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Show DISBURSING GLERK TOLD TO KEEP. STILL WASHINGTON, June 16 Thomas Morrison, disbursing clerk of the stato department, told the house committee com-mittee on expenditures in that department depart-ment that he had been .Instructed when the missing voucher in the Day portrait case, under Investigation, was found on the floor of his office a few days ago, to keep still about the discovery. dis-covery. This instruction, he said, was given him by Wilbur J. Carr, chief of the consular bureau. The disclosure was made when Chairman Hamlin asked ask-ed him if he had made any further attempt since his examination a few days ago to discover how the long missing voucher came to be on tho floor of the office. Tho serious view taken of the matter by state department depart-ment officials was reflected in a copy of n letter from Charles Denby, consul con-sul general at Vienna, former chief clerk of the state department under Secretary Root Secretary Knox submitted sub-mitted this letter, dated Vienna, May 30, 1911. Mr. Denby wrote that the voucher discrepancy was discovered J n 1906 when the department negotiated negoti-ated for a portrait of Secretary Day and that prior to tho Root regime it was customary to include in one voucher vou-cher small sumspaid for sevoral expenses ex-penses allotted to the department to be expended at the secretary's discretion. dis-cretion. oo |