The Sunday globe., 1901-07-07
OFFICIAL SCOOPS
Received During the Hot Weather
of the Past Week.
LYMAN TAKES SOME LEAVE
Thinking The Globe Will Forget Him.
The Patent Office and Commissioner
Moore-Messrs, Funk, Allies, and the
Rest of NE HIGH Monkey Monks as
Their Subortinates See Them,

Charles Lyman at present appoint
ment clerk of the Treasury, has taken
leave Of absence. 1t Is generally under
/ stood that before many months a radi-
cal change will be made in the Seore-
] tary's ONCE, unless certain rumors re-
| garding an ugly scandal are hushed.
From authority that seems unimpeach-
able The Globe is informed that the
| Secretary is loath 10 believe the re.
ports, but was prompted by them and
an intimation from the White House
to dispense with the services of one
prominent Official about whom the
scandal wrapped.
1t is not unlikely, as the ice has been
broken, other designations will fol-
low. and, If the Secretary is wise, he
will include among the number to be
separated from the Government pay
roll, Charles Lyman, whose military re-
cord has been exposed in The Globe,
and never contradicted. He was dis
missed from the volunteer army and
has been for many years a wart on the
pay-rolls of the Government. 1t is not
putting it too strong to say that he is
thoroughly despised by the MAJ rity Of
the employees Of the Department, eX-
elusive, perhaps Of his relatives.
Another worthless man, who for over
twenty years has drawn his salary
with a regularity that would be COM
mendable in the performance Of any
duty for the Government, is Theodore
Deland, the chief inquisitor or exam
iner of clerks in the Department This
man is a typical time-seryer, He was
the friend of Vanderlip, and is the
companion Of Lyman, 1t is safe to
say that there can not be shown by
the records one days practical work
for the benefit of the Government by
this man in the past four years. Yet
he draws a comfortable salary, and
makes lists Of questions fromtext books
to stump the working men and women
of the Department when they secure
designation for promotion. With him
and Lyman on the outside with Van
derlip and Swayzee, Secretary Gage
would have performed a service for the
benefit of the administration Of affairs
in the Treasury Department, and the
services they performed would be
gain by being missed.
Assistant Secretary Ais has taken
on new life since the return Of his
guardian, Frank A. Vanderlip, that
monstrosity of finance. Ails is really
getting consequential, and is learning
to walk with something of a strut. He
has caught on to what is expected Of
! him. and even his family now do their
shopping in a carriage-at the Govern
ment expense. Ails' papainIaw is EN-
ployed in the Treasury, too-this
seems to indicate Lyman's teaching
and it is said has been on a trip to the
| Buffalo Exposition at Government eX-
pense. Ails is young, but he has abun-
dance OF time ahead to equal the record
of even Lyman in getting next with
| his relatives to the Government pay
| table.
A good story is going through the
corridors of the Department regarding
the ludicrous efforts Of w. w. Brown
to retain his place on the Treasury
books as auditor .or the Navy Depart
ment. Browns military record has
| been reviewed by The Globe. 1t Will
be recalled he was a hospital steward
during the war, but since getting into
the Treasury has become colonel"
., ell, to the efforts Of the Colonel to
hold onto the job. 1t seems that at
the beginning Of the nscal year there
were some eleven clerks to be ad-
vanced in salaries. His Bureau is not
very large as to the number of clerks
in it, bat the Colonel" imagined he
saw an opportunity to cut the ground
from under a darkey aspirant for his
Job by recognizing the African-hued
clerks of the Office, and forthwith rec
commended four arkes fo' promotion.
According to the Fifteenth Amend.
ment, this mlguo have been all righ
had it been a fair proportion to the
number of darkies in the Bureau, but
it wasn't, and many Of the clerks of
Caucasian blood think that there ought
TO be another amendment providing
that clerk shall not be Disseminated
against because he is white by an over
anxious official looking for influence to
hold his position.
Lee w. Funk, chief of the Indian
Division, Treasury Department, still
remains in Office, and is buoyed with
hope as long as his protector, Frank
A, Vanderip, is within reaching dis
tance. Funk and his methods need
no further comment here. The SER
vice would be better off without him.
He is a shining light Of the recogni-
tion of efficiency (?) in the Treasury
by Vanderlip, Lyman and Deland. A
better man, personally and officially,
was reduced to elevate him by the trio
mentioned.
TRIBUTE TO MR.. FUNK.