Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — PENSION AGENCIES TO BE ABOLISHED. [ARTICLE]

PENSION AGENCIES TO BE ABOLISHED.

Old Soldiers Will Receive Pension Cheeks Soon That are Long Overdue. “ After January ‘3l, ±913, the pension office at Indianapolis will be abolished. At the same time the seventeen other pension agencies in the various of the country will pass out of existence and thereafter all • -t pensions for old soldiers will be distributed through the pension bureau at Washington. This was agreed on by the senate and house leaders Wednesday when the senate passed the $150,000,000 pension appropriation bill. The house passed the bill Thursday and President Taft’s signature is expected at once. The action of the conferees was the culmination of a dispute that has held up the payment of more than $9,000,000 of pension installments and those of other states on August 4th and has thrown the financial operators of the pension bureau into chaos. The house proposed that these agencies be abolished on December 31st of the present year. This was the only provision of the bill in dispute and its settlement will end the deadlock between the house and the senate. The measure will abolish eighteen $4,000 jobs and result in the retirement of several hundred district clerks. A saving of about $250,000 in administration of the pension laws will follow. The pension checks which have been held up owing to the controversy in the congress over the abolishment of pension agencies will probably reach the old soldiers today.