Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-08

Another Whatever the cause may
Deadly be, declares q high author-
Peril. ity in London. quoted with
approval in the London,
Lancet. deaths under anesthetics arc
becoming too frequent all over tho
world. Last month, in one week alone,
fourinquests were held in England on
persons who had died under an anes-
thetle.t 1ns1s66 there were five sucil
deaf ha.isi England III 1900 there were
onsfdcra blyrSovcr2as hunded In l9oo
s there Gre 155 Last year there were
$50. A This. was In the case OF one nation.
In tho United States the figures seem
to be fully as startling. one thing ac-
Scordlng to the expert whose article III
4 the London Mail We copy here, Is Ger;
tain;s The use of anesthctlcs should
4 be totltrolls d ny legislation. Al pres
lent theSSsmay-i be- administered by any
/ bod yssssESIf II soil III glass.of beer TO an.
iothcrs sllaW will punish me; but !
may drug my friend to my hearts
content and athc law Will ignore me,
Moreover. II I tsuPposing, as an nus,
Stration. that ] am an unregistered
4practitionc,)s cnll in Il medical man TO
acknowledgements ailesthet!c to my patient
while I.let ne say, am setting MS
broken bone--bonc-s settlers are numef-
#ous-th;,t medical man Will be pun
ished by his professional authorities;
but IL call in my cook to anesthetiIc
my patient. then nothing will be said
by anyone. Seeing that an enormous
nurnbct of minor operations are car
ried out under 5ancsthetics by unresis-
tered and unqualified men. is there not
here at least ono ground for these
deaths ?"-Currnnt Literature (Octoberl.
some In announcing the result
Pension OF a long and painstaking
Frauds. Investigation of the pcn-
iyfIf3. 3 sion situation in this coun-
try, ThedWorltl's Work does not
charge that the Pension Bureau Is
corrupt; It Is not. Nor inefficient:
for neither Is It that. We do assert
that the body of legislation passed by
successive Congresses subservient to
the old soldier vote, and extended by
liberal Interpretations put upon It by
authorities OF the Pension Bureau.
has made so broad the road into the
National Treasury that there Is no
reason whyany man who was living al
the time of the Civil War need so
without Il pension. We do point out
that the evidence taken in pension
as the war recedcs the deaths Of re-
sponsiblo officers and undesirable
Witnesses make fraud more and more
easy; and We do assert that tho PEN
son-rolls abound in alterations of tho
proper purpose of tho military pension
system: that they are packed with un.
worthy and perjurcd names. and
honeycombed with fraud.
Since our Investigations began
and they have been pursued without
aid from the Pension Office and in the
face of the Commissioners refusal
to open the list to inspeCtion--we havo
come across: Cases where two and
even three persons had drawn pen
sions for one mans service: Cases
where pensions have been continued
long after the proper beneficinries were
dead; Cases where one man has drawn
several PENSIONS; Many cases where
leserters are receiving pay equal to
that of men who served to the end:
Cases where "bounty-jumPers" had
been given double pensions; Cases
where men absolutely without military
records have been given an enlist
ment and honorable discharge: In
Vulnerable cases where soldiers arc
being given compensation for Ills ut
terly unconnected witt, army service:
Cases where women never married to
soldiers are pcnsioned as legal Widows;
and cases whore girls born long after
the war; who had married. veterans
for the safe Of their pensions. arc
being paid by the nation.--The Worlds
Work.
IN Old The death of Harvey w.
Insult , Scott. the well known edi-
Resented tor and owner of the Port
II rs: land Oresonian, recalls tho
story of his first ana probably only
meeting with the late Senator Hoar OF
Massachusetts Mr. Scott was in
Westinghouse one day visited the
Capitol. In one or the senate elevators.
he was ascending to the gallery floor
In company with a friend. Senator Hoar
entered the lift and the friend who
knew him, thought 1t would be appro-
pirate thatthe should present the ia
nous western editor to the distinguish
cd MASSACHUSETTS, senator. Mr.. Scott
extended his hand in greeting. where
upon Senator Hoar Indignantly refused
to accept land rudely turned his back
upon him. declaring in his high pitched.
squcaky voice that he did so to resent
the attack which had been made upon
his old friend. Senator Morrell of Yer
mont. In Mr.. SCOTS paper. Editor
Scott was naturally amazed. If not cha
grined., a, this action n the part Of the
senator.jand could, recolect no instance
where he had assailed the venerable
senator from Vermont. 1t developed
latcr. however, that some pert para
,grapher on the Oregonian had once
printed something to tho effect that
Senator Morreil. who was nearly ninety,
was merely stalking about the senate to
avoid funeral expenses If Mr.. Scott
ever knew anything about the para
graph. Tho had Forgotten IT and could
scarcely be held accountable for it. but
It had stuck in Hoar's memory and by