The morning times., 1896-06-12
SHARP REPLY TO WILSON
Continued from First Page.

from the government. Under these cir
cumstauces, 1t was a matter of much
surprise when ! received, ON March 81.
1.-TWO days after the change OF our schedule)
a telegram from the department stating
that the weighing would he continued
for thirty days more.
ION the Sd of April called at the office
of the general superintendent of Railway
Mail Service and asked him why he pro-
posed to continue weighing mails after
notifying me that he would not do SO,
and his reply was because we had changed
schedules. ] asked him if 1t was usual
to reweigh every time schedules changed.
He said 1t was not.
"Now, 1 do not object to weighing every
month in the year, but 1 claim the right
OF proper notice, and the privilege of re-
establishing the two trains which were
taken off I was not given the proper
notice. but, on the contrary, was deceived,
as shown by the second assistants letter,
and thereby lost 1000 pounds OF mail
per day, which he arbitrarily diverted
from the seaboard Air Line.
Il had advices from the Department the
latter part of April, however, that the
weighing would be discontinued on the
5tb OF May, and have received tabulated
statements of the weights over our line
for April, which are signed by the Second
Assistant Postmaster General, and certi-
fled to by tlie supe perintepdents of railway
mail service as follows:
SAYS IT WAS CORRECT.
".I do hereby certify that the foregoing
statement OF weights of mail is correct, ac-
cording to daily returns made by sworn
employees of1tbe department. and the state
meDt OF service is correct, to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
".CHAS W. ivICKERY, Superintendent
Railway Mail service, Third Division.
's.L. NJ TERRELL, Superintendent Rail-
way Mail strvice, Fourth Division
1--WE have had no notice from the Post
office Department to the contrary that the
weights were not correct, and we are en-
titled to our. pay under the legal methods
of computing eweights and their sworn
certificates Of the correctness of the same.
"The public documents alleged to have
been authorized by the Postmaster Gen
eral is unbecoming and hbelous, and am
prepared to court full, free and fair in
vestigation throughout, with further in
vestigation OF other lines, ipcluding the diff
ferent methods and preya:,ng customs by
which the mail pay is adjusted. or will the
Postmaster General authorize the publica-
ton of another statement and give his rea-
son why the Seaboard Air Line was sim
gIed out and mace the object of unjust
criticism, or why we are discredited for
carrying public documents, when it was
known to him that other lines had carried
tons Of public documents in March, which
had been shipped and reshipped, weighed
and reweighed, besides thousands of pounds
of other matter, including extra carload
lots OF patent medicine advertisements, all
of which passed apparently unnoticed by
him; OF could he have been deceived by a
lack of vigilance on the part Of bis inspec-
tors. or were reports withheld from him?
ut is certainly new departure for the
head of one OF the chief departments OF this
govefnme Mt to use the great powers of his
office. through unauthorized statements
in the press, to injure . railroad company"