Pension Agencies Will Stay

Washington, April 13.- The president has determlned to rescind the order isued by President Cleveland consolidating the pension angecies. The order is to take effect Sept. 1, but doubtless will be rescinded long before then. Commissioner of Pensions Evans shares this opinión and he has forwarded for the consideration of the president and Secretary Bliss a report setting out that instead of making a saving of eonsiderably over $100,000 in the way of clerk hire, etc, it would increase the expenditures by $200,000. This is accounted for by the character of the business of the agencies, the report claiming that the agencies Consolidated with others are "cheaper agencies"- that is, agencies where rentáis, clerk hire and similar expenses are not comparatively New York, with a pension roll of 52,000, is shown to have a clerk hire allowance of $36,000, the same amount accorded the Columbus, O., agency, which ha? doublé the pension roll, or 104,000. In this coneetion these figures are given as significant: New York, 52,000 pensioners, $36,000 clerk hire; Columbus. 104,000 pensioners, $36,000 clerk hire; Des Moines, 56,000 pensioners, $24.clerk hire; Knoxville, 56,000 pensioners, $22,000 clerk hire; Boston. 54,000 pensioners, $28,000 clerk hire; Buffalo, 46.000 pensioners, $24,000 clerk hire; Milwaukee, 50,000 pensioners, $19,000 clerk hire. __