New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Action Regarded as Death
Blow to Plans on Can.
Hol Hill to Realize
on Patronage Claims
Ally of Daugherty
TO Return June 6
Expected to Resign and
BE Given Place on Fed
cral Trade Commission
By Carter Field

w HSl1I.NNloN, May %. - Elmer
Dovers raid on the Treasury Depart
mcnt- starting so hopefully a few
months ago and promising Jobs to
thousands Of tho faithful fickered
and died to-day under the fierce blows
of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.
with Dover on the Pacific Coast
having been absent since May 10, Mel
Ion and Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Blair calmly ousted the two
remaining "key" men Dover had put in
office. They were A. D. Sumner, deputy
comm ssioncr in charge Of the accounts
unit, and c. c. Chi!ds, supervisor OF
collectors. Only recently the other Of
the big three" of Dover's appointees
Carl Grabil who was appointed CLERK,
vas summarlly removed by Mellon and
Blair,
Thus passes into political unimpor-
tance the man Harry NJ. Daugherty
backed by the eager job hunters on
Capitol Hill, put into the Treasury De-
partmcnt for the undisguised purpose
Of providing jobs for eager and de-
serving Republicans. In 1920 Dover
ran Harding pre- e-convention campaig ign,
under Daughcrty, on the Pacific Coast.
His political friendship for the Attor-
ney General goes back to the Mark
Hanna days
job Has Lost Its Punch
Dover is not expected back until
June 6. When he comes, for all prac-
teal purposes, he will find no job wait
ing for him. A pleasant post as AS
sistant Secretary Of the Treasury,
which is his official title, still remains,
1t IS true, but an Elmer Dover settled
down to staid and sober fiscal work,
Wlth rigid civil service rules in control
OF the appointments around and under r
hlm, is an nconceivablc thing to the
political leaders
On Capitol Hill tonight the best
opinion was that Dover would resign
Immediately on his return to Washing
ton. 1t also was believed bv those who
have been in close touch with the stu
alton that Dover would be appointed at
once TO the Federal Trade Commission
ny Prosldent Harding, filing the va
cancy for which George w. Upton re-
Gently was named and then withdrawn
Upton was appointed it was under
dent Harding fcit to his wife, Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton. Other develop-
ments resulted in Mr. Upton's name be-
ing withdrawn and it is thought this
VIII provide comfortable berth for
Dover, especially AS his usefulness so
TAR as politics is concerned has come
TO am abrupt end in the Treasury De-
partment.
Mellon Opposed Appointment
1t is common gossip that Secretary
Mellon did not want Dover appointed
According to generally accepted report
AIR. Mellon wanted d technical man in
the PLACE and one who would pay no
attention to politics whatever. How
ever. the Senator'S and members of the
II ouse have been clamoring for more
than a year now at the failure of the
Harding Administration to clean out
Of the Wilson Administrat ton and
there is considerable astonishmcnt heya
at the very small number that have
been given their walking papers, even
up to date.
with Dover's appointment as Assist
ant Secretary Of the Treasury. with
i'N 'h!Si Qua. .lnCatlon ms close con
ncctlons with Republican leaders all
over the country, dating back to the
time he was Mark Hannn's secretary.
1t was generally accepted that the pie
was aboHt t. he cut 80 far as patronage
WAS concerned.
The fur began 20 fl ; almost immedi-
atcls' after his appointment. He in,
sta led the key men already mentioned
and began P quiet house cleaning
Then came the Bureau of Engraving
mlX-up, which is still unexplained and
still ranking. Secretary Mellon and
Nh. Dover both had conferences with
President Harding, and so confident
we're the politicians on Capitol Hill
that patronage would prevail that it
was freely predicted Secretary Mellon
would resign.
J ne row became most acute over the
between Commissioner of
(ContInued Daos three1