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Show MYSTERY OF LOST VOUCHER GROVSDEEPER - j tatned the missing papers, save for the fact that Mr. Morrison .had ssld It did when he took It up erid opened It. Secretary Knox Introduced the letter Secretary Root had written to W. H. Michael, now consul general at Calcutta Cal-cutta and former chief lerk when the Rosenthal matter first eame up In ln. and the reply of Mr. Michael. These were all the eaplanatlona tha gtate department de-partment has had. aald Secretary Knox. -"Aa thle amount la greatly In excene l of the Bum paid by the department for other similar portraits." feecretary Root said In hla letter to Mr. Michael, "and aa It also seems In excesa of the figure which thla axttet I accustomed to re-oelve re-oelve for his work, the department would be forced to the conclusion that the voucher algned by Rosenthal waa actually made out to cover a number of emergency Secretary Knox Unable to Clre Committee Any Light on the Subject 1 WASHINGTON, June li The mretery that euivounda the auddsn discovery in the aisle department of the Daly portrait voucher, found a week ago on the floor of the office of Disbursing Clerk Morrison, Morri-son, waa not cleared up when Secretary Knox appeared yesterday before the Hamlia committee) In response to a subpoena. sub-poena. Tfee secretary explained, apparently the eatlefactlon of the committee, the payment of 15009 to Frederick Hale, eon of former Sens tor Hal of Maine, for aervtcee la connection . with Canadian boundary aerotlatlona. Mr. Knox produced pro-duced the section of the treaty of 1H, which authorised negotiation with Can-ada Can-ada to establish the line through Fasea-anaauoddy Fasea-anaauoddy bey. Mr. Hale waa employed for thl work, performed hi dtitlea to the eatlafactloa f Secretary Root, and Secretary Knox approved hi Mil of ttoot a fear week after coming Into eontrol of U state department. I Hala'i Aetna! Work. wnivn ine portrait was only one. were It not that the. voucher for the whole aura was signed Vy Rosenthal alone." . . Mr. Michael' reply from Calcutta aald the payment had been agreed upon by Justice Day and Mr. Rosenthal. "I wa directed by Secretary Hay." read the Michael reply, "to write to Judge Dery and ascertain whether the portrait wa entirely satisfactory to him. and the price agreed upon. In replv to my letter Judge Day eald the portrait wa satlifartory and stated the price to be paid. Thla letter f handed to Mr. Day. He took a memorandum out of hla portfolio and after looking lit It directed di-rected me to make out a voucher for a certain amount. I do not now recall the amount, .to pav for the portrait and to hand him the balance, which he desired to apply on other emergency account. Hay Katalna tha Money. "H did not say what tha account were and the only fmpreeetoa f aol was that they related In some way to Mr. Rickhlll In connection with Chinese affair. af-fair. TV amount of the voucher, whatever what-ever It was. waa delivered to me by aome on In the bureau of accounted aoeordtn to my recollection. The price of the portrait por-trait wa taken out of the ewvelope containing con-taining the money in the presence ot Secretary Hay. who retained the bai- Explaining that ff Rosenthal algned a voucher Instead of a receipt It .waa through error.- Mr. Michael continued: "Whatever waa done In the premise waa done by direction of Secretary Hay. aa aathlng could have been done otherwise, other-wise, and If there la an-vthing In the tranaactlon open to criticism It Is the rror of sending to the artist a voucher which waa not Intended for hi signature signa-ture at all and which h should not hav signed." Mr. Morrison probably will be recalled to explain how the voucher happened to he among the crumpled envelopea near hi waata basket at the close of the dav work long after the search for the document docu-ment had been oa. Mr. Hal .waa - not employed actually to locate the boundary, but for the diplomatic diplo-matic work of agreeing on the line through raaaamaquoddy bay." aald Mr. Knox. "When he failed l . reach an agreement with Oraat Britain, th matter mat-ter automatically went to arbitration. Congress then appropriated $16,000 for that work; but Mr. Brvce and I eat In my office one day and settled the matter, not rewarding It of enough value to go to the expense of arbitration. W reduced re-duced our agreement to writing. It became be-came a traair between th Halted State and Qreat Britain, aad aa such . wag ratified by th sonata." As to th voucher Umed by Albert Rosenthal, tha portrait painter, calling for $1460. of which eum Rosenthal got but $160. Mr. Knox could give no new data. He only knew that h had started a search for It a soon eg he beard about the case, and that th aeareh failed to reeval any trace of th voucher or latter lat-ter that war supposed to be wtuj It. A week ago. aald Mr. Knox, Mr. Carr. chief ot the eanaua bureau, brought th voucher and paper ta him, say in that they had been found on the floor el Disbursing Clerk Morrison' afflca. laqttlry Kayaalg nothing. ' "Did you make any Inquiry to find out how they got there?" asked Chairman : Hamlin. I "I did." aald Secretary Knox, "and could learn nothing. All I knew about the whole case Is embodied In thl voucher and the papers attached to It." At thla point Secretary Knox added a aew element to th mystery. "Tou will he Interested In another receipt re-ceipt from Mr. Rosenthal that la attached to the panera." he eald ta the committee. "It waa algned January 1$. !M4, and la for $7s. with a notation that $o, for the frame ef Secretary Hay'a picture, had beea paid to a Washington picture dealer." , Mr. Haratln grabbed the paper. "Whr did this second receipt come from?" he demanded. ! found It with the pa p. re; that la all t know of It." aald Mr. Knox. Th member of th committee, upon examination, found that It wa not actually ac-tually dated January 11. 104, but read-"Received read-"Received January 1. 1M4. the sum of $70. with aa upuuiatloa of purpose. Mr. Hamlin declared he believed then waa something wrong with the receipt He Intimated that he believed It had been Used up. at least aa to the explanation wrtttea in tnk ncrnee the bottom, after the present Investigation begen. "Do you mean that you suspect eon-eerie in the state department le guilty ec committing perjury f" demanded Secretary Secre-tary Knox with heat. No sWflactloa en Knox. "There I no intention to rflct on you personally. Mr. becretary." replied the chairman, "but I am atrongly of the opinion thet thla was prepsj-ed after thla Inquiry began." "Then you think that Mr. Rosenthal ha written at least part ef thl receipt sine th lira Indicated ta Itf aald Mr. Knox. Mr. Hamlin replied that he thought It was a curious receipt, and that he Intended In-tended to probe the circumstances. "I will welcome euch aa Investigation." Secretary Knox aald. "and If you can cor-mborate cor-mborate your theory, and can show that anyone In the Stat department waa cognisant cog-nisant of auch aa act. there will be om veramlee In the department-" Howard Sangston. the messenger In Disbursing Clerk Morrison' office, who found th envelope containing the voucher vouch-er on the floor of the dlahuralng Clark's "trice after th whole departasent had been ransacked for It, waa (haa put oa the atand. He aald he found the envelope among a litter of crumpled one by Mr. Morrison Morri-son s waat baaket. about four and a half feet from the latter a deak. He eald Mr. Morrieon alwaya threw the crumpled en-velopee en-velopee on th floor, aad that In picking pick-ing them up at the doe of the day b fvuad th heavy oaviep asaong Umba-oachar Umba-oachar I roastt ! "I laid la oa Mr. Monrtaoa' desk " sal Sangston. "and he aald 'Why. Howard where did you get these Thle le a voucher vouch-er that ha keen causing all the trouble.' " Keagston eald he had not aul the en-veleoo en-veleoo Uiero. had see a no one throw It there and ad ao Idea hew It got there. He said taaU he did aat ssso tbu tt |