| Show Mac MacVeagh V Will Abolish Red T Tape pe RE Su ILL RID r OF SOME OF RED the customs service Is beIng beVI being be be- WHILE VI ing rehabilitated there is a disposition dis dis- disposition position at the tho treasury department to clip cUp off orr red tape wherever possible The abuse has grown up through many years and Secretary MacVeagh wants to eliminate It and practical politics wh whenever never ho he can A collector collect collect- ct- ct or at a small port in New Now Jersey who has a record of ot collecting 50 cents a year and drawing 40 In salary and expenses recently was called to account account account ac ac- count for not sending certain docu docu- ments meats In hi connection with the payment I of his salary He made this protest which has been preserved among the archives of the treasury I was criticised because I bad failed failed fail tall ed to make an affidavit that I hud had paid myself my salary In spite of ot the fact that I had sworn to my monthly accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts that I had bad paid myself my sal sal- ary I 1 had not sworn that i had received received re ro- the salary which I had sworn I had paid myself This last affidavit cost me 25 cents I then had to put In a n voucher for forthe forthe forthe the 25 cents and make an affidavit that I had paid myself the tho 25 cents This according to a new rul g was accompanied by an affidavit that I had received the 25 cents I had sworn I had paid myself This This' has started an endless chain which threatens to land laud mo mu in an insane asylum |
