The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

signed Today.
For further evidence of the pc
culiar difficulties which surround the
handling of business in the treasury
he suggested that President Taft con-
suit Lawrence o. Murray, comptroller
of the currency; Lee McClurg, treas
urer of the United States; Joseph
Ralph, director of the bureau of en-
Kram. auditor for the pOstoffice; Royal
E. Cabell, commissioner of internal
revenue; James Knox Taylor. former
supervising architect, and Charles D.
Norton, Mr.. Andrews s predecessor, and
former secretary to the president.
DR. Andrews letter to Secretary Mac
Veagh advising him of the resignation
discloses the hitherto unpublished fact
that Mr.. MacNeagh was on the verge
of leaving the cabinet in December,
1910. In one part the letter says:
You cannot forget how 1 stood by
you when you were on the point of
leaving having taken from your hands
what probably was the most important
undertaking of your administration.
When the White House in December
1910, without consulting with you and
entirely without your knowledge, en-
tered into negotiations for an issue of
Panama bonds. the EN- barrassment of
the situation threatened to force your
resignation. You Will remember that
I did everything in my power to avert
YOUR humiliation and that 1 Loyalty
agreed to resign and leave the service
with yoa if your resignation became
necessary
The Letter to President.
DR.. Andrews letter to the president
says in part;
I'm presenting my resignation of
the office with which you have favored
me l deem it proper to acquaint you
with conditions which have existed in
the treasury for the last two years at
least and which are of grave concern
not only to every official of the treas
h. hon SC
throughout the country who have bus
mess to conduct with this department.
For a long time the transaction of
much of the treaSury's business has
been imminent. Many able and ener-
gekic treasury officials have had to
bear the brunt of harsh criticism from
peopIe outside who have suffered in
ferrninable delays in their business
with the treasury for which the sec
retarv alone was responsible and at
the same time they have had to sub
NIT to criticism even more harsh ana
more Inreserved from Mr.. MacVeagh
himself whenever he discovered that
they had ventured to act upon some
matter of minor importance without
awaiting his decision Time ana asaln
heads of the great divisions OF the
treasury have found themselves unable
70 carry on the business entrusted TO
them and have been discouraged TO
the point of resigning their positions
because they were unable to Obtain
a41v opinion or decision from Mr.. Mac
yeagh upon urgent questions which
had been before him many months
Refused to Speak to Officials
at the same time they have inyar-
;obIxT been reproached by him for such
limited action as they may have been
ao-,1 neIIed to take on their own re-
soonsibility. MacVeagh's mental atti-
+sJe. is difficult to realize by those
80 have not had intimate every day
e~nerience with it. To many of the
t,SpI treasury officials he has from
time to time displayed an aversion,
s,,sricion and distrust which, in view
81 ~ ~ fact that these officials were
u1en N no of his own choosing would seem
iiillsr,iioabIe in a man of normal mind