The Washington herald., 1911-07-12

History of certain doings in con-
nection with the Treasury Depart
ment of a character so highly sig
nihcant and interesting that it prob
ably will cause the summons before
inquiSitive Democrats of the House
of Secretary MacVeagh, former
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Charles Dyer Norton, a former
United States Senator, and other
prominent gentlemen, was turned to
the light yesterday by the House
Committee on Expenditures in the
Treasury Department.
The members of the committee
consider they have found the best
pay dirt yet turned up by the
House administration in its mining
for departmental facts.
MAY CALL FORMER SENATOR.
The Hon. Eugene Hale, of Maine, is
the former United States Senator from
whom the investigating body may desire
some enlightment as to incidents of the
Senate when he was chairman of its
Committee on Appropriations.
How one of the prominent Office build
ings of Washington, in which relatives
by marriage of Senator Hale are inter-
ested, was forced upon the government
for occupancy by the passage of a law
devised in the Senate despite the earnest
protest of the Cabinet officer who pre-
ceded Secretary MacVeagh; how the iron
hand OF the man who ran the Taft cam
paign forced its way into the Treasury
Department and secured the promotion
of an Undeserving clerk; how the class
ifcation efforts of long experienced heads
of accounting divisions were thwarted,
together with the spicy details leading
up to supplanting early in the
Taft administration of Robert S. Person,
as Auditor for the Interior Department.
are a few of the interesting accounts
- which members of the committee have
been absorbing part of the time behind
closed doors.
Get Interesting Information.
With the examination yesterday of
Louis Boyer, of the Union Building
Company, who recited a highly signif-
cant list of persons who own stock in
that concern, whose property is the
Union Building, occupied by the gov
ernment, the lid came loose. Later in
the day it popped off entirely, and the
details of a quiet little hearing which
was held Saturday last. and of which
Robert S. Person was the chief detailer
of incidents, came forth to dispeI the
mystery of many things which were
unfolded to the committee yesterday.
According to the testimony of the
former Auditor for the Interior De-
partment, the Treasury Department had
no choice as to sending certain of it's
bureaus into the Union Building in G
street, where they are now quartered in
more or less discomfort. The general
deficiency act Of the first session of
the Sixtieth Congress provided express
" for the rent of the Union Building
for the use of the Treasury Depart
ment Senator Hale, of Maine, of the
Senate Appropriations Committee. ap-
parently was responsible for the inser-
done in the Senate.
Yesterday before the committee, Louis
Beyer, a member of the Union Building
Company, named Mrs. Rachel Cameron
Hale, daughter Of former Senator ]. D.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and daugh-
ter-in-law Of former Senator Hale, as
one Of the principal stockholders in the
concern. Elizabeth S. Cameron. wife of
the former Senator, also is among the
shareholders named, as are ]. D. Cam
eron and his son. James Cameron; the
daughters of Senator Cameron, Mrs.
Rogers and Mrs. Margaret c. Clark, and
Mary Cameron, his sister.
Officers of the Company.
The president of the company, accord
ing to Mr.. Beyer's statement, is Myron
NJ Parker. Among the other stock
holders are Henry ]. Gensler, an official
reporter of debates in the Senate; C. A.
Baker, Ruth MCGOWAN. H. K. Willard,
Mary G. schafer. Louis Boyer, Mrs. E.
E. House, A. P. Clark, John Ridout,
]. w. Schafer, and Rose NJ Berbecker.
The board Of directors at present Is
made up Of NJ NJ. Parker, ]. NJ. Cam
eron. John Ridout, H. K. Willard, and
Louis Boyer.
Mr. Boyer turned over to the commit
tee full statements concerning the
company's financial status and the
amount OF rents obtained from the gov
ernment which have increased since
1907 from S27,s0o to $4,000.
Representative Galloway, a member
OF the committee. disclosed line OF
future inquisition by asking whether