Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-20

Clay Evans of the Pension Bureau to the
effect that the President is going to con-
tinue Evans in the Pension Office several
months longer to give the President time
to select paying place with large salary
as a reward for Evans work ia the Pension
Office. This is one of Evans old tricks "of
sterling worth" Evans is now advertising
himself and cOvertly attacking the new
Commissioner of Pensions, and giving ad-
vice. The following from Evans is from
the Star Of the I2th instant:
1T remains to be seen whether Mr. Ware
prefers clear conscience or an easy berth.
His sobriquet irOnquill suggests force
Of character, There is need in the Pension
Office Of more strenuous temperament
than that of the poet But the new Com
missioner is lawyer and man of affairs as
we'll as a literary craftsman. II is to be
hoped that he will justify the Presidents
selection by proving himself a worthy sue
cessor TO Mr.. Evans who has given the
country clean and most efficient term Of
service as Pension Commissioner"
Literary craftsman" is good. Evans is
a Jour" worker among the ex-slaves.
Evans better skip out and go way back
and sit down to advise the ex-slave voters
of Tennessee. The President will ind out
Evans advertising tricks All of these
praise Of Evans published in the papers
throughout the United States are written
up by Evans and copied in manifold by the
pension clerks in Evans Office and sent
broadcast to all newspapers for publication.
The papers publish them now, as they
come from the Pension Office, thinking
they are Hannaized or administration out
puts, but just wait until Evans becomes
private citizen, the editors will give all
those TO the waste basket. The President
is lending himself to libeling the veterans
every day he retains Evans in Office. Is
Evans to be retained until after he has had
time to make the annual June pension re-
port and get another dash at libeling the
veterans and pushing his Southern school.
book propaganda at Uncle Sans expense.
One of the boldest of Evans fasehoods
has been published the most frequently,
Athat asserting pensions TO be for the benefit
Of attorneys, not for the old soldiers, and
therefore attorneys alone are hurt by his
frauds. An editor would not permit such
shallowpated stuff in his columns unless it
had the administration brand
The veterans should vote the Hanna
Roosevelt anti.pension syndicate clear out
this fall by sending entirely new delega.
tiOns to Congress. Teach Congressman and
Hanna and Roosevelt a lesson on the
supremacy Of law.
The veterans have nothing to lose by vot-
ing out the present set of Congressman.
The Pension Department under the Hanna
syndicate of courtiers has been as much
harder than either Of the Cleveland
administrations on pension claimants and
pensioners as either Of the Cleveland admin
istratons was harder than the Harrison ad-
ministratiOp. The word was given out at
the Inauguration of the Pension Department
under the Hanna syndicate that pension
appropriations must be reduced without
regard to the laws Evans at once doubled
Cleyeland's schemes against the laws by re-
tanning all those of Cleveland's last admin
istration and by reviving many of Cleve-
lands first term, which Cleveland did not
resort to in his last administration. As an
instance Of this take Evans unlawful re-
lection Of 100. 600 original old law invalid
claims by revival of the repealed section
ATT Of the old pension code thereby un-
lawfully creating an estoppel against dis
eases Of which no army record still exists.
This estoppel was not used by Cleveland's
last administration Evans unlawfully
sprung this old repealed law against Ioo, 900
old law invalid claims left pending by Cleve-
since, making about $50, 600 claims rejected
by this unlawful estoppel which Congress
bad repealed in January, 1870. (See GLOBE
Apr. and Feb. 9 and 10, Ioo2). There are
only about y, 600 old law claims left pend
ing. In order to conceal this unlawful
tampering with the pension laws Evans be-
gan publishing in his annual reports state
ments that old law claims were so far re-
moved from the service that it was diff
cult" to prove service origin. In his official
report Of 1899 he published the following
bold falsehood to further conceal this un-
lawful estoppel; mo new rules of evidence
have been introduced, but the work has
been accomplished under prescribed rules
OF manysyears standing" Annual report of
1892 page 44). He, as is his habitual custom
makes these false statements to gain time
with his unlawful work Time is a great
factor while the veterans are dying at the
rate Of 10000 each year
Now passing from old law claimants to
the new law claimants, Evans retains Loeb
ren's order 725 which unlawfully raised the
degree of disability to $50 for a sIa rate.
(CLoBE March and Jan. 26 1902, and
Dec. and IS 1901. Evans has not only
retained it, but unlawfully raised the degree
Of disability required still higher by prac-
tically requiring a S77 degree of disability
for SI7 rate under the new law. GLOBE
April O. This Evans accomplishes by re-
quiring the medical referee to have his
men ignore diseases. (See GLOBE Jan. 26)
Evans has set up almost all the unlawful
practices that Cleveland devised during
both administrations, at least half Of which
Cleveland did not use in his second ad-
ministratiOn. In addition to this, Evans
has originated many unlawful schemes of
his own for rejecting large classes of claims
and has retained all the effective unlawful
schemes of Cleveland's last administration.
On the other hand Evans has made no
substantial change in any Of the hard rules
Of the last Cleveland administration against
which there was such an outcry during the
FIRST election canvas in the Mckinley cleo
tion, and such promises Of reform were
made the veterans both by resolutions and /