, 1881-05-14
THE STAR ROUTES SCANDAL
JAMES PROMISES

JAMES PROMISES
Postmaster General Jam, continues ,e
promise special developments in his in
vestigatiou OF the star mail service, but il
is hardly probable that he can find any
thing more than vas shown before b,
entered the department The real sean
di lies in the fact that everything charged
against Brady has been matter of com
mon notoriety for 50 many years, Will.
he has remained in his office building W
colossal fortune by the most question.
able means l. is quite certain that Post
master General James will make ciear
sweep Of ali the subordinate offici.is, VII,
have, in the remotest degree, teen con,
nected with the Star route frauds.
1t Is distressing that the bright picture
IT any official reform should contain any
defects. For years Mr. Brady, III,
Second Assistant Postmaster General
surrounded BY . crowd of friends, hA,
been
FArrENISG on THE PUBLIC TREASURY,
With apparently the full knowledge anG
consent Of the whole world Gen. GRAM
would not believe that this crowd o
thriving officials we're bold, bad men
neither would the truly good Mr. Hayes,
g the tumor of American politics. a
Emery Storrs calls him, ever listen to q
word against Mr.. Brady. Now that Mr.
James has kicked OFF this thrice -isttened
barnacle, there is long, loS howl of In
dignation going up from the star service
crowd that will certainly have It's infu-
ence upon the plastic and sympathetic
mind Of the poetical President. What II
1t should be shown that the present sd-
ministration, with its deadlock and
snawing hopes, owes its being to the en-
gineering OF
THE STAR SERVICE RING
Or combination, a. some Of the sensitive
plants hereabout calls it Mr.. Dorsey,
one Of the most active figures in this ring
next to Brady, is supposed to have pulled
Indiana through. The star service
methods worked well in Indiana; but
more than this, it is interesting also to
know that Gen Garfield, at dark hour
in the Indiana campaign, wrote a letter
To Jay HubbeIl, the Chairman Of the
Republican Congressional committee. in
which the poet-Presidsnt uttered a
' Macedonian cry" for more money 10
help the cause. Habbell at that time
had exhausted nearly every resource
Al at once he thought Of Brady. He
ran to him and showed hun the letter OF
the President. and explained to Brady
the necessities Of the situation. That
NOBLE PHILANrHRoPHIST
Resigned for few moments his firm grip
upon the treasury, and consented to allow
some of the star service revenue to run
ut in a,noble stream to answer the
Macedonian cry. He took the contract
DTS of what were known as the favored
outes, and assessed them for s., 800
The money was shipped to Indiana, and
came in time to turn the tide and make
Indiana safe. The party Of reform tri-
umphed. 1t is this thought that crushes
Brady in his retirement. 1t is N" wonder
that hs has become an ardent an'i-
administration man. He has now enoug b
money to make himself felt, and being an
able man, Will make very active ally for
the Conkling people.
MR.. BRADY DIREC-s ATTENTION
To the general fact that the requirements
Of the postal service have increased
greatly during the past four years The
growth ha. not been limited to any par
tieular kind of service, but in the rail
way, steamboat and messenger, as we'll as
the star service, there hss been - steady
and in many places a phenomenal
grovth." The evidence Of phenomenal
,ro~th appears to relate moro especially
70 the star service. 1t appears, for
instance, that the route from Fort Worth
TO Fort Yuma, LOGO miles, vas let for
sl34. 900. Six weeks after the letting,
Mr.. Brady issued an order to expedite
the service on that route, allowing the
contractor Sl65, 900 additional compensa-
ton. Such growth Of the service in the
short space Of six Weexs plainly Was Phe-
nomenal. The route from Mesilla to San
Diego, weekly, was let for Sl24,Ooo
Shortly afterward the service was raised
to tri-weekly, and then to daily, and the
compensation increased to S2lS,46o
This also shows growth that was phe-
nomenal. At the next letting, the ser
vice on the same route was reduced from
seven 10 three times q week, showing
phenomenal reaction from the previous
phenomenal growth, and was let for
So, 900, reduction of s69. 900 from the
sum for which the same Route, with only
a weekly service, had been let before a
phenomenal growth required an increase
to daily service at sals, AGO. In tins case
the phenomenon exhibited, instead OF
growth, appears to have been the reverse
If Growth. But, a short time afterward,
Mr.. Brady again ordered an increase OF
the trips to seven times week. and m
creased the pay to $233, ,333 Here again
is evidence Of a phenomenal growth,
which seems to have begun IN this
instance, A. in the preceding one, imms-
diarely after the letting. At the next
letting 187S) the same route Was let for
sI34, 900 showing phenomenal reverse
of growth to the extent Of 500, 9,333. But
Immediately phe:omenal growth set In
agaip m rapidIv that SIX weeks afterward