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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...
...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...
Through diplomatic channels, Pasquale Lucarilli of Italy made claim for 3,000 lire to cover funeral expenses of his brother, Julius, late of the A. E. F. Comptroller General McCarl notified the Italian Embassy, last week, that he would allow only 120 lire (about $5.00), the cost of the gravedigger. The balance for religious services-is not, he said, "reimbursable...
...McCarl went off halfcocked. It is true that the legal domicile of a married woman is that of her husband; but when he made it an analogy with a married woman's legal name, he showed he did not know the facts. He said, in effect: 'As it is with the domicile, so it is with the name.' But so it is not with the name...