The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-10
TRYING TO GUST WHITE.
Some of the Charges Against a Railway Mail
Service Division Superintendent.

Some of the Charges Against Railway Mail
Service Division Superintendent.
Washington Special.
Numerous affidavits alleging irregular con-
duct on the part of James E. White, superin-
tendent of the railway mail service, have been
received in this city. and will be filed with the
Postmaster general to morrow. John H. Foley,
an empIoye of the Chicago postoffice, makes
oath that one McGinnis, head postal clerk on
the Kankakee route. had told him that he INC
Ginnis), had carried from Chicago to Cincinnati
in his car, on an order from White, Isaac
Rivers and other employees of the Chicago Office
This occurred at the time of the State election
in Ohio, il 1884. Foley further swears that
White paid attention to shipping prize
chickens than he did to the business of his Office
that White kept chickens night and day In the
registers office. He says White had ''pets," and
was guilty of favoritism, and as evidence Of
the fact accuses White and Long
Jones of saving the head Of one of
their friends. who lost mail sack. which
was afterward robbed White is declared. more
over to have covered and concealed errors on
the part of his particular friends in the Chicago
Office This statement bears date Oct Z, 1885,
and appears to have been duly attested before a
notary public in and for Cook county.
Andrew Reynolds and ]. L. Lambert, in an
affidavit dated Nov 10, 1885. swear to CONVEX
Sation with Postal Clerk McGlnnlS, in which he
said in the fall of 1880 had carried Rivers and
thirty others from Chicago to Indianapolis, and
again to Cincinnati in 1884. always under orders
from White.
A. Green of Waterloo, Ia. an employe of the
railway mail service, testifes that at one cleo
ton White stationed his chief clerk at the door
of the paymaster's Office, and as each man re-
ceived his pay and left the room the clerk levied
contribution for campaign purposes. Mr..
Green paid, under protest" $l5. Affiant also
charges Mr.. White with being absent from his
post of duty for weeks at time.
Andrew Reynolds, an employe of the mail serv-
ice. running on the Burlington road, comes to
the front with series of charges against White,
substantially as follows First, with drinking
and being intoxicated while on duty. This is
alleged to have occurred veral times within the
last and one half years, and late as October
T. 1885. Mr.. Reynolds says that he recently
saw Mr.. White on Clark street, near Monroe, in
Chicago under the influence of liquor. Second,
that certain chief clerks in Whites Office nota-
postal cars. pRayous to every election in the
last two and half years, and solicited favors in
the interest of certain candidates for office.
Third, that neither White nor his chief clerks
had gone over the heavy postal routes in his dis
trict within two and halt, years to see what is
necessary to a proper distribution of the mails.
Fourth, absence from business three -fourths of
the time, attending to his private affairs. Fifth,
with keeping about twenty men in his Office who
are dronine pets of Mr.. White, or of his influen-
tal friends. without any consideration for the
welfare of the public service