MY DEAR MR. COURTS: As requested by the chairman of the subcommittee on the deficiency appropriation bill when before it on the 12th instant, I transmit herewith a list of the checks that my assistant had cashed at the United States Treasury and elsewhere and of which he was robbed October 16, 1913, while in the elevator of the Patent Office Building returning to my office with the collected funds. In preparing the estimate submitted to the Congress for relief, the total amount was inadvertently stated as $952.33, instead of $881.64. While it is true that he was robbed of the former amount, the sum of $70.69 is the total of two personal checks given my assistant for collection, which were in no sense Government funds. I will thank you to correct the estimate accordingly. I am afraid that I did not make my explanation thoroughly understood when before the committee, owing to my embarrassment in appearing before such an august body. Cordially, yours, GEO. W. EVANS, Official checks of George W. Evans, chief disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, drawn on the Treasurer of the United States to the order of the following-named employees (who were paid on vouchers), and cashed by said chief disbursing clerk from Government funds on hand. [Subsequently, after the collection of amount of said checks at the Treasury, the messenger was robbed of the same in the elevator of the Patent Office Building when returning to the disbursing office.] Check of Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, drawn on Bell & Co., of Washington, D. C., reimbursement to $321.95 269.69 290.00 Total..... 881.64 REIMBURSEMENT PRESIDENT BOARD OF EDUCATION DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. [See p. 187.] BROOKLAND, D. C., February 17, 1914. CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: In the itemized statement of the deficiency estimates for the District of Columbia, published lately, I noticed the following: "To reimburse James F. Oyster, late president of the board of education, for amount paid in settlement of judgment for costs in the case of Mary E. Nalle, a case involving pay of teachers, $183.20." The phrase "a case involving pay of teachers" is misleading, because there was no question of pay involved; instead the case was that of a teacher suing certain members of the board of education as constituted in September, 1906, for reinstatement, as her school had been taken from her after 30 years of faithful service, and no reason given therefor. I asked repeatedly for a hearing, also for a copy of any charges preferred against me, knowing that the school records would sustain me in a plea for reinstatement; but no attention was paid to my request. The discourtesy and injustice of the board forced me into court in order to obtain an answer of some kind. After entering mandamus proceedings I learned from the board's answer, in 1907, that no hearing had been granted me because there were no charges against me, but that I had been dismissed solely because of incompetency; this in spite of the fact that when examined for promotion another teacher and myself led the candidates in the test; that my marks for service as a teacher were "Good" or "Excellent;" and the further fact that the new board had been appointed during vacation and dismissed me before school opened, thus having no opportunity to judge of my worth. The whole affair is simply this: An avowed enemy of mine had succeeded in getting appointed on the board; and as she had been displeased with me for years, she used the opportunity her position on the board offered to "get even," by taking my means of livelihood from me. This, I know, seems almost incredible to decent people, but it is Washington. As the courts, even the Supreme Court of the United States, sustained the board's plea of "privilege," I lost out; but some technical error in the court of appeals caused the payment of the sum named in the estimates to fall upon the board. The case has been most flagrantly unjust; and no teacher in our schools is safe or can obtain redress so long as "star-chamber" proceedings are countenanced under the special plea of "privilege," a plea that no public-employment agency like a school board should be permitted to use; a plea that no honest, conscientious person, possessed of a spark of justice, would employ, Please pardon this intrusion upon your time, but I simply had to write. Very respectfully, (Miss) M. E. NALLE. Andrews, R. P., Paper Co., payment to. Antitrust laws, enforcement of... Arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims, United States and Great Britain. Architectural Record Co., payment to.. Army, reimbursement to, for transportation of Americans from Mexico Arrears of pay.. Ashland, Ohio, post office, additional land. Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary: Clothing and transportation... Conditions at... Miscellaneous expenses.. Attorney General's Office.. Audited claims, Indian supplies.. Auditor for Interior Department, office of: Clerks transferred from Bureau of Engraving.. Clerks employed in restating Indian accounts. 51 226 362 272 Tabulating equipment, reimbursement to Auditor for Post Office Depart- ment.. Auditor for War Department, back pay and bounty claims. Bigelow, John, statement of.. Birmingham, Ala., post office and courthouse, additional land. Blakslee, J. Í., statement of.. Blue, Rupert, statement of. Blue, Victor, statement of.. Board of General Appraisers, New York, rent for.. Board of Mediation and Conciliation Book industry, international exposition at Leipzig. Bounty claims.. Breckinridge, Henry, statements of. Brooklyn, post office, purchase of electric current at. Broughton, Wm., statement of.. Bryan, Wm. J., statement of.. Bubonic plague... Buckler, C. H., statement of.. Bureaus. (See Names of.) 226 226, 418 32 191 226 358 298 295 232 52 352 124 257 79 209 439 226 190, 232 404 450 86, 102 32 440 135, 142 358 32 422 461 Crimes, detection and prosecution of, employees in Washington. 54, 87 400 404 266 3 3 16 13 3 428 226 435, 440 264 290 362 362 365 217 373 209 Detection and prosecution of crimes, employees at Washington.. 56, 89 290 295 301 57 149 36, 111 176 180 199 208 204 188 180 185 Egerton, Graham, payment to. Ellis Island Immigration Station, baggage and dormitory building. Emerson, T. H., statement of.. Engraving and Printing, Bureau of: Appropriations required, additional. Clerks transferred to Auditor for Interior Department.. Distinctive paper.. Laundered money. New Building— Mechanical equipment, etc..... Roof covering and lunch-room equipment. Sidewalks and curbs around.. Old building, extension of time to alter. Power presses, saving by use of... Salaries of employees other than plate printers. Epidemics, prevention of..... Evans, George W., statement of. F. Federal Reserve Board, alterations to Treasury Building to accommodate. Field, O. J., statement of.. First Assistant Postmaster General. G. Gallaudet College. 290 General Appraisers, Board of, rent for. 79 General Electric Co., payment to... 265 General Land Office, contingent expenses of land offices.. |