The Sunday globe., 1901-07-21
THE TREASURY
And the Patent Office Need Some
Attention.
MESSRS. LYMAN AND FUNK.
Brothers in Many Things, NOTABLY that Of Hold
ing on 10 Government Pap and Competing
With Outside EntsrprSes-The Craftsmen
and CatoOnsts Uunder Mr.. MOOre-FactS
for The Heads Of Departments,

Inc I1OuOIdDlt lly man bdbCi 5CS7
retary of the Treasury, and discoverer
of that monstrosity Of finance, Frank
A. Vanderlip has been junketing on
Government vessel. Junketing, by the
way, at Government expense seems to
be contagious in the Office of the Sec
retary OF the Treasury. 1t has been
publicly charged in the press that eX-
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip junket-
ed about Europe and his bills we're
Iidmdated by the United States Treas
ury. The fruit of Vanderlip's interna-
tional investigation Of finance seems to
have been some notes copied from the
French mint records, according to the
report given by Mr.. Vanderlip to the
press. The successor of Mr.. Yanderlip
has gotten the fever, and as forerun-
ner 10 feel the pulse, as it were, Assist
ant Secretary Allies, it is said, has sent
his papain-law on trip to the Buffalo
Exposition, with expenses and Incl
sentals chargeable to Uncle Sam. Last,
but not least, Charles Lyman, Appoint
ment Clerk of the Treasury, with
whom the readers Of The Globe are ia
miliar as a dismissed officer of the
Army. it is reported, has been touring
the Middle West at the expense OF the
good people and hOnorably discharged
soldiers OF the Army. He is ostensibly
so stated, on a tour of inspection. Per
haps Secretary Gage thought it well
to get this official with the disagree
able Army record out Of sight during
the warm weather Be that as it may
it is said he is having the luXuries OF
life at the expense of the people whose
President dismissed him from the
Army during the country's peril.
It is more than probable that Messrs
Gage, Vanderlip, Lyman and Allies
agree with that eminent financier who
remarked that the people be ID"
Perhaps. If some inquisitive Congress
man was to ask, on the floor Of the
House, the coming session, whether
these charges as to junketing were
true and that It would be well to have
the bills incurred, the officials mention
ed might change their opinion relative
to the condition they would put the
people who pay the bills.
1t is well known to people cognizant
of the condition of affairs in the Sec
retary's Office Of the Treasury, that
Lyman is held about in the same es-
TEEN as Vanderlip by men of promt-
nence having business with the office,
and there are a few Of these gentlemen
at least who would like an opportunity
to sever Lyman from the payroll, as
Vanderlip has been, but they know it
is futile to hope for his resignation,
Lyman holds to a Government position
with much more eNergy than an out
cast cat to a meat bone. He don't re-
sign. He did not do that in the Army,
and If he is to be severed from the
Government payroll, the same method
will have to be used as in the Army
dismissal.
The almighty dollar, it is reported,
has a strong fascination for Lyman, as
it generally does for men of his ilk.
He has been charged with being the
president of a loan association. This
may account for the high regard with
winch he is held by Secretary Gage as
he himself is shining example of
wealth secured by the per cent r.sthod.
But il is not, perhaps, altogether the
proper caper for a churchman-though
not wrong in a dismissed officer Of the
army-to be at the head Of a building
where he has the direct or indirect
control Of the official tenure to a great
extent Of a thousand or more men and
women who would be useful and prof
sociation. 1t might be construed as a
sort of inducement to some weak men
and women to invest in the association
presided over by a man who is their
appointment clerk. A religious man
like Lyman-of course would not hold
out any such inducement, but some
men might; some worldly fellow, for
instance: some man that was worth.
less to the extent Of being kicked out
0fthe might not hesitate to let it be
known that a stockholder or subscriber
to the association would meet with
favor at the appointment division.
However, questions of propriety are
best decided by the people at large so
the question Of whether an appoint.
ment clerk being at the head Of loan
association, with an office near the
doorway of the Department in which
he is employed, meets with the hearty
approval Of the people who pay him
his wages, is respectfully submitted.
A correspondent informs us that Lee
W. Funk, the chief of the Indian Di-
vision, protege Of Vanderlp, me COM
panion Of Lyman and a general rub
ber-neck individual, has also a pen
chant for outside enterprises to swell
the salary which many people think he
is incapable or earning. Ihe Globe has
investigated this communication and
find that one Lee w. Funk-and there
is but one in the city iTectory-recent-
ly hauled before the bar Of a local JUS
tees court, a lady who refused to rec
ognize the said Lee W. Funk as the ac-
tive full-nedged agent Of the apart
ments she occupied The said Lee w.
Funk went to court to prove that he
was an active, full-hedged real estate
agent, and that his long suit was man
aging estates. Funk ought to prove
this easily, as he has something Of the
reputation R being in many respects
similar to landlords having a very
great desire for wealth.
The Globe is not the paid advocate
of the local bankers or real estate
brokers, but 1t would seem to an or
dinary, everyday citizen, who has not
his name in a soft spot on the Treasury
roll that If these two proteges Of Van
derlip-Lyman and Funk, brothers in
character and enterprise-desire to
continue their efforts as bankers and
brokers, respectively, they should cut
loose from Uncle Sam and let meR-