Evening star., 1924-02-07
Bureau of Engraving Case
Flares in Five Places as La
Guardia Urges Inquiry Into
Treasury Methods.
MELLON AGAIN DENIES
DANGER IN SITUATION
o. S. Agent Files Copy of Report
to Coolidge in Court-Declares
Evidence of Implications De-
stroyed-0usted Employees Lay
Cause Before Caraway.

| stIoyeQ-Ousted Employes Lay
Cause Before caraway.
The bureau Of engraving and print
| ing affair today fiared up in five sepa-
rate spots
In the House Representative La
f, Guardia, republican, of New York in
troduced two measures inquiring
into the present manner of canceling
bonds at the Treasury and proposing
| new system of Senate and House
| supervision of such cancellation and
! destruction Representative La Guar
| dia was member of the House com
nittee which yesterday saw Charles
=. Brewers exhibit of more than
S1,0oo,00o" in alleged duplicated bonds.
] At the District Supreme Court
Brewer filed copy of his report TO
President Coolidge and Attorney Gen.
| eral Daugherty. charging that knowl-
edge of duplicated government bonds
| had been suppressed by the Treasury
Department, and evidence of duplica-
| tions destroyed there.
Delay Is Charged.
At the Senate Office building
group of former employees of the bu-
reau ousted overnight by President
Harding in March, 1922, appealed TO
Senator Caraway, democrat. of Ar
kansas, champion of their cause, as
to what could be done about the whole
affair. They charged delay by Secre-
tary Mellon in restoration to their
! jobs.
| Secretary Mellon at the Treasury
reiterated his oelief that there was
nothing dangerous in Brewers
! charges, since many previous charges
or his had proved harmless.
Plans were afoot for further meet
| ings OF the members of the House
i who yesterday inspected Brewers
evidence" at the Union Trust Com
pany.
Representative La Guardia intro
duced a resolution of inquiry to es-
tabllSh who Cancelled the bonds and
who destroyed them and by whose
orders this was done. He explained
| that this would give the committee
jurisdiction and enable it to obtain
] possession of the bonds now in oues-
! tion as the evidence upon which the
whole Investigation or inquiry ar
prosecution, if any, would be based.
; He also introduced Il bill that
would require the same supervision
and formality in the destruction of
Cancelled bonds that have been throws
about the destruction OF Eiles. Under
the existing law administrative Off
| GERS notify Congress OF a desire to
get rid of useless paper" There is
then appointed q committee of sena-
tors and representatives to examine
such papers.
Sees Supervision Needed.
Surely there ought to be as much
| supervision before many millions OF
dollars worth of bonds are destroyed
as there now is for the destruction
of waste paper in The other govern
ment departments and establish
, ments," Representative La Guardia
| said.
In his bill providing for the dis
| position of Cancelled and redeemed
bonds, Treasury certificates and other
j certificates of Indebtedness Repre-
/ sentative La Guardia provides that
J whenever there shall be in the Treas
/. ury an accumulation Of such negotia
J BILE paper, which have been redeemed
or Cancelled or which have not been
used, owing to defects or errors, and
which are not needed or useful in the
transaction of the current business
| of the department and have no
permanent value or historical inter-
| est 1t shall be the duty of the Secre-
| tary of the Treasury to submit to
! Congress report OF that fact, ac-
: companied by a concise statement of
! the issuance and redemption, or de-
fects of such bonds, and an itemized
| list of such bonds or certificates, CIV
! ing date of issuance, amount OBJ
! tanned by the government therefore
and date of redemption"
| Asks Committe of Four.
The bill provides that upon the
submission of such report, statement
and list it shall be the duty of the
| presiding officer of the Senate to ap-
point two senators and Of the Speaker
| of the House to appoint two repre-
sentatives and these senators and
representatives SO appointed shall
constitute a joint committee TO which
shall be referred such reports, with
the accompanying statement and list
concerning such bonds and certifi-
Gates, and this committee shall meet
and examine such report, statement,
(; lists bonds and certificates therein
described and submit to the Senate
and House, respectively, their report
of such examination and their recon-
mendation.
And if this report that such bonds
| and certificates iare not needed or
! uSe1ul In In6 tTduSdCtlOI OIL Ine cur
rent business of the department and
have no permanent value or histor-
ical interest, then 1t shall be the duty
of the Secretary of the Treasury to
destroy such bonds and certificates"
/ Asks Information.
| The La Guardia resolution calls
| upon the Secretary of the Treasury
to inform the House specifically as
| follows:
81. The number of bonds, Treas
ury certificates or other certificates
of Indebtedness, issued by the United
! States in the years 1917 to date Civ
! ing the denomination and the serial
numbers of each certificate.
| "2 The total amount of loans made
! by the United States, known as lib
| erty loans, victory loans. or other
wise, and the amount paid on such
bonds Of certificates in the years 1917
| to date.
"3 The number of bonds. Treasury
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