Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-20
PENSION OFFICE CHANGES.
Gen. Raum Appoints His Son as Head
Of a New Division.

Some important changes in the clerical force
OF the pension Office we're decided upon today
by Commissioner Raum. Richard A. Durham
of Indiana was made chief Of the mail division.
This place was held by DIR. Warman. a warm
personal friend Of Rev. DR.. Scott, the father-in
law Of President Harrison. DIR. Scott was for
years and up to the 4th of March last clerk in
the pension Office and 1t was through his in1u-
ence, it is said, that Corporal Tanner promoted
DR.. Warman from the examining corps to the
head of the mail division, taking the
place of Mr.. Gitt Gen. Raum intends to
strengthen the medical division and for this
reason, he says, he has transferred DIR.
Warman from the head of the mail division
to the medical division. Mr.. Durham, up to
the time of his present appointment, held the
position OF confidential clerk to United States
Treasurer Huston, and when Miss Tanner,
who held similar position in the pension
office, resigned it was arranged that she should
take Mr.. Durnans place at the Treasury de-
partment and this arrangement has been
carried out
ASSISTANT CHIEF CLERK REEVE SHIFTED.
Gen. Raum has also transferred the assistant
chief clerk, Hamilton Reeve, to the position of
superintendent of theIbuilding in place of Capt.
Henry Filler, who recently received that APP
pOintment. and who has now been transferred
to clerical position. Mr.. Reeve is from
Brooklyn, N. Y, and held the position of chief
clerk of the Office of collector Of taxes in Brook
Ign when Corporal Tanner collector. The
latter appointed Mr.. Reeve to his position in
the pension Office. The vacancy will be filled by
the appointment of Green b. Raum, jr., the
son Of Gen. Raum, and he will be placed at the
head of a new division, which will be known as
the appointment division. All papers relating
to appointments will be filed in::this division,
which is the custom now only the division will
no known "a the aDDointment diyision and not
that Of assistant chief clerk. The salary of the
position is $4,000.
NO PLACE TO SOLICIT MONEY.
Gen. Raum today put stop to the practice
which has been in vogue for some time of two
sisters from the Little Sisters of the Poor, a
charitable Catholic institution in this city, talk
ing their position on pay days near the pay
| office, where all the clerks 90 for their semi
monthly pay. They hold box in their hands
to receive the contributions of those who desire
| to give something. Gen. Raum, however,
came to the conclusion that it was
| hardly proper to allow this to be done in a
public building where all solicitation of money,
| &C., are strictly prohibited. He told two of
| the sisters who came to see him today that he
was much interested in their work and that he
| would personally contribute each month as he
had done in the past. He could not, however,
allow them to stand in the building as they
had been doing. He told them that one
institution had as much right to have their
representatives in the department for such a
purpose as another and of course he added that
a number Of such solicitors in the department
would be Objectionable in ITSELF The sisters
| did not seem to consider the commissioner
action satisfactory, but they took his contribu-
ton Of money and went away. Gen. Raum
| said afterward that he was sorry for some rea-
sons to take this course. but he felt that it was
| right and he was now in a position to enforce
the rules without partiality to any one.