The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-04
SENDS RESIGNATION
TO PRESIDENT TAFT
Charges His Superior With
Neglect of Official Duties;
Congressman Demands
Investigation.
TRT TASHINGTON. July 3.-A row
NM in the United States treasury
Wv Of more than years stand
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NM in the United States treasury
Wv of more than years stand
ing between Secretary Mae
Veagh and Assistant Secretary A, Piatt
Andrew eliminated today in Andrew
resignation and proposal for congress
sional investigation Of Secretary Mac
Yeagh's administration. Representa-
tive Cox Of Ohio presented resolution
for such an investigation to the house
after he had read Mr.. Andrews letter
of resignation to President Taft.
Andrew letter to the president
created profound sensation. He de-
clared energetic young men in the
treasury had been "hampered and
discouraged at every turn by Secretary
Mac Vesgh's idiosyncrasies, his as
founding capacity for. proerastination,
his incapacity for decision and the Pc
culiar moods of suspicion and aversion
to which he is constantly subject
Andrew also informed President Taft
that Lawrence o. Murray, comptroller
Of the currency; Lee McClung. treasurer
of the United States, and other high
cally unable to transact the business
of their offices because of Secretary
MacVeagh g moods, which Andrew
says "would seem inexphcable In a
man Of normal mind"
Says Others Suffered.
Andrew stated that his predecessors,
Charles D Norton, later secretary 10
Pesident Taft, and Charles D. Hilles,
who also left the treasury to 90 to the
White house, were compelled 10 submit
to the same conditions under Secretary
MacVeagh as were imposed upon him.
Mr.. MacVeagh for weeks at time, ac-
cording to Andrew, would have no re-
lations with his assistants, while gov
ernment business was delayed, Andrew
wrote the president that conduct OF the
public business under such conditions
was impossible and that the treasury's
business was practically at a stand
still.
While relations between Andrew and
his chief have been strained more than
year, it is said they rached the break
ing point two weeks ago whom Andrew
went TO the Chicago convention. When
he returned it became known that eth
er Mr.. MacVeagh would leave the cabi-
net or Mr.. Andrew would leave the
treasury,
Try Cancellation.
Senators Crane, Lodge and Smoot
talked with the president about the sit
uation, and an effort was made to have
Andrew retained. His resignation was
practically asked for, however, and he
rendered it and left the city q few
hours later.
When Andrew advised the secretary
in writing that he intended going to
the Republican convention TO assist In
| framing the financial plank Of the
platform. Mr. MacVeagh, it is said re-
piled that he desired his assistant to
remain at his desk in Washington. An
| drew, his friends declare. uusuccess-
fully sought personal interview with
his chief to straighten out the matter.
He went to Chicago. According to
, officials, it was this incident which
constituted his failure TO obey orders
given him by the secretary referred to
in a White house statement.
Demands Investigation.
The Cox resolution was referred to
the committee on rules Representative
Cox saws he will press it for Immediate
passage.
''If half of what Andrew says be
true said Mr. Cox, "then the state
of things in the treasury department
has developed into positive travesty.
An investigation might develop the
fact that the whole machinery of the
government has been thrown into the
state OF chaos. confusion and strife
which overwhelmed the affairs of the
administration as the result of the up
heaval in the Republican party of the
nation, If public business is at a stand
still, we should not only know il. but
we should also reveal the cause.'
Some of the officials who were named
by Mr.. Andrew in his letter as being
dissatisfied with conditions in rho