Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-02
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lieves that you are an honest man; that you
want and will have honest men in office
and that mo others need apply" How is
it in regard to hold overi officials who,
under Cleveland's second administration,
were VIGOROUSLY corrupt DO you intend
to retain such men in Office and permit them
to direct the disbursement Of millions Of
money! II know Of no way Of judging Of
the future but by the past, is what Patrick
Henry declared in a speech before the
Virginia Convention, March IS. I77s Judg-
ing by the past the GLOBE submits for
your consideration the following record Of
Mr.. A. W. Machen, General Superintendent
of Free Delivery. Will you endorse this
record2
Extract from the evidence Of A. W.
Machen before the Senate Committee on
Civil Service and Retrenchment, Senator
Pritchard chairman:
The Chairman. Information has reached
the committee that some Of these men we're
employed under assumed names; that w.
A. Clark, at Richmond, Va, had assumed
that name.
Mr. Machen That is true.
The Chairman. What is his name2
Mr.. Macheu. His name is Machen. 1t
was for the purpose Of secrecy Of investiga-
ton.
The Chairman. He was your brother?
Mr.. Machen. Yes, sir
The Chairman. Aud was employed under
an assumed name2
Mr. Machen. Yes, sir
The Chairman. And it was done for that
purpose3
Mr. Machen. Yes, sir I want to explain
here that at the time we found the auditor
could accept vouchers under assumed
names on a certificate from the First AS
sistant Postmaster General, Mr.. Clark was
dropped out Of the service under that name.
The Chairman. And he went in under his
true name7
Mr.. Machen. No, sir; he did not 60 in at
all. But it was done for the purpose of
secrecy Of investigation. as it could not be
continued under the name of Machen. In
fact, all the agents went under assumed
names in different places.
The Chairman. And it was for the pur-
pose Of keeping them from disclosing their
identify
Mr.. Machen. Yes, sir
The Chairman. In order to make their
services more eifectivef
Mr.. Machen. Yes, sir.
The Chairman. Was such a man as Samuel
Beight discharged?
Mr.. Machen. Yes, sir
The Chairman. Why was it that the rec
ommendation for the reduction Of Mr..
Beights salary was made2
Mr.. Machen. I will tell you why Mr..
Beight was reduced. Mr.. Beight was re-
ceiving 81 600 a year in my Office. He did
work, puttered along on work. rather, that
is now performed by another clerk in my
Office in thirty minutes every day op-
posed Mr.. Beight's reduction. / held it up
for two years at 81 600 on the ground that it
only makes a clerk worse to reduce him.
would rather dismiss a man outright than
reduce him. That was the only reduction
in my Office, and at the time Mr.. Beight
was reduced two other Republicans, or
daughters of Republicans were raised; and
one Of these ladies is now doing the work
in thirty minutes that it took Mr.. Beight
seven hours every day to do.
The Chairman. It has been suggested to
the committee by one or two parties they
will probably be before the committee later
on, but thought l would give you the adj
vantage Of it now so that you may answer
it), that az the time parties were appointed
they we're required to 60 before Mr. Frank
r. Raymond, general agent of the Union
Central Life Insurance Company, and take
out policy with him?
Mr. Machen That is absolutely false.
The Chairman. So that was not a condition
precedent
Mr. Machen Not at all Mr. Frank Ray
moud is an insurance agent here. A good
many Of the boys, especially the Ohio boys,
when in Washington make Mr. RaymOnd's
Office sort of headquarters; but there was
no such condition at all.
The Chairman You had nothing to do
with that9
Mr. Machen. Nothing whatever.
The Chairman. Did you have a commits.
sion or nou-transferable railroad pass signed
by the Postmaster General?
Mr. Machen. Yes, sir
The Chairman. State the power conferred
upon whoever is the possessor of one Of
these. Can he transfer itf
Mr.. Machen. No, sir; he cannot transfer
it. l never transferred mine either If
that is charged will say, gentlemen, that
Mr.. Beight, who sat next to the desk of Mr.
Bellman, and saw these envelopes opened
and the money taken out, and he has built
up a-great bugaboo on that thing.
The Chairman. Beight did7
Mr.. Macheu. Yes, Il was all done in the
Office open and above board There was
nothing to conceal about it,
The Chairman That is why asked you
on that point. wanted to get it out be-
cause it has been put in here and wanted
to go to the bottom Of IT,
Mr.. Machen Yes, sir.
Now, Mr.. President, when you were one
Of the Civil Service Commissioners vou re-
member that A. W. Macheu, then, az now,
Superintendent of Free Delivery, had ap-
pointed and employed job lot Of men and
boys spying and spotting letter carriers at
free delivery post-ofices You know, too, that
Congress had made no APPROPRIATION for
that service. The money to pay the secret
agents las they were then designated or a
part Of IT, was provided through the re-
moval Of letter carriers at the higher
graded salaries. At Philadelphia, as shown
by the testimony Of Ex-Carrier VIM.
Butcher before the Senate committee, one
hundred carriers we're removed, IS at 81 900
and a. at $780, A short time before these
removals were made, Mr. Butcher stated,
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