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...much bigger explaining job for Dr. Morgan and friends was an official TVA audit prepared by the one man who has power to pry into all the books and accounts of every New Deal agency- Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. His job is as nearly politics-proof as can be, for only Congress can remove him during his 15-year term and he is not eligible for reappointment.* And it was a notable show of independence for Mr. McCarl to be critical of TVA, for the soft-spoken Comptroller General with his flowing Windsor tie was once secretary, close friend...
...McCarl's 394-page report on TVA for fiscal 1934 was issued in four copies. One was whisked out of sight at the White House, two went to TVA headquarters. The fourth remained in the Comptroller General's Office, subject to inspection by Congressmen but not the general public. Representative Andrew Jackson May of Prestonsburg, Ky., a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, visited the Comptroller General's office with a consulting engineer named John E. Cassidy who made extracts from the report which last week came out piecemeal at the Committee hearings...
...Comptroller General's auditing sleuths took "exception," much of it on technicalities, to $2,000,000 of TVA's expenditures. Although the law ordered TVA to establish its head office at Muscle Shoals and money was spent reconditioning offices there, Mr. McCarl found that TVA had moved its headquarters to Knoxville where it paid $36,000 a year rent. Then TVA leased telephone lines, hired cars, bought airplanes to keep in touch with Muscle Shoals. Although TVA owned 223 automobiles and light trucks, its bill for hired passenger cars averaged $8,000 a month. In one period...
...bought a $10,000 herd of dairy cattle. For some cows it paid $950 although they had been offered previously for $200 apiece. The rich milk from the expensive herd was then traded for low-grade milk from commercial dairies. "Just why ... is not apparent," said the McCarl report...
...this Mr. McCarl admitted, pointing out that his report would be finally revised after hearing TVA's answers. Perhaps everything could be explained satisfactorily...