Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-23


come from President Roosevelt to the effect
MAR he will soon give Commissioner Evans
a promotion to some foreign mission Japan
suggested) as soon as the President can
6nd man of the same high character and
sterling worth possessed by the present
commissioner iN SO high a degree" (See
newspaperssof March 10, y, IS, etc. This
advertising is one of Evans old tricks of
sterling worth, " and will show Evans to
the President in the true light but it will
not astonish Assistant Secretary Campbell
(See GLOBE March 10 Such announce
ment by the President would be a distinct
insult to the veterans A promotion of
Rvans would be a slap in the face to the
veterans, as an Endorsement of Evans
frauds against the pension laws and an aid
to Evans Southern school book propaganda
against the civil war veterans. Evans is of
no earthly use in the pension Office, and the
appointment of his successor should not
delay the President a minute in calling for
Evans resignation just as Algers resigna-
tion was called for on the ground of iucem-
potency. The deputy commissioners are
men of ability and fully equipped to run
the office.
1t would be an aifront to the Japs TO send
such an ignOramus among those educated
men. Evans would fill the newspapers of
Asia, Africa and all Europe with these
editorials" of his sham executive ability"
and sterling worth" Let him return to
Tennessee and take up his old line work as
boss of the ex-slave voters there.
One of the sham devices introduced by
Pension Commissioner Evans to conceal
the great complaints of the veterans against
him is to pretend that the complaint Of the
veteran is something altogether different
from what it is 50 as to make the veteran
appear silly, or that the attorneys, not the
veterans, are the only persons complaining
of Evans.
Secretary Hitchcock of the Interior De-
partment had the boldness to officially re-
sort to the same trick of putting false com
plants into the mouths of the veterans, and
Of praising Evans as the best friend" of
the veterans. (See GLOBE Dec IS, 1901
Washington Star Nov. 26 Hitchcock's Ann.
Report, IooI.) Congressman, such as Sims
and Bell, resort to the same tricks of be-
lifting the grievances of the veterans and
praising Evans executive ability" GLOBE
Dec. ~, 1901, and Feb. 2, I9o2l.
This plan is copied from Evans methods.
When the Cincinnati National Encampment
in 1893 passed resolutions for Evans re.
moval, Evans rushed into the newspapers
with the belittlinR declaration that il was the
pension attorneys in the encampment who
took advantage of the lull in the proceed
lngs TO get that resolution passed without
the consent of the veterans. When the
veterans continued their complaints against
him for requiring a $50 disability to rate at
8I2 under the new law, and passed the reso-
luton at the Philadelphia National Encamp-
meut the next year, 1899, demanding that
order 164 of the Harrison administration for
rating new law claims the same as similar
disabilities are rated under the old law
Evans saw that it was coming in spite of all
he could do (although he had the President
the cabinet, and very many;of his henchmen
from the Pension Bureau present to assist
him there in trying to down the resolution),
and Evans prepared a table for his annual
report of that year fabricating two sys-
TENS" one for the old law and the other
for the new law, and boldly declared and
pretended in his annual report that the
veterans did not know the difference be-
tween the old law which rated at $50 and
S72 and the new law which rated at only
from So to $I2 Evans falsely instanced a
veteran Ia new law pensioner) complaining
because another under the old law was
cation and falsehood put into the mouth of
assumed veteran to belittle the com
plants of the veterans against Evans for
illegally reducing plain law through pre-
tended construction of a plain English SEN
tence.
Evans knew that he was falsely belittling
the complaints and grievances Of the veter-
ans, as we'll as Hitchcock and Congressmen
Bell and Sims knew that they we're falsify-
ing the facts to belittle the veterans. (See
Evans Annual Report 1897 The veterans
complaint against him on that law Is, not
only that he requires $50 disability for SI2
rate; but that he Systematically refuses to
rate $50 disability at SI2, and arbitrarily
ignores the ratings justly given by the local
boards. Congressman Bell admitted that
Evans confessed to the crime Of paying no
attention to the ratings given by the county
examining surgeons. (See GLOBE, Jan. 26.)
In order to pretend to construe the new
law so as to require $50 disability for $r2
rate, Evans has to violate one of the plainest
principles of mathematics, and hold just
the opposite. II is an axiom of arithmetic
(the highest mathematics Evans ever
studied) that part is never equal to the
whole. The new law pensions only the
minor disabilities rating from 6.IS to 1918
leach eighteenth representing 81, and does
not concern itself about greater degrees of
the same disability. II does not require a total
inability to perform any manual labor, but
il simply rates the minor disabilities Of So
to SI7, emitting the higher and lower de-
grees. The reasons and history of the
passage of the law show this, as we'll as the
explicit language of the law. The word
total Is not in the law. II is inability to
earn a support by manual labor" Any frac-
tion of inability, however small so that
under the code 1t would be rated at 2-iS (S2)
complies with this language, but the limit
ing words in the law are the rates of from
s. to SI2, 50 that the smaller disabilities not
aggregating 6-I8 (S6) cannot be rated.
Section 4699 Of the code rates all minor dis
abilities in eighteenths. Now Evans holds
that this fraction Of inability (required ex-
plicitly by the law) is equal to the whole |
disability of being totally unable to perform |
any manual labor and Evans unlawfuly re-
fuses to pension a veteran at ST2 whose dis /
ability fills the legal requirement Of 17Isth |
in degree. He demands a total inability to /
perform any manual labor aud argues, on !