The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
Trying to Array HcmenwaS Against
Traceweu and Predicting Dire Po-
IiticaI Consequences.
NO FRICTION IN CABINET
NEWSPAPER RUMORs DENIED Br
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
Mr. Bristow's Coming Report-CoI. ID.
VI. RansdeiI on the Recent In
dianapoIis Election.
specIal to the IndIanaroIIs journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Oct. ia member OF
the Cabinet is authority for the statement
that Robert J. Tracewel of Indiana. con-
troller of the treasury, will not be removed
from Office. This is the situation, he said.
as it now stands. That certain official acts
of Controller Tracewell were criticized by
Messrs. Bonaparte and Conrad is generally
believed: that there were serious dissensions
in the Cabinet over the findings Of Bona
parte and Conrad in connection with MIR.
Tracewell is vigorously denied I'm official
quarters even by the President himself.
1t is known that Secretary Shaw objected
strenuously TO the adoption of recommen-
dations in the report Of the special agents
relative TO matters OF policy. Bonaparte
and Conrad are said TO have urged the
adoption of an auditing system which would
have made the Treasury Department re-
sponsible for vouchers covering public ex-
penditures from their inception. Secretary
Shaw took the position that there should be
a division of responsibility. is the case
under present conditions. and that IL was
impossibility for the treasury to go into
the why and wherefore of many expendi-
lures authorized in the various departments.
on this point the secretary took sharp issue
with Bonaparte and Conrad.
Statements have been current that the
findings of the special agents made IL in
cumbent on the President to dismiss Mr..
Tracewell. They are made without a
: knowledge of the purpose OF the President
in appointing the two lawyers TO look into
the Tulloch charges, which involved Mr..
Tracewell, Auditor Castle who recently
resigned, and the local postmaster. John Nj.
Merritt. Bonaparte and Conrad were inves-
tigators and not referees. The President is
not bound by their recommendations. IL
is a safe prediction that unless there is
marked change in the situation Mr. Trace
well will not be asked TO resign.
Stories were printed in Eastern news
papers to-day outlining the dire political
consequences that might follow il Mr..
Tracewen was forced out of the treasury.
They were ridiculed by friends OF the
Indiana man. who stated that IL he had TO
go his going would be orderly and dignifed-
An attempt has also been made TO drag
Representative Hemenway into the contrO-
versy. One publication. says to-day: His
political interests so closely entwfned
with those of Mr.. Tracewell that Hemen-
way must save Tracewell in order 10 save
himself
Here is another sample of the silly gos-
sip in this connection which appeared an
the Philadelphia Record this morning:
''Tracewell is from the congressional dis
trict OF Representative Hemenway, who
will be chairman OF the appropriations
committee in the next Congress. but IL il
said that Tracewell, and not Hemenway.
is the real leader of the Republicans, and
that he has as sqeh s i, powerful ,1d infenes as
his support away from the administration.
He was recommended for his present place
by both Indiana Senators. but he owes his
appointment rather TO his own political
strength than to their recommendations.
He is said TO be easily strong enough To
take Hemenway out of Congress-.
Members of the Indiana colony here are
inquiring when Mr.. Traceweli removed
from the Third to the First Indiana con-
gressional district
Postmaster General Payne and Fourth
Assistant Bristow were i'm close conference
the better part of the day, going over the
first draft of the latter's report relative TO
the postoffice investigation. While nothing
official can be learned as TO the leading
features of the Bristow report. il is stated
by those in position TO know that il will
prove an interesting document. The prin-
cipal results OF the postal inquiry are told
i'm the record of arrests and indictment OF
officials and contractors. But some OF the
petty thievery that has been going on in
the department for several years has not
vet been told IL will be outlined I'm tho
Bristow report, which will be made public
before the end of the week. The record
inspectors under the direction Of Postmas-
ter General Payne recently Indicated
in these dispatches. VIII be some spicy
comment relative to the administrations
OF men who formerly held prominent posi-
tions in the department. Fourth Assistant
Bristow Is expected TO recommend the dis
mssal of certain officials but the number
of heads that will fall in the basket will
not begin TO approximate the wild predic-
tions that have been made during the past
month or So
1.-The recent election in Indianapolis ala
not leave any political scars that will not
heal between now and the national elec-
tion," said Col Daniel NJ. Ransdell who
has just returned TO Washington" There
was feeling. of course. but the men among
whom il rested are not the Kind OF Repub-
lcanS TO take it out on the next campaign.
The revolt will have no effect on the pros-
poets OF Jesse Overstreet. our efficient rep
resentatiye in Congress, nor upon the leg.-
no possibility of il affecting the natlonss
ticket. / prophesy that the country vii
give the state and national Republican
ticket 400 plurality in the next election"
The following national banks OF Indians
apolis have been approved as reserve
agents for the First National Bank OF
Farmland. Ind: Capital, Columbia Fletch-
er. Indiana and Merchants National banks.
The First National Bank OF Plainheid.
Ind. has been authorized commence
business. Capital. s25,O00: G. c.. cumber-
worth. cashier; president and vice presi-
dent are not named
Xxx
Frederick Eel was to-day appointed post.
master at 1nwood. Marshall county. In
diana. vice Hattie A. Graham. resigned.
Percy Mitchell. of New Castle. deputy
controller OF the treasury has returned