Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-06-04
WANAMAKE s ANSWER
He Denies the Charges of the
 Leake Memorial.
MANY DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED.

The Postmaater-GaeneraI Had Never Heard
 of Any Government Ofacial Hnving Any
 Interest in Pneumatie Tube Companies
 Until the Presenta4aon of the Memorial. WASHINGTON, June A Some time ago 5. F. Leake of Philadelphia presented memorial to the House making certain charges against postofEice officials in re- gard to the pneumatic tube service in Philadelphia.
 The following Ia the substance of the correspondence that has been received by Chairman Henderson. of the House Committee on Postofaces and Post Roads from PostmasteEG General Wanamaker, in regard to the Leake memorial This budget was sent in response to a cOmmunicatiQn from MT. Henderson to the Postmaster General inclosing . copy of Mir. LeRke's affidavit on file in the committed room.
 The committee will consider the | next, and take such action as 1t may deem proper after examining the docu. ments furnished by both sides. Mir. Wanamaker's budget is very vol ! luminous and would make . book of sew eral hundred pages. It contains nearly 1 forty different letters, legal opinions, testimonials, arguments, otc. The budget iS accompanied by let ter, in which the Postmaster-Ge General says:
 '.I may add that inasmuch as no ap- propriations have been made specific l ally for pneumatic service, and no au- Il thority exists for the expenditure of public funds to investigate Ehis sub \ iect, the department has not been able to do more than receive propositions and gather information. have thought it proper to study the subject from ! every standpoint, and have therefore encouraged all parties to submit to the department whatever they pleased bear ing upon this new and interesting method for the transmission of mail matter.
 'I have stuliously endeAvored to avoid, either verbally or otherwise, any committal to any responsibility to the Government. While, as, no doubt, you have observed, the supervising in spectorss report would have precluded the acceptance of the Leake proposition, under no circumstances would have favored the granting of Q contract at the | city of Philadelphia without opening 1t to competition by public advertisement. \ have only to add that I have never heard of any government official having any interest In e1GneH or Cne pueumaC1C tnbe companies until . newspaper re-
 porter called upon me after the pu blica-
 tion of memorial which was presented
 to your committee.
 sT shall be pleased to answer any ! call that the committee desires upon me, | personally or otherwise"
 The letter is accompanied by Q commu-
 nication from Mir. George Rratton, re-
 ferred to in the Leake affidavit as Au-
 thority for certain statements in which
 he Rratton) makes unqualified denial oi
 the statements attributed to him. There is also & communication from
 Alexander & Magill, attorneys for thC
 Pneumatic Transit Company, in which . they say that ''not 8 share of the, stock
 of that company has ever been issued, ''
 and that the statement recently made : to the effect that 7,500 shares of thu
 stock of that company have been placed
 in the hands of banking house for the
 benefit of officers of the Postofice De \ rartment is absolutely false. 'No per
 SO in any way connected with the Post
 office is in any manner. directly OF in
 directly, interested in our company"