Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-29

that was the hrst proposition, because, as
this physician said, the officers had asked
three times for the affidavit of a particular
man and had three times been told that the
man was dead. He asked me FIRST to con-
vince the Pension Department that the dead
can not swear, and next he wanted me to
look over the proof, I went over that proof.
The case was that of q lieutenant Of the
army, a robust young man, who had been
wounded by a piece Of bombshell near the
spinal column. His captain stood behind
him at the time tie wound was inflicted,
and the lieutenant was relieved from
service.
"The captain makes an affidavit as clear
as any you ever saw, saying that this young
officer was at once relieved from duty and
relieved from day to day afterwards. But
he never went to the hospital. lie said !
will come out all right. He went through
the war with that sore on his back. In 1854
he applied for a pension. The sore was still
there. The captain swore pointblank to
the fact of the lieutenant having been
wounded as stated that he was relieved
from service from time to time, but that he
had no hospital record because he never
went to the hospital. The examining board
showed the wound. Here comes in clerk
of the Pension Office and says, You must
have the affidavit of the surgeon The
surgeon states, I have no remembrance OF
this case; and it would be strange if / should
remember such a case, in view OF the great
number of cases with which had to deal
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well, the result is that the man can not
explain the discrepancy. They give him
certain time in which to explain and If
he does not explain within that time the
name must be knocked of in the days Of
administration of Commissioner Black. He
was knocked off the rolls because he did not
explain it within the time given TO him
Now his widow--his wife-comes, and the
/ department says in response to her request.
/ and ! suppose he thinks there is reason in
/ it, that we can not take up the cases Of the
man who preceded him in the administra-
! tiou Of the Office He says he can not over
/ rule the decisions established by General
/ Black in this new hearing for the benefit Of
/ the widow Result--a grievOus wrong re-
suited to the soldier who gave his life for
/ his country and now a delicate feeling and
a technical rule must stand between sup
! posed duty and justice
Now, Mr. Chairman, there are thousands
/ of lust such cases as this, and the greatest
injustice has been done to the old soldier,
as you will readily see the man who went
! into the service with patriotism in his heart,
who said, i want to serve the country, IT
possible, without remuneration while
other men not filed with such patriotic i'm.
pulses, hurried to the pension agency, got
luEAI HGll1lOub lNlLAEAAhAEAy dAkGA AAN Wal
closed, and the old fellow who put of the
evil day as long as possible is now denied
/ relief because he can not now prove his
case beyond all reasonable doubt" (See
Congressional Record, January I5, 1902,
page $751;
The discrepancy referred to in the evi-
dence was a matter not relating to the
soldiers statements, but slight difference
relating to results after discharge, in the
other evidence. Evans was lying when he
said he was estopped by Blacks decision.
| (See Hughes, deceased, 9 P, D.; Heinrich
10 P. D., and other later cases.
The policy of the villains is to hold to all
they steal. Delay, delay. delay, is the great
scheme of fraud to beat the veteran, his
widow and orphans The veterans of the
civil war are dying at the rate 10000 pei
year. This is the key to the code of delay.
Take another class Of these fraudulent
rulings, that which illegally denied pension
to minors under the new law where the
widow had no title to pension, having mar
ried the soldier since the passage Of the act
of June 81, 1890. In all Of those cases Har
rison's administration proceeded legally,
and pensioned the minors in every case
where it was admitted or proved that
the soldier did not die of disability due TO
service But the anti-pension gang changed
that, and reversed the practice, and rejected
all claims of those minors on the ground
that the widow was still living holding
that it made no difference whether she was
entitled to any pension or not At least as
! 600 reflections were thus made by Evans.
He continued these reflections four years,
and until October 1901 when the board Of
/ appeals in the Interior Department reversed
him ON the point (See Still, alias James,
u P. D., case No. 8, October II, 1901.
Evans was permitted to run that fraud
until it had about accomplished all there
was in it for the treasury, before the In.
terror Department reversed him. That is
one of the gangs schemes, to delay reversal
until the mischief is done. What did Evans
then do, when reversed Did he notify all
the other minors whose claims he had lille.
gally rejected? "Betyourhfe he didn't. "
He merely re-opened the single claim and
allowed it, and thereafter allowed such as
had not been rejected but the IS, 600 claims
unlawfully rejected are kept on the re.
jected files awaiting the time in the sweet
by and by" when the minors shall die with
out having learned that the unlawful re-
iections were reversed.
Commissioner Ware, under President
ROosevelts threat and instructions to con
tinue Evans frauds, is continuing each and
every fraud that Evans did. Let the veter-
ans cut this out and paste it in their hats for
November 1902 and 1904
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.