The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-08
Clerks of the POstOfice Department
Said to BE Stripping the Files Of
discriminating correspondence.
CLEVELAND'S Inv PARTNERS
CARLISLE AND WILSON MAY BE AS
ISOLATED WITH THEIR CHIEF.
Estate of the Late George f. Lemon
Likely to Yield the LOgan-Tuckers
Several MiIliOns-Plans of Congress.

Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Under the pre-
tense of clearing away the deadwood" and
relieving the incoming administration of as
much trouble as possible, a detail of clerks
is work wedding out the accumulated
correspondence in the Postoff1ce Depart
ment. Certain Republicans have taken
alarm, and with minds filled with suspicion
are charging the governing officials OF that
department with stripping the files of
such correspondence as may in any way re-
fleet on Democrats now holding office
They are saying that when the clerical de-
tail gets through the weeding-out process
there will be no letters on file In the POST
office Department containing charges
against any postmaster on which dismissal
can be based. So far as can be learned
this Republican suspicion is founded on a
presumption. but it has nevertheless taken
deep root in the minds of practical Repub-
lican politicians, and it is not improbable
that the matter will have a congressional
airing. 1t will be an easy move for General
Grosvenor or some other influential Repub-
lican to make telling party demonstra-
ton by offering "A resolution of inquiry into
the matter and in that way getting at the
precise facts. Then if the suspicion should
prove TO be well founded further inroads
on the files can be summarily stopped. 1t is
stated tonight that some such step will be
taken at once.
A law firm under the style and title of
Cleveland, Carlisle & Wilson is said to be
in process OF formation, with the President
and his two favorite Cabinet officers men,
berS thereOf-MeSsrs. Carlisle and Wilson
The report locates the offices of the new
firm in New York makes President Cleve-
land sort of ornamental head for a time
it being said to be his intention to take a
long rest before plunging into professional
life again. However. the other gentlemen
being in less comfortable circumstances
financially, do not feel that overpowering
need for repose which Expresses their chief
Small persuasion will be needed to induce
them to put the harness right on, and that
is probably what they will do.
1t will interest the Western friends of the
Logans (the widow and surviving family of
the late Senator John A. Logan to learn
that Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker and her son,
George Lemon Tucker. will benefit to a
much greater extent from the estate OF the
late George E. Lemon than was at first
supposed they would. Mrs. Tucker and her
youngest son inherit two-fifths of the estate
after certain specific requests are paid
The sum that would remain for distribution
has been popularity estimated at something
like 81, 100000, but the estate is going to pan
OUT beyond al expectations, if credence
is to be placed in stories emanating from
quarters close to the executors. 1t is said
that the executors found stacked up in
safety deposit vaults pile of government
bonds aggregating In value more than
81. O00, 600, all of which ana more will go 10
the reSiduary legateeS.