, 1881-06-10
,,,aryiew with d High Official Of
the Post-Office Depart.
ment.
r.v OPPORTUNITIES for Fraud Are
Afforded by the star.Route
System,
o,.d,,s Peculiar Views on tho Star-
serylce-1hctr Libcrallty and
Costlincss.
t,,,ral congressman said to Be Implicated
IN the swiudles upon tbs Postal
Revenues.

.,,,on ,o-tjay With II gentleman lttKft tip IN
~ ttost-Onico Department, who happened
sm W. IN tho city, lie gaye INC some very
"oyrt views Of tta present situation In tho
e.,,rontc matter, md offered some very it,
,sr.stinr Views in rcgAr,t t., seyernlt, tie
Ssn who have l,con high up III the POST
mira nt Department. NH confident that tic
s.,Jc,s Of l'uE TfltBuSE will be very rltci,
h,oterpsted In tic matter, al,d 80 Rlvo w1at lie
n,l In full: ....
"Tne star-routG matter is rather quiet"
ali /. "WlMt Is being tlone III the matter
hy The DEPARTMENT. t,-nnytllingp
'"Formlablo prosecutions nrO under way,
nd many things arc being very closely t,t-
r,tIeatvl!. Special agents Of the Depart
neut are being sent out iii every direction 10
made inquiries md look into things; MD,
Wien thu time comes, everything will be
posecute,t III Its proper order. Tlio Contract
OQlce Is tlle l,0ee where
THE uIEArEsr TlsErIDATtON
siclt, atd Justly 50 too. The cmployGs of
uIs Department are arranEed alone In sep
nate stalls for considerable distance. Tl.uy
remind ono nt the prisoners III the Bastilo
during thu French Revolution. They wero
.aIl 10 be placed In separate cells, and from
d,y to day, rs the council decided whom to
guIlIotne, the jAtler cninc nloIg and marked
on tho crlI-tlo0rs. Some times the wrong
t,ap or l,lcil were taken by tho jatlcr IN his
Wholesale slaughter, md much of the trepi-
daton md terror OF tho ttn1o were caused by
dc leaf that tho mistake might reach this or
hat particular mail. There Is no doubt but
some mlstakcs of this kind will be made, md
perhaps some have alrendy been innde."
Ills there no way to avoid tl1iS?"
mot with absolute cortainty. 1iiere are
o,er aio,U0 miles Of inland mali service.
hundreds Of thousands OF men md horses
ue employed by the Government To Ito this
work. and 1t stands to roason that, being 10
widely scattered. ttlcr0 Is the
oREATEsr OPPORTUNITY Fot FRAUD.
amatter Of fact, there Is not year passes
that more or less frnn.l is not practiced; but,
b. elose competition, and the watch tllat dis-
rho ohtn1nad tho ioh lin i,ny,nass ~ ~
n.p n.I H has BEEN tuply M @ and @ Honestly 1os ons ~ re e
Eess reduction that has been made during
he past two months In the expense Of the
nae"uIe oao "no nus,',es. a'aoMn',hk 10 Nearly
th"""'' 7no"s tll"t l14"u i'as neon prac-
prosecuted tho business j,nvo been RffIictDt1
nm uross caroleunasa mr. tv,,oro,,cn ,,
~. s.9as ~. ~ .e.e','es',' ~ % "u."n't'
,odentoo.t bcfora hainw virnmip;, 's'''~
nTbc cnrtrorta ~, iii l,rourh+ rr,,o,. ~,
1"s eo4ttueto "'o WI u'o"khs unuef tad
n0slce Of tho pDitlnnSter-General, who Signs
thtm hut thnv r., ,ot axo,n3ro,l In ,1nt,til,,,
t,n -. IT, .s,I. .o - - >.s'"D5
aAa, iuf lle aoes HoC NhSo tlo lllae+
JUDGE KEY,
vho WAC pootuo a Ior. .f,ororoi ,yho, .,t .ho,,
III. t 'e' "''eA ntA eiioao
tYu,es WHY eXpeattu' WIS 'hn' lhe oNll.
pVu9h4e o'a 1eiloW tnht 1lany supposed ne
Na$, but was, MS believe, n cleRr-headel and
honest man WIN uutinratnod yorv we'll thn
,,,,,s ~ ' 49, ~. NJ ,ot1 "e't tao
nWk VI tho department. lc KneW OF some
u tho things that wore going OH in the West.
I th,nk. inf ho,n,, a fonfo,ln.,to ,,,I
1,,.""sI. mH' w., uS's eu"As.uiat1 ai'u
pemocfht, III Iclt little out uE Ills element,
md did nut desire to set his face too much
fsoinst Tho yo,,i,oa ,,a,, ,f ,,,,fn,, t,t,,4.o
W. Ws.1st ~ ~. 1.ie lnllkee way ol uoInE lhlnGs.
tNsl ti4asl VI mo lhrEer 1r1udS, / have reason to
a4oWs MefD understood by tho last Congress. .
0lt fDr some reasuil they were not thycsti-
gated, and finally tho amount OF tho deficit
xas apprupFlntGaf.0
"Wbo Ind tic matter OF the contracts
''%i: St:sn eslTEnu!y Saa1,:y III na1la
,,.e ue9; Gs sbraay was III chnrgo Of tue Con.
nact Ulllee: lie WIS naturally q bold
eFiator. One hundred Thousand dOllArs
seemed like O small thing for llM to cOi,-
adss.t ~.'.."'-7-'.
,,.. HE HELD PECULIAR VIEWS
ssi wi Iv sar-soEyice. lie claimed that the star
ssfs!fltn a'loulN Increase proportlOnntely with
1lt runway mail SGr$icN and with the Dnn1i-