Show THE RAUM BAUM investigation congressman cooper gives some interesting testimony Toy april 12 at the investigation today to day cooper stated that it was false that ho lie told morgan that ilene hersey y would work for him for pay and the witness denied he ever asked or accepted a cent for any service growing out of his connection with put public lie affairs cooper then referred to the charge that he authorized maring manngard Mann gand and blusher to point signatures on thousands of imitation congressional s slips a and nd said marine came to him and said mid he desired to use witnesses name in tit calling up cases of the boys witness knew nothing odthe ot the pension laws at that time and on harings Ma ringa rings representation representation that it was the usual thing an and exhibiting a call s signed i by senator aurple he give gave h his 1 con sent seat but with with th the e understanding that the was to be used only for sol soldiers d aers in the witnesses district learning J a afterwards that maring was calline calling up cases from all over the country witness wrote tanner that he had ex expressly Kessly limited the privilege to soldiers in innas is district raum either destroyed or su pressed the whole of his correspondence if I 1 it were produced katims ariti criticism cism would woul be answered in advance in regard to the affidavit of david L gitt which raum submitted to io the effect that commissioner black had thrown witness 8 slin H sinto the waste basket cooper said h he did d N 1 not become a congressman until black went out of office cooper said laid raum was guilty of deliberate falsehood in calling attention to Hers evs uso use of witnesses name on call slips and saying he made no dasco ery that hersey used any other members s names when the very ery papers he filed showed five ot other ti er members mem berss names WI it himself ness submitted the letters between himself f and commissioner tanner showing h DB 7 had sent a sample slip to tanner ask asking af g if etwas it was proper for him to give the attorneys permission to use them the commissioner replied most assuredly not the next letter was w as one from cooper directing maring and lasher fc to discontinue the use of the slips |