WAR PENSIONS. During the fiscal year 1918-19 the United States Government paid to 624:427 persons pensions totaling $222,129,292.70. This was the largest sum ever disbursed by the government since the pension system was adopted not\%ithstandinv the fact that the num ber of names Oil the pension roll v,as the small est since 1890. Payments on account of pensions during the preceding fiscal year amounted to $179,835,328.75. There were at that time 646,895 names on the pension rolls. The greatest num ber of names ever on the United States pension rolls was 999,446 in the year 1902. Paytnents to them totaled $137,502,267.99. According to the 1919 report of the Pension Commissioner the total pensions paid on account of the Civil War up to that year amounted to $5,299,859,509.39 and the total on account of all wars was $5.617,520, 402 30, including $65,211,665.71 pail on account of die Spanish-American War. The net reduc tion in the pension roll during 1919 was 22,468 names, 3Z149 names having been stricken from the roll while 9,681 names were added to it. Of
the pensioners on the rolls in 1919, 3,747 were scattered through 63 foreign countries, one being on the Island of Saint Helena, famous in history as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte's last exile and death. These pensioners in for eig.n countries received a total of $1,188,188.45. Ohio led the States with the greatest number of persons on the Federal pension rolls in 1919, there having been 60,002 residents of that State who drew pensions totaling $21,582,330.04 in that year. Pennsylvania Was second with 59,072 who received $20,630,813.44; New York came third on the list with 53,736 pensioners who drew $19,631,090.72; Illinois was fourth with 43,976 pensioners who received $15,956,335.52 and Indiana was fifth with 37,647 pensioners who drew $13,703,084.94. See PENsroNs.