Evening star., 1924-03-06
DENIES CONSPlRING
TO DEFEAT BONUS
Mellon Says He Made No Con-
tributions to Funds for
Fighting Bill.
REPLIES TO CARAWAY
Says He Does Not Know Acts of
Business Associates.

Sweeping denial has been made by
Secretary Mellon to charges that, the
was Interested in propaganda against
the soldier bonus.
In letter to Senator Caraway.
democrat, Arkansas, the Secretary
answers specifically each question
propounded to him by the senator.
The Secretary, in his letter. outlines
poth questions and answers, as fol-
lows:
FIRST: Is 1t true that II. 3. Rust,
president OF the koppers Company,
and George S. Dawson. official of the
1uit OH Company, contributed SUBJ
stantlal sums to the Anti-Bonus
Leagueo
Answer: have no knowIedea nc
70 whether or not Mr.. Rust or Mr.
lawson contributed any sums to the
Antl-Bonus League
90 second: Would you mind telling
~ you are interested in the cornora-
/, IONS mentioned, or have you business
relations with the two eantIaman
mentioned?
Stockholder I'm Both.
answer: L am interested as a
''ochhoiuer IN each of the CORPORA
tions mentioned in question /. but T
nave no official connection with either
Of these companies. nor bus;neSs 70
ldtions with the two gentlemen ex
napjS as STOCK kholder in the COM
pam1ss me! In which they are officers.
r1o, rmiru: IT Is charged that en-
core Company, a subsidiary of the
iHoPperS company, were commanded
OF requested to write letters to the
iiuea1e[s instaS or Congress opposing ad-
whether this is true or not. or have
you taken any steps to ascertain
whether it be true?
answer: j have no information
,",na W,nateVer as to whether or not en-
pioyes of the Chicago Bi-Product
toke company were commanded or
requested to write letters to members
Oh congress opposing adjusted COM
pehsation, and have taken no steps
10 ascertain whether that is true.
tourth: These charges have been
MADE by the commander of the Amer
lcan Legion, Mr.. Quinn. They are
aiso supported by an affidavit by Mr.
Allen, and they purport to show that
you had advised and counseled and
possibly contributed, either through
yourself or your business associates
or companies in which you are inter
ested, TO this activity. Will you tell
me whether this is true?
Denies Contributions.
W
which j have read in the daily papers
is the only knowledge / have had of
charges having been. made by Mr.
Quinn of the American Legion with
respect to the subject matter in aues-
tons ], and 3. j do not know who
Mr.. Allen is, to whom you refer, nor
what his source of information may
be upon which he relies for making
the affidavit mentioned. / have not
been consulted with nor contributed
personally to this activity. / have no
knowledge of what my former busi-
ness associates or their companies
may have done in the matter.
Fifth: Particularly 1 would like to
know If you authorized or cooper
ated with Mr.. Dawson in raising a
fund, the ultimate amount OF which
was said to be, or was to have been,
$4,000 The purpose of said fund
was that it was to be used in propa-
ganda against the soldiers adjusted
compensation measure.
Answer: l have never authorized
nor co-operated with Mr.. Dawson or
any other person in raising any fund
whatever that had for its purpose any
propa ganda against the soldiers ad-
justed compensation measure, or any
other measure that has been before
the Congress during the time ! have
occupied my present off1ce.
Il believe the foregoing answers
cover the information which you have
requested. No doubt Mr.. Dawson and
Mr.. Rust, IL called upon, will respond
promptly to any inquiries on the sub
ject which you may desire to make OF
them"