The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-16
RAUM INVBSILGA7ION.
Lemons Testimony Favorable
to the Commissioner.
NOTED PENSION ATTORNEY
On tho stand-lfe Denies that He
Had Clerks Appointed TO Onicc.
Session OF COngrcss...Vancc
on the Election Bill.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l6.-Georee E
Lemon, the pension agent, was before
the Raum Investigating Committee TO-
day. MIR. Lemon testified that he had
never recommended to Commissioner
Raum the appointment oil any person in
his emplay. IIe did not recall in his
whole career ever having recommended
any person to any Commissioner Of
Pensions save Mr.. Whelpley, whom he
recommended to Commissioner Tanner,
but Whelpley vas not appointed. He
had never spoken to Commissioner
Raum about the appointment or promo.
,ion otany person, and had never directly
or indirectly requested any other person
to secure an appointment for the Pen.
sion Office.
On cross.examiaaLion by Mr.. Cooper,
Mr.. Lemon said Whelpley had been in
the Pension Office before coming into
his employ. Witness recommended
him because he was competent. Witness
objected 10 Mr.. Coopef's question OF
what salary lie paid Mr.. Whelpley, but
when Mr.. Sawyer, the acting chairman,
said he saw no harm In it, witness
answered $1,000 and come compensation
for extra work.
MIR. Lemon said that in the record
was MIR. Cooper's declaration that 1.-THE
consequence of the completed filee is
that it has naturally operated as a mi.
vate order for the benefit OF the man
who procured its making. OF the thirty
test cases submitted by Mr.. Lemon, the
evidence shows only 10 per cent Of them
were completed in fact.
He (Mr. Lemon) wanted to say that
that statement did him great injustice,
and wRs untrue. OF these cases, only
Is per cent Of them were completed in
fact. He (Mr. Lemon) wanted to say
that that statement did him great in.
jury and WIS untrue. Oh these cases
only two of them needed further inior.
nation 10 pc supplied by the attorney.
Thirteen others were not altogether com.
plete. but that was because information
was needed which only tho Pension
Bureau could supply.
To Mr.. Cooper he said he had never en-.
dorsed any note for Raum, except one
for $4,000 in the Bank Of the Republic.
Qaestion-Did you endorse paper for
him in the Citizens Bank?
Answer-Never.
Odd he not get money there at
your procurement?
A.-No sir; ho got money on the en-.
doracmept Of the strongest man in the
country.
Mr.. Cooper asked further questions
about Gen. Raum's financial relations
with the Citizens Bank.
MIR. Lemon said he wes director in
the bank. General Raum had been
depositor there for years and he did no,
think he ought to answer these
questions,
Mr.. Goodnight-As an officer Of that
bank, did you influence the bank officers
to get the moneys
MIR. I.smon-Not at all. think most
OF the eado.sements were obtained
when was not prenent. never iInu.
enced the bank officers in any way.
Mr.. Cooper said one OF the important
issues OF the investigation was the fuan.
cial relations between Raum and Lemon.
The Commissioner had said emphatical.
ly he had secured Lemons endorsement
to hut one note Of $4,000, discounted
by the baiiE OF the Republic, Now
money miRnr have been secured indi.
rectly, which would he just as aatisfac.
tory. The witness had stated he had
not Influenced the occurring OF
money by General Eaum, but he
(Mr. Cooper insisted that he was
not bound to take the ipse DIRT
of the witness as proof that this was
so. s5g &c.,
Edward Renaud, q former clerk in the
Pension Office, who was dismissed by
Commissioner Raum after the publica.
tion Of articles characterziuc the man.
agementof the Pension Office, in the
New York T:Juns, was called to the
stand aad ssked if he had written or in.
spiied publications. charging the Com.
missioner with intimida ing clerks by
the threats Of dismissal. Witness de.
clined 10 answer, on the ground that he
had sued General Raum for criminal
libel, and would not predispose OF his
case.
Thomas Cockrell, Of Illinois, an en-
ploye Of the Land pHice, said he pet
General Raum on the stteet one day and
mentioned the matter to him. General
Raum eaid it was absolutely false that
any Pension Office clerk had refrigerator
stock.