The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-06-17

The Administrations Pension
Bureau to be Again InveSti-
gated-TrOuble For the
Commissioner.

New YIN "oliu uog NC IL
1t is likely that Commissioner Raum
of the Pension Bureau, will find his
road hard to travel as did Inflated
Corporal Tanner.
Representative Cooper, Of Indiara,
today introduced a resolution, which
wss referred to the committee of rules
directing the committee on invalid
pensions to inquire ihtO the charges
that have been filed by the President
relative to Commissioner Raums' con-
duct OF the persion bureau. The res
olution sums up the charges as fol-
lows.
First-Tbat The present commission
er of pei ors has been engaged in
selling t i, certain employees of the
pension office shares of stock 10 a cor
poration or company OF which he is
president, which is organized for the
purpose of introducing pa ent refr G.
orator which, it 10 aimed, is imprac-
ticable and wUr HESS, End that in con-
sideraiion OF such purchase said en-
ployees are promoted in Office; and,
Second-Tbat said commission of
pensions has recently. by an unjust
and partial ruling, advanced and
caused to he taken up out of their
order many thousands of the claims
I of Ger ain attorney residing in the
city CT Was: ington, and that in con-
sideration thereof said attorney has
become surety on the note Of said
comm ssh ner i'm a bang in tie ty of
Washington for the sum ofs25, 900.
There will De little trouble in prov
ing the absolute truth of the charges,
and much more equally damaging to
the commissioner, but everybody
here is prepared 10 see Raum and his
family whitewa he'd. The fact is that
Raum's conduct Of the bureau is rap
idly assuming the character of pub
lie scandal. When sppoin ed Pension
Commissinntr Gen. Raum Was the
practical head of the firm o: Green b.
Raum d Sons, pension attorneys. the
other members of the firm were Green
B. Raum. jr., and John Raum-
Green B. jr.. was Immediately ap-
pointed chief of the appoin ment
division of the bureau, and John
shou!dered the cares and responaibil-
ties of the pension business, though
everybody here believes that Gen.
Rsu1n still retains his controlling in
terest in the concern.
Young Raum's cases. ii is said, are
] going through the Pension Bureau at
tremendous rate, and it is openly
charged that about sll Green B. jr.,
does is to GO about picking them out
and having them made special 1t
is said that more of his cases are made
special every week than of any other
attorneys 10 the city. Whenever an
order affecting the handling of pension
cases by attorneys is issued John Raum
I is informed in advance, and it is
! charged that his circulars intended to
meet the change have sometimes
reached his patrons before the order
has been published in the Pension
Bureau
The connection of Commissioner
Raum with concern known as the
Universal ReirigerstiDg Company is
scanGalous almost beyond belief. The
Pension Bureau has been flooded with
circulars advertising its stock aud
signed "Green B. Raum, President, ~
and employees who have purchased
the stock have been promptly promo
ted without solicitation On their part.
1t is charged that a man named Tur-
ner, who subscribed for $3.50 worth
of the stock, was promoted from q
$500 to 81 400 place within week.
Seven clerks who subscribed to the
Refrigerating Company's stock have
been promoted without other effort on
their part.
The fine Italian hand of Mr.. George
E. Lemon appears in Gen. Raum's
management of the bureau. Lemon
has for some weeks been engaged in
king up sentiment in favor Of the
daily consideration by the pension
bureau Of ca -es lacking some detail of
evidence. For along time Raum held
out against this demand, but two
weeks ago he gave in and Issued the
order which will put 100000 in
Lemons pocket. Curiously enough,
three days after making the order
ZEN. Raum gave the Capitol Hill
National bank his note for $25, 900,
bearing Lemons Endorsement, and got
the money for it
ALI these facts have been known to
the president for some time, but he
has thus far ignored them. 1t re-
mains to be seen what congressional
committee with an active democratic
minoritv membership will do In the