The times., 1897-07-04
WANTED MR.. .IYLER's PLACE
A Reason Frankly Stated for Re-
moving a Democrat.
A POSTAL CHIEF DISMISSED
The Head of the Mail Equipment
Division Requested TO Resign An
Honorable Career Of the incuIn-
bent-Shat Gen. ShaIienberger
Told Major Tyler.

Major Rudolph D. S. Tyler, chief OF
the mail equipment division OF the Post
office department, has resigned In the
parIance OF the department., he was res
was requested" which is a diplomatic
way OF dischaTging a Government EN-
ploye.
Major Tyler for ten years has served as
clIier OF the equipment division, which IL
the official designation OF the mailbag
repair shop. During his administration ne
has been subjected TO severe Criticisms
Major Tyler proceeded with his duties
yes; erday as usual III he had a pTemoni-
tion of what was in the official air, his
manner did nos betray It. AT 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon messenger delivered
him an official envelope. IL contained a
request for mis- resignation. It was the
ordinary request It was the printed dis
nissal form, with the letters in purple
script and a blank filed in with the
name, Rudolph b 5. Tyler. The request
was signed by the appointment clerk OF
the department
directly after the receipt OF the no
tce Major Tyler sought an interview with
Second Assistant Postmaster General
ShaIIen berger.
Major Tyler was seen last night by q
reporter for The Times. He said that 40
charges had been brought against him
There were none wlicn could be brought
against him His administration or the
cfficc had been honest aud business-like-
Il saw Gen. Shallenberger late In the
afterI.oH,' said Ma jor Tyler, ~aG5l
asked sin if the department held anything
against me on account or my con duct OF the
office. Tie Second Assistant Postmaster
General said No He told me that the
sole reason for my dismissal was thar the
! political pressure for office was so great
that he i administration wanted the Office
| was filing. He said distinctly shat the
performance of my duties had been salts
| factory"
Major Tyler insisted that the COMMITTEES
which recently Investigated the mail bag
repair shop was not constituted ID in
| quire into the management OF the division
| and did not do so. The object OF the
committee was merely to ascertain whether
| the Government should do this Work or
! have it done under contract He did
| not know what Conclusion the committee
| had reached, but he could not see how
! tie committee could reach any other Con-
/ cIusious than that the Government should
| carry on this work II the work snnUld
be done under contract il would re,Iuire
| the services OF about the same number
of Government officers To supervise aud
| inspect the work as are at present en-
| pluyel Then the women who do much
of the work Of repair would he paid about
! SIS per week. whereas under the Gov
| ernInent system they earn an average
of S45 per month and ia some instances
| it foOtS up as much as $50
Major Tyleris a BenoCrat. He believes
| this tc Ee the reason for his dismissal He
was appointed chef af The eqUipmens divi-
sicn by Postmaster General Don Dick
| ersOn
Maier TYLER told Tie rerorter last night
that Ii. had been a Democrat duriCg his
whole life and would cunt nue. in the
Democratic "a tn. Ee said that Mr Dick
erS0n had sent for him snd asked him TO
accept the post on. He determined then
that he wouId do no wrong, and through
out his term Of office he had stuck 70 his
determination. Probably he had made
some mistakes. He was, however, fa1li-
ble He hal 300 people under him, and he
had made some enemies. Whenever he had
done anything which pleased the force
the Second Assistant Postmaster General
GOT the credit, but whenever he did a
thing which offended people in the division
they laid the blame on him
The resignation Of Major Tyler viii
take effect on JUlv 81 Mr. Graham. Of
the Railway Ma1 Service, has been de-
tailed as acting chief and VIII probably
receive the permanent appointment.