The pension bureau has been taken
out of the hands of odensive partis
ans, and mark the result: Nearly
every newspaper we pick up con
tains the announcement that so and
so has received his long expected
pension, or that the pension bureau
has at last settled down to business,
this being followed by the names of
two. three or four soldiers whose
pension claims have recently been
acted upon; and right hero at home
we find soldiers, republicans as well
as democrats, who are unstinted in
their praise of Commissioner Black
and his work. The department has
indeed settled down to business, and
instead of being used lor political
purposes it is being conducted in
the interest of those for whose bene
fit it was established. Within the
past few months a large number of
soldiers in this county have had
their pension claims acted upon some
of which had been on file in the de
partment for four and live years;
The Chicago Daily News a short
time ago contained an article upon
the workings of the pension bureau
under (Jen. Black, from which we
<piotu the following, which sets forth
the diflerenco between the old and
the now order of things:
If (lie character of (Jen. I! lack’s record
fur Hie first two and a half months of
ins service as commissioner of pen
sions be maintained through his term,
honest claimants will have cause to
bless the day that replaced the politi
cian Dudley with a democrat soldier.
