The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-16
FEW ASK PENSIONS
but TWENTY-FIVE INDECENT CON-
FEDERATES IN CHATHAM.
THE SHOWING A GOOD ONE.
OTHER POPULOUS COUNTIES SHOW
MUCH GREATER PROPORTION.

Each Application Involves Much
TrOuble-Many Questions Must Be
Answered-At Request of COnfed-
crate Veterans List of All Free Lii
censes Granted Veterans Has Been
Prcpared-Intended to Stop the
Farming of Licenses-AssOcintiO
VIII Purge the List Thoroughly.
Judge McAlpin, ordinary of Chatham
county, has forwarded to the Com
missioner of Pensions, Hon. John w.
Lindsey the last of the applications
of INDECENT and MANNED Confederate
veterans. Though there We're COM
paratively few. when compared to the
number in other counties in the state.
there being only 25 in all. still their
preparation consumed much of the
time of the Ordinary, and he feels re-
lieved to have at length disposed of
.kera.
There are great many questions to
he answered in each application, and
these sometime involve painstaking
and research, for if the application is
not made cut in every respect as pro-
vided, it will be returned. For sew
cral weeks past the old veterans have
been constantly in the Office of the
Ordinary, and Judge McAlpin has en-
deavoured in every case to see that
every requirement is met. so that
there will be no delay in the receipt
of the money, and that the onerous
duties of the commissioner will be
made as light as possible.
Money Next January.
The commissioner will begin. at once
to examine the various applications.
This examination entails great deal
of work, and not until next January
will it be finished, and the money for
the veterans forthcoming. If defects
are found in any of the applications
the applicant will be at once notified,
and, If possible, the errors will be rec
tilted in time for the January payment.
These applications are, of course only
from those who have not previously
made application for pension, as it is
not necessary for a new application to
be made every year.
The ordinary also furnishes the COM
missioner with the names of all maim-
ed or INDECENT pensioners who have
died since the last payment. The judge
received a check for one veteran last
January who died few hours after 1t
had been turned over to him.
AChatham county has the fewest
Number of veterans drawing pensions,
in proportion to the number of en-
listed men, of all the counties in the
state. The last annual report of Com
missioner Lindsey discloses that other
counties of the size of Chatham have
five and six, and even seven, times as
many pensioned veterans In the num-
Der is included pensioners of every
class. invalids, indigents, and widows.
The number of these in several most
populous counties of the state is: Full
ton, 721; Bibb, ESQ; Cobb, 247; Walton,
239; Carroll, 240; Gwinnett, 214; Cow
eta, 213 Richmond, 1856; Habersham,
176; Meriwether, 100. The number in
Chatham county is 81.
Will Purge the List.
At the instance of the Confederate
Veterans Association, a list has been
prepared by the ordinary of all Con-
federate veterans who had free licenses
to do business granted to them. This
list was turned over to Mr.. Alexander
K. Wilson, of the McLaws Camp of
Confederate Veterans. 1t is the pur-
pose of the association to examine this
list and thoroughly purge it. There
has been some trouble recently on ac-
count of the abuse of the special privi-
lege granted the veterans, in several
cases the license having been farmed
| out.
1t is thought that the list made out
| by the Ordinary will obviate any fur
Their difficulties of this sort. The list
contains the names of nearly 300 vet
erans together with the age, command,
| duration of service and date of appli-
ration for, license