The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-13
THE PASSING THRONG.

the savage attack now being made on MIN.
That man .s D. A. Spencer. ana ne has hau
plenty OF opportunity TO and out whether CEN
eral Raum is a boodler or not he told OF MS
connection with the general thus: "uenerai
Ra1m was commissioner OF internal revenue
from about 1873 or 1874 to the inauguration OF
Cleveland In 1885, knew him very wen rom
the beginning Of his administration as coHlnis
sioner of internal revenue until about 1884, nav
ing been part Of that time treasury agent unoei
him. During his administration he Increased
the efficiency OF the force to very marked de-
gree and established a system which 90 nos
think has been very much modified since Dur
ing his entire incumbency OF the once
do not remember to have neato Va
single case OF scandal III Con
treasury department While he was an admir-
| able chic. to work under. he insisted always
| upon frst-class work. His inspection OF the
various internal revenue Offices through the
| country was so perfect that during some years
| the losses TO the government through oeia!ea'
| ton amounted to a small fraction OF per cent.
my recollection being that in one year the totai
| amount was in the neighborhood OF $3.oo1 In
total collection OF considerably over sl0O,Oo0,0Oo
| II any officer In the government has an oppor-
| tupity to make money corruptiy, 1t Is the COM
| missioner of internal revenue, ana yet, ~heh
| General Raum retired from the office, ne was
| said by all his friends to be apoor man. he
took the Office shortly alter the exposure OF the
| great whisky frauds in which Mcdonald, bao-
cock and others figured so prominently, ana SO
thoroughly reorganized the entire of1ce anu
| system that such frauds as had been perpetrated
| by those men could not again have occurred.
| His system of inspection of all of the internal
| revenue offices and OF the manufactures paying
| internal revenue taxes, I believe to have been
| as nearly perfect as such a system can be made
| No one of the thlrty-1ve treasury agent under
him had any permanent home. He was liable
| to be sent to any part Of the United states at
| any time, so that it was impossible for him to
| make any close connection with revenue tax
payers that would not be liable to detection
| upon the arrival of the next treasury agent in
that territory. Internal revenue officers were
required to keep ali of their accounts in perfect
condition, as they were liable to be examined at
any time by one of the expert agents. Some
times the agents would follow each other very
closely, as many as three in one month having
visited one office 20 my knowledge. There were
no set times and the treasury agents were In
structed positively not to allow the collectors 10
know of the times OF their visit, but to come
into the town, If possible, in the morning, so
direct to the Office and to make their examine
ton at once. Such frauds as were perpetrated
by Mcdonald and the other corrupt internal
revenue officers prior to General Raum's incum-
bency were made possible by the fact that the
treasury agent and al of the other officers were
permanently located in the various territories OF
which they had charge Considering General
Raums most admirable record during his long
torn OF service commissioner of internal rev.
enue, should believe it impossible for him at
this late time in his life to begin course OF
corruption. The pension Office and its head
have always been considered legitimate points
for political attack, and almost every commits
sioner of pensions has been charged with cor
ruption. General Raum seems to be suffe ring
the usual penalties pertaining to that position"
Rev. Allan Mackay, who has charge of the
| Presbyterian mission at Fort Wrangel, is at the
| Occidental hotel with his wife and a little ma.
| tive Indian girl They are on their way to the
| general assembly of the Presby terrain church at
| Portland. Mr.. Mackay, who is OF Scotch parent.
! age, spent his early life in Nova Scotia His
| education was obtained at Lake Forest, Ill, and
| he afterward attended the theological school at
| Auburn, N. Y. For time he was stationed at
Waitsburg in this state, but during the last four
| years he has had charge OF the mission at Fort
| Wrangel place whose population consists OF
| about seventy five whites and 800 Indians. On
Sunday morning there is a service for the In
dians, at which Mr.. Mackay breaches through
| an interpreter. The sermon is followed by
| Sunday-school, which is very we'll attended,
| and in the evening there Is sermon
| without an Interpreter. .The older Indians"
| Mr.. Mackay says. ''are now mainly the ones who
| cannot understand English. The Indians
around US arc much diseased, but the race, &C.
cording to my mind, is worth saving. The
| trouble, of course, is syphilis, which shows
its effect in the second, third aud fourth genera
tons in consumption, scrotula and other blood
| diseases. The plague has spread because the
| Indians are SO ignorant aud careless. should
| like to government hospitals established,
| where regular courses of treatment could be
! given and the ravages OF the disease checked as
| far as possible At present Southeastern Alaska
! is greatly demoralized by the smuggling of
| whisky. Matters have been growing worse
| rather than better during my residence in the
country. The law against smuggling is prac-
tically void: the Indians get what they
want; and much worse condition of affairs for
the Indians il would be hard to imagine"
| Yesterday Major James r. Hayden received
| from Senator Watson c. Squire dispatch stat
ing that Major Hay5ens son, Lieutenant John
| /. Hayden, would soon be detailed by the war
| department to act as military instructor at the
| Washington State university. Lieutenant Hay
| den has many friends in Seattle, where he spent
his early days. He was born in Chicago in 1S66,
| but he came with his family to this state in
| 1870 For some time he attended the State uni
| versity but his education was completed ut tn .
United States military academy at West Point.
| From that institution he WAS graduated in 1858,
| ranking sixth in his class. He went into the
| First artillery, stationed at Fort Riley, Kan,
| and saw active service during the Sioux out
fight his battery took a prominent part, and
Lieutenant Hayden acquitted himself so well
that Colonel Henry, who was In command. rec
| commended him for a brevet recommendation
| which General Miles Endorsed. Last summer
! Lieutenant Hayden. who was on furlough,
| visited Seattle. A. the university he will be in
| structor OF military science, and he may ais D
take some OF the courses in mathematics.
| The members OF the Tacoma Giee Club and
| their friends arrived at the Northern hotel last
evening The party included Mr. aud Mrs. H.
c. Foster, G. G. Chandler, general agent OF the
Northern Pacific railroad; Mrs. Chandler, W. c.
Montague. of Chicago. ". h Hatch, Mrs
Galusha Parsons, wife of one of the lesdin Z
Fierce county lawyers; Mrs. c. H. Marble. II.
Evans, }. McElroy, Edmund Rice. the banker
Mr.. Rice. the Misses Phillips. of
Olympia: c. ". Grggs, one OF the
| prominent Republicans of the county:
Mrs. Griggs. Miss Griggs. Miss Rusher, l. A.
Manning. OF the Pacific National bank; Miss
Mcintosh, William y Mesrs, travelling passen-
ger agent for the Northern Pacific: Ralph g.
Stacey, q real estate dealer. and +. II. Marvin.
Yesterday Amasa Miller and Nike Drew
were condollng with each other about business
being duh. bur as they are both "weu fixed
hard times don't interest them except as q sub
!ect OF gossip. Uncle Mike had been expatiating
on the hard times of former years and giving
forcible illustrations, but Amasa scofTed a.
them, aud retor;ed: THAT was nothing to the
time when We were sll SO hard up poisoned my
cat to save her board"
Mrs J. T Keyes, Mss NJ J. Buffers And
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