Abstract

"Politics"' in The Pension Bureau

The article presents information about the politics in the U.S. Pension Bureau. One is in a fair way to find out what it has cost the country to have the Pension Bureau in the hands of a political worker for nearly 3 years. The statistician of the Bureau, Tom Sawyer, testified last week before an investigating committee, that when Commissioner William W. Dudley took charge of the office in 1881 its running expenses were about $500,000 a year; that now they are $2,900,000; that the examiners' division alone costs $1,000,000 a year, though the increase in work there is very slight. The expense-account clerk testified that the reports of the special examiner showed that no work at all was done during the last two weeks of September.