The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
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 Considerable pique exists with a few cabinet officers and divers republican politicians. It is all on account of the special report which Charles J. Bona parte and Holmes Conrad have made to the president about the widely adver- tised Tulloch charge. No open breach has been made thereby and none is like ly, but the preparation of the report, publication of which is expected before long, has created a feeling akin to a grievance. More than one cabinet officer has cursed gently in the privacy of his own office, and on occasion the holders of portfolios in the presidents s official family have sympathized with one another that such things should be.
 Gradra4ly they exposed the wounds to some of the trusted politicians of the < party. and the word was passed around from friend to friend. MT. Bonaparte is the principal target of these high official complaints Why should this Baltimoreanwell enough, to be sure. in his own sphere, but de- cidedly a theorist in politics--be allowed to review and investigate? Why, when cabinet officers decreed that this official act and that official act and the doers thereof were so and so and thoroughly correct and proper, should MT. Bona parte be called upon for opinions and present them officially to the president? I Not so much is said about MT. Conrad, because, possibly, as a regular democrat there is not so much ill-feeling against him as against an independent republi- can who has always done as he pleased about voting the ticket. It is MT. Bona parte who, as little more than a dis tinguished citizen in private life, has been allowed to supersede them.
 It is already an open secret that the Bonaparte- Conrad report sustained the Tulloch charges in all essential particu- lars, affecting both the post-office and < the treasury departments. Chiefly be- cause of the findings therein President Roosevelt brought about the resignation of Auditor Castle He is an aged man, has lost his political influence, and Secretary Shaw offered no particular opposition. But with that sacrifice the members of the cabinet immediately con- cerned in the Tul1och charges have taken "a firm stand against further re- prisals on account of TulIoch's activity. It is reported that in at least one inn portant instance they will have their way Restaurants because an ex- cashier of the Washington city post office should bring about proceedings that overrule departmental arrange nlents Is naturally very strong.
 Secretary Shaw, as already told in the Post. has taken a stand against the removal of one of his officials reflected upon by the Tulloch charges and by the Conrad -Bonaparte report This official has stated that he will not resign unless his resignation is asked for President Roosevelt has said that he thinks this official should be removed. and the official is in reality expecting his head to come off. Secretary Shaw is resist , ing such action, and the word has gone around the treasury department that probably the secretary will win out. As Q matter of fact, there are two or three more treasury officials who fear the be- heading process, but apparently nothing further is to be done until the secretary returns from his campaign tour.
 Down in the post office department Postma General Payne is taking g similar stand as to certain men in the local postoffice, against whom ex-Cash- fer Tulloch inveighed, It is understood that the stress as to officials there has not reached such a critical point as ir the case of certain treasury employees Several reductions in the salaries of clerks and supernumeraries. both in the department and in the local post-office have been made as the result of the Tulloch charges, although it is not easy to secure admissions from Officials that that has been the reason. But mean while, as the gravety proceeds, the yer. bal missiles hurled at MT. Bonaparte are numerous. The cabinet officers and high politicians who have been taker into the secret think it is simply a shame that a club should have been placed in the hands of an independent republican from Baltimore with which to thump them.- Washington Post.