The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-25
CONGRESS
TO PROBE
DEEPLY.
Investigation Into P. 0.
Dept. Inevitable.
FROM VERY TOP TO
THE VERY BOTTOM
Sensational Developments
Expected When it is Made.
CHANGE IN HEAD is
CHANGE IN HEAD is
REGARDED NECESSARY
Attorney-G eneral Payne is Not sus
pected Of Intentional Wrongdoing'
Buti.is Thought He Has flushed
up Scandals Until Whole
Department is Rotten
TO the Very Gore.
The Ttmes-Dispatch Bureau,
No. 14l7 G Street, n. W..

washington, D. c., April ~.
eve will never know how crooked
have been the methods practiced in the
Postoftice Department until there mas
been complete change In the entire
personnel of the Department. from the
Post,nas,er-G General to the Janitoss. faid
a Democrat to-day, one who lives mere
and who takes keenest interest In gov
ern1nental affairs II have never pc
licved Postmastcr-Ge General Payne gulity
of any Intentional wrongdoins. but IL
has been made clear that he has hushen
,p matters which should have been IN
yestigated at once, and he admits that
he let General James N. Tyner, assis-
tant attorney general to the Postoff,ce
Department, resign when grave charges
were made against him. For my part.
i am OF the opinion that there VIII nave
TO be complete change made.
There Will almost certainly be Con
eressional investigation OF the Depart
ment ordered this winter The affairs
OF the entire Department, from POST
uastcr-;eneral Payne's inner office doWE
to the bottom OF the elevator shaft. VIII
be probed into. That Is where there Is
going TO be a great deal of sensational
reading given 10 the public There has
been talk of an investigation being made
by Congress at several sessions IN recent
years, but nothing has ever come OF 1t.
Members of both parties are friendly
to certain officials OF tho Department.
who have been good" to them and
naturally the recipients OF favors nave
not wanted to make any more trouble
g.. tN,o xJyy1n
obliged them. But general investiga-
ton by Congress cannot longer be pre-
vented The wish OF the President and
the Department to have the Investigation
stopped long ago was impossible OF full
flllment because of public clnmor 1t is
said at the Department that an average
of about a hundred letters Is received
every day. urging he Department to IN
yestigatc certain matters. i Is not likely
that there will be further great surprises
MS n result OF the present Investigation.
The public must wait until Congress
sets to work to do some probing.
Congressman slcmp. OF Virginia. says
he does not think the Republicans viii
carry the General Assembly this fall.
though he Is so confident that Mr.. Roose-
velt and the Republican candidate for
Governor will sweep the State In 1904
and 1905. respectively. Hugh HordOn Mill
Ter, OF Norfolk. recently said he was
confident. the Republican candidate for
Governor would he elected In 1906. but
he would not go so far as to predict that
Roosevelt would carry the State next
year.
The published story that Baron Won Stern
burg, the German Minister, would be re-
garded as an Ambassador and take his
place as such In the procession at the
exposition ceremonies In ST. Louis next
week, was emphaticaly denied by an
official Of the exposition company In con-
versaton to-day
"Bnron Sternburg has not received MS
'credentinls as Amabasscdor. and cannot
be recognized as such until he presents
them at the State Department" said the
official mentioned. II shall make this
statement to him this afternoon, and
am sure he will agree with me-" The
question OF procedure has been giving
Washington society no little trouble In.
Baron Won Sternburg's case. The dilato-
iness of the German Foreign ONCE In
sending him his credentials ns Ambassa-
dor, leaving him In the meanwhile ms
only plain minister, Is the cause of 1t all,
Mr. r. Walton Moore of Fairfax coiln-
ty, declared to-day that he did not tell the
story printed in this correspondence yes-
terday and credited tG. him by writer In
current magazine. "It was another
speaker MT the University of Virginia
alumni dinner here In February who
told IT," said Mr., Moore. 'I enjoy good