Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1892 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1892 TWELVE PAGES,

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MR. COOPER ON THE STAND.

COMPLETELY EXONERATES HIMSELF FROM RAUM'S CHARGES. Bannt Knew of flersey's Act, Yet Did No Inform the Representative A Clear Cm t Perjury e)n the Part of On of Raum' Witnesses A Lively Time In the House. Washington, April 12. Representative Cooper of Indiana today made a statement beforo the house pension office investigating committer in denial and in explanation of the charges made Against hin by Commissioner Raum. Mr. Cooper Baid. ho would neither excuse or justify Hersey's conduct, but from tbo facts it would be 6een that be (Cooper) had infinitely more cause to complain than anyone else and that he had not the slight est responsibility therefor. Witness, needing assistance. employed Hcrsey at $20 per month, after learning that he was considered competent and reliablo and (rare him the necessary authority to use his name on conpreapionsl call slips. During most ot the time Ilersey C. TV. COOPER. worked for him attorneys cou'.d examine their eases. Out-of-town attorneys, however, had no method of learning the etatua of their cases except by calling to their aid a member of congress or corresponding with the bureau. Thousands of ccmnlainta had beea received that the letters of claimants and attorneys were wholly ignored by the peneion office, and he eabmitted letters complaining that the whole system was being worked for the benefit of Washington attorneys. Recently he understood the order had been moilified so as to prevent attorneys and claimants from looking at their cases. He had no excuse to make for any one who abused the confidence of a congressmen to supply for pay the demand fcr information about cases, but ' the policy purBued by Commissioner Kaum to bank np all this business in the bands of Washington attorneys, among whom are his son and indorsers of his notes, he submitted, is much more of a crime and a more harmful debauchery of the public service. Whatever Mr. Mersey had dono in the way of selling pension Information had been done without his Mr. Cooper's) knowledge or consent, aa had already been testified. The couimislioner knew as early as September la?t that Ilersey was abusing witness confidence, and in January trie commissioner had asked witness if Hereey was authorized to Bijro witness' name a thintr he already knew and yet instend of telling him (witness) of his suspension he had done everything in his power to have HerBoy bribed, and in the hope that he might entrap witness had spread a net over two or three states and called Iiis epiea and Inforaiers into requisition. The first information witness had that Mr. Ilersey was receiving pav for work dona over his signature was when he received tbe letter from Morgan inclosing 125, whi:h witness returned in a letter, telling Morgan that Ilersey could not take pay for work done as apart of witness' congressional duties. It was untrue that he had told Mr. Morgan that Ilersey would work for him for pay, and witness desired to make the declaration that he had never, directly or indirectly, asked or accepted a cent for any service growing out of his connection with pnbdc atfairs. Mr. Rauni had introduced a ereat deal of correspondence between Ilersey and Mr. Peet, atd charged that Peet was related to witness. Mr. Cooper e:iid Peet was a brother-in-law of his brother and an employe of Marin fc Shwsher, pension attorneys. Mr. Peet had told him that ho Intended to jro into business in Kansa3, ind wanted a partner. At Peat's request witness recommended Peet to Horsey. He 'believed an honorable partnership was contemplated, and never afterward thought or heard of the matter. Mr. Cooper then referred to the charge that he had authorized Marine t"c blusher to print his einature on thousands of imitation congressional call slips which bad been thrown in the waste basket by Com mid? ion ers Black and Tanner. Mr. Cooper paid Maring had been mentioned for the republican nomination in his (Cooper's) district, and when witnes became a member of congress in 1S89, Mr. Maring, who had an extensive pension business, came to him and said he desired to use witness' name in calling ud cases of "the boys." Witnes3 knew nothing of pension laws at the time, and on Mr. Maring' representations that it was a usual thins and the exhibition of & call Gigned by Senator Iurpie, trave Marine consent, but with the undemanding that the privilege was to be used only for soldiers in witness' district. Witness afterward learned that Maring was calling up claims all over the country and then wrote to Commissioner Tanner and told him that while he had authorized the use of his name he bad expressly limited that privilege to soldiers of his district. Commissioner Kaum, for purposes which would be perfectly piain, had either destroyed or in some manner suppressed the whole of this correspondence. If that letter and witness' ether correspondence with Commissioner Tanner were produced Raum's criticism would be answered in advance. The recklessness of Gen. Raum, Mr. Cooper said, was shown in his submitting an affidavit of David L. (iitt that Commissioner Black had thrown 5,000 of witcess conzressional call slips into the waste basket when the record showed witness did not become a congressman until Gen. Black went out. In his desire to injure witness, CowroUs-ioner Raum had been guilty of a deliherate falsehood for he had called attention to Ilersey'a having ued witness' name or call slips nnd said he had made n discovery that Ilersey had used any other member's name than that of witnes-J when the very papers he filed as exhibit showed five casea in which other members' names WOKTXI A GCIttEA A Dor." CURE SICK HEADACHE. 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were uaed. It had been ptated, Mr. Cooper said, that 40.000 call slips had been printed in hid name, whereas the printer testified that only 5,000 had been printed. The witness produced letters between himself and ex-Commia-gioner Tanner. They showed that ho himself had inclosed a sara nie congressional call slin printed in Indiana to Commissioner Tanner, and called attention to it and asked if it were proper or improper for hin to t give permission to Maring k Slusher to use them. Commissioner Tanner's reply said, "Moat assuredly the Blips cannot go," and that the office could not permit the printing presses nil over the country to send out these slips. Mr. Cooper next put in a letter directing Maring it Slusher to discontinue using the sl;ps. In the honne Mr. Cooper roso to a pergonal explanation relative to the testimony taken by the Raum investigating committee. He was proceeding to criticise the action of the pension oflice, when he was interrupted fcy Mr. Lind (Minn.) with a point of order." lie said it was not only in bad taste, but was against every rule of courtesy and decency and azainst the rules of the house to discuss an issue which was now being investigated by a special committee. It was out of order for the gentleman to take up and review ex parte letters and statements reflecting on the action of the bureau. After some little discussion Mr. Cooper was allowed to proceed but had not gone far whea he entered upon a criticism of Commissioner Raum and was called to order by Mr. Hopkins (III.). He epoke a few more sentences and made an allusion to "spies and creatures" of Commissioner Raum and was a2r.n1 called to order by Mr. Burrows (Mich.) and again by Mr. Johnson (Ind.). Mr. Cooper proceeded with hia statement, however, but he proceeded over a corduroy road. At each etep he encountered opposition, and the speaker finally said that the gentleman's remarks vere more largely addressed to assailing Commissioner Raum than to answering any charges made against himself. Mr. Cooper was then allowed to proceed without further interruption. BrnEAC of Tiik Sentinel, 1 1420 NEW York-avp. X. V.r Washington. D. C, March 1.1. ) In the Raum investigation today David T. Gill retracted hin statement that Commissioner Black in ISS3 ordered Cooper's gre?eional call nips thrown in the waste basket. He said he was led into that impression by a conversation with Raum. He now recollects that Cooper came into congress after Black had gono out of oflice. Morgan, of Bloomington, Ind., gave the whole conspiracy away today and went immediately on the stand. He admitted that he had tried to entrap Cooper by sending him the twenty -five dollars to be paid Ilersey, but excused himeif by saying that he was required to do eo by the detectivo whom Raum eent out to Bloomington for this purpose. After Morgan's testimony Repressntative Duncan (O.) said to The Skntinel correspondent: "The attempt of Commissioner Raum to smirch the reputation of Mr. Cooper has proved a boomerang. The evidence before the epecial investigating committee of the peusioa bureau today showed that Raum sent out epecial examiners at government expense to put up a job on Mr. Cooper, and procured a letter to be written to him, inclosing $25 for the use of his name to call up pension claims. Mr. Coop.r at onco returned the money to the surprise of Raum's emissaries, who expected Cooper would be "on the make" as many of the chiefs of Raum's bureau were. After the evidence was heard, the committee of five, three democrats and two republicans, ail being present.unanimousiy expressed thoir judgment that Mr. Cooper had been clean and straight from first to last and was entirely blameless in the matter. Of courso the republican members expressed no opinion of Raum's methods in attempting to smirch Cooper, but they were frank and open in their exoneration of Mr. Cooper from any suspicion of improper conduct." Before the Raum investigating commitj tee today, T. U. Buckley testified that ho was associated with Commissioner Raum in the American gypsum mininz company, capitalized at $2,000, 00, V. W. Fleming, Gen. W. W. Dudley and others being stockholders. Mr. Raum told him he had hypothecated $100,000 of the stock to Mr. George H. Lemon as eecurity for a loan of $25.000. V. Mli llodgkins, discharged pension oflice clerk, testified that nine out of ten of the cases which came before him under the completed files order belong to George F. Lemon. For tho first six weeks after the order was issued five-sevenths of the ca.es in his division were Lemon's. James Morgan of Bloomington. Ind., who was tho Indiana pension attorney, introduced to Ilersey by Representative Cooper, took the st md, and in answer to Mr. Cooper's questions, said that ever ince Mr. Cooper's election to congress he had written to Cooper on departmental matters and Cooper had attended to them forhira without compensation being offered except as concerned the $25 witness sent to Mr. Hereey through Mr. Cooper, and which Mr. Cooper returned at once. Representative Lind (rep.) said frankly that he did not believe Mr. Cooper guilty of any wrong, but in any event Mr. Cooper was not under investigation, and he objected to consuming more time uselesslyJ lie withdrew tho objection upon finding that the testimony related to facts already developed. Mr. Morgan testified that Mr. Cooper, in introducing him to Ilersey, had said that Ilersey would ausist witness if he had anything worth paving for; but he should say that Mr. Cooper's manner in saying it gave him eimply the impression that Mr. Cooper recommended HerBey as a competent prtmion attorney. His testimony in other resptcts did not differ much from what has heretofore been stated. Mr. Payson also said that ho did not allege anything wrong on Mr. Cooper's part. A very important admiesion was obtained from witness by Mr. F.nloe, the witness acknowledging that he had written the letter inclosing the $25 to Mr. Cooper at the suggestion of Special Examiner Greenwal; of the pension office, whom Commissioner Raum had sent out to investigate the matter. Mr. Greenwalt had practica'ly framed the letter and had himself eent the money in a registered letter, instead of by draft or check, to Mr. Cooper, insteadof to Horsey, in order that the matter might be fastened on Mr. Cooper and he be entrnpped. Greenwalt said the oflice suspected Ilersey was calling up cases under Mr. Cooper's name and with his knowledge, and that Mr. Cooper was a party to it. It was a decoy letter, the witness admitted, but it failed because Mr. Cooper had returned the moner" in a letter stating that Ilersey could take no money for work dono for him (Cooper). Witness denied having written tho letter for Greenwalt because he feared disbarment He was a republican. Chairman Wheeler "After you knew this matter was wrong you sent this $25 for Mr. Grsenwalt, to a member of con-

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press, for tho purposo of seeing if a representative in congress would accept money for illicit information?" Mr. Morgan "Mr. Greenwalt had come there and figuratively taken charge of ma. I did it because ho commanded or requested it of me." Washington, April 14. James T. Morgan, the Bloomington (Ind.) attorney, testified before the Raum committee that the whole, correspondence with Cooper was a decoy to entrap him. There are a great many discrepancies in witness' statements. Yesterday afternoon he aaked to be excused, and testified that he had received a telegram from his wife aaying her sickness had become more serious; but he was compelled to admit that ho had come to the committee room direct from the train and that he had not received any telegram.

J. P. Greenewalt, a special examiner in the pension ofiice, denied that the commissioner had directed him to connect Mr. Cooper with the slips matter ; said he had left out of the depositions he took nothing that he thought material, and denied that he had excluded from the depositions of Mr. Peet or any other persons statements because they tended to exonerate Mr. Cooper. The committee adopted a resolution calling the attention of the secretary of the interior to the extraordinary character of the testimony of Mr. Morgan, but making no recommendation. BrREAU op The Sentinel, 1 1420 New York-Avf., N. W . Washington. D. C, April 15. ) Representative Cooper left for his home at ColumbuB, Ind., today feeling, as all of his friends do, that ho has won a great victory over Pension Commissioner Raum and the coterie of conspirators who inttigued in a dastardly attempt to smirch the Indiana congressman's character. The alleged lawyer, Morgan of Bloomington, Ind., finds himself in a disgraceful plight. II is a confessed perjurer and will be disbarred from practice before the pension office Mr. Raum was nnfortunato in eelecting Morgan as the tool to do his dirty work, for the fellow 6eema not to have ordinary intelligence and succeeded in getting both himself and the peneion commissioner into trouble. Mr. Cooper's friend are proud of the way he has handled himself throughout the entire investigation. Senator Voorhees and tho entire democratic delegation from Indiana congratulated Mr. Cooper on the successful outcome of his prosecution of Raum. Tho latter'fi attempt to divert attention from the charges against himself by cooking up counter-accusations against M. Cooper with the assistance ot a confessed perjurer, has resulted disastrously for the pension commissioner and his accomplice. Both of them are disgraced in the eyes of honest men while Mr. Cooper comes out of tho muss without a blemish, and more highly esteemed than ever before by his colleazues in congress. Assistant Secretary Bussey testified beforo the pension office investigation committee today that he had recently received a letter from an attorney stating that James Dugan, acting as clerk to Representative Hallowell (Pa.), had oflered to furnish information similar that furnished by Ilersey. He had sent the letter to the commissioner. Mr. Bussey contradicted statements made by Green B. Raum, jr., yesterday reflecting ou the character of James Engle, a pension office clerk who brought charges against him. W. E. Stieff, a pension office clerk, testified that he and other pension officers were specially assigned to attend to the calls made by Mr. Dunbar, Mr. Cooper's congressional competitor. R. K. Durnan, chief of the western division of the pension ofiice, testified that his division answered about seventyfive of Mr. Dunbar's calls, and some 150 or 200 remained unanswered. The instructions were to answer ail that could bo answered by Tuesday before the election, the inference, ol course, being that if calls could not be answered by that time it wouid be no good. Mr. McCullough, another clerk, testified that he was discharged by the commissioner, who wrote that he did not know that witness was furnishing information to George B. Fleming, btit tho fact that witnof-s associated with Fleming was sufficient reason ior his discharge. lie was reinstated after declaring that ho had furnished no information to Fleming. He worked on cases under the completed files system. Mr. Lemon at first had most of the cases. Subsequently Milo B. Stevene, who had officers in Washington, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit, had more cases than any one else. Deputy Commissioner Davidson of the pension office testified that when he received Mr. Dunbar's letter asking to be treated on the same plane with congressmen with respect t pension cases the request was accompanied by about 250 calls. It was unusual for the olfica to give this privilege to other than members in such a large number of cases, though it was customary to occasionally call up casas for prominent persons. Concerning tho investigation of Raum and Representative Cooper's connection with it this morning's New York World says editorially: Congressmau Cooper was last year the most active of ltaum'a investigators. This year Kaum has sought to ruin Cooper by connecting him lalsely with dishonorable transactions. For that purpose he has brought to Washington a perjurer, Morgan, who has broken down under cross-examination and told the whole story of the pension office conspiracy to defame Mr. Cooper. It ie m story so shameful that under prosecution it ought to send everybody connected with it to jail. It is the story ota conspiracy organized by one of Raum's trusted agents to entrap the congressman with decoy letters into a false seeming of dishonorable conduct, to breakdown an honorable pnblio career and ruin the life of a man in revenge for his activity In the disciiartre of a pnblio duty. These facts were on Thursday brought to the attention of the administration by a resolution approved by the whole iuvestinting committee, republicans and. democrats. What is the president going to de about it? and how long is he going to wait before doing it?" In the pension office investigation today Mr. McCullongh, a clerk in the pension office, testifiedthat it was a matter of general talk in tho pension office that John Raum, the commissioner's son, had an unueually largo number of the earlier cases taken up on the completed files order, but said he had no information on the subject of his own knowledge. John B. Peyton testified that ho had beard that he bad been discharged from the pension office for ofiensive partisanship, in aiding the democratic party in getting up their campaign book and neglecting his duty. Witness denied that the charges were true, a) his record would show. He complained that Secretary Noble had testified that he never dismissed persons without giving them an opportunity to answer charges when he (Peyton) had. never been permitted to refute the charges made. Warden Burke of the U. S. jail and a commander of Meade poBt, G. A. R., testified that he had endeavored to have reinstated a pension office clerk, an old sol

Burkau of Tiie Sentinel, ) 1420 New Yoek-avk.. N. W V Washington, D. C, April 16. )

dier named McGinni?, who had been dismissed on no other ground than that he was a democrat, but Commissioner Kaum said this was a republican administration and refused to recommend his reinstatement " - PENSION APPROPRIATIONS.

More Money llequlred Than at First Sup. posed. The belief prevails among many senators that the house has cut tha appropriations for pensions below the absolute requirements of the law, and it is probable that the total appropriation carried by the pension bill will be swelled by several million dollars when it is returned to tho house by the senate. Commissioner Kaum, in submitting estimates of the amount required to pay pensions during the next fiscal year, placed the sum at 5147,000,000. The house committee cut $13,000,000 from this estimate, leaving the total appropriation $134,000,000 The reason assigned for this reduction was the belief of tbo committee, grounded on a careful scrutiny of the workings of the peneion office, that at the end of the present fiscal year there would remain unexpended from the general appropriation $13,000,000. As this surplus would be available to supplement the appropriations of next year, it was held that these appropriations could well be reduced by an amount nearly corresponding to the surplus. But that action waa taken by the house committee many weeks ago and meantime the pension ofiice has been working along with much diligence and has paid so many pensions that the senators have come to the conclusion that the surplus which will be left at the end of the present year will be near 55,000,000, which, if true, would oblige the senate to add nearly $10.000,000 to the total of the pension- bill as it came from the house. It is possible, with a view of fixing the appropriation as nearly as possible at tho requirements of the pension bureau, that the pension appropriation bill will be allowed to remain unacted on in the senate committee on appropriations until tha end of tho fiscal year is close at hand, or at least till thero is obtainable more information than is now at hi.nd with reference to the amount f surplus. CONGRESS IS MAD Because) the Stet Prpnrtrue&t Assumes Too 31 11c h towtr. There's trouble ahead for the state department. It results from the payment of the indemnity to the Italian government for the New Orleans lynching event. It was not because an indemnity had been agreed upon tbat fault was found, but because the president has assumed the right to pay it without consulting congress. The members of the committee on foreign affairs aro very indignant at what they characterize as an arbitrary use of the sum of $30,000, which has been annually voted for some years for the contingent fund of the state department. The Collapse of Hutten Tenement, With crumbling fouodatlt n and shaky, bu'gloj walls. Is not mote certainly to be looked for than tha sadden gUiox in; of a constitution sapped by oTerwork. unremitting anxiety er exposure to hardship and malign climatic influences. Against the disastrous effects ol ewih and all tho?, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is an effoctuxl raieguard. It fortifies tha systom against them, by Infusio? into it freth vigor begotten of renewed and complete digestion and assimilation ol the food, and its consequent reparative action upon the exhausted tissues snd impoverished circulation. 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President Paul Conrad somewhat indignantly and very emphatically declared: "It is not true that the Louisiana State Lottery com pany has made application to Honduras, or to any other foreign country, for lottery privileges, nor has any such overture been mado on behalf of - this company, its shareholders or managers. "We shall continue to conduct our busi-" ness here until the present charter of the Louisiana State Lottery company expires in 1895. Simply tbat and nothing more. "Postmaster Eaton's statement in the Globe-Democrat that this company accepts the situation, as defined by the courts, in good faith, is absolutely correct. New Orleans (La.) City Jtevt, March 18. Tlie Rot. C T. Brooks Says that his little girl is troubled with malaria very severely, and that since he gave her Sulphur Bitters he never thinks of leaving New York for his summer resort without a few bottles, for they always cure bis family, and' are far superior to quinine. 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Representative Cooper made a full ex-J planation of his connection with the pension matters. ' ThediBcovery was made that a Pennsylvania coal mine has been burning for twenty years. George Frahn, a German fafmer, living at Dunnene, III., shot his wife and then committed suicide. The creditors of Benjamin E. Oppen- j heim of North Manchester won their suit ! of 515,000 against him. Mrs. Rose Gerner wa3 shot bv William Tucker at Cleveland, O. The latter declares it was an accident. Mr. Shively Wednesday occupied the ; chair in committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill. Representative Shively presided over the house of representatives again in committee of the w hole Saturday." Senator Cantor's congressional apportionment passed the New York senate and has gone to the governor. Private Secretary Halfcrd has resumed his duties at the white house. He is still very weak from his iilness. Tho five-year-old son of Charles Boesineer was burned to death at Muenster, Tex., being left alone in the houee. The Seventeenth Illinois democrats have unanimously nominated Kdward Lane, the present incumbent, for congress. Rear Admiral Belknap has been assiarned to duty as president of the board of inspection and survey at Washington. The house passed the bill cranting the Gainesville, Oklahoma Gulf road right of way through the Indian territory. Wayne and Greene counties instructed for Clevoland and Clarke for Gray. Representative Holman was renominated. Georgia republicans wraugled for twenty-four hours continuous-lv and then sent Harrison delegates to Minneapolis. Superintendent Watson of the Delaware county poor farm entered a general denial of the charges made against him. The world's fair people aro still arguing before the house committee in favor of a SsOOO.OOO appropriation for the world's fair. Edel Bros., wholesale and retail dealers in liquors and cigars, made an assignment at Richmond, Va. Liabilities and assets 5100,000. Chief Enzineer C. E. Valin, LT. S. navy, who was placed on the retired list five days ago, died suddenly at his residence today of apoplexy. H. E. Taubeneck declined a third party nomination for congress from the Sixteenth Illinois district and it went to Thomas Ratclifle. Tho treasury department has issued a warrant for $J84.274 in favor of the state of Iowa, on account of the direct tax collected from that state. In a fight with Bill Murphy, a noted desperado, near Murphy, N. C, Sheriif McLeau was wounded and his deputy killed. Murphy escaped. Hugh S. Thompson having been appointed comptroller of the New York life insurance company, has resigned as interstate commerce commissioner. The Florida republican convention met at Tallahassee with Joseph E. Leee, (colord), as chairman. At midnight the credentials committee had not reported. The democratic club of the University of Michigan celebrated Jefferson's birthday with a big banquet at Ann Arbor and cheered Cleveland's name to the echo. Cornelius Bliss denies that a conference was held at his house in New York in the interest of a McKinley and Bliss ticket. Ho says he is for Harrison and Morton. The house in committee of the whole took up the naval appropriation bill, but took no action on it. Mr. Holman is fighting: the clause providinz for new cruisers. The president and several members of his cabinet will visit New York on the 27th inst to take part in the ceremonies incident to the laving of the corner etone of the Grant monument. The members of the house are vieing with each other in injecting campaign documents into the Record, and tha government presses are working double time at the people's expense for grinding out the rot. An amendment to the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill reported from the senate foreign relations committee provides for a minister to Denmark at

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