The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-08
HARDING HAS HAD SCANDAL 4 MONTH,
 DEMOCRATS SAY
Administration Attacked for Harvey, NeWberry, Ship ping Board and Cam
 paign Fund Breaks
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The Age Herald
 800 Davidson Building

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 Washington, October 7.-(Speclal9 The Harding administration has pro- duced a scandal per month. according to official publication of the demo- cratic national committee today.
 The "scnndaIsr arc enumerated
 ms foIIowsi The Harvey, the New
 berry. the LasISy shipping board.
 the ThOresen, the overall and the
 appropriations.
 "Each and every one of these
 enumerated acts," says the pubii-
 cation, "nmounts to public
 scandal, for which there is no
 parallel in my previous republic
 can administrations, scandalous as
 some of them have been.-
 Harvey Insuited Americans.
 The publication continues in part:
 The Harvey Scandal--Pe rmitting George Harvey ambassador to Great Britain, to retain his post following his public speech at the Pilgrims so ciety dinner London. May 19, in which he instulted the living and the dead of America in the World war.
 The Newberry Scandal The whitewashing of Senator Truman II.
 
 nous votes of the republican mem- bers of the Senate committee on I,lec- tions and privileges. It is admitted that slush fund of nearly $200. 900 was raised and spent in Newberrys 8 behalf. The republican membership or the committee follows; billing ham. Spencer. Wadsworth, Watson (Ind), Edge, Ernst, Shortridge and Bursum, They are all members of the old guard Senator Kenyon. a progressive, was removed from this committee when the Senate was re- organized.
 Shipping Hoard Scandal.
 The basker Shipping Board Scan oal--The projected sale of 205 wood- en ships, costing from $S0,0Oo to sSoo.o00 each, for s2,100 each. with put single bidder. (Ths bid fol- lowing wide adverse publicity, has been rejected.) Also the employment of members of the legal staff of the board at salaries as high as $25.O06 each, some of them recommended by firms holding claims against the shipping board. The most scandalous phase of this matter is in the revela- tions that prominent law firms of New York which had been asked by Chairman Lasker to recommend legal assistants. held claims against the board as high as sl5,o00GoO and s177,.
 The Nrhoresen scandal--Tbe re- rnoval from office by presidential or der of Surveyor General I. c. Thore- sen or Utah. whose term had not expired, and against whom no charge had been brought. President Hard ing's first letter suggesting resignA ton said; need not tell you of the current demand for recognition by aspirants in our own party for con- sideration In the matter of patron age
 Took Pie-Huuter's Cash
 The Overall Scandal-~-The alleged receipt of money from applicants for office by John W. Overall, repub- lican national committeeman from Tennessee, who was quoted in the press as having said that his collec- tions were turned over to the re- publican national committee to apply on its campaign deficit. Senator Me kellar, of Tennessee, referring to the Overall matter. on the Senate floor. said: I want to call the Senate s attention to one of the most remark ' able, disgraceful traffickings in fed .. eral patronage that has ever come under my notice since I have been in public life. Senator McSellar intro duced resolution providing for an investigation.
 The Appropriations Scandal-Con cealing from the public the cost of government to the public by cover ing up appropriations through reap prcpriations, revolving funds, and authorizations and deliberately seeking to deceive the people by a juggling poker in deficiency bill, whereby military appropriations made during this session are charged back to the preceding session
 The method of concealing appro- priations was exposed last May by Representative Byrnes of South Car olina, who showed that unexpended balances reappropriated, authorized in the guarantee section of the Esch- Cummins act, had reached total of $541,7 4,873.27. and will reach total of that amount increased by s200, 000,- 900.
 Secretary Mellon of the treasury has been authorized to increase the issue of certificate indebtedness from s7,000, 100000 to $7.500, 100000, and September IS he offered for sale n second issue of treasury certificates of indebtedness amounting to s600.- GOO. 000-thus borrowing money to run the government while the admin istration was making pretense of economy and boasting that 1t was saving money"