The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-23
GREAT INTEREST
TAKEN IN HAOLtY
At THE CAPITAL
No Action Has Yet Been TAX
en- by Governor Marshall,
And It Is Not Known What
His Plans Are.
STORM NOW cENTERS
ABOUT YOUNG HADLEY
Claim That Treasurer's Son
Drew Pay as a Stenograph-
er, But Was Not Qualified
For the Position.
Palladium Bureau,

Indianapolis, VSOs Eo'
Interest conferred yesterday in the
Investigation which Governor Marsh
all is making into the conditions in
the office of State Treasurer Hadley,
following the reports that the method
of doing business in that office was
not Just what it should be. No action
has yet beer taken by the governor
and 1t is not known definitely wheth-
er any action will be taken, but those
who are watching the progress of the
matter believe that something will be
done soon. Just what it will be no
one seems to know.
Yesterday something was said about
the fact that Hadley's son, Chester
Hadley, drew pay in the office as a
st~enographer when Treasurer Hadley
has said that he paid the office steno-
grapher out of his own pocket.
Wasn't a stenographer.
State Treasurer Hadley, in answer
to a report that his son had drawn
pay as a st~enographer in his office,
said there was a misunderstanding
concerning the services OF the young
man.
my son." said Mr.. Hadley, twas
in business It Plainfield, and the
business not prospecting I sold it out
for him, and he was given employ
ment in my office as an assistant
~bookkeeper. He performed the SER
vices for which he was paid and his
services were needed or I should not
have employed him.
"Is your son a s~tenographer?" Mr..
Hadley was asked.
.Not in the strict sense of the
words meaning" answered the state
treasurer. "He never took a course In
stenography, but he could operate a
typewriter and do the work required
OF him very well. l suppose technical
" he would not come in under the
appropriation made for a stenograph-
or, but he was called that to keep
within the appreciation. When an
expert stenographer was needed l hir-
ed one to get out letters and things
like that and paid for the services out
of my w packet"
Sons Time In the Office.
WAS he at the office all the time"
"Oh, I suppose not every minute,
but he was here about as much as
any of the other employees of the of.
fices-when he was needed he was
here and did the work he was. called
on to do"
''Was he here while he owned the
restaurant at Plainfield?"
1T may be possible that for a short
time before he sold the business out
he was here when needed. but l al
ways considered him an attache OF
the office the same as the Others"
1.-THE records show that he drew the
salary of a st~enographer from Febru
airy l, 1908, to September 80 of the
same year,"
II suppose that is correct. have
not the record here. but I suppose he
drew the money. In fact, If there is
anything out of the way in his work
and I insist that there is not-the only
thing that can be said is that he drew
the pay as a ste~nographer when he
was not an expert stenographer, and
as I said, that was done to keep with
In the appropriation made for a steno
grapher.
Twisting Things Around.
ut was just twisting things around
q httle just IS former state treasur
ers have paid the assistants in the
office from the watchman's fund
There was no intent to do anything
criminal mt any investigation of this
office will show that there is nothing
of that kind. I suppose the error was
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