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Show WILLIAMS RESIGNS AS COMPTROLLER Occasion Taken to Criticise !. Partisan Tactics WASHINGTON, March 3. John Skelton Williams retired Wednesday night as comptroller of the currency. In accepting his resignation, President Wilson wrote Mr. Williams that he had been done a "gross injustice" by .the way in which the senate banking com- i mittee bad handled the question of his reconfirmation. "1 can only believe, however. said the president, "that time will disclose the injustice to everybody and that the right verdict will be rendered by opinion, opin-ion, if not by one of the houses of congress. I have had the pleasure of expressing ex-pressing to you the approval not only, but the admiration with which I have followed the administration of your office. of-fice. You can carry away with you the satisfaction of having performed the duties of 'comptroller In a way which has rebounded, not only to the credit of this administration, but to the material ma-terial benefit of the financial interests of the country. The preeldent was replying to a letter let-ter from Mr. Williams dated February 28, tendering hla resignation, and In which he took a parting shot at some of his critics in congress, lib charged that "certain aenatora," who had th sower to bring hla nomination befor th senate, had "dodged and evaded ig-nomloualy." |