The Sunday globe., 1901-06-30
HIS SUCCESSOR.
Candidates for Hon. H. Clay Evans
Shoes.
NOT AS BAD AS PAINTED
The Tool Of The Administration and the
Gold ReseUs-The Reforms the New Com
missioner will Have 10 Make - Kelly
Brooks, CuddI and Johnnie Woods Could
bs Replaced without Injury 10 The Service.

The rumor is current, and generally
believed, that eX-COngressman Peters,
Of Kansas, will be appointed Commits
sioner of Pensions on the LIST Of July.
The Globe is informed from worthy
source that this may be so, il the
President is able to place Mr.. II. Clay
Evans, the present Commissioner, in
another Office to the satisfaction of Mr..
Evans. 1t is a well-known fact to those
in authority that the 'pinching" the
old soldiers received at times during
the administration of the Office was not
eltogether due to a desire upon the
part of Mr.. Evans to have such pol
icy, but that the orders came from
higher officials; in fact, from those
who nodded the policy Of the Admins
tration because of the advisability of
looking after the Treasury reserve.
This was deemed necessary and good
policy as long as the reserve in the
Treasury was not very large. How
ever, the increase Of revenue due to
the war tax has changed the necessity
that the Administration had to handle,
and consequently the purse-strings
were loosened, and now the policy Of
the Pension Office is not at all the same
as it was when the pensions were de-
layed and thousands of them rejected
under stringent and harsh require
ments Mr.. Evans stood the burden Of
all the condemnation without a word
and the President appreciated his 81.
lence and is unwilling to let him go
loose without something equally as
good"
The new Commissioner will have
many reforms, no doubt, but none he
could inaugurate would be received
with greater satisfaction than giving
an overhauling to the personnel Of the
office For instance, he could com
mence near the top by taking look
into the Second Assistant Commission
er Kelly. This official would not be
missed very greatly if succeeded by an
other man; nearly any selection would
be an improvement on Kelly. 1t is
something of an enigma to many what
Kelly is for, unless to look consequen-
tial and impress some of the ladies
of the Office Space will not afford a
more extended notice to Kelly to-day,
but later on something interesting may
be said of the Second Assistant Com
missioner.
Another one that could be placed
among the missing" without any
great loss to the efficiency of the once
would be Appointment. Clerk Brooks.
This individual is small in stature and
| intellect. His great boast is that he
comes from a family Of sleuths Of such
keenness that Conan Doyle never con-
iured their equal in any Of his fasci-
mating tales of the detectives of the
old world. Brooks has been known to
expand under the greatness of egotism
and in his own estimation reach a
height of six feet or more. Enough Of
Brooks at this time.
Chief Law Clerk Cuddy is another
official incompetent to fill the position
that good luck, or pull, has bestowed
Iupon him. He, too, could be relegated
to a copyist's desk without injuring the
service further than to perhaps add an
other incompetent to the roll OF copy
/ followers. The new Commissioner
would do we'll to interrogate Cuddy in
/ his legal knowledge. Last, but not
the least insignificant of the officials
| that could be waited to the outside or
reduced in salary is the Assistant
/ Chief of Files, Johnnie" Woods, who
| halls from the shores of Lne Wabash,
though not a singer of sweet voice, but
political gymnast, If not clever,
rather rapid. It is told Of Johnnie"
that when in the Hoosier State he was
pretty good sort of a Democrat, and,
even after sojourning at the Govern
ment trough was known as something
o. a Democrat under the adminlstra-
tion of that party Many clerks think
Johnnie" by his physique, would
make a better porter than assistant
chief, but that may be because John
ME" is great of weight and lacking in
| the other qualifications which are nee
essary even in the Assistant Chief Of
Files.
The foregoing are a few of the male
employees the new Commissioner might
consider with a view of decimating
their wages or lifting them to the free
air Of the ordinary citizen of the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
! AS to the female employees, the Globe
will tell some ming ~ them at another
! time but It will come near working
practical reform to get rid of the
worthless males first. The undesirable
of the other sex generally follow in the
trail of the vicious Of the masculine
gender, and the Globe believes to re-
move the latter will eradicate the
| former.