The Detroit times., 1911-05-30
az alLsoN oARpNER.

"a WASHINGTON May 30,-Just be.
fofe April Fooi--that is. on March 81
1.-THE 'Aldrich plan" and the none
fary commission had cost the people
<207 ,l3O.aS. The monetary commits
sion IS pension roll for dead ducks
land q cloak for Aldrich. II gives him
access 10 the floor of the senate. II
makes him powerful lobbyist.
Since the account fled, the govern
menf has been paying monthly sal
arts amounting to $562.50 apiece to
. Six dead duck Burrows,
Flint. Hale, Money, Taliaferro and
Teller, and dead duck representative
Bonynge has drawn $15,562.50 In sal
uries and the same amount has been
4 paid TO Teller. Before he died Over
street drew 1920
But the salary list Is only an Incl
dental The commissions big expense
N for other things. There are a lot
az authors on the payroll Their job
ID TO write what they call monographs.
Almost anybody can write mono
< xraph A monograph Is a lot OF stun
81 pamphlet boiled down from books
Healing with given subject ono
can select from the book stun that
Will help prove his point.
About a month ago the house asked
the secretary OF the treasury for a de-
tailed statement OF expenditures OF
the commission The report has been
made Ii Is sketchy sort or a re-
port There are items which arouse
The migration. The first didision Is
entitled Preparation OF Monographs.
II relates that for interviews on the
banking and currency systems OF
England, France, Germany, Switzer-
land and Italy t641 pages) senate
<Iocument 405, price SO cents, the gov
eminent paid for clerical assistance
$23O.37; for translation $4S75 and for
travel $2.093.70. The total cost OF this
pamphlet was $2,373.S2.
Four closely printed pages tell OF
similar expenditures for monographs.
Sometimes the money goes for cleri-
cal assistance, and sometimes the au-
thor gets look-in. For instance, sta
fistics for Great Britain, Germany and
France, prepared by Sir r. H.. lnglis
Palgrave, f. r. s., +. w. Hirst, b. Bres-
1auer Robert Frantz, Albert Aupett
and III. Lefevre. the authors are lump
.ed III $7,265.27. But in spite of all
this authorship, It cost $2,666.3S more
for clerical assistance to get this tract
out. making II cost, In all Successes.
A good deal of money distributed
by the commission got to the editors
Of financial papers and to specialists
on 1nance at our principal colleges.
Possibly there Is no Significance In
this fact. Mr.. Francis w. Hirst, edit
or Of the Economist, and George
Paish, editor OF the Statist, got in
several times
q. Manson, although chief Of
division in the treasury, was paid
3795.S5 for travel expenses.
II took S3,1O3,5S worth of clerical as
istance to get up Notes ON the Postal
Savings Bank Systems OF the Leading
Countries.'' The report does not say
who got the money.
One item Is entitled statistics for
the United States. compiled by A.
Riatt Andrew clerical assistance,
24.o40.29, and another: ITO A. Piatt
Andrew. special assistant and editor
of qualifications. $S,366.66" A. Piatt
Andrew Is at the present moment as
1Iafaut secretary OF the treasury. Pre-
annually A. Piatt Andrew. draws a sal
Dry fof his Job. Just how. he lodges
IL INV against being Iwite on the
xernment payroll, Mr. A. Piatt An
~ will have to explain himself. Il
Piatt Andrew was imported by
hon as the statistical brains for
u&onetary commission. He lends
ar Of learning to the "Aldrich
Treasury Employees In, Too.
a special report iron. the banks Of
~ United States compiled by Charles
Stewart, INVOLVE an expenditure
o< clerical assistance" OF $7,254.36.
<Ho Treasury employees split sl,66S,50
~ compilation on the laws of the
nifed States concerning money.
banking and loans.
Prof Davis r. Dewey, Massachus-
<kts Institute or Technology, and Dr.
Robert f. Chaddock, University of