Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-20

few perfunctory changes that Evans made
to relieve against Cleveland's hard rules
were made on points that had spent their
harmfulness, and had ceased to be harm
full Such was order GAG which Evans re-
pealed as the chief change made It
provided that afhdavits must state where
and by whom the affidavit was written and
that the claimant was not aided The harm.
fulness of this order 729 consisted, from the
Start, in only the newness of the require
ment, thereby taking about two years to get
It well understood, and thus like all new
and technical require ments that must be
learned by million Of people widely scat
tered, took valuable time, and made costly
delays, But all this had been accomplished
when Evans repealed it: and therefore
Evans saw that as an instrument of delay
order 22o was useless. He therefore revoked
order 229, This constitutes the principal
change in Evans practice from that so bit
terly denounced in Cleveland's administra-
tion by the Hanna syndicate during the first
Mckinley election. When Assistant Secre-
tary Davis set about creating legal reforms
in the practice to relieve against technicali-
ties and reach the merits of each claim,
Evans kicked" and appealed to the Hanna
and the anti-pension junto in the cabinet
and Davis was overruled in every thing
Evans published this in 1899 to keep Con-
gressmen in the traces. The NJ C.'s like
Curtis were about to fly the track when the
magnitude of Evans frauds against the pen
sion laws began to be exposed
AS it turned out, Evans was able to
nullifY all of Davis reforms that were not
explicitly overruled by the junto. When
Davis ordered Evans to stop dividing up
disabilities into separate claims for the pur.
pose of rejecting part OF all, Evans began
ignoring that, and ignoring diseases in
stead Of aggregating them. This plan
eifectuany overruled Davis, for it was the
sneak thief plan, and Davis was not per.
mtted 70 attack it again. Hanna stood in
the way through orders to the Secretary of
the interior. Then the G. A. r. Com
mittee, although dominated by Evans at
time (IS99-I9Oo), got the act of May O. 1900,
passed by Congress specifically requiring
Evans to aggregate all disabilities under the
new law Here Hanna and Evans stepped
between the law, and the pensioners again
by Evans order through the Secretary of the
Interior prohibiting the county examining
boards from showing the true and full ex-
tent Of the disabilities, although Evans and
the Secretary claimed that aggregating all
disabilities was what the law required be-
fore il was amended, and was what they
were doing all the time. II will be found
that the principal change that Evans has
finally permitted from the Cleveland hard
ships is the abrogation of the harmless
order 229, which required afidavits to show
who wrote them, and that they were not
mere copies Of something else. A few little
changes like that as to certifying credibility
of witnesses may be added to Evans cata.
logue of changes from the days of Cleve
land and LoChren. But Evans has added
to the burden of the load OF unlawful frauds
by quite doubling the unlawful course of
his practice above that of Lochren's. Take
the list given from time to time in the
GLOBE, and compare it with I.ochren's.
You will find two unlawful schemes against
the law in Evans career to one of Iochreu's.
This is one reason why Hanna, the Presi-
dent and Congress, will not permit Con.
gressional investigation They want the
law violated not amended and reduced
legally. Cast the burden on Congress.
Make them reduce the law by legal amend
ments, or execute it as il stands on the
statute books. Turn the rascals out.
The veterans have much to gain by ad-
ministering a needed rebuke to lawlessness
ia AAkM places II LlE Alhnud 6EuAlCaLe
needed a reduction Of pension appropria-
tions to help out with salary grabs. ship
subsidy and other grabs they should nave
gone about it in legal way by having Con-
gress revive the old estoppel under section
All; and by having Evans illegal clause
C'total inability to perform any manual
labor y inserted in the new law in order to
legalze the practice under order 22s now
followed Ostensibly.
In this connection we would again invite
attention to one of Evans bold ISLANDERS
against physicians which his medical
referee, DR.. Raub, has also put out in the
annual reports by pretending that there can
be no such thing as 3o.IS degree of disa
bility, and therefore slandering the examin-
ing surgeons for using it. That is one of
the boldest libels against those physicians.
The falsehood is based on the fact that the
rules of the pension laws on rates are not
we'll understood by the public and they can
easily impose on the unsuspecting by pre-
tending that total" means total helpless
ness, or "bedfast;" but in peusion law
total" means only an $s degree of disa-
bility; and now all disabilities are rated in
18th, each 18th meaning one dollar as an
equivalent in money. Then where the dis.
~
There is no mathematical objection to a
fraction of 3o.Is. Let Evans turn to his
common school arithmetic to fractions and
he will dnd that this form of fraction con.
stitutes one of the principal classes of frac.
tions. With eighteen as the denominator
higher degrees OF disability than an eighteen
rate cannot be uniformly expressed by
common denominator in any other way.
As the new law rates must be in 18th,
higher degrees should be. Thousands and
thousands of pension briefs stand rated at
3o-l8 in the medical division by DR.. Raub's
medical experts. UP to the time that
Evans and Raub conceived their coup for
concealing degrees Of disability in June.
1900, land Evans issued his now famous
order to stop rating thus) a majority Of the
work in the medical division by Raub's ex-
Derts was marked in fractions as 3o-IS, ETC.
In order to charge fraud and incompetency
against ph Ysicians over the United States
Evans and Raub resorted to the bold lie of
pretending that such rating was ridiculous.
Evans order was concocted to conceal the
true degrees Of disability, such as 72-Isth,