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and not the fault of the government. and
that he was liable for the expenses of trav-
cling, and not the public treasury. If no
had been in Washington and the President
mad called him to Mentor on public bus
ness his expense bill would have been al
lowed. but not from Mentor to Wash
ington.
Not long ago an auditor of the treasury
refused to pass the telephone bill of GER
tain branch of the government until ha
was furnished with the names of the parties
who had sent messages and evidence 10
show that the messages sent were on public
business. He finally yielded when the Off
cial in charge furnished him with sworn
certificate that the messages were official.
When the South American commission
was travelling on the other continents dur
ing the Arthur administration. it had occa-
sion to communicate by cable with the Sec
rotary of State on several different occa-
sions. The controller of the treasury dis
allowed the charges because copies of the
cablegramS, which were in cipher, were
not submitted with the account in order
that the clerks of his ONCE might deter
mine whether it was necessary and proper
to send them.
Nearly all of the hotel bills of the COM
mission. for a period of fourteen months
in Mexico, Central and South America, were
disallowed because most of them were
made out in the Spanish instead of the
English language and In many cases no
evidence was submitted to show that the
person who receipted them was authorized
to receipt bills for the owners or man
ayers of that particular hotel.
The charge for their steamship tickets
was disallowed because a copy of the pub
lished rates for passengers was not ap-
pended with the account, to show that the
charge was legitimate and not exorbitant.
This is Good One.
While Gen. Crook was following a hot
trail Of the Apaches some years ago down
in the southwest, he crossed the Mexican
border and found himself at the foot of the
mountains, where the savages had taken
refuge. Before starting over the stony
trails he had all of his horses shod as
rapidly as possible. Every blacksmith with
in reach was pressed into service and when
the Job was done they were directed to
send their bills to the quartermaster When
they came in they were paid by that off,
cial and sent to Washington through the
regular channels with the approval of the
division commander, the quartermaster
general, the commander-in-chief of the
army, the Secretary of War or whatever
officials were required by the law to sign
them. The accounting officers of the treas
ury, however, disallowed the item because
there are farriers attached to every cavalry
troop in the army whose business 1t is to
shoe horses and Gen. Crook should have
had them with him on that raid: OF. In the
absence of farriers, he should have adyer-
tised in the newspapers for thirty days for
proposals to shoe his horses and awarded
the contract to the lowest bidder.
I believe that account has not been set
tied yet, and X the Keep commission want
to know anything more about such things,
they can summon any old army veteran
paymaster or quartermaster-and he will
give them plenty of facts and examples of
the clumsy awkward. unjust regulations
under which they are required to do bnsi-
ness.