Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-17
DIABOHCBL SCHEME
Of Pension Commissioner H. Clay
Evans to Cut Off
CLAIMANTS FOR PENSIONS.
The Claimants are Now Old Men and He
Proposes Wearing Them Out Until They
Ole-Al8 New Plan a 1e.iCo Of a Black
Heart and Calls for His immediate Removal
From a Position He Has 0isgracod

Pension Commissioner H. Clay
Evans is the most unscruplous Pen
sion Shark in the United states by
system of trampling on law, he an
nually defrauds pension claimants out
of millions and millions of dollars
which the law has provided for the
veterans and their families. He stamps
out all opposition with the grasp Of
tyrant after the methods Of the
Standard Oil combine, or the Sugar
Syndicate
The "tyrannos' i'm the Greek Gov
ernment was one who exercised un-
limited power, but contrary to law; a
tyrant that 'usurped his power. The
outgoing Commander-in-chief of the
c. A. r., at the national encampment
this fall at Cleveland, denounced
Evans career in the Pension Bureau
as a career Of "bold lawlessuess,' and
recommended that Evans be dismissed
from Office
Evans has uniformly controlled,
through the manipulation OF the G..
A. r. rension Committee and G.. A. r.
officials, the selection of the incoming
G. A. r. officials, at every encamp-
ment; and at Chicago, in 1900, Evans,
through his strikers, selected Com
mander-in-chief Raseur, supposlng that
as Rasseur was from Secretary Hitch
cocks town (St Louis) he would be
suhservient to Evans dictation, just
as previous O.. A. r, officials had been.
But Rasseur had been a Judge on the
bench and believed in the supremacy
of law; and was not a lickspittle. He
abhorred Evans highnanded Dmgand-
ism against the pension laws, and op-
preston of claimants.
During Pension Commissioner
Evans arbitrary reign Of ABOUT four
and a half years in the Bureau he has
been overruled by his Immediate su-
perior officer (the Assistant Secretary
OF the lnteriOr) more times, and on
more of his own practices and .instruc-
tions to the force for rejecting claims,
than all his predecessors combined,
during the fifty years existence Of the
Bureau. No prior Commissioner ever
rejected the great number of claims
annually which he, by his various and
Infamous systems has rejected each
year, He admits to rejecting over
100000 claims last year. This is many
times the number of his allowances;
and the 10000 does not include many
partial reflections brought about by ig-
noring ,ne law and disabilities To
cover up his vicious practices and to
distract attention from the prodigi-
GUS number of reflections of claims of
old and decrepit veterans, Evans pads
his tables of allowances with the num-
~ 40
replace pension certificates, and reis-
sues, and allowances of accrued on
death of pensioners, cOntinuances of
pensions in other names, renewals and
restorations Of those unlawfully drop
ped, etc. He complains because the
veterans are growing older, more
feeble without dying; and therefore
he is unable, Notwithstanding his des-
potic and unlawful practices, to turn
back into the Treasury each year a
greater sum of uneXpended pension
funds which Congress had appropriat
ed to be paid to the veterans that year
He complains because so many veteT-
ans have not died, and are still liv-
ing. He estimates them at over 90O,-
900, He keeps the country flooded
from the Pension Bureau, with the
cry of pension attorney, pension
sharks, etc.-the stop thief with
which the police are so familiar.
In his last report he has turned his
battery on the Spanish and Philippine
war veterans; and ISLANDERS them over
the shoulders Of Banquo's Ghost, the
pension attorney, for having so many
disabilities. Had Evans crept out OF
the spacious quartermasters quarters
during his three months service in the
city of Memphis, and waded the
swamps, lagoons, bayous, rice fields,
canebrakes, and seas Of mud in the
Philippines along with the Philippine
vets, it might have taken some of the
stop thief" out of his distempered
brain. But Evans is equal to the occa-
sion; he has now a new or revamped
scheme for Debating pensioners by max
ing it so difficult that the old broken
down men can not complete their
claims during an ordinary lifetime.
He proposes to be the Aaron and Moses
Of the pension laws His plan is based
on the pretended deprayity of the ply
sicians Of the whole country, which
necessitates a radical cnange IN the
whole system Of adjudicating claims
which our fathers and their successors
have followed since the days Of Wash
ington. He proposes to holu a sitting
twice a year in each county with his
stenographer and some or his medical
favorites from the bureau, and compeI
the attendance Of witnesses and veter-
ans, widows, and children, at these
two sessions. Who is to pay the hotel
bills for these washerwomen and chill
dren? Who is to transport and feed
tne witness?
lie knows that not one-tenth Of the
witnesses could be produced. and not
one-tenth Of the claimants could at
tend and not one-tenth Of the merit
orlous claims could be completed dur