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Show Roasts Administration for Its Appointments and Bitterly Assails Secretary Mc-Adoo. Mc-Adoo. TOO MANY FROM SOUTH Denounces Democrats for What They Did to the Sugar Industry. Helena, Montana, Aug. 12. Charles E. Hughes, continuing his attacks on the administration for its appointments, appoint-ments, today charged Secretary Mc-Adoo, Mc-Adoo, "upon reliable information," with having replaced Henry N. Clapp, formerly confidential secretary to John G, Carlisle, with Daniel E. Finn, son of "Battery Dan" Finn, a Tammany Tam-many leader as assistant appraiser of merchandise at New York. "Some months after Clapp was put out of the service," Mr. Hughes, said, "through fear of criticism on, the part of the department, he was made an examiner In the customs service, a much lower position than that held before and at a much lower compensation." compensa-tion." "The circumstances, I am reliably informed," Mr. Hughes said, "were these: Mr. Clapp was assistant appraiser ap-praiser of merchandise at tho port of Now York, a position requiring expert ex-pert knowledge In order to secure efficiency. His resignation was demanded de-manded by the secretary of the treasury treas-ury department and in his place was appointed Daniel E. Finn, who is a Tammany district leader and son of "Battery Dan" Finn, of much political politi-cal notoriety. Clapp Serves 25 Year. "Mr. Clapp had served twenty-five years in the treasury department service. ser-vice. Ho rose bv merit 'from a olerk- ship in the treasury department at Washington which was obtained through competitive examination, to the position of assistant appraiser of merchandise in New York. He had been special agent of the traesury department, confidential secretary to John G. Carlisle, while secretary of tho treasury, and held other important impor-tant positions in tho service through promotion by merit. "He was tho expert in the department de-partment at the port of Now York and had been the right hand man of five different appraisers and the acting appraiser ap-praiser In their absence. Some months after he was put out of service, through -fear of criticism on the part of the department, he was made an examiner in the customers' service, a much lower position than that hold before and at a much lower compensation." compen-sation." Too Many Southerners, Mr. Hughes assailed the administration administra-tion as a "sectional administration, and read a list of the house an senate sen-ate committees which had southern men as chairmen "I have no criticism to make' he said, "of tho honor, tho respectability or the agroeable character of any of these men, but I say that -an ad-' ad-' ministration under which so many of the chairmen of the house of representatives repre-sentatives are represented in that manner is a sectional administration. It Is not an American administration in a broad and proper sense. South Needs Republicans. "I want to see the south buiit up. it can be built up. It never will be built up, however, without Republi-can.policies Republi-can.policies being applied. I think many southern men are beginning to realize that. You can no more build up this country by historic doctrine doc-trine than you could fly through the air with the old flying machines they experimented with thirty years ago." The situation in the senate, Mr. Hughes said, was much similar to that in tho house, especially with reference refer-ence to the "pork barrel committees." The administration's tariff policy also was assailed. Tried to Wreck Sugar Industry. "Look what they did to the sugar Industry," Mr. Hughes said, "They wont ahead to wreck a great industry indus-try in many sections of the country. Later they thought better of their own action. They repeated to a degree. I tell you we don't want legislation of which we will have to repent. We want some foresight in dealing with American Industries." Mr. Hughes again assailed the administration's ad-ministration's foreign policy. "It has led some nations to believe that what It said It was not entirely ready to stand for," Mr. Hughes said. "We seriously impaired our prestige at the very beginning because of the organization of our state department." In his statement with reference to tho replacement of Clapp by Finn, the nominee referred to Finn as "a district leader without qualifications or special spec-ial training for the place." Such Acts Must Stop. "What's the use of talking about improvement In the American government?" govern-ment?" Mr. Hughes Risked. "Why should we declaim about Americanism If we do not keep especially trained men in the employ of the government, if we require them to be displaced by political workers? I am opposed to that. It has got to stop. "We have had in tho present administration admin-istration a great period of paper programs. pro-grams. A little later wo shall have occasion to discuss some of these records to which so much -attention is given. But underlying' every sort of paper program is the great necesi-ty necesi-ty of proper public administration. This administration has "fallen seriously seri-ously short In that matter. It has prostituted Important places to the demands of mere partisan expediency." |