New-York tribune., 1909-11-19
LOEB SUSPENDS
SIX INSPECTORS
FOUR OF THEN WERE
SUGAR WEIGHERS.
Collectors Housocleaning Is
Backed by MacTeagh-
Congress Feared.


in the customs service yesterday, begun
last spring. by suspending six inspectors.
two on the charge Of accepting tips from
passengers on the steamship Kaiser VII
helm and four who were former assist
snt weighers. In less than month. II
was SAID yesterday. from 40 20 100 men
fn the service will he suspended or
dropped from the rolls and from five 10
:en employees indicted Some Of the for
rnor are on the Civil Service list. hut
that will not make any difference. II.
was declsred. Collector Loeb will be
tie man 10 act. and there will he no in
terference from any one higher M.
The Collector said last night that he
lad preferred charges against the sus-
pended men. The four inspectors who
had been assistant weighers, he said.
had been employed on the sugar docks.
Their names. il was said. would not be
given out unless the men were dismissed
from the service.
Wilbur = Wakeman. former Appraiser
- this port. returned to his desk, at No.
:929 Broadway. from Washington yester-
dsv. He had seen Franklin MacVeagh,
secretary Of the Treasury. and said that
tho Secretary was back Of Mr.. Loeb in
his housecleaning.
secretary MacNeagh viii clean up the
service." Mr.. wakeman said, as il has
never been cleaned before"
AFRAID OF CONGRESS.
Despite reassurances from Washing
ton that Congressional Investigation of
the Sugar Trust and customs conditions
here would not be held. there was mani
fest uneasiness yesterday among the
government prosecutors. They arc i'm
fuil swing with their work, which has
been under way ever since the raid on
The Hsvcmeyer & Elder docks in No
Nember, 1907 and resent hint Of a
check. Mr.. Loeb's cleaning up is only
the sequel Of What the prosecutors have
unveiled. il was said at the Custom
House last evening.
Henry L. Stimson. special counsel for
tho government IN charge OF the sugar
cases. when he was United States Az
torney was asked about Congressional
investigation and the following question
was propounded:
..win YOU say whether or not The Sugar
Trust oricials II called in a Sugar Trust
investiga tien by congress, will he i'm
inuno from prosecution in connection
With matters upon which they may be
called 10 testify"
1t would depend upon the terms OF
the investigation" Mr.. Stimson an
srrered. congress could give such i'm
,nuni,v as a condition Of testifying. and
:, could not compel a witness against
his VIII 70 give discriminating evidence
unless j, did promise immunity
MIST PROTECT WITNESSES.
4 government official said that Con-
eressionsl committee that attempted TO
investigate anything could make NJ
hosdvav unless the witnesses were pre-
'ected And ne said further that n was
not only the officials of companies nov
,.nder Indictment who would esca, -
prosecution II they testified before surn
= committee. but also men i'm companies
now under investigation, companies I'm
lines ~ business benefited by customs
frauds.
When rumors of the calling in of Ton
gross were first heard, Congressman
william : Bennet went To So" Henry
= wise. The United states Attorney. %
Mr Stimson was opposed 70 H. NJ.
wise v-ay Just .s Emphatic in his oppo-
si,ion. and he has nothing 20 do with
tho sugar prosecutions
10 Indictments ~ government ON
lloves connected with tho sugar frauds
we're made YESTERDAY. some are expect
u. and they may be handed down this
week. Witnesses in the case have been
frsiifvinE before the federal grand jury
right alonV hut Mr.. Stimson Is deter
mined 10 have an of his evidence in be-
fore he viii ask FOR action. He and hiS
assistants were busy preparing for the
f-isl 81 Bendernsgel. Spitzer and tho
others, set for November %.
To REINsTATE CoRSA
T. vas promised yesterday that = nov
movement would be started Immediately
for the reinstatement, of Henry g Gores.
who. when employed in tho Appraisers
department. was uncenemoniously dis
missed after Wilbur D. Wakemsn went
rut and george ". whitehead came in
49, Appraiser. Mr.. Nak"msn. 10 whom
Corsa told his story of bribery on ~.
sugar docbs said Yesterday that hs
would DO al in his power 10 have Forsa
tut back In was said shat reinstst.-
n'eut would have 10 be made on an IA
.-cutits ordsr
collector Loeb began the removal of
s1-cslled undesirable employees soon
SITTER HE appointment. Up 10 the present
FiAfy-two mon have been dropped from
fhe customs service. With those either
slrsady dismissed or soon 10 be, the to-
al result q The cleanup viii be about
on. hundred and tW enty-five new men AT
work for the government. IL WAS be-
lieVed a. the custom House early yester-
day thai tho Collector had ready his or
der for dismissal of Tie first new lot 10
~. but he did mot announce the suspen-
son Of the sK inen until late in the day.
oue n the men pa the government ser
vie sald Of the whole customs situation
snl tie iegal work connected with the
:ovslstions
Whatever may b. said 90 the con-
mary, The fact remains that the legal
machinery has been moving as fast as
uossible--nsmely. as fast ~ the Secret