The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
BREWER EXPOSES
BOND THIEVES;
OFFICE RAIDED
William J.Burns Breaks
into Attorneys Rooms

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WASHINGTON. - Department of
Justice agents broke into the Office
Of Charles B. Brewer, special assist
ant attorney general, and attempted
70 steal evidence involving high gov
eminent officials in one of the great
est scandals in the history of the
American government.
The raid occurred after Mr.. Brew
or refused to turn over the evidence
to Under Secretary Of the Treas
ury Winton on the request of AS
sistant Attorney General Hollander
Interest in the discharge of %
employees Of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing by the Harding administration
is revived by the latest scandal.
Brewer fearing that desperate
measures would be used by William
J. Burns to steal the evidence asked
for an injunction of the Columbia
Supreme Court to prevent this evil
dence from being taken away from
him by government officials.
He also took the precaution of
turning over the key Of his safety
deposit vault to Senator King of
Illinois for safe keeping.
Attorney General Daugherty twice
discharged Brewer and the latter
was reinstated by the late President
Harding and again by President
Coolidge. The Treasury Department
and the Department of Justice re-
fused to cooperate with him in MAX
ing public the duplication of liberty
bonds which has caused the govern
ment q loss of millions.
It was presentation of this evil
dence to President Harding that
caused the latter to discharge the
Bureau of Engraving employees.
Brewer had conference with Pres
ident Harding in December, 1922,
during which the president in the
presence of Daugherty, Under Secre-
tary Gilbert, Commissioner of Public
Debt Houghton and Chief Moran of
the Treasury Secret Service, dis
cussed the duplication of govern
bonds. Harding afterwards declared
in the presence of Mellon that:
''They call this man a nut 1t
takes nut to bring me such things
as you see here. They are after
this man good and hard and don't
intend to let anything happen to
him."
Since then the destruction of du-
plicate bonds has been going on in
spite of the warning of President
Harding that the administration
would need the evidence to clear
itself. But the Coolidge administra-
ton is now desperate and its slogan
s.Spursos -Nersenkt.n Brt. there is
so much graft wreckage lying around
that a tidal wave could not dispose
Of it.
The workers of America are now
having an excellent object lesson in
the putridity of capitalist politics.
The so-called upholders of claw and
order" who spend most of the time
when they are not busy looting the
public esources-jailing radicals, are
now exposed in their true colors.
Among the conclusions arrived at
by Brewer after his investigation,
the most outstanding are the follow
ing:
There are about 5000 known pairs
of duplicate bonds and 1000 pairs
Of duplicate coupons. Duplicates are
still pouring in. Treasury officials
have made no real effort to trace
cause of duplication and duplicates
are being held by guilty parties
waiting for destruction of the bonds
which would prove their guilt.
Denials of guilt continue to come
from the Treasury Department but
the probers continue to probe. A
non-partisan committee is drafting
a resolution ordering an investiga-
ton of Brewers charges of 81 ,000,-
900 bond fraud. The members of
this committee are la Guardia, New
York; Woodruff, Michigan, and JEFF
fers, Alabama.