People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — PENSION AGENCIES DROPPED. [ARTICLE]

PENSION AGENCIES DROPPED.

Nine Important Offices Will Be Consolidated. Washington, Dispatch: The President has signed, on the recommendation of Secretary of the Interior Francis, an important order reducing the number of pension agencies in the United States from eighteen to nine. The object of the order is to effect a very large saving to the government without inconveniencing the pensioners. The Secretary demonstrates that by this reduction of the pension agencies the cost of distributing pensions can be reduced by at least $150,000 per annum. The change was made possibly by an amendment to the law governing the disbursing of pensions which was approved March 23, 1896. It required that all pensioners should, after that date, be paid by checks remitted by mail.