneak for Themselves and Demand tho Dis
mssaI Of tho Commissioner Of Pensions

sion claims. He uses two OF these
schemes for reducing section z OF the
law of June 27, 1890, which pensions
tbe civil war soldier. Evans Is making
tbe fght of his life against the civil
war veteran. Almost all claims OF
those veterans are now made under
tbat law. There are over 25OOOO OF
those veterans who are unpensloned'
their claims having been wholly re-
{ected. and over 100000 whose claims
stand partially rejected they having
been pensioned for less than they were
legally entitled to under that law.
III is about as profitable for Evans
ledger to reject claims unlawfully as
ia reject them legally. The veteran is
practically without money in his old
age He has not the money or the
knowledge for the span Of life to right
his wrong. II he lives 4 or years
longer. he may get a half pension by
re-annlving. but It will never reach
back 10 his first or rejected claim
Tho act of March 6, 1896, passed for
vighting these wrongs. is mocked at IN
tbe bureau by rejecting 999 out OF
non annlications for relief against
those unlawful reflections. This is done
DN Inh kaLllH Ul lt1thAANtAt1N N-A-+N
ed Evans whole official life.
BY the first Of those two schemes
above referred TO, Evans requires a
$40 degree Of disability for a $lz raIe'
This new law was substitute IN
Congress for a servicepension law
which had been pending some ten
wears. There is nothing clearer IN the
history Of legislation than that Jnls
law in plain English, was based on the
nension code (sec 4699) his medical
division igr jre all diseases rated by
the local Surgeons at less than SIX
eighteenths. Thus several diseases
rated weak arms two-eighteenJhs'
rheumatism, four-eighteenths; piles
fonrei ighteenths, and scurvy slX-elgh-
teenths. would all be rejected except
the last six.eighteenths for scuryyO
and soldier would be pensioned lot
scurvy alone; and the veteran would
never be informed for what disease ne
was pensioned, or what diseases "eIe
rejected. the pension certificate sent
him reading "fOr material inaDlllly 10
earn a support" No person OF halI
sense can believe that this plan was
NOT To defraud the veteran out OF MS
legal rights. Here Congress TOOK a
hand to aid the secretary OF interior
i'm putting harness on Evans, by law OF
Nav 9th. recurring Evans to aggregate
ali the diseases. Here II was Iha'
evans showed his hand and ability TO
ignore the law by his said meulcal
order of June 80, 1890 (Ann. report
mage 26). for concealing all degrees OF
disabilities. The order reads "Ihe re-
sult viii be stated as &c. SS, $40, or glz ;
moi as six-eighteenths, eightelghJeeh.
tbs ten.eighteenths, etc; nor shoulo
there be a separate rating of separate
dieabilities. as heretofore" This order
was TO ignore the requirements OF sec
lion 699 of the code which requires
each disease to be rated medlcally III
eighteenths.
Evans had not thought Of this plan
in 1889 when he was reviling the meul
cal profession throughout he country ID
his annual report His new book OF
nractice issued in 1898, was too fresh
in his mind then. That book gives q
tableof ratingunder section 4699 OF the
code and rated all minor disabilities
i'm degrees of eighteenths; thus, An
cbvlosis of ankle or wrist eight-elsh
teenths. and so one from two-eighteen
leo Rassieur Cpot spelled Rasseur), oi
st Iouis. Mo, in his outgoing address
as commanderin-chief at the last u
A. r. Fncampment, said Of this medical
order:
"Tbe instructions requiring a new
form OF report were made and issued
Immediately upon the heels Of the pas
sage of the law OF May 9, 1900; and
NO reason can be given for the making
of such an important change, Whlcn
fact can only be accounted for upon
the theory that the reason Cinasmucn
as there must have been one) could
not bear the light OF day or any pub
Iication without getting the author OF
authors into trouble
Evans holds that the law Of March
G 1896 which was passed for the re
trial OF every claim rejected is not
a law for retrial, but law for review
only This settles It at once. He
holds that those cases are res adJudi
cata by the old methods unlawfully in
vogue in the Office at the time Of such
reflections: and all he has to do is to
have the medical referee go over them
in the old way and he will not allow
the medical referee to consider new
proof. not even medical that the soldier
had been so diseased for fifteen years
Take a case OF hernia where the DIT
put 1t back several times fifteen years
before, and so swears, and several men
present at the time so swear Evans
requires that evidence to be rejected;
but the CLAIM was rejected because the
hernia did not exist at filing frst claim
six years ago, new claim will be al
lowed from the new fling, but will not
cover the rejected claim, because II
was rejected before that evidence had
been filed. and Evans holds the law for
re-trial is not a law for re-trial. He
simply defrauds the veteran. There
is no res adjudicata or statute OF limi
tatiOns IN the pension laws; but Evans
thus arbitrarily estops the veteran by
trvannv. The veteran has no effective
remedy.
In thousands OF claims thus rGiect
ed In toto the veteran dies Of the same
diseases within a few months. and the
testimony Of his family doctor on file
In the case shows that the soldier had