False claim 64 False certification 26 False affidavit 16 False personation 5 Perjury 40 Forgery 18 Illegal fee 26 Personating government officer 21 Retaining pension certificate 2 Prosecuting claims while a government officer 4 Conspiracy 2 Embezzlement 1 Attempted bribery 1 It has been the uniform practise not to recommend prosecution in any case unless the criminal intent of the parties was clearly shown; and in the cases of soldiers and their dependents, to resolve every doubt in their favor, and not to recommend prosecution where it was apparent that they had been drawn into a violation of the law by others. As a result of this practise, the majority of the convictions secured were against attorneys, agents, sub-agents, magistrates, and others responsible for the preparation and filing of false and fraudulent claims and evidence, and those who falsely personated soldiers or soldiers' widows. Eugene F. Ware succeeded Mr. Evans as Commissioner of Pensions early in 1902. Mr. Ware is a Kansas man, prominent both in the literature and politics of that State for the last twenty-five years. He has stirred up matters in the Pension Bureau by making even the humblest clerk feel that good work will meet with promotion, and that no influence can keep inefficiency in that responsible place. He has also announced that no one who habitually uses intoxicants can be entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the aged and indigent soldiers, forlorn widows, and helpless children. The consequence is some have been dismissed for drunkenness, others have resigned, others have quit their cups. Mr. Ware comes from a state where prohibition has made the jail a useless building except for storing the great surplus of corn. One of his poems says: The horse-thief went, the cowboy joined the church, The justice of the peace is laughed to scorn; The constable has tumbled from his perch, The school has left the sheriff in the lurch— The jail is full of corn. His poem on John Brown, the hero of freedom, satisfies. The first three verses read as follows: States are not great except as men may make them; Men are not great except they do and dare. But states, like men, have destinies that take them That bear them on, not knowing why or where.