Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

only review of the old evidence that was
in the case at the former adjudication, as a
court of review which is not trial court,
and that new evidence can not be heard or
allowed. This is all pretense on his part
TO defraud the law and the claimants. Re.
Gently he has changed the rule after running
it over four years, so as to permit evidence,
but refuses to permit his clerks to call for
evidence or give claimant any notice or in
structiou how to proceed. He might as
well chain his rule to the dome of the Capt.
toll He knows that too
Tantalus was chained in a lake of water.
When he became thirsty and assayed to
drink the waters receded; when he hungered
beautiful and luscious fruit was on the
boughs of trees within his grasp, but eluded
him when he reached for the fruit. From
this we get our word tantalize.
In the meanwhile Evans was refusing to
take the ratings Of the medical examining
boards in the counties because of their al
legged ignorance and incompetence; and he
was, as above in his book, refusing to
permit evidence on the subject although
expressly ordered so to do and the law
itself positively requires a readiudication
ae moro. Take his section 3 of his book on
the same page and same subject It bears
the inherent marks of fraud.
"3. When the pensioners name has been
dropped from the rolls on the ground of no
ratable disability and new declaration is
hled alleging the same or additional causes
Of disability, the process OF the adjudication
of such claim will be the same as if no prior
application had ever been filed, and pen
sion, If allowed Hereunder will be termed
renewal, and commences at date of filing
the new declaration" evans book, page
Iod, Sec. g.
The above, sectior g. was gotten up by
Evans to violate the act of Congress ap-
proved March 8, 1906 for rerating all those
dropped and reduced pensions. That act of
Congress provides that upon filing a new
claim for pension the prior rejection shall
be readjudicated and all orders rules and
practice Of the bureau or department to the
contrary are expressly annulled by the act
Of Congress. The above section by Evans
was intended and invented to defeat that
law by holding that claimant must expressly
complain OF injustice, or expressly ask
to have that law applied. The above in
vention is based on the known fact that old
soldiers are not pension experts, and the
requirement of that section required what
it was found the veteran was not up to, and
not doing. Two hundred thousand claims
under act March 6, 1896, we're thus ignored.
That rule has been followed almost all of
Evans five years. 1t was set aside once
again by Campbell, but Evans revived it
again in January IS, 1901. (See GLOBE May
I8 and IS, June l and g. Dec. and April 90.
The object Of the Hanna anti-pension
syndicate in so manipulating the practice
that evidence should not be had is to with
hold from the medical referee and his as
sistants (supposed to be doctors) the true
history of soldiers illness, his physical con-
dition and ability to labor. II has been held
in more than a thousand decisions that
ability to labor is not a mere medical ques-
tion, but a question which may be proved
by lay testimony of neighbors and asso-
ciates and all the evidence lay and medical
taken toge, her. Any person but fool or a
fraud would admit that proposition and
those decisions, and call for evidence.
Congressman Bell, of Colorado, (the ever
to-be-renie mbered Evans funkie) admitted
in his speech on the floor of the House,
while praising Evans, that Evans admitted
to the House Pension Committee all along
that the Office does not pay any attention
to the rating of the local boards" " (CO0-
greSSfonaI Record Jan. I3, 1909, page $50;
GLOBE Jan. 26.) The necessity or obtaining
a full history of the continuance of soldiers
condition from its inception, and especially
during the pensiouable period is therefore
highly material in such cases. This is why
Evans would not yield to Davis. Old men
with and without wives to support were re-
jected who were not able to work and who
had no property and we're supported by
charity in part, while rich widows worth
from $4 600 to $50, 900 are pensioued as a sop
to the @. A. r. committee. Many of these
rich widows are not in law or fact the
widows of the soldier when peusioned
but the widows of later husbands Some
Of these rich widows pensioned under the
act of March 3, 1901 passed by Congress as |
a sop to the G. A. r. committee as a reward
for their perhdy against4oo, 900 old veterans
thrown overheard along with the Philade-
phia resolution) have had three husbands
since soldier died, and were divorced from
some of these husbands. That act of Con-
gress was pet job of the Hanna anti.pen-
sion syndicate. One of Evans hobbies is
that only the widows who were married
during or before soldiers service should be
pensioned. The true reason for this con-
tention lies in the fact that soldiers are
chiefly young men and marry soon after
discharge. Such a law would cut off the
majority of widows and place them on the
black list The act of March 3, 1901, was
not only a reward to that perfdous c. A. r. |
committee, but it served Evans thought)
as an educator--an eye. .opener-to turn the |
tide of public opinion against widows even
by pretending to favor them The Hanna
auti-pension syndicate look only at general
results of the ledger. They will pension |
anybody OF any class however fraudulently |
if thereby they can defraud larger class Of |
legal pensioners.
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