St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-08

fidential man and chief clerk of AlarriIg
d Siusher, pension attorneys. Peet
furnished Greenwalt with several orig
lnal letters received from HerSey, Civ
ing reports Of the status of cases. The
plan was, the commissioners letter
said, that Raglan wrote to pension attor-
neys and claimants and secured the
business and forwarded it to Peet, who
in turn cOrresponded with HerSey. who
used the slips of Cooper and other MEM
berS of congress whom he represented
as their clerk. Hersey drew the cases
and aScertained their status, and the
fees we're divided between HerSey, Peet
and Raglan.
The deposition of James p. Morgan,
OF Bloomington, Ind, shows that he was
taken to Hersey'S office by Mr.. Cooper
and introduced to Hersey and informed
that if he had anything worth paying
for Hersey would attend to it. Morgan
testified that after his return home he
wrote to Mr.. Cooper. forwarding list
of twenty-five cases in which he desired
their status, the letter closing:'1 will pay
such compensation as is proper for the
status of these claims. Have written to
Hersey. but did not get his address"
ssOmr Mutual Interest.o
1iAC iVtbCiy InO Gay
was turned over to Hersey, who ac-
knowledged its receipt, and on Feb. Is,
1892, forwarded a statement of the
status of number of claims and wrote:
''lf you can state what you can consider
a reasonable amount per claim for such
service shall be glad to correspond
with you further, with view to our
mutual interest. For the statements
now send you. you may remit what you
think is fair compensation for the
labor involved Subsequently 81 per
claim was agreed upon.
Morgan states that, after receiving
Hersey's letter. he wrote to Cooper and
remitted. March Morgan received a
letter from Hersey asking for settle
ment, and closing by saying that he de-
sired to impress tue fact that the in
formation was to be treated as conf
dental. MIR. Morgan testified that OH
March IL .Mr. Cooper wrote him, return
ing the 25th. and said: ''From your
letter it seems you have sent the money
to pay him (Hersey) for calling up cases.
Of course, Jim, cannot allow you to
pay Hersey for that kind OF work. tie
is i'll my service, and it is only as my
secretary that the work can be done for
you. l have never received, nor know
Ah~'r oAlO0Sd ohJ OHO SOlihNNeSN W
me to charge cent for that kind of
work-not even postage stamp"
CoOper's Signature.
Before closing the letter called atten-
ton to another matter, namely, letter
received some months ago from Henry
Holt, of indianapolis, stating that Mar
ring. SluSher d Co., early in 1889. had
had printed about 10000 congressional
call slips on which was fac simile of
the signature of Mr.. Cooper, printed
with his consent and approval. The
letter also said that in 1889 those calls
from Marring and SluSher on Mr..
Cooper's slips became SO numerous that
Gen. Black directed they be thrown in
the wastebasket. Under Commissioner
Tanner about 5000 of them were re-
ceived, and Mr. Tanner directed that
they be destroyed and that Marring and
Slusher be directed to cease using the
slips.
Attention is next called to a commun-
ication from G. e. Foote, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, of March last. stating that for
SIS he secures complete status of five
pension claims from Charles l.. Raglan
& Co., which Peet and Hersey called
upon congressional slips. Foote's pur-
pose in corresponding with them was
TO expose them. On March 10 FOote re-
ceived letter from Raglan & Co. an
nounciug their retirement from the
pension business.