New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-29
sICKLES SHOWS HIS HAND.
MAKES PUBLIC LETTER FROM SENATOR
SCOTT, WHICH HE CONSTRUED AS
A PROMISE NOT TO REAP
POINT EVANS.

General Daniel e Sicl5les made public yester-
day the letter he received from Senator Scott.
which he CONSTITUTES as a promise that ID. Clay
Evans should not be reappointed Commissioner
Of Pensions. That Senator Scott constructs IL
differently will not surprise those who READ IL
General Sickles also produces as a witness
against President Mckinley Joseph W. Kay
Having done this, he said that if MI Evans
were not superseded soon the band would be-
gin 10 play" adding:
Anybody but Evans Anybody but Evans !
have no candidate take his place Ihere are are
hundreds of men who would De aGGept Ia oie ING
woods are full Of ,6 them b St datch from
ington that Senator Scott. OF the hepubIcSm
surance respecting the retention in ONCE OF CoiI-
missioner Evans after the expiration OF ms ee
nv correspondence with Senator Scott as repre-
in September last based upon me- a csIsed
from the Republican National Comnltlee GaIss a.
October that Commissioner Evans would be super
seded in March when his term eKPire &c President
on November q last. in the presence OF a numoeF s
the country when visited him at the Nhllc
House. by appointment, TO congratulate MN upon
his reelection He then stated TO us that II %as
er Evans at the expiration Of his term 81 once
sary The same assurance was given TO me N
when the President gave me the name. conhdon-
tally of the successor TO Commissioner Evans
Here is my correspondence with Senator Scott
His first letter you see was written IN SePte1Per
P9pncah CAM iS he m much more useful in speak
ing tour if ] could assure the veterans that Com,
missioner Evans would not be reappointeo ana
the representatives Of the Grand Army. also said
that 1 would like TO be able 10 tell the veterans
that the pension laws would be construed more
literally and that court of pension Appeals Would
be created. His reply TO that is the letter on
promised me that Evans should go at the end of
his term. Here il is:
Headquarters Republican National Committee
''New-Yorl September %, 1850
General Daniel f. sickles No. % Fifth-ave New
my Dear General: Yours of the 29th to hand, and
for me to say 10 you that the President would not
appoint or that ne would appoint certain indi-
think Evans viii he continued as commissioner
and I have doubt that the President and all Of
TO il that there is Commissioner of Pensions who
Is al that could say on mat supJecl Wllh9 per
haps embarrassing the President and possibly the
committee, but / think you take il for granted
gest. With kindest regards and wishing you very
pleasant trip am yours very sinSer9Iy' SCOTT.
Joseph w Kay, chairman of the committee
on legislation Of the Grand Army. corroborated
General Sickles in his statement about his talk
with the President last November. Mr.. Kay
said:
was one Of those who were With General
sckles at the White House last November; The
President said: I think Mr. Evans viii consider il
desirable TO offer his resignat ton at the end of his
term If he does think of il himself. he viii
be made to think Of it
General sickles then gave the Northern news
papers rap, saying:
The constant iteration Of wholesale charges Of
frauds in the attempts to get pensions makes my
blood boil. Why. the customs department is SUD-
lected 10 a hundred frauds, where the Pension
Bureau is defrauded once The Court Of Claims Is
twenty thousand Civil War relief bills before
Congress now, founded the statements of rebel
synpathtzers, the whole tissue of the vilest and
most despicable lies and frauds You never see
anything about these frauds in the papers though.
II the southern papers said such things about the
veterans OF the Confederate Army as the Northern
papers say about the Grand Army Of the Re
public, the offices Of those papers would stand
an hour after the publication of the charges. If |
were twenty years younger / would gladly lead
column against the Offices Of some Of the papers
that WHY the Grand Army 1 used be handy az
some things when was young man.
Inc OLD soldiers are not cheats They are honest
men, and are deserving of a liberal INTERPRETATION
OF the pension laws. That is wnere nv quarrel
WIN Evans begins. He Il narrow in the admin
lstrauon or the bureau. ! don't believe he ever
hao an opinion from the Acknowledgement on nv
amendment 10 the Dependent Pension act He rnay
nave nae an opinion from some young clerk in The
<AUorney-5eneraIs Office. ANYWAY drew rha
amendment, and ] should know what ii meant