The Indianapolis times., 1924-04-16
THE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENT

private person any except the Senate
funds
the against search and seizure whether court
procedure followed whether if anything of crimi
nal suspected investigation and the matter
] sent to grand jury.
Third: progress by the Couzens
committee entirely destructive and whether all examinations by
Congress of how the money executive departments is
expended the administered and construed for
cuion and what Government employees who are paid out OF
money provided by Congress do for the salaries they receive
As point President his side
During the Congress sought head off the volunteers
who rushed to Washington help spend the proceeds of the Lib
The forbade anybody working nothing
official capacity from being paid by anybody but the Govern
doar-a-year device which
the industries board functoned The members received
regular annual salary of dollar and took oath accept
other pay.
This point only technical by
authorizing the COuzens committee to employ attorney.
As the point would appear
has fallen into that has been chronic politicians
and office holders for and that has been acute ep
i mic the war.
The public private property of
the Office holder 1t isn't There invasion of private rights
when public asked give accounting of his Off
eal acts. There is private title office
President Coolidge held the private right theory the
DENLY and Daughery when he said
public officer could be suspended dismissed proof
lay upon somebody establish actual criminal misconduct
This theory public the present
day scandals Its origin lies in the relation of invisible
visible government In effect campaign conrbu
buy office for political parties politicians They get
their back through special privileges and the Office hold
having paid their campaign debt exploit their
naming power for their and their parys benefit That
public office is bought and paid for private property
If this theory and practice be demolished reign
and decency will suppant reign of graft and privilege
As the third point place. Mellon companies
being picked Couzens himself one of the largest
bo1iaf
plex tax laws being administered under multitude of
rulings of which made by who in
competent that great taxpayers able through
employment of experts and otherwise undue favor
That the Administration of the law unjust
Tax only be by order of the President
or with the consent of the taxpayer
The committee asked President Coolidge them
typical returns and of the hundreds
hundreds of millions of dollars other
hundreds of millions that allowed deductions
The President refused this
Z Mellon then oered-in controversy with Couz
get companies in which he interested permit
con As Secretary of the Treasury he could give
committee these and records but
trolling stockhoder he could authorize himself Secretary
the Treasury do So the committee could
such records Mellon personally controlled agreed
the of three companies submed-the
Company, Standard Steel Car Company and the Aluminium
Company of America
typical large of taxpayers Mellon
asked permission from all the other corporations
which he say dominating ockholder
would urge them to comply
The committee replied all the ''Melon
corporations but he would furnish list it would select typ
for study This made Mellon pull back bis
it at this point that the Heney incident
Couzens has been suffering from malady that saps his
strength and him great suffering gall
unable carry the work of the committee He intensely
interested in it. He he do lot aghen
ange money than health strength
committee appoint Frank Heney its attorney saying he would
Heney himself Here is where he fell aoul forgotten
dollar-a-year statute
the claim that Couzens work has been "entrely
destructive the President be
wholly msnormed As has been said the three Mellon
panes typical One great oil company great
manufacturing and great mining and smelling
concern with a typical flock of subsidiaries
of the first corporations have studied
astonishing things have been learned Not
but facts how the big taxpayers deal and dealt with
example, in the oil company a remarkable intricate