The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-18
.INFORNER
GETS BONUS
OF s750,000
IDETECTOR OF S JUG A r
FRAUDS REACHES AGREE
MENT WITH M'vEIGH
WORKED YEARS BEFORE He
COULD GET A HEARING
Will Receive His Share Of
Money Recovered From
the Sugar Trust

Washington, June 49, Following q
long conference between Secretary
MacVeagh and Richard Parr, the an
nouncement was made that NJ Mac
yeagh would allow Parr approximate-
y $75O,000 for his efforts in EXPOSING
the sugar frauds IN the New York
customs house. The settlement OF the
PAR claim will be made on the re-
III n OF President Taft. The reward
comes under the moiety law.
IL has been the custom OF the treas
NY department fos many years to pay
its special agents 80 per cent OF the
money the government RECEIVERS on
customs frauds exposed by them. This
regulation will be followed in The case
u parr and, TO be exact, he will rs
oeiye $74l,4l9 as his share OF the
money recovered from the sugar
trust
parr Might Have Received Half
Under tile law The secretary OF the
treasury could have allowed rarr as
figh as one-haf Of the amount re-
covered, which would be $l,0o7,743.
The moiety law is based upon Sec
ton 4 Of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, and Is called the Anti
Molety Act OF June 22 1874 1t is
entitled ITO Officers and Others for
Detecting and Seizing,n and reads:
THAT whenever any officer of the
customs, or other persons, shall de-
tect and seize goods, wares or mes
chandise III the act Of being Snug
gled. or which have been smuggled, he
shalI be entitled to such compensa-
zion therefor as the secretary Of the
treasury shall award, not exceeding in
amount one-half OF the net proceeds,
ii any, resulting from such seizure
alter deductlng all duties, costs and
chalge connected Herewith"
TO this The treasury department add
cd the following regulation:
After all such deductions have
neen clearly established will be
iwarded Is per cent and detectors and
seizess viii be awarded 50 per cent
OF such net proceeds, except whers
IN ,pecial cases the department may
deem it expedient to either iucreaEe
Or decrease the percentages Sptci
fled" Yt84
In 1909 every award rol seizures
with the exception OF twsa twas at the
rate OF 50 per cent .sas more, OF The
omount recovered. IN two cases tn,
award was % pei cent.
Though Pm only put in d CLAIM
FOR EXPOSING the sugar trust faudi
he is also entitled to rewards for thre,
IJfler large recoveries by the Unitet
+ States. He exposed the frauds by
I which the Arbuckle Sugar Refinins
company, the National Sugar Refining
company and the Federal Sugar Re
f.ning company got the best of tn
government in the matter of duties.
Small Part OF PARIS Work
The Arbuckles have made restitu
tion of $G95,O00. the National Suga
q Refining company of $605,000 and TIL
/, Federal Sugar Refining company ha'
agreed to make restitution OF SIG
! 600. These sums, together with tn
amount collected from the suga
tust, make a total of $3,551,4S an
I, were Parr to have received 50 pc
/ cent of this his compensation woul
reach the great sum of Sl,245,02c, an
Il he had been allowed the maximum
) award of 50 PEI cent he would hav
/ received $L775,74S,
: The $S,55l,4S6 the government ha
recovered for the exposure oil the 81
gar frauds is the smallest part of tn
benefit derived from PARIS work. III
exposures opened up a series of eu'
: toms Investigations In other ports, (
/ s,lted in importing firms and re
/. turning travellers making honest d'
Z clarations, and has stimulated cu'
oms officers generally to do tho
! Grgh. efficient work. The whole bus
!. ness of the customs has undereon
u revolution since Parr began his SUI
! ccssiul war against the sugar t'us
: end the treasury of the United state
n consequence has been enriche'
J many millions of dollars.
Parr got a Job with the governmer
m 1904 as sugar sampler on tn
Williamsburg docks, and II WASH
long before he'd iscovered the orooRe
y erik that was going on. His saiar
was $1,000 year, He reported nj
Hsurmises to William Loeb, sJrs inc
E secretary 10 the Pfesdenis and AM q
I friend OF Parr. and was taken 70 ,te
r his story TO President Rooseyelt. +.
!. reasons which have never been MAD
! clear Parr met many ohstacies, an
II was shifted about the country II
three years before ne gol
i cbance TO tackle the sugar frauds !
( New York again.
Meanwhile he had been made n sp
r.al emroye with unusual powers, an
' ~ gathered the evidence which ia'
! bare the weighing frauds.
. AS soon as parr got on the trail
!. tnn frauds he found himself under col
4 ntant surveillance by detectives en-
Q Moved bv the sugar isust, ll'er .,
! ct;vae were sent 10 Albany, n. \