Word: mccarl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Galena, 111., is subject to floods and very wet weather. So Secretary Mellon thought the Treasury was justified in furnishing rubber boots, coats and hats to Postoffice and Custom House employes stationed there. Then Secretary Mellon wrote a memorandum to Comptroller General McCarl, watchdog of the Treasury, saying that the Galena officials received small salaries and he deemed it only fair to classify rubber boots, etc., as "necessary equipment," not as "wearing apparel" (which must be paid for by the men themselves...
Some time ago one Herbert S. Ward, government employe, was sent to Alexandria (in Virgina, across the Potomac, scarcely six or eight miles from Washington). He did his business and spent $1.50 for lunch. He put in a bill for his lunch money. Controller General McCarl, -"watchdog of the Federal Treasury," refused to pay thebill, contending that Ward had not been sent "traveling away from his post of duty" within the meaning of the statute...
...McCarl then waxed wroth, He wrote a letter to Attorney General Sargent. He said in almost so many words that the Department of Justice had not done its duty in presenting the case,, had failed to bring before the court lega points which he had suggested in a memorandum. He added "this office must decline to accept the memorandum opinion of the Court of Claims in this case...
...Raymond McCarl is a Nebraskan who came to Washington as the private secretary of good insurgent, Senator Norris. In 1918 he was Secretary of the Republican Congressional Committee end an important factors in the Republicans' regaining control of the House. When the office of Controller General was created President Harding appointed him. He holds office for 15 years and can be removed by Congress only for misbehavior. He can veto any disbursement of money that he regards as illegal. So far he clashed with practically every Cabinet officer-and came off victorious, such is the power of his office...
...clear for General Andrews. He had proposed, in reorganizing the Prohibition Army, to replace the 48 state directors of enforcement (with salaries up to $5,000) with 22 district administrators, with salaries up to $10,000 (an effort to get men of better caliber). Last week, Controller General McCarl ruled that the most he could pay his administrators was $7,500. Believing that large amounts of industrial alcohol are being diverted to bootleg channels, General Andrews also wished to have charge of issuing permits for withdrawals of such alcohol. Commissioner Blair, who has charge of this business now and collects...