Article May 27, 1905 Issue

Pensioners who Want to Give Up their Pensions

Brooklyn (N. Y.) Citizen

The United States Pension Office has been considerably embarrassed lately by the efforts of a number of pensioners to give up their pensions. The situation is said to be entirely novel, and the law does not provide for such a contingency. These pensioners are sending in their certificates, with letters stating that they are not entitled to draw this allowance from the government, and asking to be stricken from the pension rolls.

It is learned that by far the largest number of pension resigners are men who claim to have been healed of their physical disabilities by Christian Science.

One of the cases to come to the attention of the department was that of Robert Waddell of West Mitchell, Iowa. He wrote to Washington, sending his pension certificate, and asking that his name be dropped from the rolls, as he had entirely recovered from the disabilities which were the ground for granting his pension. He said he had been cured by Christian Science. The Pension Office officials suspected the man of a mild form of insanity and sent a special examiner to Iowa to look into the case.

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