The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-01
OFFICIALS SWORN
IN AT TREASURY
Lee McClung and Prof. An
drewS Assume New
Duties.

Two new OFFICIALS were sworn into
ofice at the Treasury Departments to-
day. They We're Lee AIcClung, once a
famous football player, whose name
viii hereafter appear on the currency
of the country as the United States
Treasurer; and Prof A Platt Andrews,
the new Director of the Mint, who is
also a member of the Monetary Com
mission and has just returned with
Senator Aldrich from q study OF the
financial systems Of Europe.
The oath OF office was administered
20 both Of these now officials by Clerk
Fitzpatrick, of the Appointment Blu
reau, who has sworn n every import
ant Treasury officer for the last nr-
teen years Acting Secretary OF the
Treasury Norton was present. together
with other officers from the Secretary
Office. and the chiefs of divisions over
whom the new men win preside AFTER
the ceremony the chleIs and clerks or
these two important branches OF the
department were introduced TO their
new supefiors, and, VIXEN the furry had
subsided. they settled down TO the rou-
tine transaction OF the department 5
business. New heads of bureaus may
come, and old ones go, but the work or
the Treasury clerks goes on IoreNert
The retirement Of James Is. Reynolds,
as Assistant Secretary CT the Treasury
also became effective today he mas
become a member OF the tariff board.
His successor as Assistant secretary IN
charge of customs work is expected
to be announced shortly after the re-
turf of Secretary MacNeagh next Thurs
day from his summer home IN Dublin,
Former Treasurer Treat departed TO-
day for New York. where he viii enter
business life again.
Treasurer Treats last day yesterday
at the Treasury was not unlike many
other Sundays he has spent within the
granite walls Of the Government big
money storehouse. With the nabit OF
went to his office shortly after o'clock
and there, aided by a subordinate chief
and his chief secretary, he cleaned
up his desk and dictated such letters
as remained before his successor must
arrive TO take up the work wnere he
leaves OF.
ness affairs in New York require his
residence there, Washington will con-
ttnue TO be his home. He has eXIen-
Eive interests in Tennessee, and resi-
dence here would enable him TO keep
IN closer touch with them
@Good-by to Cabinet"
One oHg-to-be-remembered incident
in connection with Treasurer Treats
Ieave-taking was his "good-by'' 10 his
Treasurer Cabinet" as the deputies
and division chiefs who make up the
Treasurer's Office are Familiarity known
When Mr.. Treat assumed command in
1905. he brought TO the office experience
that had Tipened in extensive banking
affairs. and one Of his business maxims
was based on belief in cooperation as
factor in successful enterprises. pub
lie and private.
How he gathered his subchiefs around
him, explained his plans and invited
their ideas as means of improving
the office methods, and how these sub
sequent meetings became known as
cabinet sessions is now part Of the
history Of the Treasury Department
Part In Currency Bill.
Treasurer Treats part in the making
OF the AldTich-Vreeland emergency cur
rency bin brought him into the. public
eye MARI than anything else during his
career as Treasurer. With Senator AID
rich and Representative Vreeland, he
held daily conferences at his office in
the Treasury Department while the draft
OF the law was in the making, and in
the min the legislation which is in
tended 20 stem the tide OF future money
pauics IS the result Of the retiring
TreasureV's fOrethOught.
1T was on that couch yonder that the
AldTich-N IRELAND bill vas born" said
Treasurer Treat this morning. pointing
10 an old-l fashioned leather covered sofa
which Occ upled a corner Of his room
between two windows 1t was on this
sofa that the makers of the currency
law sat WI zen most Of their discussions
of the deta lis Of the law were on
Incidental Duties.
Among the incidental duties of the