The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16
TREASURY TAPS
AT the Hon. Lyman j. Cages
Official Door.
CAN'T LIBEL THESE WIDOWS
Another Chapter Of Revelations and Another
Call for An Investigation OF Appointment
Clerk lyman-The History Of Two Female
Members OF Mr. Castles Department where
there is so Much Ssnsbiy 10 Criticism.

W8m0efS OF MT. GdSll6 department Hnore
there is so Much Ssnsbiy 10 Criticism.
Thus far the Hon. Lyman j. Gage
has taken no steps it is said, to inves-
tigate Charles Lyman, appointment
clerk of the Treasury Department, and
a dismissed officer from the army.
There Is a law, The Globe is informed,
which precludes from Government en-
ploy an officer dismissed from the
army or navy. Perhaps Mr.. Lyman
does not come within the provisions Of
this law as it is stated by his friends
that it was not the regular army from
which he was dismissed but the yolun-
teer army. Be this as it may, there
is a provision in the civil service rules
which provides certain advantages to
discharged-hOnorably discharged, not
ismissed-soldiers The Globe is in
formed that Charles Lyman got the
advantage Of this provision when he
attached himself to the Treasury pay
roll. How he managed to do this, The
Globe will not attempt to explain, as
the civil service rules are construed
in a somewhat tantalizing manner in
the Department presided over by the
Hon, Lyman j. Gage.
For the information of Secretary
Gage, it is well to invite his attention
to the fact that the general run of
men-the ordinary man Of the world,
not the reformer-that the father of
the family should, where possible, sup
port his family, especially his daugh-
ters, without sending them into the
world to struggle for their own sus-
tenance or aid in his and other men,
bers of the family's support; in fact, to
right-thinking man, there is some
thing exceedingly obnoxious in the
thought of his daughter working in a
public Office among all kinds Of men
and women. Her place Is in the home
"a domestic angel However, it is
stated, and has never been controvert-
ed that the Charles Lyman dismissed
officer from the army, through his Do
sition as appointment clerk OF the
Treasury Department, appointed his
daughter to a position, which position
she held until she married a clerk in
the Department, who has been under
his father-inlaw reign, promoted.
This promotion was given to his SON
in-law when in the office were men
more efficient and Of longer service.
This, perhaps, is Mr.. Lyman's Idea Of
civil service reform. To say nothing
of the improper recognition of his
sonin-law by an increase of salary, IL
is up to Secretary Gage to decide
whether a man so lacking in the ten
der sentiment OF a father should be re-
tanned in a position having direct con-
troll of many hundred worthy and re-
fined women.
The Globe is in receipt of several
communications giving what is termed
pointers by the writer's regarding
Charles Lyman, but will not publish
them till a thorough investigation has
proven their correctness. 1t is not the
of this paper to publish one
statement that is not susceptible OF
proof not even about Charles Lyman,
dismissed officer from the army, ap-
pointment clerk Of the Treasury, and
general leader in the psalm singing
coterie Of the District of Columbia
1t may be that Secretary Gage i'm
agines that the scraps of history OF
some of the disreputabe characters
men and women-published in The
Globe, who are drawing munihcent sal /
aries from the disbursing officer of F.
the Treasury Department are not suf- .
hciently bad to justify action upon the /.
part of himself or his worthy appoint T.
ment clerk, Lyman. To refresh his rec |
ords a bit-and it is believed Lyman I.
knows these facts as well as The Globe /.
several more cases will be given. |
These are in the Office Of the Auditor |
for the Postoffice Department, in which .
Is employed the female who has, it is .
alleged, been libelled by this paper. .
Perhaps Johnson, Holman or Castle, .
may induce one of these widows" to .
swear out a warrant, too but it is a
good guess mot we reckon
The first case is that Of the Illinois
widow, who took a prominent charac-
er in that most exciting novel, en-
titled: "If Christ Came to Congress"
This woman is of the stripe that is a
lisgrace to the sex. She came here I'M
Ter the protection Of an Assistant Sec
'etary of the Treasury, and has re-
NAMED In Office ever since through the
pfluence of one or more infamous Of
iCials. Her present FRIEND" is an at
hNlt VI AAlt w lillt ilbuStt belns q abIl
# confidential man for the Presidents
private secretary, The attaches wife
las twice chastised the widow" once
n the Office and anotner time on New
ork avenue Mr. Castle knows this,
Johnson has cognizance Of it, and Hol-
nan comes pretty near being informed
lbout IT, Can either of these officials,
,r Lyman. tell what influence keeps
Ter in office? We think they can. Does
dr Gage think that this woman, COM
non as the every day female walker Of
he avenue. is the proper woman to
iit side by side and flaunt her pull over
equitable women?
Another case for the consideration
If Messrs. Gage, Lyman, Johnson,
Castle and Holman This time 1t is a
widow, too. Sne has had at one time
md another to her string a Southern
an Auditor Of the Trea-
Jury, and numerous outside gentlemen.
This woman draws the comfortable
ialary Of S1.600per year and is a queen
n the office. Lyman cannot plead ig-
torrance in her case, as the ex-auditor .
Who has been pensioned on the govern
nent pay rolls by a position elsewhere,
iought, and probably secured his influ- .
nee in her behalf At least his visits
o Lyman on several occasions were
With this avowed purpose. and it Is not
likely he forgot his mission when I'm
he presence OF the Revivallst Lyman.
Perhaps one of the officials mentioned
will indupa This "WidOWH m ponna for.