Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-18

Richard Parr, the customs deputy at
New York, who materially assisted the
government in recovering over $2,O0O,OG
in the sugar underweighing frauds, is to
be given reward of 100000.
The decision TO reward Parr in the
amount named was reached at con-
ference between President Taft and Sec
rotary MacVeagh yesterday. There is not
money enough available in the moiety
| fund in the Treasury from which re-
agreed on, SO that unless other arrange
| ments are effected an appeal to Congress
will have to be made for the necessary
| appropriation. That, Secretary MacNeagh
indicated. would not be done at this ses-
sion of Congress.
PAIR discovered the secret spring on
the docks of the American Sugar Refin-
ing Company by which the underweigh-
ing practice was carried on. The final dis
cov3rieS of fraud were made in 1907, since
which time the government has been en-
gagged in collecting the duties out of
which it had been defrauded.
Two Other Claimants.
There were two other claimants with
Parr for reward. They We're Edwin L.
Anderson and Charles NJ. Daily. Secretary
MacVeagh submitted to Attorney Cen
he was authorized to reward the three
men, but the Attorney General held that
Parr only was entitled to any compensa-
ton from the moiety fund.
Some interesting references bearing or
the controversy were made by Secretary
MacFeagh in his communication to Attor.
ney General Wickersham. 1t appears that
Daily, one of the claimants. in September.
1867. called attention to information he
had of fraudulent sugar, Weighing. a man
by the name Of Richard Whailey was in
the employ of the sugar company in the
nineties and claimed to nave invented a
fraudulent method of weighing sugars-by
a set of special weights-which it was al
company in 1888.
Anderson. at one time assistant dock
superintendent of the sugar company,
claims to have had some suspicious of
frauds According to the Secretary's let
ter he had been intending to sell his story
to the newspapers, when Daily advised
against il. Daily then took an interest in
the matter with Anderson and laid the
case before the government. Subsequent
iy he added Whalleys story.
Whalley Made No Claim.
This, said Mr.. Macveagh. gives the
basis of this claim of Daily and Anderson.
Whalley made no claim against the gov
eminent. 1t was found out subsequently,,
said the Secretary. that the device to Sc
cure fraudulent weighing reported by
Whalley was not being used.
Evidently, said Secretary MacVeagh, the
leadership was i'm Parr. The initiati
rested with him and the information and
action We're meanwhile associated with
him. The success of the suits to recover
money should be attributed largely to
PARIS work. There is also no doubt, de-
clared the Secretary. that Parr was Of
fered large amounts of money and that
he was logged by detectives.
The only claimants other than Parr.
said the Attorney General IN passing on
the case. were Anderson and Daily. and
they claim only by reason of information
which admittedly was given to the gov
eminent directly by Richard Whaliey. The
Attorney General said that undoubtedly
Whalley's information was Of great value,
but the facts set out by Secretary Mac
Veagh clearly showed that L was not the
inception of the investigation. Parr had
the subject matter of Whalley's informa-
ton already under investigation.