The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-08
TREASURY FACES !: PROBE OF BOND
 PUBLICATIONS
La Guardia Of New York Demands Inquiry Into
 Brewer Charges
SAYS OFFICIALS HINDERED
 INVESTIGATOR IN WORK
Mellon Insists That For Every
 Bond Issued Government Has Received Face Value

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.--(By Asso- ciated Press .)--yThe smoulderins enl- bers of the Bureau of Engraving con troversy which first blazed up two years ago with wholesale dismissal of employees bs President Harding, has again been famed in flame.
 Charles l.. Brewer, department of justice attorney who investigated charges of duplication of government securis ties brought the case into the open to- day with the filing of sensational charges against the treasury and, de- spite denials by Secretary Mellon and other officials that Brewers allega- tions contained merit, La Guardia re- publican, New York, began steps by introducing resolution of inquiry to force a congressional inquiry.
 The charges of Brewer were con- tained in a copy of report he had sent previously to President Coolidge and Attorney General Daugherty and were made public when they were at- tached as exhibits to an injunction suit filed here against government officials whom Brewer said were interfering with his inquiry. They bet forth that there had been Implications of bonds 1; that the treasury had suppressed knowl- edge of them that treasury officers had thwarte0 Brewer in his attempts to uncover the condition, and that 'dupli- cate of bonds had been destroyed in the treasury.
 Mellon Denies Loss to Government
 Secretary Mellon on learning that Brewers charges had been made pub 1sn aosA kkok knrI s,k has been issued, it's face value had found its way into the treasury vaults. He added that there had been duplica- tien of numbers, but there had been no loss to either the public or the govern ment. He attributed the duplication of numbers to mechanical errors which Brewer had said was not the case.
 Brewer charges covered wide range, the main features of which have been known to treasury officials for many months and which they said had been under investigation and disproved. They included the assertion that a clique swayed the action of the treas- ury department and that J. w. Me- Carter, former assistant register of the treasury, had complained of being dis charged for bringing complaint to the notice of the treasury officials, in con nection of alleged irregularities. Brew CT also charged spurios securities has been issued from the treasury and that duplicate bonds had been traced ito treasury sources iron, surrendered bonds stolen from trsasury vaults. Z, q
 Tbs repssfs Sf Brewer disaxowed that Phe had' dsed fhs dismissal of bureau employees by President Harding and set forth thHt fhe president had been informed of many irregularities'' at the bureau before Brewer entered the case.
 "That treasury officials from the start have given no real effort to off cially determine the cause of duplica- tibn; that some impelling motive has caused them to intimidate employees {: they have joined the writer in fraud cases who are officially on record as seeking his discharge for two years 1; and, too. they themselves attack him in the public press, and to falsely ns- sail his honor in the same medium: to defy President Harding; to deceive Mir. Mellon, and to temporarily deceive President Coolidge"
 While the charges of Brewer, the de- nials of Secretary Mellon and the con gressional investigation filled the air today, employees discharged by Presi- dent Harding and later exonerated. called on Senator Caraway, democrat, Arkansas, who has been active in their behalf, to make complaint that they had not been reinstated. Secretary Mellon has announced they would be given re- employ ment, but no date has ever been set for it.
 Treasury officials said today that the department of justice would make re- ply to Brewers suit, which seeks to prevent the treasury from recovering bonds which attorney has been using iii his inquiry. These bonds were giv- en to Brewer on his receipt. They also said that detailed check had been going forward on all of the charges but that no alarming condition had mani- fested itself.
 Brewers Conclusions.
 Among the conclusions Brewer drew from his investigation, the report said, were these:
 There are between about 5000, kDown pairs of duplicate bonds about 1000 known pairs of duplicate cou- pons. Duplicates still coming in.
 That duplicates are being held by parties with guilty knowledge await ing destruction of the bonds which would prove their duplication.
 That much could be told has been held back by employees who fear the consequences.
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