The Washington herald., 1914-07-23
GOOD PRODUCES
JIJNKET GOODS
Representative Shoots Holes
Into McAdoo's Defense
Of Cutter Trips.
PAID MEALS, EH!-WHY?
If Treasury Chief Was on Official
Business, Wherefore Dig Into
Own Pocketp
PAID MEALS, EHl-WHY?

Another Interesting chapter wss
added yesterday to the controversy
that has been aroused over the alleged
unlawful use Of revenue cutters by
William G. McAdoo, Secretary Of the
Treasury. On July IL Representative
Good, OF Iowa, Republican. in . speech
In the House, accused secretary Nc
Adoo OF 10y riding" on revenue cut
teTs, in violation OF 4 law that pro-
hibits the employment Of such vessels
for personal use"
On July Is Secretary McAdoo wrote
letter, read in the House, denying
with heat the charge that q revenue
cutter came to Washington every week
to- load up" with Democratic onive-
holders for 10Y rides down the Poto-
mac River"
Yesterday Representative Good pro-
duced' details that are likely to en-
barrass Mr.. MeAdoo. Mr. Goods speech
yesterday caused good deal of amuss-
msnt among Republicans. They de-
clsred that in this instance the Iowa
member had produced the goods"
Had Name Wrong.
Il confess to two Inaccuracies IN my
FORMER statement concerning this at
fair" said Mr.. Good Il was nisip-
4OIulCo do 70 IuC " luG AgNCa0o
cutter which I then had in mind. and
inadvertently gave the starting point
as Boston instead of Baltimore; but
these are inmaterisl points IN the
statement which the Secretary says 10
utterly without foundation
The facts are that the revenue cut
ter Apache during this entire summer
has been leaving Baltimore on Friday,
reaching Washington Saturday morning
CT ffa~-
noon, loaded with Democratic once
holders and politicians selected by the
Secretary Of the Treasury and his as
sistants for q cruise down the Potomac
The Apache returns to Washington Mon
day morning, discharges her precious
cargo, and leaves for Baltimore, where
she arrives Tuesday.
THE Secretary justifies this practices
by saying that in all such instances Of
heers of the government have been per-
mitted to use the revenue cutters only
when II did not interfere with the proper
cruising arrangements OF the vessels
Here We are told by Secretary Nc
Adoo that ofhcers OF the government are
permitted to use revenue cutters for prt-
vate purposes, the law to the contrary
when 1t did not inter
fere with the proper cruising arrange
ments Of the vessels With the power
of making all cruising arrangements In
the hands Of Secretary McAdoo and his
assistants, when, pray, VIII the desire OF
William G. McAdoo for an ocean voyage
in a revenue cutter at government ex-
pense be prevented because Of cruising
arrangements Of vessels made by secre=
tary McAdoo? Such an Interpretation
renders this provision Of the law not
only nugatory, but 1t is silly.
Two Days for Duty.
The summer junkets leave the Apache
only Wednesdays and Thursdays to take
on supplies for the next tunket and TO
Perform the public business. I am told
that because Of this unlawful use OF the
Apache the members Of the crew have
had no gun practice all summer.
BY a strange coincidence, Just as the
and Mrs McAdoo were ready |
to STRAIT for Mattapoisett. the revenue
cutter onondaga, pursuant to cruising |
orders was also ready to leave Washing |
ton for Mattapoisett, a village Of l,ao
on the Massachusetts, coast OF course. |
the Onondaga was on government busi- |
ness. But the statement Of the Secretary |
that he paid for his meals on the trip |
causes a little confusion. If Secretary |
McAdoo was on Official business as |
claimed, why should he have been COM |
pelled to pay for his meals? II called |
from Washington on ofncial business, |
why should not the government pay for |
his meals?
"Cn the contrary, he was using that |
revenue cutter as a private yacht for prl- |
Hate purposes This being true, he should |
at least have paid all expenses Of the |
yvyage.
This is q sample Of real Democratic |
ecGnomy. Is the unlawful and private use |
II these yachts intended as q perform |
lnce Of the Democratic platform pledge: |
We demand a return to that simplicity |
ard economy which befits a Democratic |
government The example set by Secrs-
:ary McAdoo encourages minor officials to |
Violate the law"
Replying to Mr.. Good, Representative
Fitzgerald termed Goods charges purely
There is not boapoad of Democratic
in Washington. The Demo
;ratic politicians have been as scarce as
in winter" he said, tn IN
ierying that he had defended the Sscrs-
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