Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-04

One of Pensioner Commissioner Evans
favorite schemes against the pension laws
is to purposely create illegal limitations
restrictions and estoppels, such as requiring
guardians to prove the dependence or
poverty of their wards, and then have his
sycophant experts 70 fabricate some pretext
in Justification, and himself simulate belief
igyit. In the bold attempt to steal he calls
At being "strenuous'D two million dollars
annually from the wards he gave himself
away in his exhortation to all good people
to sustain him in it. That was confession
of Evans criminal Intent, and that he was
lying. No honest Commissioner would
make such appeals as that on a law point
In his last annual report he said Of this
violation Of a well-estabhshed law enforced
since the foundation Of the bureau: 4
would state that It is my conviction that the
justice of said decision written up by
Evans and signed by Campbell through
Evans fraudulent concealment) the truth
of its deductions, and the consequent
directness and force Of its conclusions. will
appeal to the courts, to all right-minded
guardians and others directly or indirectly
concerned and 20 the general public as
well and have, further, no doubt that this
mately flow therefrom." (P. So Evans
worked three years in getting that decision
through The Comptroller Of the Treasury
Department took one look at the bold VIOLA
ton and Knocked Il into cooked hat'' at
one swipe. (See GLOBE Feb. I6 March I6;
Hall, II P. d. case Brick, II P. D. case g.
Evans career in the Office proves con-
clusively that he is not trying to execute
the laws which we have, but laws of his
own make which he thinks that we ought
to have He has put in over thirty years Of
his life bowling against the pension laws,
and this is the hrst time he has had the
power to change them TO suit himself For
FIVE years he has been carrying on this un.
lawful process Of changing the pension laws
bv ukase. Could such a man retain his po
sition two weeks unless he had Hanna and
a few others in Congress and the President
in the ring to screen and protect him in
these violations Of the persion laws? Now
that his resignation has been forced the
President is Withholding acceptance TO give
the veterans a final slap in the face for dar-
ing to demand his removal. The number Of
times that his orders mot the isolated find
ings Of his clerks) have been overruled af
fecting large blocks of claims, proves the
wilfulness Of his mania, and would have
caused his removal four years ago, had he
not been carrying out the plans Of Hanna
and the Republican leaders to boldly violate
the pension laws and to hold to the viola
lations until Evans had done the mischief
before overruling him. The demand now
Of the Republican bosses for Evans promo
ton is to reward him for violating the laws.
What else can it meanl Is it to reward him
for his attempt to scandalze pensions and
libel the veterans, their witnesses and the
I742 physicians on the examining boards
throughout the United Statesl He has
done nothing else. He blows hot and cold
all the time. He holds up 10000 claims of
minors because over 2I years old and holds
up the pension Of $4,000 minors to wait
twenty-one years for their paw, or until
they shall have become twenty'one years
old. He has the secret backing to force the
Interior Department to adopt both schemes
for the FIRST time in the history Of the Gov
eminent, and in the face Of the explicit
ruling of the Interior Department under
Cleveland's administration and Of several
attorney generals. Although compelled
after long delay to recede from this unlaw
ful scheme Evans is 10 be rewarded. This
same political gang has compelled the In
terror Department to play false with 6,ooo
claims of minors still held on the holdu
files, although ready for paying out the
money Those not yet ready are unlawfully
estopped from completing their claims by
having them pigeon hoied before com-
pleuon. They have thus been held unlaw
fully for five years by these Republican
lovers of the soldier and negro. GLOBE
Dec. az, 1901 Jan, Io and Mar. 3o 1909.
Bah The negro finds his friends not in
the ranks of the Republican bosses now.
Surely the old soldier has found his worst
enemies in the ranks Of the Republican
administrations for the past hve years,
There has been before nothing like Evans
unlawful course in the history of the United
States. The old soldier and the negro are
used as a cats paw TO swell the votes for the
Republican party, while the veteran is Off
cially traduced, maligned and defrauded out
of his legal rights by Evans under the
championship and protection of the Repub-
lican administrations. Columns and pages
Of the soldier-hating newspapers are filed
with tables Of names and claims and falsi.
hed facts garbled and copied from the PEN
sion Office books by Evans orders at Uncle
Sans expense, and sent out to those news
papers for publication 10 misrepresent the
true character Of the veteran and of pension
claims. When an M. c., friend Of the old
soldier, demands on the floor of the House
Congressional investigation OF the Pension
Office to disprove these fraudulent charges
and to prove Evans fraudulent character
and the magnitude of the frauds, both on
the legal side and the medical side Of the
bureau, against pensioners and claimants,
the books Of the Office are closed and the
Congressional investigation is denied: the
Congressman who dared to make the motion
on the floor of the House is ridiculed,
abused and set onto by the gang Of Repub-
hcan Aunkies IN the House under the dicta-
ton of the Hanna syndicate; and the renom-
ination Of the mover is threatened with de-
feat, and the attempt made to carry out the
threat by putiIg up an administration
Office holder against him in the convention
and almost succeeding in the attempt to
defeat the NJ. C.s denomination. They
went far enough and succeeded near enough
TO teach the recalcitrant NJ. c. that discre-
ton is the better part Of valor," and to