The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-13
SECRETARY McAOOO AND CON TRoLLER WILLIAMS MADE
 DEFENDANTS.
WASHINGTON BANK PLAINTIFF
Court Proceedings Charges That the Government Officials Have Com bned and Conspired to Wreck the Riggs National Bank.

Washington, April Secretary McAdoo of the treasury, and Con- ttoller of the Currency John Skelton Williams were made defendants to- day in proceedings begun in the Dis. t'rict of Columbia supreme court by the Piggs National Bank of Washing ton D. C, which alleges that these officials have combined and conspired to wreck that institution.
 Temporary and permanent iniunc- tions to halt the alleged conspiracy and to prevent the controller from making what the bank charges are un- lawful demands for special reports of various kinds, are sought from the court
 One portion of the prayer seeks 10 restrain John Burke. treasurer of the United States, from paying into the treasury $5,00O declared to be due @ bank as interest on $5,0o0.000 of United States bonds deposited with the controller against its note cincu d. tion. This interest was withheld to cover penalties of $100 a day for fail. ure of the bank t9 make certain re- ports once paid into the treasury. only an act Of congress could ge. the $5,00o out and Justice Mccoy late to- day granted a temporary injunction on this phase of the case.
 The justice then set April lG as the day for answer by the defendants to show cause why permanent injunction should not issue.
 The banks bill Of complaint covers B6 typewriter pages and contains 37 specific allegations designed to snow the controller has adopted unusual and legally questionable tactics in dealing with the institution
 Ii recites that evidence of an un- usual desire for information concern. ing the bank was shown by Mir Will Hams shortly after he assumed office more than a year ago. and has con- tinued ever since. In December. 1913, if says MT. MCAdOo charged officers of the bank with responsibility for publications concerning a local finau- cial deal involving two trust com a. nies When this charge was denied the bill asserts Secretary McAdl0 cursed Milton E. Allies. a vice presi- dent of the bank, and said to C. C. Glover, its president:
 ''Nlr Glover, you know what this means to the Riggs National Bank"
 Meaning thereby" the bill adds, that the power of the treasury de. partment would be aggressively used for the ruination and destruction Of the plaintiff bank in order to satisfy the personal malice and ill-win of said defendants, and shortly after ward the said defendants began a se- res of prosecutions against the plaintiff bank for the purpose of im- pairing or destroying it's said busi ness, thereby prostituting their high public office and violating their oaths in order to vent their personal vim dictiyeness against the officers of the plaintiff bank"
 A few months later, the plaintiff ayers, the bank was notified by C. S Hamln. now governor of the federal reserve board, but then assistant sec retary of the treasury, in charge of the fiscal bureau, that Secretary Nc. AdoO purposed to exclude the Riggs National Bank from a hare of de- posits to cover the District of Colum. bia tax withdrawals. which deposits , by custom are divided among the ma. tional banks of the district.
 Mr. McAdoo later wrote to Mr. Glover, the complaint states, dec in ing to explain why such action should he taken and announcing at the same l time his intention of with drawing all | government funds from that bank. Subsequently. it is alleged, govern. ment deposits amounting to over $l,. | 200,000 were withdrawn from the bank including Panama canal depos. its amounting at one time to $115S,. | 479
 1 These withdrawals were brought about ny Secretary McAdoo, 1t is charged, at time when the Euro. pean war and the business dspression in the United States had made banks
 husband their resources and "in a de
 liherate attempt to wreck the plaintiff l bank, in the execution Of the con l spiracy existing between him and the