Show The Baum Investigation WASHINGTON April 29In tho Raum investigation in-vestigation today Greenewalt the special pension office examiner who made the investigation in-vestigation wWcn resulted in Raums pronouncing pro-nouncing tho charge against Representative Representa-tive Cooper was asked i he furnished the 25 to Morgan which Cooper refused to accept I ac-cept and returned Witness declined to i answer on the ground that Cooper said he intended prosecuting in court the parties partes to tho affair Cooper said he would relieve the witness of any fear for himself Enloe asked i the witness declined to answer on tho round that it might incriminate in-criminate him Witness said that the investigation in-vestigation was subordinate and ho was instructed to do anything necessary to I elicit everything connected with the transaction Witness did not wish to make further answer as it might furnish Cooper with information he could use in the prosecution prosecuton of others Finally however ho admitted furnishing Morgan the 25 Raum told witness he should not suffer pecuniary loss through payment of the money to procure information He understood Raum would reimburse him out of his own pocket as he knew he could not be paid out of the public funds He still was out the 25 however as Morgan had not returned it after Cooper declined to accept tho money The secretary of the treasury has written a letter to the secretary of state commend ing the action of the United States consul at Victoria B C in refusing to verify C passport issued by the Dominion government govern-ment in the case of May Chung a former resident of the United States who was recently I re-cently engaged in smuggling Chinese labor ira from Canada |