Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-30
WAS NOT A FRAUD
SO Charles Alfred Dearnaud
Says of Himself.
NEW TURN IN THE RAUM INQUIRY,

The Commissioner Alleged to Have Done
Business as q Claim Agent with Poor
success-The Attempt to Trap Cooper
The President Writes Briefly on Civil
Service Reform-women Who Mend
Mail Bags Have a Grievauce-Taik of
Retaliatins on Canada.
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-Charles Alfred
Dearnaud, whose name has been brought
into the Raum investigation by Enloe,
through questioning General Raum, as
having impersonated another party of the
same name in order to secure a pension.
yesterday presented letter to the pension
Office investigating committee through
Representative Wheelock, the chairman,
In which he says he can prove conclusively
from government records in his possession,
as well as by those on file in the pension
once, that he never personated any one in
order to obtain pension, and that he had
no occasion to do so; facts, well known to
the commissioner of pensions, he says who
made the statement.
Raum Represented as a Claim Agent.
The letter states that General Ranm
made contract with the writer for so Der
cent. OF claim he CDearnaud) had against
the government for meritorious services
nurlng the late war. and that General
Raum made an agreement with General
j. b. Turchin, of Illinois, to make an ar
gument before the senate committee on
military affairs. This was done, saws the
letter, and 5000, was allowed out of a
claim of $4,000 which Dearnaud refused
to accept, and he says he is of the opinion
that such was the cause of the coldness of
General Raum toward him. The latter.
says the writer, would have received s., 800
II Dearnaud had accepted the amount.
Upon the advice of the commanding gen.
eral OF the western department of the army
and Commissioner Raum, the writer saws,
he applied for pension.
Got Those Cases Somewhat Mixed
He was given his status by General J. c,
Fremont, who had commissioned him a
captain IN the Fifth Missouri volunteers
on Fremont's staff. The writer adds that
he was wounded seriously while in the
service. Dearnaud says the pension office
sent to the adjuntant generals office for
his status in the army instead of adjust
ing his claim as provided in the pension
that the adjutant general returned a
wrong record, confusing him (Dearnaudl
with another Alfred Arnaud, captain of
company f Fifth Missouri volunteers. In
justice to himself he asks the committee
to permit him to testify His request will
probably be granted.
Greenwalt Again on the Stand.
Special Examiner Greenwalt again ap-
peared before the committee and was
asked by Enloe il an arrangement had
been made between General Raum and
himself (witness) to set a trap for Repre-
sentative Cooper in sending him the S25
through Morgan, the Bloomington, Ind,
attorney. Witness declined to answer the
question as in an interview Cooper had
said that he would prosecute in the courts
the parties connected with the matter.
Cooper told the witness that he would not
include him in the proceedings if he
would make the matter clear, as he want
ed to get at the truth.
Had a Rowing Commission.
Witness said he did not want to furnish
information that Congressman Cooper
could use in prosecuting Others He after
erward said that he was allowed a general
scope for action on his trip, and if he spent
any money outside of public business Gen
eral Raum would stand for it personally.
In response to Enloe, witness said he did
not know who finally got the s25, as Cooper
had returned it to Morgan, and Hersey had
said he did not get it. Witness declined
to answer the question if General Raum
owed him S25 In answer to Cooper wit
ness acknowledged that the money used
in trying to trap the representative was
outside of government business.
The Borrowing Question Again.
Only three other witnesses were ex-
amined-Principal Examiner Pierson,
who gave some unimportant evidence
about the disbarment of Maring, Slusher
& Co., Columbus, Ind; NJ B. Bayley, a
bureau chief, on the same subject and
Maurice ketcham. who was questioned re-
garding borrowing money. He first re-
fused to reply, but on Payson's advice ad-
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