Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-24

An administration. as well as a bat.
tleship or a cruiser, has to be launched.
At the launching party Of the first Nc.
kinley administration, q junto oi ami
pension Republican capitalists con-
spired against Mckinley and by intri.
que, got from Mckinley possession Of
launching the Pension Department Of
his administration.
THE puzzling sons Of party next ap.
peared;
In dark cabals and nightly Iuntos
met
They looked over the list Of Repub-
liCan eX-COugressmeu who had stood
as a Southern bulwark or stone wall
against pensions; and selected there
from II. Clay Evans. for pension COM
missioner Barkis was "wllin'" and
therefore Evans became the Iago Of
the administration The great the
good and now lamented Mckinley was
thus entrapped by his friends, and
he was thereafter so engrossed in the
two wars. that he never had the health
or time to go into the merits of the
complaints that soon arose. Congress
to critic his appointment and reflect
on the party. Evans claimed that he
was able to reverse Assistant Secre.
tary Davis as often as Davis reversed
him, because he lEvans) he'd in his
fist Che policy Of the administration.
One Congressman said that a Con-
gresional investigation of the Pension
Office would De bad politics
One c.. A. r.. "nOu.partisan" CD
newspaper fin this city which had pub
lsn an Indictment of 26 counts against
Evans I'm August 1899. just before the
editor went TO that Encampment, has
been CAREFUL to avoid am of those
counts. Evans under the management
of that political iuDtO, has shown first
class ability TO edit newspapers and
sQuelCh opposition. The aforesaid G..
A. r. editor has since been given the
yice-commandership OF the G. A. R.,
and the columns Of that paper are now
pleasant reading TO Evans, The space
formerly accorded to exposing the 26
counts, has been given up TO a quasi
Louisiana lottery scheme for getting
the scanty nickels Of the vets through
impossible guesses where the chances
of losing are 1855 495 to one chance Of
winning.
Oredr 1874 was used by the Harrison
administration and required that new
law claims should be rated, for the
same class Of disabilities, at the same
rate as old law claims.
Evans to screen himself, is trying
publically to give the Harrison admin
istraton a bad name.
Instead Of following the just, correct
and legal construction of order 1854
Evans f0ists into the new law re-
stricuye words not i'm the law A
lust Judge follows the law but Evans
turns himself into a law-giver, by read
ing into the law the word total in
ability to perform any manual labor
l.e transplauts that clause from the
$50 grade rate in the old law, and
substitutes it iu the new law In place
of inability to earn a support by
manual labor
There is vast difference between
those two clauses, a difference as DIS
tinct as light and darkness. The
clause Of the law is general, and, If
standing alone, it would pension every
civil war veteran who lacks only a
dollar Of ability to earn a support.
The clause Of the law is not a limit
ing clause. but a clause descriptive or
a whole class who are not in sound
health II requires only a slight dis
ability to bring a veteran within the
general class. The limiting words Of
the law are found in the context Of
the law. the rate limiting the degree
to rates from S6 TO S12. These rates
cut of all degrees Of disabilities az.
gragating below SO and above Sl2.
The only need OF giving, in the medi-
cal examinations, a description OF the
higher or lower degrees Of disabilities,
is 10 get a full and correct history
Of all disabilities and Of soldiers physl.
cal and mental condition at time OF
the medical examination, In order 10
be sure Of your grounds. The de-
grees higher or lower are, therefore
Important elements to be shown as a
safe indication and test. Medical
science is not an exact science, and this
the veterans have found out 10 theiI
sorrow I'm their old age since Evans
began his reign Of indmidating tho
medical division and the local medi
cal board.
Congress had before it, in the old
law. Evans limiting clause, and re
fused to put that clause in the new
law. The absence Of that clause from
the new law is conclusive proof thai
Congress rejected it Evans CLAUSE
had been construed by the Interior
Department a thousand times and
Congress knew the very high de
gree Of disability 1T required; and
therefore. Congress withheld It from
the new law. The history Of the new
law prior to June 27, 1890, In Its pas
sage through Congress, fully show
this fact ..,...
Evans clause weighs the disabiliue
on steel yards so strong that th
minor disabilities Of S6 to &l2 canno
raise the lever cannot De weighed, am
are rejected by him That is why h
fabricates the clause. lie admits tina
the clause Of the law is inconsequentia
as to earning q support, and that IN
rich and poor alike are pensioned
CAnn. Report. 1893, p. 4O)
The word total" is not In the neV
law. The phrase "total disability 81
pension laws does not mean bedfasi
or even inability to perform any mar
ual labor" Total disability is