The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
Tyner's statement.

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WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 27.-General
Tyner has prepared statement which
denies the truth of the charges that he
has been in sympathy with the Star
Route contractors, or that he has been
hostile to their prosecution. He says
he was extremely cautious while in
charge of the contract Office and never
made expenditures for the Star Route
service without first consulting the then
postmaster general. No report came to
him, and after he had ceased TO be post
master general he was informed that
during that month Brady had largely ex-
pedifed the service. He went at once TO
General Key, who had just assumed
charge of the department, and told him
of it, and advised him to cancel all
orders for increased service.
I'yHer says further, that the Star
Route prosecutions were frequently a
matter of consultation between Garfield
and himself; that he took his report of
the investigations made by himself on
the service, and read it to General Gar
field, who requested that he might show
it to General James, which he did. That
was soon after General Garfield became
president.
On receiving the report Postmaster
General James agreed that it should be
seen only by the president and himself
It had been kept from the files of the
department by Keys order, and was
private paper. James was told so at the
time he received 1t, and afterward told
Tyner the attorney general had it and
he would not treat il as private paper.
He then asked leave to print 1t assigning
as his reason that Brady had called
him liar in the New York Herald and
he wanted to quote Tyner on Brady. AS
q rN1s n a ~, A. ~ s~f
of the public service, and as the publ
cation would not elucidate the issues be-
tween them, Tyner did not give his con-
sent. 1t Afterwards appeared, however,
in the columns of elding newspaper
without consulting him AS to the
charge that he INSTRUCTED the star route
investigation Tyner says the business of
his Office and that of the contract OFF,
are as separate as if they were in differ
| ent departments.
Tyner says the records of the depart
ment do not furnish a single instance OF
| failure to dismiss postmaster justly &C
| cused of failure to report on the star
| route service or any other similar dere-
LECTION of duty after it was brought to
his notice. The person who made the
| charge knew it to be false. Tyner and
| the President have had three or four in
| terviews about the Star Route business,
at the Presidents request, in which the
| question about the methods of conduct
! ing the Investigations occurred, within
twenty-hours of the fatal shot, of which
fact at least two other persons have
knowledge, one of whom Intentionally
overheard part of what was said. The
impression left on Tyner's mind ther
| was, that he was not to go out be
cause of his suspicious relations to the
Star Route investigation. or for any 9th
er cause. Tyner says he has not JOINED
in sweeping charges of corruption
against everybody who happened tt
have labOred to secure an increase o
service on Star Routes, nor approved o.
the plan of trying men on crimina
charges in the newspapers. He has al
tended TO his own business, and if tn
detectives and others around the post
master general had done likewise, thi
statement would be unnecessary.
Postmaster General James, in let
ter 10 Judge Tyner acknowledging tn
receipt of his resignation, says: "Th
request for your resignation was no
based upon any reflection upon you
personal or official integrity"
"A New Turn In the Passenger Rate War
New YORK, October 27.-The Times
of this morning, sayaI Affairs took
turn yesterday in the railroad passenge
rate fare, which lends new interest ii
the fight At late hour last night tn
key to the great struggle that seem
likely to ensue, was explained to {
Times reporter at the Grand Contra
depot. 1t was in the shape of a new
set of rates which will be adopted b,
the New York Central and Hudson Riv
er railway to-day, and is as follows:
Boston to Chicago, via New York
$15; Boston to Chicago, via Albany
$10.25, New York to Chicago $685.
The rates of the Pennsylvania and Bal
timore and Ohio from New York t,
Chicago are S14, and from Bos
ton SIS. The New York Contra
, yesterday afternoon sold tickets
from New York to Chicago for $6.95
The official, in explaining, said; "Fron
this time on the Vanderbilt line will b
governed by the course of no other roads
: Our New York business will be pro
tected at all hazards. What the Penn
sylvania and Baltimore and Ohio road
will do the officers. of the New Yorl
Central and Hudson River road do no
know and do not care.'
The war, another paper says, in tn
advance of rates of the New York Cen
trail, while not so great as that of tn
pennsylvania company, is regarded b,
railroad men as the beginning of thu
end of a long war of rates, since thu
change is looked upon as evidence tina
Vanderbilt has been forced TO come Il
terms.