. A bird's eye view of our federal government . on laws, the timberculture acts, and the relinquishment acts, and adds to the list thecash entry and desert-land laws. This would leave only theoriginal homestead law on the«statute book, and this, the secre-tary declares, has proved the wisest and most honest method otdisposing of the agricultural public lands. 90. The Pension Office. The pension office—at first a bureau in the war depart-ment—was organized in 1833, and became an office in theinterior by the act organizing the new executive depart-ment in 1849. The commissioner of pensions is ch
. A bird's eye view of our federal government . on laws, the timberculture acts, and the relinquishment acts, and adds to the list thecash entry and desert-land laws. This would leave only theoriginal homestead law on the«statute book, and this, the secre-tary declares, has proved the wisest and most honest method otdisposing of the agricultural public lands. 90. The Pension Office. The pension office—at first a bureau in the war depart-ment—was organized in 1833, and became an office in theinterior by the act organizing the new executive depart-ment in 1849. The commissioner of pensions is charged,under the direction of the secretary of the interior, with iii OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. the administration of the laws awarding pensions and withthe jjaymeut of these pensions to persons entitled to are seventeen pension agencies established in differentparts of the union, and through these the payments are madeand new applications are received. With the increase inthe pension list and the constant change in the laws regu-. GEN. JOHN C. BLACK, COMMISSIOXER OF PENSIONS. [John C Black was born ni Mississippi in 1839, but at the age of eightyears removed to Illinois and has since been a citizen of that state. Hevolunteered in 1861 and served through the war, rising to the rank ofbrigadier general. Was disabled by Avounds in both arms when he leftthe service, but has since partially recovered. Has practiced law andtaken an active part in politics. Was appointed to his present positionin 1885.] la ting the granting of new, and the increase of old, pensions,the executive ability of the office is taxed to its utmost OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 73 capacity. Between the duty of guarding against fraudulentclaims on the one hand, and doing justice to all legitimateclaims on the other band, the administrators of our government pension laws need to be specially well qualified fortheir duties. The fact that they are not so qualified, andthat the pension office is a bureau of
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