Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-07-03
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lUNlFhD PRESS LEASED Wlnh.I
Washington, July 3.-A Plat An
drew, assistant secretary of the treas
ury resigned today in letter con-
tanning such singing criticism of Sec
retary MacVeagh that 1t has started
what may become ain administration
scandal.
Andrew wrote both to Taft and
MacVeagh, criticislng MacVeagh for
his "indecision and attitude Of hos
tility toward minor officials in the
department. In his letter to Taft
Andrew named practically every bu-
reau head in the treasury as having
had trouble with MacVeagh
MacVeagh has gone to Dublin,
Mass, to spend the Fourth. Andrew
would make no comment on his res
ignation, except to make public his
letters. Andrews was expert none.
tary adviser to the Aldrich monetary
commission, and practically drew up
the Aldrlch central bank plan.
This statement was issued at the
White House:
"Mr Andrews resignation as as
slstant secretary to the treasury was
requested, submitted and accepted, in
view of his failure to give orders CIV
en- by the secretary"
In his letter to Taft, Andrew said
"For long time, the transaction of
much Of the treasury business has
been at standstill, and an outbreak
of some sort has been imminent Many
able and energetic treasury officials
have had to bear the brunt of harsh
criticism from people outside who
have suffered interminabe delays in
their business in the treasury depart
ment, for which the secretary alone
was resonposible, and at the same
time they have had to submit to crit
iclsm even more harsh and more un-
deserved from Mr. Mac Veagh him
self whenever he discovered that they
had yentured to act upon some mat
ter of minor importance without his
decision.
"Time and again heads of the great
divisions of the treasury have found
themselves unable to carry on the
business entrusted to them and have
been discouraged to the verge of re-
signing their positions because they
were unable to obtain any opinion or
decision from Mr. Mac Veagh upon
urgent questions which had been be-
fore them for many months At the
same time they have invariably been
reproached by him for such limited
action as they may have been com
PEELED to take on their own respon-
sibility
Toward many Of the higher treas
ury officials, Mr.. Mac Veagh has
from time to time displayed am aver
sion, suspicion and dlstrust which, in
view Of the fact that these officials
were men Of his own choice, would
seem ineXpllcable In man Of normal
mind
"For many months at a time he has
persistently refused to speak to those
officials, with whom he should natur-
ally have been in constant personal
communication.
Andrew cited instances in which he
said Mac Veagh refused to have any
relations with treasury officials, es-
pecially Assistant Secretary Hllles.
Treasurer Nc Clung has had only one
short interview with Mac veagh in
more than year, and Director Ralph
Of the bureau Of engraving has been
Similarly treated according to Andrew
an my case" wrote Andrew,
with an office adjoining and com
municatng with that Of the secretary
although I have supposedly been the
representative of the secretary and
his dealings with nineteen bureaus
and divisions Of the treasury, have
not been allowed in the aggregate a
total Of more than one hour OF con-
yersation with him, including private
interviews and conferences in the