New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-23

GEN. DUNCAN S. WALKERS DISCLOSURES.
II srems great pity that the wall of Cen
eral Duncan S. Walker, secretary OF the DEM
orrat,c Congressional Committee, over the inn
positions practiscd upon him and his Com
mittee and his party by the Republicans i'll
the Post Office Department during the last
campaign should bo so wasted 1t comes
little too late for the last and a great deal
too early for the next campaign. In
stead of awakening tho sympathies OF
great people who, listening to it.
would rise up and say: Let us resent
" the gross and unparalleled outrages perpetN-
"ted by Republican Administration upon
General Duncan ). Walker and his Commit
"tce and his party, by giving General Duncan
S. Walkers party control of the Government,
"and him and his Committee some OF the best
offices that were ever walked for in torch
light professions in u three months go-as-
"you-piease Wit fell on the duh ears of
weary investigating committee of an uncom-
monty tired investigating Congress that has
invested all it's political capital in inyestiga-
tons, and found out finally that it would
have been great deal better OFF if it hadn't
found out anything.
The Committee to which General Duncan s.
Walker has just unfolded the tale OF his long
struggle with hostile Post Office Department
70 scatter over the country at Government ex-
penge such interesting and valuable political
information as was contained in the MOIey
letter and other documents Of like character
WAS raised for the purpose of finding out why
,he signature of Democratic member of Con-
gress written by n Democratic committee
clerk was not sufficient to carry anything
il covered anywhere in the country
within tho range of the Postal Service.
AS usual with inquiries of this sort,
the Committee was not only more successful
than it hoped to be, but more than it wished it
had been. 1t struck hard pan with great sud-
dcuness and an uncommon bounce 1t started
ont with the admitted fact that great quant-
ties of Democratic documents containing an
endless amount of information concerning
General Gariield's personal badness were de-
tanned at the office where they were de-
posted, 80 that q great many per-
sons voted for General Garfield in blind
ignorance of his total depravty. On
fine face of 1t an imposition and an outrage
The Committee hOwled an indignant
"Why?o and plunged into the inquiry. What
they found out-and that very shOrtly-was
that in the first place the franks covered I'M
rrankable matter, and in the second, that the
franks themselves were not genuine, but con-
fessed f0rgeries From that point the interest
in this particular inquiry seemed to subside.
The average Democratic COngressman's curl
osty was appeased. He cared no more about it
than he did about the authorship of the MoreY
letter.
The revelations of General Duncan S. Walk
or however seem to have revived q some
what languid interest in the matter. This
distinguished person having been asked in
the timid and tentative way in which a Com
mittee that had already found out more than
IL wanted to would naturally approach the
| subiect, why he had abandoned the use of the
mails and resOrted to express companies to
spread the political intelligence which Mr.. Bar
NUNS Committee had prepared for the enlight-
eminent of the people, answered that his mat
| ter. whether stamped or franked, was detained
in the Washington Post Office, and that he
was accordingly compelled to send by express
Being asked to substantiate the charge against
the Washington office, he said he was i'll the
habit of sending postal card to each Of his
correspondents giving them notice of the
packages sent by mail, and that he had re-
ceiyed hundreds Of letters complaining of the
non-receipt of the packages sent. A small
matter of five hundred of these he produced
| before the Committee, majority of
which. he said, referred to packages
which had been stamped, and none
of them to the twenty-five