The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-09-15

at enormous TcCdlHcTS W dCt 4OI IHC
contractors. In certain instances the
government carried an even greater
handicap, as the following account
taken from a record in the confidential
files of the Inspector Generals office
d~iscloses:
"The Chamberlain Machine Works
of Waterloo, Iowa, had a contract for
machining 365, 900 seventy-five MILL
meter shells. When 1892 shells had
been delivered the contract was voided
by the Armistice and the company filed
a claim with the district claims board
of the Ordnance Department at Chi
cago which reported adversely on the
claim and forwarded it to Washing
ton. This procedure took the claim
through the hands of Major Hosmer
A. Brown, liason officer between the
Ordnance Section Of the Claims Board
at Washington, of which he vas a
member, and the Chicago district
board.
"F. L. Chamberlain, president of the
claimant company, took a train to
Washington. He testified he met Ma
jor Brown at the War Department
and that Brown told him his claim was
in bad shape and probably would have
to be sent back to Chicago for addi-
tional data. Chamberlain says he and
Brown went west on the same train
and Brown reiterated that the claim
was "poorly set up" declaring, ac-
cording to Chamberlain's testimony,
that had it been presented in a more
vigorous manner the Board would have
been compelled to allow it. Accord
ing to Chamberlain, Brown said he did
not presume there were more than six
men in the country who could set it
up properly, however. Chamberlain
was interested and asked Brown how
he could go about it to have his claim
properly presented. Chamberlain as
serts Brown said if he were to disclose
that he would be criminally liable, but
if Chamberlain could enlist the SER
vices of a certain lawyer who had made
such able representations in another
case the Chamberlain company could
obtain a more agreeable settlement at
a rehearing before. the Chicago board.
"Major Brown seemed unable to re-
call the name Of this desirable lawyer,
however, Mr.. Chamberlain. Later,
Brown said he thought it might be a
man from Pittsburg, but the name
eluded him. But Brown kept on think
ing and presently, Chamberlain says,
declared it wasn't Pittsburgh, but
Minneapolis - Security Bank Building,
and that the attorneys name was A.
X. Schulz.
"a. X. Schulz is not a common name
by any means, so, aside from one
striking circumstance, it can readily be
understood how Major Brown might
have had to search his memory to re-
call it.. The striking circumstance is
that before the wal there was in Min
neapolis a law firm called Schulz &
Brown. The senior member of that
firm was A. X. Schulz, and the junior
member was Hosmer A. Brown.
"But Mr.. Chamberlain did not learn
this until later. He made a note of
Schull's name and asked what Brown
thought he would charge. He says
Brown told him about $4,000. Cham
berlain did not engage Schulz, however
He CHANGED to remember that Brown
had once told him he came from Min
neapolis. Putting two and two to-
gether, Chamberlain became suspicious
and decided to investigate matters. He
did, and disclosed the former partner
ship. Then the Inspector General got
busy, but meantime, without the bene-
fit of the excellent legal mind of the
highly recommended Mr.. Schulz, the
Chamberlain case got short shrift at
Chicago.
at did not take the Inspector Gen
erals investigators long to discover
that Major Browns confidence in his
former partners ability to obtain ia
vorable awards for clients had not
been misplaced. On file is evidence in
several cases which bears this out anc
in every instance Major Brown, a mem
Der of the Claims Board, seems to
have remembered his former partners
name in sufficient time to help bring
him into the case.
"There is the case of the Northwest.
ern Steel and Iron Corporation, OF
which Major Brown was secretary, at.
torney, a director and a stakeholder be.
for he entered the Army and trans.
ferred his $4,000 in stock holdings tc
his sister, with the exception of one
share. The company was awarded
$4,000 by a district board. The claim
went to Washington and Schulz was
there. The $4,000 award jumped tc
$4,000 and Schulz got a $4,000 fee
. according to the Inspector Generals
evidence.
"The Bethlehem Steel Company is
reputed to have one of the ablest ant
most highly paid legal staffs in Amer
lea, yet the best efforts of this staff
failed to prevent a group of the com
pany's claims from being slashed from
S722,S7S to $362,252. by the Philadel
phia district board. The case went tt
Washington and R. E. McMath, sec
| rotary of the Bethlehem company, ties
titles, The name of A. X. Schulz wa:
} in some way suggested He was en-
gagged, and with his help the Bethle
| hem's counsel renewed their argu
t ments and the award was raised tt
{ S63l,167. Schulz testified he received