The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-20
THE RAUM CASE.
Engle and Howard Discharged
for the Public Good.
Inc Formers Reputation SufTers-He is
Charged With seducing a Female Clerk
Her Name Not Divuiged.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Hxauipa-
tlon OF Commissioner Rsum of the pension
bureau was resumed by the special COM
mittee of the House. Pe said he supgested
the amendment 70 the pension appropriation
OIL winch cut off his son from taxing fees
as notary while in the Office. Raum de-
CIareG lie strictly observed the civil service
laws never made a removal eycept for
cause. Among the causes was that of at
.en-pting to lniure the commissioner and
throw oolum on the Office. Raum said he
aeIenaed his sons course while EMPLOYED
~ tue pension bureau in a talk with the
iIeSiuent, declaring the charge that his son
trleo TO defraud the government of ST.
was great outrage. Witness never
eaIhed with the attorney-g CT any
oLe eIse with view to the prevention Of
criminal prosecution of his son,
Enloe put in evidence affidayits made hv
howard 20 and Engle, clerks ia the pension
oInce' whose dismissal the commissioner
[rsctnmended, making charges that Horace
y, slower paid Theodore Smith $50 TO be
transferred; that they had seen Slower
give Smith money. 1t was charged Green
b. Raum, Jr., got the money and solicited
money OF Engle. Payson said this related
W mater long after young Raum was
Cut OF Office, but that he would not Object
10 the atidavlts if it were expected to con-
meet the commissioners Recommendation
LOT dismissal OF Howard and Engle with il.
Ing commissioner, IN explanation of his
recommendation of dismissal. read n letter
dated Sestember %, 1891, recommending
the dismissal Of Special Examiner TAYLOR
because he was an unsuitable person TO
discharge the duties in connection with
pension claims, and also because he was as
soclated with George b. Fleming. who en-
leaVored to break down the pension office.
haum also read letters commencing the
dlsmlssal OF Engle and Howard because
they conspired to destroy the social stand
ing OF SPECIAL Examiner Slower. The com
missioner said he thoroughly investigated
Inc matter and came TO the conclusion that
howard and Engle made false charges.
IN connection with the recommenda
ton that Engle and Howard be dismissed
Inc commissioner submitted a second let
ter to Secretary Noble. This letter began
Win the statement and affidavit of Ford
chlet OF the record division, charging
Engle, while temporarily chief of the diyi
sion, ruined girl in the division and pub
llcly boosted OF her seduction. The letter
then charged Engle was q false swearer
rater," a conspirator against the
cuIeI OF Inc bureau, q seducer and one who
carried weapon with the suggested inter-
tlon OF ASSASSINATION. Howard the letter
charged with being a conspirator.
The letter also alleged that George b.
Fleming, discharged examiner, started
the attack and was publishing false and
malicious attacks in the public press
against the commissioner. The letter
closed with the statement there was a
small number of active and malignant in
trlgaers in the pension Office and demanded
that he (Raum) be sustained as necessary
to the good government or diclpline of the
Office
Recurring to the charge that Engle Sc
duced young girl, Enloe asked if she was
still IN the bureau. The commissioner said
he told Ford he did not wish to learn her
name; he heard she was conducting her
self with propriety and was still in the
cffice. When asked if he thought the
woman would be retained in the service
the commissioner said he kept the service
clean. 1t is matter of public notoriety
there were here and there women in the
public service who had gone astray and had
not been turned out