People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — CUT DOWN BY CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

CUT DOWN BY CLEVELAND.

Th© President Saves the Carnegie Company Over 88200,000. Washington, March 28.— President Cleveland’s decision in the case of the navy department against Carnegie, Phipps & Co. has been made public. It is in effect a conviction of the workmen in the employ of that corporation of an attempt to defraud the United States government for the benefit of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. It was the workmen who stopped up blow holes with plugs, who “fixed” sample plates in order that the inspectors might be fooled into passing groupes of plates which these specially treated samples were supposed to represent, who cheated the government officers and deluded even Mr. Frick. Consequently the fine of $400,000 against the companies is cut down by the hand of the executive to $140,000.