Harper's Weekly, Vol. 37: A Journal of Civilization; June 17, 1893 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Harper's Weekly, Vol. 37: A Journal of Civilization; June 17, 1893

No man acquainted with this subject will deny that the [son-ion attorneys have been the most pow erful agency in procuring extravagant and vicious pension legislation. A lax construction of the law, and a loan administration of it in the Pension Office. Not to speak of the many thousands of cases in which they mduccd people who otherwise would never have thought of it to apply for peruions. Wheth at they were entitled to them or not. The pension attorney should be abolished. The pension utter ney's bosinca should be done by the clerical force of the Pension Office itself. If necruasry a special division should he established to answer all inqui ries, to give whatever information is asked for. To aid the claimant in making his application and in getting up his documents for proof. In short. To do without charge all the things now done by the attorney - except the crooked ones. This can he done. And should have laser: done long ago. It will give the claimant every monahle facility. And be a great economy to him as well as to the government. The attorney may then be dispensed with, and can properly in excluded from practice Ircforu the Pen sion Bureau. Thus the most powerful agency of evil will be put out of Ins-insert. The second mea sure istho publication of the namu of the pcnsloncm together with the nature of the disability for which they are peiuloncd. And the amount of the pension paid to thom.in the loralitirs in which the pensions an drawn, the lists to be exhibited in some public place, such as the postotllce. Nothing will he more effective in deterring false claimants and in bringing fraudulent pensioners to light than to put them un der the surveillance of their neighbors. It will do better service to the administration than hundreds of sprolal agents.

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