Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-16

Of said act A man may have two or more
separate affections, either Of which, con-
sidered singly entities him TO a Sz rate
under Tie old law, and yet, in the aggregate,
they may not disable him for the perform
ance OF manual labor TO a much greater
degree than either Of them existing alone.
Or he may have one serious disability and
one or more slight disabilities, the latter Of
which do not have any appreciable effect
upon the degree Of incapacity for manual
labor occasioned by the former Is
he from the cause or causes involved-be
they one OF many--disabled for the per
formance Of manual labor TO the extent
represented by the fractional rate of 6-IS?
II so, he is entitled to the minimum rate Of
50 And so on until the maximum rate Of
$I2 Is reached" (Weke p. d., p. 1914
The above decision of Assistant Secretary
Bussey proves that Evans was lying when
he pretended that Commissioner Raum
merely added together the numerators of
the fractions 10 get the total rate. The de-
sion and the facts in it show clearly that
Raum took only the Joint effect Of all the
disabilities shown by the evidence. This
case refutes every contention which Evans
has made against order I64, and the decision
shows that Raum strictly followed the deci-
sion, and the appeal was overruled by
Bussey, and Raum sustained. Every word
in the decision is supported by Raum's
action IN the case; and the decision happily
covers and refutes every point that Evans
has ever raised against order I64 and rating
by eighteenths
Now, in the face Of that decision approx.
ing order I64 and uegativing the conten-
tiOns Of Weike aud sustaining Commissioner
Raum Evans has had the boldness to impute
rascahty to the Harrison administration,
aud to use that decision for the purpose of
deceiving the Republicans (as in the matter
of the guardian laws he did Campbell) into
believing him aud accepting il, and failing
to amend the law so as to reduce the pen
sion laws to the two systems" which Evans
has created, but which Evans has been pre-
tending the law created. This has placed
the Republican party in a condition of
reprOach with the veterans and with all
law-lOving and law.abidng people who
have examined into the facts. This fake
executive ability" of Evans has done
more to place the Republican party in a
false light with its friends Ga million Of
veterans), as shown by the G. A. r. for the
past four years, than all else that has ever
happened 70 estrange the veterans from
that party since the beginning Of the Civil
War. When the leaders decided that the
pension laws should be reduced, there was
a golden opportunity for the step. Also, in
1909. when the veterans raised the issue
(GLoBE, Jan. 26) Cleveland illegally reduced
this, the most important law. Had a man
of learning and true executive ability Tin
stead of "faker') been placed at the head
of the Pension Bureau, he would have gone
before Congress and said this clause should
be inserted into the law. It is not only
necessary to the legality Of the bureau prac-
tiCe, but It is necessary TO a proper respect
for the opinions of our friends. The veter-
ans honestly believe that Harrison's con-
struction of the law was.correct, and whether
it was correct OF not will be immaterial
with this clause put into the law. This
amendment will satisfy everybody, because
II will settle the law and show the veterans
that they can depend upon the laws being
constructed legally They now have no
confidence in any construction the pension
department places on the law, because they
claim this construction now adhered TO is a
wholesale swindle" If Evans had been
less vain he would have done this. Such
course as that would have been judicious
under the determination to continue the
construction which has been followed in
violation of g plain and positive law
GLOBE Dec. T. Jan. 90 J. But instead of
settling the matter in a legal way by per
mitting the law to be amended by Congress
so as to include and cover the very words
he wanted to be in the law, or was pretend.
ing to be the meaning of the law, Evans
wanted to show off as a great mushroom
Constitutional law-expounder Of pension
laws, and he stood up against that amend.
ment to the last and prevented the Repub.
hcans from thus amending it and settling
an irritation in the party. He preferred to
impute rascality to Commissioner Raum, or
to pretend that Raum had committed a
great error in holding that disability of
6IS should be rated at 50, and so on up to
STA" to use the words Of Bussey in the
Weike decision. Evans falsely declared in
published interviews with newspaper cor.
respondents given out by him in his name
for publication that he was still following
General Bussey's decision in requiring a
$50 disability for a SG2 rate" " This was a
base slander on Bussey and the Harrison
administration, and was intended to prevent
the amendment of the law, so that he could
continue TO impute against General Raum
misconstructOn of the pension laws He
had for his stock in trade shamming great
executive ability and he feared an amend.
ment of the law would throw his executive
ability" in the shade His whole course in
the Pension Office convicts him of being a
professional prevaricator and falsi6er.