Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-08
FIGURES FROM PENSION ROLL
List Reached Maximum Last January at a
Little Over Million.
ALLOWANCES UNDER THE AGE ORDER
Number to June 30 Nearly seventy
Thousand-TOtaI Payments for
Pensions over Three
Billions.

WASHINGTON, Sept. THE pension roll
reached the maximum number in its history
on January 21 last. the number being
l,O4le6. The roll passed the million mark
in September of last year and gradually
increased FOR the next four months The
decline began with the first Of last Febru-
airy and by the following May had dropped
below the million mark
These facts are developed in a synopsis
Of the annual report OF Pension Commits
sioner Warner covering the operations OF
his office for the fiscal year ended June 30
last. At the end of the year the number
Of pensioners had declined TO s9S,441, a net
increase for the year of 3, 4Ss.
The report shows the following additional
facts:
During the year the bureau issued 1s5, PAP
pension certificates, OF which number over
$1,000 were originals. The annual value of
the pension roll on June 30. 1906 was $780,,
1925. BY the term annual value" Is
meant the amount Of money required to pay
the pensioners then on the roll for one year
During the year 1888 pensioners we're
dropped from the roll by reason Of death
and Of these S0254 were survivors of the
civil war.
On June 80. 1908, the roll contained the
names Of 6S4, SOS survivors Of the civil war,
year.
The total amount disbursed for pensions
for the fiscal year is $1H,es2 .s4l, of which
Al97,l67 was for navy pensions and g, 400, -
seS was paid to pensioners of the Spanish
war and $18S 22,17O to the survivors of the
civil war, their widows and dependents.
The total amount paid TO Spanish war PEN
soners since 1899 is Sl1, ,996,19S
The total amount of money paid for pen
sions since the foundation OF the govern
ment is S3,32O.S6O,022 and OF this amount
81, ia, 1895. 4O5 has been paid on account of the
civil war. The total number OF claims al
lowed. original and increase, under order
No. 7S known as the age order" since
that order went into effect April IS, 1904, up
to June 80, 1905, was 65.612
Findings of VenesueIR Court.
The State department was today placed
In possession OF the full text Of the recent
decision Of the Venezuelan court OF last
instance confirming the judgment OF the
same court sitting as a tribunal of the first
Instance in the case of the Venezuelan
government against the New York and
Bermudez Asphalt Company for the non
fulfllment of contract obligations by the
asphalt company. The decision was trans
| mitted through the Venezuelan legation
| State Loomis by Senior N. Goiticoa, Venez.
uelan charge d'affaires.
The effect of the decision to rescind the
company's contract and condemn It TO pay
! the cost OF the suits was eabled on the
| date It was rendered, August last The
| document presented today gives besides ths
| decision brief history OF the litigation
| and the evidence and argument of either
| side to the controversy When the sui
was instituted a receiver was placed II
| charge of the property, and II is under
| stood this arrangement continues. Tn,
case is distinct from a second suit brough
| by the government against the compan,
seeking damages on the charge that tn,
| company instigated a revolutionary move
ment
! The contract which the decision rescind
was executed in 1888 and the clause which
was the cause of the suit required tn,
dredging of the navigable streams OF Ber
mudez by the company. The fact that tn,
dredging was not done. the court fnd
TO have been established, notwithstandinl
the showing to the contrary sought TO b.
made by the defendant company. The com
pany in Its argument sets up the CLAIM
| that its title to the property was not baset
! on the contract in question. II alleges tina
the terms of this contract were fulfilled
however, and II they had not been the com
pany not limited by the terms of tn
contract TO any period OF time I'm which Il
terms might be complied with. Finally, tn
company argued that the stipulation 4
dredge the rivers never legally existed an,
IL It did was covered by an ALTERNATIVE
proposition which was TO construct a rail
road and that the alternative proposition
had been met. This argument is answere,
by the court in this language:
The nonfulhllment OF the contract ol
| the part of the company is proved in thes
| Proceedings
RefriGeratOr Line Replies.
WASHINGTON. Sept THE reply o
the Santa Fe Refrigerator dispatch to IN
inquiry instituted by the Interstat
Commerce commission concerning TIA
relations of refrigerator lines and rail
roads was received today. The responder
agrees with the defense made by the Atch
ison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad In tina
both are engaged in distinct commercla
lines Of business and that the one re
ceives no part OF the charges made b
the other The refrigerator line says tha
1t does not act as the agent OF the raj
road in any manner; that the law ha
been infringed is denied in details.
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