The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-05-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.

during the past week. The wife of Judge
Tyner, attorney general for the Post
Office Department, accompanied by her
sister and safe expert, entered the Office
of the law division of the Postoffice De-
partment and distracted the entire con-
tents of the safe. Judge Tyner has been
stricken with paralysis and his resigna-
ton was demanded last March, not only
because he was physically incapable of
transacting business but because grave
irregularities had been discovered under
his jurisdiction. The Postmaster General
secured the resignation but permitted it
to take effect on May I, with the under
standing that the Judge was to perform
no official act in the interim. The sister
who accompanied Mrs. Tyner on the ex-
petition was Mrs. Barrett, mother of
Harrison ]. Barrett whose conduct as law
clerk of the Postoffice Department is
under investigation and whose utilization
with turf investment concern which
has been disrupted by the Missouri
is we'll known.
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1t now transpires that Notwithstanding
the fact that the law division has been so
long under investigation, the Postoffice
officials had never examined the contents
of this safe and therefore they are unable
to say if Mrs. Tyner has removed Govern
ment papers and prosecute accordingly.
1t is intimated by the officials that the
meshes of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow's dragnet are closing
around Superintendent Machen and that
he will be forced to resign at eompar-
ative1y early date. Numerous investiga-
tons having Superintendent Beavers
administration under examination have
been conducted and some most sensa-
tional discoveries are alleged although all
details are withheld from the press. How
much will eventually be made public
depends on Mr.. Payne, who admits that
full and complete report will not be
given out.
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Advices received at the White House
are to the effect that the President feels
greatly benefited by his two weeks rest
in the Yellowstone Park and that he has
enjoyed every minute of 1t. He has had
manv adventures, some of them of
dangerous nature, as for instance the
breaking of pistol which threw its car
fridge back into his face inflicting an.
ugly but not deep wound. Judging from
the accounts received here the Presidents
rest has been of most strenuous char
acter, including tramping miles through
the snow and riding days at a time, but
evidently it was precisely what Mr..
Roosevelt desired and therefore probably
afforded him more benefit than any other
form of recreation.
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Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
gone west and after joining the President
at Shenandoah, Iowa, will travel with him
while he remains in that State. The
greatest interest attaches to what the
President will say on the tariff question
when he speaks this week in Des Moines
from the same platform as Governor
Cumniins, the father of the Iowa idea,"
which Mr.. Roosevelt condemns.
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1t is believed in Washington that the
President has intimated to all govern
ment officials of prominence that he
regards it as in bad taste to extol the ex-
cellence of the military and naval forces
of this country as compared with those of
other and friendly nations, and that
especial caution has been given regarding
giving ofense TO Germany. The feeling
of resentment occasioned by the recent
hostilities in Venezuela has not passed
away, but many prominent men are be-
ginning to believe that German officers
we're more to blame for the attitude
assumed at that time than was the govern
ment itself. At all events the President
deprecates bellicose utterances
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1t is said at the War Department that
the Secretary of War has definitely deter
mined upon the new style of army rifle
which was recently recommended by the
Board of Ordnance. This rifle is to be "a
inches in length of barrel, instead of 80
inches, the length of the former rifle, and
it will be served to cavalry as we'll as in
fantry, taking the place of the carbine
now in use by the former. AS this is
doubtless the style of gun which state
militia organizations will be expected to
use the decision is of especial interest.
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The Navy Department has just asked
bids on the commissary supplies for the
next fiscal year. Judging by the amount
of food consumed the United States has
a good sized navy. The advertisements
call for 4, zoo, 900 pounds of meat, includ-
ing 22o, 900 pounds of frankfurter sausage,
I4I,o 900 pounds of sauerkraut, 22o, 900
pounds of pork sausage, ass, 900 pounds
of dressed chickens, 1880 pounds of
dressed turkeys, 1850, 900 pounds Of fresh
beef and various other supplies. Con
sidering the quality of provisions de-
manded, Jack Tar is certain to be well
fed during the ensuing year.
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