Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30

Senator Williams, Republic
can Of Delaware, charged yes
terday that the Democratic ad-
ministration swept under the
rug the case Of a former State
Department official who filed
no income tax returns for eight
years.
Senator Williams named
Herbert K. May, former Dep
uty Assistant Secretary Of State
for Inter-American Affairs, in
his speech delivered on the
Senate floor.
Mr.. May resigned from his
State Department post in July
and went to work for the In
ternational Telephone & Tele-
graph Corp. in New York as
assistant to the president and
assistant treasurer.
Matter Reported Settled
Mr.. May, reached in New
York, said that no pressure was
put on him to resign and that
he resigned voluntarily when he
got the new job with TIT.
The State Department made
this comment on the resigna-
ton: "As soon as the matter
came to the attention of the
Department of State in July q.
Mr.. May resigned by mutual
agreement.
1.-THE department has been
assured by the Internal Rev.
enue Service that the matter
has been satisfactorily settled"
Mr.. May. before joining the
State Department in May, 1862.
had worked for the office Of
international Affairs Of the
Treasury Department. special
izing in Latin America. from
1850 to 1861.
Senator williams said the
administration allowed this
individual merely to submit a
quiet resignation and then
promptly proceeded to brush
the whole episode under the
rug"
Filed No Returns
%The record shows" the
Senator said, that Mr.. May
not only had q historical rec
ord of delinquencies in the
filing of his tax returns but al
so had neglected to file any
returns at all during the eight
year period 1858 to 1861.
%when this was discovered
the only action taken was to
allow him in 1868 to file re-
turns retroactively for those
delinquent years, 1858 through
1861, and then submit what as
far as the public was con-
cerned was an honorable res
ignation.
This is quite a contrast to
what would have happened had
this been an ordinary laborer
or farmer without proper polit-
ical connections"
Some explanation Of this
special treatment" he said,
should come from the Justice
and Treasury Departments.
Letter From Caplin
Senator williams also pre-
sented a letter to him from In
ternal Revenue Chief Mortimer
Caplin listing Mr.. Mays tax
records.
The letter said that Mr.. May
filed his returns two years late
for each of the years 1919, 1850
and 1851. and filed one year
late for the year 1852.
The letter said that returns
for the years 1858 through 1861
were filed delinquently in 1868.
The return for 1862 was filed
on time, the letter said.
In his letter, Mr.. Caplin said
that there are now no outStand-
ing unpaid assessments for any
Of these years.
The Internal Revenue Service
denied the case was handled
differently from any other tax
payer in similar circumstances
The filing of these delin-
quent returns was completely
voluntary on his CMr. Nays
part and was accomplished be-
fore the service undertook ar
investigation of his tax affairs,
the IRIS said in a statement.
It declined to say how much
was involved.
Mr.. May sal dhe had Hfilec
completely voluntarily and il
was only after I filed that any
delinquency was noticed"