The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-24

| washington, 23.-The acting a.
Corney-general makes public the IL
ports submitted by n. NJ. Gibson
special attorney for the Unftea
SCates In the star service investiga-
lion, who says: For manifest req
son, IL would not be prudent TO dis
close all the facts discovered by tho
investigation pursued by the rep
resentat1ves of the two departments
or indicate a 1.-THE of the evideneze
which must be reserved for the
courts. The documents neyerthe-
less would fill 20 neWspaper col
umns, exclusive of exhibits. dead
ing chiefly with the administrator,
OF the Contract Office. The term Of
General Brady, Gibson reports, was
one OF most prOhigate years since.
Bucnanan's administration. Rhes
whole matter of the Administrations
OF the pcstoffice department has be-
became almost synonymous with
public robbery. | find many
cases OF expedition allowance, csrns-
ing to recent times. 1t is asserted
there were only six cases of expedF-
ton, involving total of $217,S3O iFs
the fiscal year of 1872, and only
seven, amounting to SCI, 900 during
the fiscal years 1875 and 1876, Wher
General Tyner was in charge of tha-
Office, and in each of these cases thu
| orders making the allowances state
that they are less than pTD
rata, in accordance with tie true
construction Of the law. The re
port continues: During BEady7S
frst fiscal year [ find on his orders
sixteen allowances for expedition
of mail service on sixteen routes,
the contract price of these sixteen
aouteS aggregated $1S4,544 per an
mum, the allowances for expedition
increased the pay on these routes
S197,946 and made the total pax
S3S2,49 a year, and in each one Ok.
these cases it was stretched to it's
utmost In favor of the contractors
while instructions of the law wez4s
disregarded, as likewise the time
hOnored custom Of the department.
requiring contractors to furnish
varied detailed data whereby tbEe
| exact proportion between the origE-
nal pay and the compensation fer
eXpeditional service required
could be accurately determined.
During the same fiscal year
Q67O, Brady made orders granting
additional allowances to CON
tractors was for trips added an8
speed increased on $50 routes.
amounting to $604,336. The original
pay on these routes was 81, e906Sa-
The increase was about IS Is PEI
cent, while the additional duties re
qulred Of the contractors were on2E
about 33115 per cent. Gibson charges
that Brady, therefore, delibeF-
ately advertised the star ser
vice on such schedules as
to leave no doubt Of
premeditated intention to increase,
pay by the means allowed for expo.
dition; and Gibson says that in al
most every instance Brady violates
the letter and the spirit of the law.
IN making orders for additional a.
lOwanceS by which these contrae-
tors received more than S2,5OOOO0 a.
year. He charged that during tbs.
fiscal years Of 1S79-S0 there were
orders on which allowances Werss
made and money paid, which vera
retroactive and in direct violation
of law. In all, there were, during
Brady's incumbency, seventy-fOnE,
orders made in violation of law.
Gibson says an inspection of every
case of expedition by experienced
and impartial men whose instrue-
tionS were to ascertain the truth anu
report,and most searching investi
cation was made; hundreds Of Wit
neSses were examined and volumes
of testimony taken. l cannot resist,
the conviction that in almost every
case the allowance for expedition
was fraudulently and corruptly ab-
tanned. Gibson finished as follows
That there has been inefficient and
derelictness in duty and still craven
official shortcomings in the a8-