The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-04-25
PRICE ONE CENT
BRIBERY OPENLY Charged
Mr- Moody Causes a Sensation on
tbe FlOOr Of the House.
He States That Former Assistant
POstmaster General NeIIIson Was
Tubes-Nsr. MiIhoIIand OF New
York Authority for the Statement.


The House resolved itself into Cam
mittee Of the Whole. after swearing in
William H. King Of Utah. with Mr. Dali
eel in the chair, and the Postofee Ap-
preparation bill was taken up. Mr.. Noon
Of Tennessee yielded twenty minutes 10
AT. Little CT Arkansas in opposition to
the increase in the appropriation for
pneumatic tube service. He said that as a
member OF the Committee on Postofiees
and Post Roads he had failed 10 discover
that any material benefit accrued 10 the
postal service he believed that the ap-
preparation should be stricken from the bill
and release the mail service from a furvpz
growth which would cripple the service
and entail an incalculabIe cost upon The
taxpayers OF America
Take the city of New York" said Nr.
Little. I'VE are paying an annual rental Of
3 Psr lineal foot for an s-inch metal pipe
which could not CT should not have cost
more than 81 foot 10 buy. It had rot re-
suited N any decrease in the amount OF
wagon service required"
Mr.. Mann OF Illinois spoke in favor ot
the extension OF the pneumatic tube serv-
/ ice The gentleman from Illinois insisted
that several miles Of pneumatic tubing
should be laid in Chicago. He wanted six
miles ot mail pipe laid between the Chi
( cago Postoffiee and the stock yards
M Moody Of Massachusetts sDoke for
half an hour IN opposition 70 the extension
, OF the pneumatic system he said the pro
I visions in the pending bill appeared 10 be
I very innocent Il was not a question Of a
I hai million dollars or so he warned the
/ committee thst in the future, and in the
{ very near future a. would be a question
OF many million dollars The expenditures
OF the PostoHice Department were each
year outsfripplng more and more the
receipts he would conduct the Pcstofice
department on business principies He
traced the history OF the cIanor for the
I extension CT the tube system and the origin
. oi tne appTopris ton There was not a pub
nc institution but was knocking n the
door OF The Treasury for greater and
greater appropriation Il would not be
long before the people would awaken to q
realization CT the abyss toward which they
had been travelling in the matter Of in
creased exDenditurss-
In tracing the history Of the app-cp-ia-
ton. NJ Moody said IL was 4 most usIo-
oOTcUs question. and IL understood by The
House the appropriation would die TIE
Ce1In Of Cog he said that q few weeks
after Mr. NenlsOn left ofice as the Sec
o1d Assistant Postmaster General under
Postmaster General Bisseli he received
$lCO0 cash and SIo.O66 in pneumatic tuhe
STOCK as the representative OF the n1eu-
matte company al Washington for one
year II vas II that year that the first
( appropriation vas made Mr.. Nefllson-
said Ar- Moody, was made director in The
company.
He said that the pneumatic COMPANY. as
2 New Year glft- had sent 10 q near re,a-
tive Of member OF the present Congress
s block CT stock Re vas glad 10 say that
the dishororing eift had been returned
by the Eexf mail
When Mr. Moody made the statement
concerning Mr- NeilIson. NJ Livingstol of
. Georgia asked OF what authority The Sc
rlo'ls charge was made
dr Moody said he read from the tes-i-
nony given before the Postal Conmis= ioa
OF Mr- AIilhoIlaId. OF New York CITY.
Nj Sulzer-Is he not an editor OF the
New York Tribune2-'
Mr.. Moody know not and care not.
He gave his testimony under oath.
Mr. Moody. continuing. said that he was
sorry 10 say that member OF the House
ard OF the Committee on Appropriations
was stockholder in the New York Pneu-
matte Company.
Mr. Livingztor-Name him.
Mr. Moody-I viii not
The gentleman from Massachusetts, said
that for those gentlemen who had leen
talking against trusts here was a time
10 act All the local pneumatic comDanies
would come under the control Of s-reat
central company It would be the story
Of the Bell telephone over again
Referring TO the appropriation OF the
company 10 extend the service 10 twenty
seven large cities. Mr. Moody quoted Mr
BromWell, 2 member OF the Committee IN
Postofhces and Post Roads to the effect
that in selecting the cities the company
had taken the resident city Of every mem
I Der OF the committee save Mr.. Sperry. and
he did not know how he had been over
/ looked Experience in foreign countries
had been urged as a reason Why the United
States should adopt the tube service but
there was nothing in that 20 warrant the
I United States in entering upon the course
proposed. In Berlin. Paris. and London the
governments operated pneumatic tube
service. but an extra charge was made
for sending letters through them. which
was an entirely different proposition from
that before the House.
At 2-25 O'Clock the Chairman put a mo-
ton made by Mr. Moody to strike cut the
entire appropriation OF S725. eco The mo-
ton was agreed to By a vose o. g % So