New-York tribune., 1909-11-21
MORE HEADS TO POP
LOEB At WASHINGTON
Trail Of Indictments Leads TO
High Ofciai en- Serrice.

Collector Loeb. TIE moving force BE-
hind tho activity and house cleaning OF
tle New work custom House. win go 20
washington tonight 20 confer with Frank
m MscKeseh. Secretary % the Treasury,
srd with president TAFT
though not announced ofhcisuv. n Vas
Understood AZ the Custom House yesterday
thst IN. Collector. even though he had been
repeatedly assured of the Fun hacking or
.rs administration. would take up with his
superiars The prospective developments of
rHe coming week = is expected that the
ruu,hs- q disnlisssls and reductions in
rsrk rhis week win surpass even the reoord
50 far
~ the three hundred empioyes IN IRE
service who are directly concerned with
frnportations. either as Veighers. samplers
~ assistants. seventy-three have already
n~en separated from The payroll and y
= liEsly that AZ least 125 VIII be tres-ed in
shs same rnsnner before rhe end % the
week. Many OF these have been UNDERGOING
tao-ough heckling recently. ana their
cases are now under consideration
Richar Psrr. the man who as spe-
cinl seent % ire Treasury Department in
vestigzred and laid bare The facts upon
--hich The American Sugar Refining Com
rsry vas forced 70 dissorge duties 20 the
extent 81 s. eee. 90 fraudulently svsded. u
vas learned yesterday, found an apparently
harmless incident which later developed
frto The basis of the Sugar Trusts oorrup-
tion q the government employees
House money was the term applied 20
his Insignificant beginning of the cor
-upttve work. and Parr saia that many
Eovsrnrnent employees accepted II without
r-Uch thought of corruption
DIVIDING THE VELVET
Hs learned that il Eas s custom among
fh- Veighers 70 start work sometimes he-
f0re an unloading permit vas received and
- work overtime. This gave the sugar
importers rhe opportunity 70 rush eargoes
through in considerably less time than
would have been the case had the laws
heen closely obeyed. and IN return for the
ssvor rhe ve.ghers would receive small
su-ounts from the importers-somethin
Ike s. or 9 cargo. Inspectors ard other
FoveTunent employees. without whose per
mission TIE Weiehers could not have helped
cl- TIE importers. were also re-nemherel,
sud naturally a little more substantially
fre1 the weighers and samplers
Prom that beginning PARIS investigation
showed him that n vas Just another step
- the point where the importers paid the
r1ve-ruent's men small recs for adjusting
the scales.
mentioned in the prosecution Of the Sugar
T-ust lsst year m connection with the "a
uous case Of the seventeen holes or
fraudulent weighing case. WAS apparently
e. outCrouth Of the small fee given for the
Eo-caued adjustment of the scales
some ~ the disrnisssis last week from The
customs service. IL vas said yesterday.
-,-s for accepting house money" and
s1rle for re acceptance OF fees for ad-
srsruerit"
Tha widespread determination 20 get 70
slts IN tire ''housecleantng" vas evidenced
yesterday by the statement that i've more
assistant V-eighers had been indicted Jo-
ssph = DouneIlen - the only government
w.igher whose indictment has been made
public The coming indictments are eK-
Eected 70 follow the rrsH 10 point where
~ least one man viii - found who can
point cut the complete story of the corrup-
ti9r.
NEAR THE MAN HIGHER Up"
n feet. II was confidently stated By men
f- the forefront Of TIE Investigation yes
te-day that one % the men indicted, whose
usue would be made public during The
ss-rv part of this week viii furnish evil
6-nce BY which man close 20 the TOD of
--e local government service viii be
- developed yesterday that al least Two
RI. fle independent sugar refneT1es lad
1eer duplicated 10 such an extent that
frav have made definite offers Of sesl0s0
sd $40 80 20 the government through
FIeurv T. S-ims0n. 10 have the eases
against them dropped. The amounts Of
fered n was said, approximate about the
Fzrne percentage on their alleged defraud-
i~g ~ duty payments as was paid by
rrs American Sugar Refining Company
vIsr y settled for approximately $3.50
a.
These offers by tie independent rein-
r-.as are being considered 10y the Depart
r-ert ~ Justice. II was reported yester-
rz-
Richard PARIS recent promotion is ap-
uer=1rlv only The forerunuer OF another
E-er according 20 reported statements
f-a-- of1rials sn6 former officials u the
Er-e-urneut service vesterdav, and n ;s
fHle-rel rha with the final cleanup =
f-e local olstOms service Parr viii be
-e7-~1e5 with promotion 20 IN important
rasr
Negro employees q the custom house
E-cie-tel rie Office just vacated hy for
rer Deputy Surveyor James r. Vail 10
thorough cleaning by The vacuum proc
% resterdsy