Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-06

ward. A" There is hardly a court crier Of
long experience who could not have told
Campbell what the law is on that subject.
The veterans will believe as much as they
please about Campbell being deceived by
Evans into rendering those two decisions.
See GLOBE March no. Feb 10, 1902 Brick
- P. D.. case 80; XII P. d p. $50; Hall II 2.
d., case No. I'D Campbell's own defense
for rendering those decisions makes him out
an incompetent but the history shows that
the decisions were made 10 Evans order for
an illegal scoop Of Sz, 100000 of the wards
money. The exposures in the GLOBE at
tracted too much attention and the order
was counJermauded Give the veterans AN
all round" lawyer of judicial experience on
the bench and let Campbell take turn Of
eight or ten years rough and tumble prac-
tice in courts in private life before he as
pires to a judgeship in the departments
He is only department mool-court lawyer
As for Davenport, we'll, he is merely a
Pension Office clerk aud was a feather
bed with Evans in the three-months ser
vice. Give the veterans new blood The
veterans have had their fill of mushroom
lawyers and judges. The Mckinley ad.
ministTatiOn undertook to make judges
for the veterans by some system of
alchemy II has left record that will dis.
grace that administration Of the Pension
Department as long as time will last The
decisions Of Evans and Campbell will be
preserved among the "curio" in after ages
as specimens Of a crude age in judicial his
tory. Those guardian decisions are only
an indication.
The same alchemy prevails in the med
ical division of the Pension Office for
making doctors Of sufficient quality to rate
veterans and override the experienced
practitioners throughout the country. The
trick is for a lot Of clerks to attend medical
night college, get diplomas and an assign
ment to the medical division of the office,
and as fast as vacancies occur in the legal
list of medical examiners, these clerks are
appointed full ledged medical examiners
without the trouble and labor of riding the
country OF practiCipg in private life. The
orders Of the bureau prevent the sun
down" business; and these medical students
never had a real case in their lives. The
medical referee prefers these 10 regular
practitioners from private life. This and
Evans order Of September 80, 1900 ac-
counts for 10000 reflections, and more
rated at only So.
Judge Rassieui, in his address to the last
G. A. K. National encampment. in referring
to the medical division of the Bureau said
THE medical division at Washington, in
such a case, as a rule, decided that there
was no disease of sufficient moment TO give
the claimant a pensiouable status, and
I ordered the rejection of the claim, although
the examining surgeons and every neigh
Dor Of the old soldier would know the he
was utterly unable to perform any man
liable labor, aud nearing the grave. The
! results Of this unjust and unreasonable
manner Of carrying out, or pretending to
carry out the law is easily visible in the
statement Of the numbers of pensioners re-
ceiving 50. So and $40 per month, respect
lively, under the law of June ~. 1890. Thi.
statement about the course pursued by the
Pension Bureau is not only borne out
by the almost universal complaints made By
the pensioners themselves, and by theii
comrades in the department encampments
but is also supported by the well-knowr
fact that there are only few of these mer
under the age of 90 years. See speech o
Judge Rassieur in full in Encampment pro
ceedings
Commissioner Evans has lately made an
other change in the practice for cutting on
AuGsG fGAlL ans uuNgl Ailh uhE law AAGl'
are about 200 600 claims wholly rejected
Under Evans order of June 80 1900, re
quiring county examining surgeons to sup
press the degrees of disabilities from thei
reports in the June law cases, these medica
students can rate to suit themselves with
out having anything in the Office to shoy
the fraud. The new scheme is for tn
medical division to take all the separate re
. .F.s 4 ..-f. en.
last unrejected claim has been pending
year or two order new medical examina
tion, and when received, hold that the prio
reports of medical examinations did no
show a ratable disease, but that the last re
port showed a ratable disability Of 50 70
some disease which the soldier has no
named in any application. Now here come
in the new sneak-thief change for stealing
all, and wholly rejecting the whole claim
Heretofore for past few years the Interio
Department has been shamed into requiring
Evans to return TO Commissioner Raums
practice of notifying claimant whenever a
unaleged disability is shown, in order tina
the veteran may claim for it, explain tn
facts. and prove it up in the same adjud
cation. The veterans are now expectin
such notices and when they get total re
I JeCkOu kuey take kuhA aa hOALGG Audl tue
have not been found ratable at all. Evans
new instruction is to catch them by sna
Judgment, refuse to notify them that tn
only disease rated is unalleged. OF to cal
for the facts and any evidence deeme
necessary. His new orders requires sum
mary rejection in toto, without notifyin
them that there is a rate found upon thei
last examination. This clears the field @
the case in the true porch climber style.
works while you sleep. The veterans vii
probably not apply again within year O
two, and when he does the way is open 70
taking him through the same PAGES, for h
has not been advised Of the catch" Thi
trick is based on the same low cunning tina
Evans has adopted for defrauding the re
widowed widows. (See GLOBE March 80
This is on the same lines as cOncealing fror
the veterans the diseases pensiOned an
those not pensioned under the June law b
omitting all diseases from pension certif
cate (See GLOBE Feb, 9, and March Q.
II is brutal fraud.
We admire Babcock's decision to Civ
up the chairmauship Of the Republican Cor