Word: watchdogs
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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...
...days, the gods were offered the carcasses of horses or cows. The blood thirst that the gods thus developed happened to save Mr. Tasker the embarrassment and expense of burying his father when he, a drunken tramp, was throttled in the pig-yard one night by Mr. Tasker's watchdog. It was at moments of this sort that joy filled Mr. Tasker's soul...
This is an unusual ruling from Mr. McCarl, watchdog of the Treasury. Hitherto he has chiefly confined himself to cutting the pay of persons in the Army and Navy. Only lately he ruled that persons contracting occupational diseases in Government service could not receive compensation because they could not establish a definite date on which they received injuries. President Coolidge disapproved this ruling...
...view of this fact, the Treasury Department has discontinued its purchases of $1.00 silver, declaring that it is not obliged to buy silver for subsidiary coins at $1.00, but that it will buy as much as necessary at the market price of 65 cents or thereabouts. Controller General McCarl, watchdog of the Treasury, approved this course. At once Senator Pittman objected. He declared that the Treasury had no right to discontinue its purchases of $1.00 silver. Under Secretary of the Treasury Gilbert replied simply that "there is nothing in the Pittman Act that requires the Treasury at any time...