The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-05-26
COMMISSIONER WARE AS A NEWSPAPER
CORRESPONDENT
canI,nent

Commissioner Ware is now figuring
quite ANONYMOUSLY as correspondent of
the daily papers. He followed up his let
ter to the atrabiious New York Sun,
which we republished, with the following
To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: In your
tprSe and amiaDie editorials You continue
to criticiSe penSion-age Order No. IS.
Criticism is valuable to public officer
because it tends to correct his Judgment.
While following your line of thought a
question occurs:
Suppose You are right in believing Order
No. IS all invasion of the legislative do
main; then, admitting that Congress voted
million and half dollars to carry out
the order, what should be done with this
money?
Shall it be paid to the old war veterans
as Congress. with IL knowledge of the Or
der as lawfully decreed, or shall | buy
lot of napkins and lay the money away
e. r. WARE. Commissioner.
Pension Bureau. Washington, May Is.
The Sun replied, laboriously trying to
be witty, but only succeeding in being
grabbed and snarly, saying:
Our advice to Mr.. Ware under the cir
cumstances is to study carefully the lam
suage of the act and to disburse the money
i'll strict accordance with the terms
thereof. His responsibility goes no fur
Their. We assume. of course that Mr..
Wares resignation has not taken effect
before the beginning of the fiscal year for
which the appropriation was made. If
Mr.. Ware gets out of Office before that
time the practical question will cease to
concern him.
after he has distributed the money in
exact accordance with the terms of the
act. and after he has recorded the dis
bursements by the ordinary methods of
the Bureaus bookkeeping, we advise
the Commissioner to open another set of
books in his private conscience and charge
the $1.5O0.OOO therein to Presidential
campaign expenses.
''rhen let him dsabuse his usually in
telligent mind of the unintelligent idea
that the vote of money by which the
majority in Congress avoided the un-
plPasantness Of direct issue with the
White House on question of Executive
usurpation constitutes in morals, in
logic. or in common sense, a barrier to
criticism of the original Executive act"
There are getting to be more and bigger
spots on the Sun all the time. and a spec
troscopc analysis shows dullness to be
their main constituent. The dullness is
aggravated by ill-natured consciousness
Of failure
Commissioner Ware replied to the Chi
cagO Tribune:
To Tribune, Chicago, iii.
l have received the following telegram
from you:
To Eugene Ware, Pension Commissioner.
Washington. ID. G.
Won't IrOnquill please write for the
Tribune poem on the resignation of Pen
sion Commissioner Ware and the troubles
of the Pension Department?
TRIBUNE.
First-The public looks with disfavor
on the act of the newspapers who hand
in my resignation every day. insist that
l shall not be resigned oftener than once
n week.
SecOnd-Your illusions to my youthful
indiscretions under guise Of asking for a
poem are treated with impairment silence.
Thlrd-There are no troubles i'm the
Pension Bureau. 1t is fountain Of pei
lucid. squirtiferons joy.
FOURTH shall stay in the Pension
Office until pardoned out Of it.
Yours. E. r. WARE.