Show Y RUMORS lN N CIRCUlATION rif 4 rOc I I T Treasury Department Experts Overhauling the Accounts of o othe the Interstate Commerce Commission onNo No i Definite Charges Preferred v vI y r I l i 4 f r 1 I I Jan 2 Treasury WASHINTON today Instituted instituted V I V department dep experts an investigation d f dC the ac accounts accounts counts of the interstate commerce commission The action is taken at the instance of Acting Chairman Clem Cleat Clements Clements of the th commission as a a result of persistent rumors of irregularities in inthe Inthe the drawing of vouchers etc When W n the expert accountants Nathaniel L LAmbrose LAmbrose LAmbrose Ambrose Richard H Taylor and James JamesL L Chase the latter of the office of the auditor for the th state and other depart departments departments departments ments reached the commission today they sealed the Ue safe and examined Secretary Edward A A e T H S Milstead the cashier and other em I t d has not been suspended Acting ACUA Commissioner Clements st stat stated t d today did not know that any anything anything anything thing was wrong but that the rumors had bad become so persistent that they I could no longer be ignored and the i i treasury department therefore was r asked to charge accounts Mr Moseley t jI is i under OUI bonds as j fleer fier i It is understood that the runsor f ia dude clude allegations 8 of payments pa ta maa service at one ODe place pI white while the se was engaged e ed elsewhere with similar Jr is regular gular r methods The test wm will be thorough and every phase pita 8 accounting work of the be commission wIle wt be thoroughly overhauled The em handled 17 annually bulk of It being for rr salaries tra trave expenses etc ete The payments are by warrants drawn on the treasury trea ury H SI per performs forms the duties of cashier ca but A Moseley the secretary of the com commission c mission n ton is in charge of an all the account accounting accounting ing work Acting Commissioner CleM Cleta CleMents who Is Ig head bead of or the commission in io the Ute absence ence of Chairman Knapp pp lit M New York City said that He did not notI s J I regard e ganI the situation as startling an aisi that he be did not believe any conduct would be found but that it i ithe the unanimous opinion of the mon aba that the rumors mos should be Into by experts to ascertain the tM tb fee facts mets I |