The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-21
ANOTHER SCANDAL
 IN PHILADELPHIA
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT REMOVES CLARENCE MEESER AS DEPUTY COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REV. ENuE FOR ELECTION FRAUDS.

Washington, June 2O-Clarence Meeser was removed today by President Roosevelt as deputy collector of internal revenue at Philadelphia. Mir. Meeser formerly was clerk in the copyright department in the congressional library here and was involved in the Salter election frauds The investigation was made by the civil serv- ice commission, and his removal is the result of that investigation.
 Philadelphia, June 2o.-Civil Service Commissioners Cooley and Green came here last week with instructions from President Roosevelt to investigate thor uughly Clarence Meesers connection with the Salter case and the dismissal is the result. Salter with Meeser and several others were charged with fragrant ballot box frauds. The exposure of their metlTJds created a sensation and soon after their arrest all fled from the jurisdiction of the courts and remained in hiding for over a year.
 Subsequently all but one returned and stood trial being acquitted. Mayor Weaver at the time was district attor- rey. Meanwhile one of the alleged con spirators, who did not run away pleaded guilty and served term in prison.
 --~-~-~---o-~-~---~-~~-~ East Orange, May 1, he says: I have never preferred charges against MT. Loomis yet three lines further down he says that to his mind it has been proven conclusively that MT. Loomis is dis honest official, and a few lines further down says that he had not preferred charges against MT. Loomis and that none were needed The documents them selves were charges, evidence and proof.
 The documents, MT. Bowen explains, were submitted to MT. Hay in the spring of 1904 and that a year had passed with out further action by MT. Hay, (which by implication at least looks as if Mir Bowen were accusing MT. Hay also of misconduct). In this same communica- ton of May 10 MT. Bowen goes on to say, T was justified in doing so, (that is in securing publication of the attack on Mir Loomis), l have but to show how MT. Loomis abrogated the agreement that President Roosevelt and MT. Hay had au- thorized me to make with the Venezuelan government; how he thus ruined our whole case and how he seemed likely to bring further disgrace on our govern mem
 MT Bowen then goes on to state that after he had received by cable January 10 from MT. Hay one telegram of which he approved a protocol by cable from Mir Loomis and that this protocol as he calls it. and of which he complains. he answered by telegram to MT Hay. He adds, I was of course even more astound- ed than the Venezuelan government was that MT. Loomis should thus criticize my work. and in fact override the decision of President Roosevelt and Mir. Hay and derogate from our prestige a strong and straight nation.
 "And he ends his letter by the follow ing statement:
 Claims He Was Justified.
 If the newspaper reports were influ- enced by me, l was justified in trying to 1T fluence them because MT. Loomis was dishonest while minister at Caracas and as assistant secretary of state was guilty of abrogating the agreements President Roosevelt and MT. Hay had authorized me to make with the Venezuelan govern ment; and because he deceived and seem- ed likely to continue to deceive the gov ernment and people of tn Unitd States
 Tt is disgenerous for Mir. Bowen re- peatedly, to use such language and at the same time to insist that he has made -so charges against MT. Loomis. Moreover, 1t is quite impossible that MT. Bowen can believe that the telegram signed by MT. Ioomis as the acting secretary of state, which he calls a protocol really proves that MT. Loomis was guilty of abrogat- ing the agreements President Roosevelt and MT. Hay had authorized me to make with the Venezuelan government Mr. Bowen's statement is shown to be abso- lutely untrue by the statemeC of the solicitor of the Department of State, Mr. Penfield But his own statement bears within itself its own refutation on this point. He shows in this statement that he at once answered this cable of Mir Loomis by cable to NJ Hay who would thus have had his attention specifically called to the Loomis protocol even if he