Evening star., 1935-03-08
Charges Committee Seeks
Answers From Those
Named Before Acting.
RASCAlITY AND FRAUD
EVIDENCE OFFERED
Photostat Copy of Treasury Let.
ter Read Concerning Frustrated
Probe of Bank.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Long, Democratic, of Louis
lana resumed his attack on Post
master General Farley in the Senate
today and charged the Post Office
Committee was seeking answers from
persons named in his investigation
resolution before acting on it.
Prior to the committee meeting be-
hind closed doors for the fifth con-
secutive day to consider his proposed
investigation of Farley's official con-
duct, Long had read to the Senate
what he called photostat copy OF a
Treasury Department letter which he
said showed "rascality and fraud" In
operations of the American National
Bank at Nashville.
Grand Jury Influence"
He added Farley had used his IN
huence in frustrating grand jury
investigation Of the bank by dis
placing A. v. McLane, United States
district attorney. at a time when the
jury was about to act.
Long had the letter referred to the
committee, in addition to a memo
randum in which he said he had
letters from Federal employees in
Washington showing they had been
solicited for campaign contributions
with "Farley's knowledge" in violation
of the law
I'm not going to disclose the
names" he said, because they would
be dismissed from the service"
Commenting on the denial Of the
Tennessee bank charges by Norman
H. Davis. Ambassador at Large to
Europe, whose name had been linked
by Long in the affair, Long said the
committee was calling on Farley and
the Davis brothers to find out If
what I say is so or not
mot An Investigation"
They are not making an investi-
CATION" he said, but are trying in
advance to see whether the charges
are true"
Long also referred to the committee
what he said was an affidavit by Al
bert Caya. former business agent of
the Carpenters District Council of
this city, saying window glass was
taken out of boxes in which it was
delivered to the James Stewart Con-
struction Co. and burned" and the
labels removed to conceal the inferior
quality Of the glass"
The glass, 1t was said, was intended
for the new Interstate Commerce
Commission Building. Long said the
Stewart concern was buying mate
rails from Farley's interested con-
cern."
Long referred to the Nashville in
stitution as the Davis Brothers
Bank" The Letter he had read was to
McLane from F. A. Guiles, national
bank examiner of Atlanta.
The letter said an examination of
the American National begun July
6, 1888. showed unusual, If not ir-
regular" operations. including transac-
tions between that bank and the
Union and Planters National Bank of
Memphis, which are no more or less
than fictitious entries for the purpose
of padding or window dressing"
Illegal Loan Charged.
The letter said the records Of the
bank disclosed M. E. Barr, its cashier,
was granted a loan by the bank June
26. 1880, tor s2500, which is a strict
violation of the banking act Of 1888"
1t added the controllers call for
report of condition December 81, 1881.
disclosed note for 100000 signed
by the Nashville & American Trust
Co. and. carried in the assets of the
American National, had been "1'im-
mated over the period through the
following procedure:
"A note of the Fourth and First
Banks. Inc, carried by the Nashville
American Trust Cv. for S884,238, was
discounted at par with the First Ma
tional Bank of st. Louis with a re-
purchase agreement signed by both
the American National Bank and
the Nashville American Trust Co.
However, the books Of neither show
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