Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-08

The facts for these articles were not fur.
nished by any employe of the Interior De
partment or Pension Bureau although we
used the words from the inside in our
caption last week This much is due The
facts are taken from the published decisions
Of the Interior Department reversing Evans,
FROM the Congressional Record, and other
public sources, and furnished us by pen.
sion expert Of large experience. Any per-
son can take down the books and find the
decisions and matters referred to. The
speech Of Judge Rassieur gave many in
stances by title. Many Of the decisions
were cited by book and title in the twenty
six counts of the National 7tibuReS aban-
doned indictment against Evansn last issue
of August, 1900, mentioned in our issue Of
November "a. That indictment had all the
certainty of an indictment at common law;
but Evans was not brought to answer. The
resolution introduced IN Congress by Con
gressman Curtis of Kansas for a Congress
sional investigation, was fought off by
llvaus and Secretary Hitchcock These
references will aid Congress iu making
thorough investigation of Evans, if Con-
gress wants to vindicate the majesty of the
pension laws.
For over four years Evans has, with slight
disguise, been charging the civil-war veter-
ans with perjury, and the attorneys with
subornatiou of perjury
In the EgeUfRg Star, of this city ON Now
ember 20. Evans bids defiance to the veter-
ans and copies praises from the last report
Of the Secretary of Interior (Hitchcockl.
That report praises Evans without stint, and
in part reads
The veterans have no more sincere friend
than their comrade the Commissioner
What a whopper Evans has proved
himself to be the most malignant unieleut-
ing enemy the veterans ever had Hitch.
cock is in the conspiracy against the pension
laws and has not the manliness to 60 be.
fore Congress and ask to have the laws re.
duced TO his notion, He tried the dodge
Of getting from Congress a secret commits.
sion to revise the pension laws under the
supervision Of Evans last year but Con.
gress would not be caught in that trap. Let
him 20 before Congress with his bills for
reducing the pension laws in an open fight
Ilvans openly glories in his bold lawless.
ness and aaunts it in the face Of the
veterans in the Star article He in effect,
declares that if permitted 10 hold on to the
office the rest of his eight years. there viii
not be "a vestige of the pension laws for
future Commissioners TO enforce.
Hitchcock testified before the Congress
sional Pension Committee that Evans had
full control, and that he H. could not tell
the committee anything about the work
ings of the Pension Office.
MI Hitchcock please answer these ques-
tions
Was Evans the friend of the five thou
sand old dependent mothers whose claims
he unlawfully maliciously and with bias
aforethought rejected for two years in the
face of law and decisions, without asking
the permission of the Interior Department
Was he the friend of the twenty thou
sand minors whose claims he likewise re-
iected I'm the face of law and the decisions
without asking the consent of the Interior
Department
Please turn TO the twenty-siX counts in
abovc-namcd indictment and answer the
same question as TO each count Those
counts stand unanswered and each repre-
sents a class ranging from 5000 TO 100000
claims, In which he denied the legal rights
OF the veterans You decline TO answer
We thought you would Evans ignored
them In the same manner He ignores the
laws too.
MI Hitchcock, please read the speech of
Congressman James NJ Robinson on the
hoor of the House, May s. 1000, in regard to
the shameful violation of the legal rights of
those 20, 900 minor claims. Evans has been
forced back step by step during four years
in his attitude towards those claims Of mi
nors until only about six thousand now re.
main Please read also, the speech of Judge
Rassieur ON those minor claims The Judge
charged you with being in colluson with
Evans, to defraud them; and said
"The Secretary Of Interior (Hitchcock),
by his instructions of May 20, 1900 On p.
d. No. Hf2), has declined to allow the claims
Of minors who attained the age Of 10 years
before Iuly ], 1880, and whose applications
for pensions priorto that laccrued pension)
had not been filed before July I, 1880. In
these instances he (Hitchcock) recommend
ed that judicial decision of the question
be obtained for his guidance but not one
single step has he taken"
Now, bearing in mind the state Of the
law, what can have been the object Of the
Interior Department in having its bill in
troduced lfor referring them to the Court of
Claims), il not merely to defeat the passage
Of the G.. A. r. Bill for Pension Court of
Appeals) What can be said of such a right
TO appeal, when, by the provisions of the
bin lHitchcock's), the cases or claims for
appeal were to be selected by the official
lEvaus) who had adversely decided the
claim
Mr. Hitchcock will Evans do as he did
with the ten thousand Pennsylvania Emor-
gency Militia claims, which he unlawiully
rejected for over two years in face OF law
and decisions viz, select one that did not
explicitly cover the question and then hold
il undecided and pigeon-hole the 5000
claims
Evan resorted to just that kind of ras.
cality to defeat the Emergency" Militia
veterans He selected a medical student
from the medical division to write a legal
opinion overruling the Attorney General
and the Interior Department and without
leave. He then rejected the 10000 claims.
In about year the Pennsylvania Congress.
men got wind of It, and pressed Evans so
hard that he was induced" at that late
date after all the mischief was done to re-
quest an opinion Of the Attorney General
but he took care 10 cunningly word the