Evening star., 1914-07-12
DENOUNCES NJ 'ADOO
FOR USING CUTTERS
Iowa Legislator Says Secre-
tary of Treasury Entertains
at U. S. Expense.
GLASS SAYS OFFICIAL
ALWAYS PAYS HIS WAY
Defender Of Department Halls Cabi-
net Member as a Great
Economist.

Secretary McAdoo's use of revenue cut
teers for pleasure trips was bitterly de-
nounced in the House yesterday by Rep
resentative Good of Iowa, who declared
that the people should remove the Sec
retary from Office" The Iowa republican
read a statute which prohibited the use of
cutters for any but public duties, and de-
clared that the Prairie comes down to
Washington from Boston every week end
to be loaded down with democrats who
seek recreation at public expense upon
the bounding wave. Representative Good
declared that on one trip Secretary Nc
Adoo ordered the American flag on the
cutter hauled down until in sight of his
country place in Massachusetts:
IF this be true, it amounts to mall
feasance in Office" interjected Represent
ative Burke of South Dakota.
Representative Glass, regular defender
Of the Treasury Department, rushed to
the defense of the Secretary. saying that
whenever the Secretary took a trip On
cutter he paid his way. and in the ensu-
ing or-and-shuttlecock exchange
the subject of the revenue cutter service
was lost sight of for a moment while
Representative Good declared that the
Treasury was now in a general state of
collapse. due absolutely and wholly to
the democratic administration.
Not Pleasant Duty.
Representative Goods bitter attack on
the revenue cutter 10y rides was as
follows:
1T is not a pleasant duty to call at
tention to violations of law on the part
Of officers whose sworn duty it is to en-
force the law. While we are considering
a great appropriation bill it seems to me
that this is an opportune time for Con-
gress to be informed how some Of the
money which we are appropriating is
being used by those who have charge Of
its administration. I refer to the revenue
cutter service. We appropriate every
year about $2,500.O00 for this great serv-
ice. This service was instituted to en-
force the revenue laws of the United
States, to prevent the smuggling of for
eign goods into this country. and We have
great fleet of this service under the
control of the Secretary of the Treasury.
1T is notorious fact that on every
Friday or Thursday at this time of the
year the revenue cutter Prairie leaves
Boston and comes to Washington to load
up with democratic officials, and takes
them cruising down the Potomac. That
would not be SO bad IL the violation OF
the law stopped there
Mr.. Good then took up the case of
Secretary McAdoo. He read news dis
patch, dated Mattapoisett, Mass. an
nouncing the arrival there of Secretary
and Mrs McAdoo, accompanied by
guests, and stating that the party had
Travelled from Washington on the revenue
cutter Onondaga.
THE statutes of the United States en-
acted in 1854" said Mr.. Good, provide
that revenue cutters shall be used eX-
clusively for public service, and in no
way for private purposes. June II Con-
gress appropriated $4,000 to purchase
two additional cutters that will be added
to this fleet of the Treasury. for the Sec
retary and those to whom he desires to
extend the courtesy of violating the law
of the United States. The Secretary of
the Treasury has no responsibility for
this statute, but he is responsible for the
administration Of the law, as far as the
revenue cutters are concerned.
I'VE have had in the past ten years a
period of law enactment. What We need
is renaissance of law enforcement. How
can the President of the United States
expect the ordinary citizens to obey and
respect the law while the Secretary of
the Treasury violates the law with i'm
punity? Public sentiment should demand
the removal from Office of every official
whose sworn duty it is to enforce the law,
but who refuses to enforce it. If the pub
the removal from Office of the Secretary
of the Treasury, who not only refuses to
enforce the law, but himself violates it. >"
Calls Him Economist.
Representative Carter Glass declared
that Mr. McAdoo had saved the taxpay-
ers of the country $941.272 ''by his ad-
ministration OF the Office of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury"
Mr. Glass said he wanted to reply to