Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-22

the soldiers before or during service. You
will hear others saying that many soldiers
are unjustly pensioned because they had
such short service only three months.
You will hear others saying such pen
sioner served four years, but never got
scratch, and came out and got his disability
after service in recent years. and that no
one should be uensioued who did not get
his disability in the service. Evans and
the anti-pension junto depend upon this
class of objectors to support the unlawful
suppression of pension laws which give
these service pensions You will find that
Evans supporters are, as far as they are
not utterly fraudulent this class Of citizens
who fail to distinguish between the func-
tious of the law making power and the
executive branches of the Government.
The tricksters, ringsters, and leaders
who know the distinctions are wholly
bad and fraudulently hold that the
end desired (illegal suppression of the PEN
sion laws), justi6es any and every means
however illegal OF bold. They propose to
take advantage of the official positions
which they hold, to enable them to accom-
plish what they cannot do through legisla-
ton, and carry out their opposition to laws
by illegally suppressing them instead Of en-
forcing them Take the history of the junto
as truthfully detailed in the pages of the
GLOBE No person can controvert a single
statement of that history The history of
the junto is a history Of crime, brigandage,
and false pretenses in the administration,
Congressional circles, and other high places
never before equaled. Such Congressman as
Mahon, Ray, of New York; Grosvenor, of
Ohio, and the whole outfit, should bite the
dust of political defeat this fall, or at least
lose the whole soldier vote ftheir districts,
in the November election. The administra-
ton could not carry out such gigantic sup
pressions of the pension laws without the
support of the leaders in Congress. Let the
veterans change the political majority of
Congress at the November election, and
you will see the Commissioner of Pensions
changing the practice very soon thereafter,
from the unlawful methods of Evans now
followed, to the legal rules Of the Harrison
administration many of which have been re-
instated at various times by Assistant
Secretary Davis, but ignored Immediately
by Evans at the request and under the pro-
lection Of the anti ti-pension junto and with
the protection Of the President
Take Evans late rule returning to the
proposition of hearing evidence in readju-
dicating the rejected and dropped cases, but
to which Evans attaches a string prevent
ing operation by not providing for any calls
for evidence. That order was issued Janu-
ary, 1902 mot IeoI), after having denied for
five years, in the face of positive law, the
right to file evidence (See GLOBE, May I8,
IS, June /, 8, and Is). How long will it be
until Ware will be permitted to call for evil
dence to readiudicate those claims and all
disabilities found to exist If the veterans
cast a solid vote against the present M. c.
at the fall elections, Commissioner Ware
will at once be ordered to call for evidence
to complete all disabilities, instead Of re-
iecting claims in which he admits the vet
eran has a ratable disability of from SO to
SI2, as he is now doing under President
Roosevelt's order and threat against the
veterans (See GLOBE April and en- As
sistant Secretary Davis in his decision of
July %, 1897, in the same manner as Com
missioner Raum had done, ordered Evans
to call for evidence in all cases Of disabil-
ties found but not alleged, and to call for
claimants statement. Davis ordered that
such diseases should be included in the ori-
ginal rate in the same adjudication where
proved to have existed from date Of first
filing, but if incurred after FIRST fling then
the rate for them should begin at date of in
currence, if definitely ascertained; but if
date should not be definitely proved in ans
wer to calls, then to commence as to the ad-
ditional rate in the same adjudication, from
date of medical examination showing the
higher disability. Evans issued orders in
accordance with that in the same adjudica-
tion but refused to apply it to readjudica-
tions Book of Practice, p. 95, section 6;
section 4, p, Io4 GLOBE, June and I5),
In 1901. after many years, Evans again
was close run to make his annual saving "
Of S5,ooo,o 600 from thefts from pensioners.
and he again changed the rule to allow from
the date of the medical examination finding
the unalleged disease without regard to
proof of date of incurrence. This little
item often makes a great difference of
several years by a manipulation of names
and diseases; and soldiers lose two years
pension, the medical referee holding that
no rate can be allowed for diseases named,
and that the last medical examination shows
only rate for some other dis ability, as for
nervousness, lumbago, liver complaint or
the like, which soldier called by different
names. By a later change in his rules
Evans resorted to further delay by holding
that the unalleged disease could not begin
at date Of medical examination finding it,
but only from date of claimants naming the
disease; and by this ruse further delay in
date of commencement Of the whole PEN
sion is affected and two more years often
saved" for the government. There are
thousands of such claims in which claimant
is jockeyed out of his whole pension for
seven years, and dies with his claim pend
ing seven years, and widow is permitted to
draw two months pension from date of last
allegation following date Of medical exam
ination. 1t is a wholesale fraud, and the |
new Commissioner Ware is following It to-
day. It won't do to say Ware must have |
time to study the laws. These frauds are
palpable, we'll known to every man and |
woman in the Bnreau, and the correct and |
legal practice was laid down by General |
Raum, and has been approved by the In
terror Department under both Davis aud /
Campbell in charge Of pension board of ap-
peals, but smothered by Evans through the /
power Of the syndicate and the order of the .
President.
Let the veterans (those getting high pen.
sions as well as those defrauded out of /