The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-21
RAUM FAILS TO RESIGN.
He Asks an Investigation for Himself
and His Son.


WASHINGTON. May 20-Commissioner
Raum made his appearance at the white
house this afternoon. but not TO tender bis
resignation, as he had said he would il the
President desired it, but TO ask for an in
vestigation. Knowing that the President
would accept his resignation very promptly
IL he had a chance. he did not give him
the chance, even when the President
intimated that he ought to have the oppor-
tunity of passing upon it. Hence the Pres
ident will bs put to the necessity Of
demanding il later in unmistakable terms.
He will put this step off as long as possible.
for Commissioner Raum has influence in
the q. A. r. and in the Republican party
Of Illinois, and the President is de-
sirous of dealing as gently as
possible with everybody who has
influence which he thinks he can get to
help him for 1892 Meanwhile Commits.
sloner Raum has postponed his own decapi-
tatiou by demanding an investigation for
himself and. his son. This request the
President told him he would consider in
connection with Secretary Noble, who is
expected back tomorrow.
RAUM's MISTAKE.
II Commissioner Raum had asked for an
have gotten 1t. for 1t could have been greatly
abriged by utilizing the evidence brought
out in the investigation in the last congress,
but Commissioner Raum has made the
mistake OF taking his sons part. as though
the young man was innocent, and of attack
ing the men who punished him. Commission
or Raum, who knows that his son is guilty,
talked to the President to-day as though
great injustice had been done him,
cd nh rta wnA
conspiracy in the interior department, the
pension office and the newspaper offices TO
ruin him and his son. He attacked every
body he thought inimicai to him and his
son, from Assistant Secretary Bnsssy TO a
discharged pension Office smploye, whom he
accuses Of starting Cooper Of Indiana 10 In
veatigate him.
BITTER AGAINST BUssEY.
He spoke bitterly of Assistant Secretary
Bussey as the chief instigator and protector
OF his enemies, aud as chiefly responsible for
the removal of his son. or course the Presi-
dent will not go into the Investigation,
which would tear the interior department
in two. The assistant secretaries are backed
up by Secretary Noble, who will vindicats
to the President the removal Of young Raum
and defend them from old Raum's charges,
and the President will have to choose be-
tween Raum and his disgraced son and the
managers OF the interior department. He
will decide in favor of the secretary and
assistant secretaries, tell Raum that he has
satisfied himself that young Raum
ought TO have gone, and that
he himself Is blameworthy Without
an investigation, which would be costly
to the party as we'll as 60 the government,
and the President will insist on his handing
in his resignation. So sure are the poll.
ticians that Commissioner Raum is to 20
before many weeks that the names OF va
rious candidates for his place are being
brought forward. Ex-Gov. Beaver OF
Pennsylvania and Gen. Brown of Ohio
lead the list.
RAUM PREPARES A STATEMENT
Commissioner Raum prepared state
ment for the press which merely states tho
duration of the interview and announced
that it was 'very pleasant" The commits
sioner would say nothing further about the
matter, remarking that he thought 1t was
for the superior officer and not for the
subordinate to say what transpired at In
terviews Of this character.