The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-17
TWENTY TWO
 SUSPICIONED SUGAR INSPECTING CASE HAS A WIDE scoPE-TWo REcElv. ED NO APPOINTMENTS.
Edward Anderson Declares That He Is the Man That Is Mentioned by
 James Reynolds.

Washington, Nov. 16.--Twenty- two assistant weighers in the New York customs house are known to have been implicated in or are under sus- picion of a positive character in the so-called sugar trust frauds
 This is set forth in public state ment issued tonight by Chairman John c, Black and Messrs. McIlhenney and Washburn of the civil service commits sS0n to answer to charges to the ef- feet that appointments and removals in the New York customs house were at ahe dictum of the trust.
 The statement of the commissioners is designed to show the care which is taken in the preparation and rating of examination papers, how by reason of the methods in vogue it is prac- tically impossible for the commissions examiners In Washington to show fav- oritism in rating the authc ity given appointing officers to examine thor oughly into the antecedents of elig- ibles and the power of removal en- ioyed by them if they had or believed they had grounds for such course.
 Answering in detail the charges the commission say they have been of the most general character and no name and no person has been men, toned in connection with them who is of the commissions forces. The information regarding the twentytwo assistants weighers came from the New York customs house.
 Two of the assistant weighers were appointed without certification by the commission, the remaining twenty having been appointed by certification from 1885 to 1907. There are now employed in New York 126 assistant weighers.
 The commission sets out how care ful it has been in alscertaining the per sonal character of applicants for as- sistant weghers positions, requiring information which embodied subse- quently history of their past careers and vouchers certifying to their worth.
 Appointing officers were authorized to file objections to eligibles, were given ample time to confer with ap. plicants and to make any investiga. tions deemed desirable into the ante, cedents.
 The statement of the commission concludes:
 What the commission desires to emphasize to the press is that it has used not only all precautions possible in the selection of it's ellgibles, but it has left in the departments unimpair. ed the power of sitting such appoint ments when once made, to the bot tom and exercising the power of re-. moyal at any time.'
 Anderson Files Claim.
 New York, Nov 16--A new figure was introduced tonight in the con- filsversy surrounding ,the investiga- tion of frauds charged to the Ameri- can Sugar Refining Company, when Edward I. Anderson, a former super intendent of docks for the company and a clrse personal friend of the late Theodore o. Havemeyer, announc- ca through his attorneys that he is the man refemed to by James B. Reynolds, former assistant secretary of the treasury as the one who gave the department the first specific in formation concerning the frauds.
 Anderson has filed claims with the customs authorities for compensation, which he estimates will reach sl,0O0. 900. For the last two years he says he has been engaged in furnishing evidence to the government and it was through him, he asserts. that T3f1fo,.l Do ..,t.., ,,ovxv o,,rar, 40