The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-27
STAR ROUTE FRAUDS.
TYNER's EXPLANATION OF THEM.
His stSrT AAOut the Report, said to Have Bssa
Suppressed b Postmaster General Esy-HsW
The Rsutss We're Expedited : What He
Clains Ia DsisAIs Of HlnielE

WAsHIsGToS, October 96.-Gen. Tyne
has prepared . statement which was given
to the press tonight It merely 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 prose
cution. He says he was extremely cau-
tious while in charge Of the contract office
and never made an expenditure for the
Star Route service without flrst consulting
tho then Postmaster General, Gov. Jewell,
and that later; when in charge Of the De-
partment he refused to make large in
crease OF service, He required Of General
Brady monthly statements regarding the
Star Route Service, and never sanctioned
any large expenditures a
During the last month he was POstmas.
ter General no report came to him, and At
ter he had ceased to be Postmaster: Gem
eral he was informed that during that
month Mr.. Brady had largely expedited
services. He went at once TO General
Key who had Just assumed charge OF the
Department, and told him Of II and advised
him to cancel all orders for increased sery-
ice ME.Tyner says further that the Star
route prosecutions were frequently the
matter Of consultation between himself
and President Garfield; that he took his re-
poIt Of the investigation made by himself
into the service and read II to General
Garfield, who requested that he might
show II TO General james, which he did.
This was soon after General Garfield be-
came President u h
On receiving the report Postmaster Gen.
eral james agreed that II shonld be seen
only by the President and himself. II
had been kept from the files Of tile Deparl-
ment by Keys order, and wasa private na.
per-. James was told so when ho received
II Afterwards he told Tyner that tho All.
toney General had It and that he could
not treat II 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 lie wanted 10
"tguote Tyner on Brady" AS the object
did not relate to the interests OF the public
service and as the publication would not
elucidate the issue between them TyneF
did not give his consent, 1t afterwards
appeared, however, in the columns OF d
leading newspaper without consulting him.
To the charge that he had obstFticted the
Star Route Investigation Tyner says that
the business Of his office and that OF the
contract Office are as different as II they
were In different Departments.
Tyner says the records ofthe department
do not furnish single instance OF atailura
TO dismiss postmaster Justly accused OF
false reports on the Star route services or
any other similar direlection Of duty afterit
was brought TO his notice. The person
who made tho charge knew II was false.
Tynet and the President had three or four
interviews about the Star route business
at the Presidents request, in which the
question otable methods oil conducting the
investigation were freely discussed, Tho
last Of these interviews occurred within
twenty.four hours OF the fatal shot Ofwhich
fact at least two others persons have know
ledge, one who unintenticnllly overheard
part OF what was said. The impression LEFT
on Tyner's mind then was not that he was
co go out because of suspicious relations 10
the Star route Investigations or any other
tause.
Mr.. Tyner says he has not Joined in the
sweeping charges Of corruption against
everybody who happened TO have labored
70 secure an increase service in the Star
Routes, nor approved OF the plan Of trying
men on criminal charges In the newspa-
pers; he las attended TO his own business,
and II the detectives and Others around
the Postmaster General had done likewise,
this statement would have been tinheces.
sary. Postmaster.G General James, In d let
ter to Judge Tyner, acknowledging the re-
ceipt Of his resignation, says "The ie-
quest for your resignation was not based
upon your personal or official integrity