The Washington times., 1913-12-14
Johnson and Garry Open Fight by Dragging Old Stories
Into Light, and Asking Chance to Question
Engineer.
CONTINUED from First Page.)

CONTINUED from First Page)
nformed of the reasons why such ar
of icer as Colonel Judson disagreed with
Johnson. The feud between these two
eas largely responsible for deadlocking
T. trict legislation for the last two ses-
sun MS of Congress before Colonel Judson
T. ired.
ohnson was busilv engaged in fight
/ the windmill hosts of imaginary
!. aft and maladminiStratien, while
dson was trying to better conditions
Ins practical lines, and TO increase
e lciency and save money throughout
whole structure Of loca' govern
II ent.
Near Feud With Gallinger.
Colonel Judson had a feud with
lairman Johnson of the House conf
ittee. and near-feud with Senator
auinser, head of the Senate District
0mmittee.
On the other hand. during the same
.riod, Judson's hands were constantly
/ oheld by Congressman Burleson OF
exas, now Postmaster General, and
Z ongressrnan Redfeld of New York,
ow Secretary of Commerce.
Mr. Rllrleson was chairman of Tue
louise AppI opriation Committee sub
committee on District affairs. He had
{ aarge of making up for the committee
ae District appropriation bill. This
TASK brought him into very close touch
. nd relationship with Colonel Judson,
and they became firm friends. Burleson
uily synpathized with the difficulties
that confronted Judson in getting along
with the District Committee
On repeated occasions Mr.. BUrleson
took up for the District Commissioners
measures that the johnson District
Committee would not report, and at
tached them as riders to the appropria-
don bill. This. indeed. has been about
The only effective way of getting any
ching done for the District since John
son has been head of the District Com
mittee
1t will be recalled that this course
had to be adopted in getting the excise
law, the public utilities comm ssion
measure, appropriations for arious
zen into the statutes.
How He Got 0ccoquan.
One OF the measures that became law
as a rider to an appropriation pill, was
the legislation to establish the work.
house at occoquan. The District under
ti,is measure bought site and estab-
lish,d an industrial plant. That esta.b-
bShEent was a pet project of Colonel
Judson, and II is now regarded by au-
thorlues as one Of the models of penal
llle
Mr.. Cary charges that Judson was re-
s3onsible for increasing the appropria-
tor Tor the Eorkhousa from $4,000 to
$500 year That much Is true; but
TIE reasons were fully explained to the
-Apr, opr1ations Committee by me Com
lnissioners when the 1912 appropriation
,neasure for he District wa ing pre-
Jared.
The Occoquan establishrncn in addi-
lioE TO being model OF its kind, is
cong splendid reformatiye wo-k among
Petty offenders, and had become prac-
tically self-susJaining. Il tncIudes a !
big hriek-makins plant thai is turning !
ont practically all the brick ,=ed in con-
strGction work fnr the District: a big
saw Inln, a farm, and various other i
ING ING istrIes. ~ All the short-term prisoners
a-e worked in these establishments
Another Charge Brought Up.
Another charge which Congressman
Cary levels against Colonel Judson is |
that JUdson was prime mover in a |
scheme TO sell TO the Government for
$4,000 a tract of twenty-four acres of
worthless land known as the Klfagle
Valley tract Mr.. Cary says this was
denounced as steal and Congress
refused TO consider il
The facts are that the estimated cost
OF acquiring this land for an i'm
pOrtant addition to the park system
was $4,000. and the true value of the
as based on the assessment !
was slSS,000. As TO the land being
worthless. the facts are that its own
ers were opposed to its acquisition by
the District, and for two years Colonel
Judson successfully resisted their ef-
forts 10 get permit to grade and
sIbdivide the property and D ace il on
The market He wanted it for the park
system, because experts agreed that
il was the key to the whole park sys-
tenn in its section of Washington. 1t
was wanted as an approach to Rock
Creek Park.
Machines Illegally Bought. Il
Another Cary charge is that Colonel
Judson urged an appropriation of $500 ;
o buy street sweeping machines: when !
n fact the machines had been Illegally
SoUssht a month before, and paid for
ron a fund that Congress had set apart
or srother purpose.
The facts are hat Colonel Judson was
tot in charge of the street cleaning de-
'a-tment. had nothing 10 do with any
ucn TRANSACTION, and that IL all the {
act in he matter-which are of record I
I the auditors effice-are investigated,
hey will be found altogether creditable |
Q the authorities then in charge of the /
tree cleaning business.
l. is charged that Colonel Judson T
eYcred buying park lands in the north {
vest section AMI paying for them en- I
irely with Federal funds, while in East
he wanted the property :
ww'ners 10 bear half the cost As a s
natter of fact, Colonel Judson's policy |
nd recomm endation favored assessing
ne-third of the cost of park lands.
Thereyer located, against adjacent pro-
eTty benefited. III
One Charge True.
II is charged that roIoneI Tud.or iii
aused lights to be discontinued on GER
ain suburban roads. That charge is
rue. Colonel Judson did shut OFF lights
? certain regions where he was con-
inced the represented a waste of
icney. with the understanding that
'nenever there should be such devel-
pment as 10 warrant ii, the lights