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Graft Allegations Tie Officials to Public Funds
Staff correspondent draws a charged portrait of congressional nepotism and misuse of government payrolls. The piece cites senators cabinet officers and representatives using relatives as clerks secretaries messengers and chauffeurs to reduce personal expenses and siphon funds. It notes Beavers Shaw Hay and Hopkins among those linked to such practices with cases of sons and siblings on government rolls and the use of official cars and allowances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TY Gilson Gardner
The
Star
Washington, D. C
Congress
United States
House of Representatives
Treasury
Addicks
Delaware
J. F Allee
Fairbanks
Government Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Quartermaster General
Geo. W. Beavers
Post Office Department
Treasury Department
Shaw
Hay
Hawaii
Albert J. Hopkins
Illinois
Chas. H. Grosvenor
Ohio
Dan
Brown
House of Representatives Rella
Fisheries
Jas. A. Hemenway
House
Senate
Wm. I. Hemenway
Dan Kranedell
Arma
Jeesle Overstreet
Indianapolis
Jan, T. McCleary
Minnesota
McCleary
Europe
A. J. Volstead
Granite Falls
Minn
Franklin Bartlett
New York
Bartlett
Jim Watson
Indiana
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Griffiths