Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-05-14
PAYNE HAS LARGE
TASK ON HIS HANDS
He Must Make the Postoffice
Department self-support-
ing Affair.
PUBLIC DEMANDS THIS
Not Until 1t Is Accomplished Will
There Be Confidence That Ex-
travasances Of tho Depart
ment Are Ended.
PUBLIC DEMANDS THIS


Ihere 30 CONFIDENCE mat eS-
travaqances Of tho Depart
-.
"e'e "'e
Washington, May 10. - Postmaster
General Payne declined to receive the
newsnsn.r corr.snondents +b,s after
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nnst,nastar pnneral Siacben is bo,aa.
confined to his room. Bristow is not
permitted to talk for publication. All
the information which has been given
out has come from the postmaster GEN
eral So long as the merry persifIae e
In which the postmaster general in
dulgcd while chidine the newspaper
correspondents With their inability to
make good their charges of irregular
tiles In his department was the only
feature of the 4 o.clocl, meetings N was
a welcome ho,r TO the head al the de-
partment. Bristow alone kent his own
counsel and saw that his insnectors
we're moi idle The Embellishments
have not been TO General Payne's lils-
Ing. He secuted tha idea NJ no.toffca
lrregularities He told his friends tina
personal tealousies and disannointment
were Mt lhe botom of ali the charges
which bndn hacn ,,ragarrad ,rodav
General PAYNE is confronted with the
nocessitv nj /. con,,lsta ,.aS,,,y.ni,ation
of tho nostof,ice d,,,artn,ant Nv, MON.
must be nut In control of the more inn
portant h,,reaus and NOW methods of
transactin,r tho husinoss as tba de,,s,rt-
ment must be introduced 1Tnon Gen
eral PAYNE ,,,,, ,a.s, ~ ,.s,nysibi,ity
for making Inc nostaf1ica denart men,
n self SUSTAINING or,,a,iyatinn
Eon. $500. 81,
oa' '"'Porsahe removals.
-Four Important removals or suspen-
slonS have already been forced. The
postal receipts of the country are in ex-
cess or $3.50 100000. The divisions over
which George w. Beavers and August
w. Machen presided expended annually
one-half or this sum. Machen alone
had s4o.o0o,0o0 at his disposal. Beavers
resigned rather than face an investiga-
uon. His division purchased the post
once supplies. Machen announced when
me charges We're preferred against him
that ne would not resign under fire, but
would fight 1t out. His friends say that
Tor weeks ne has been under such
neaNy strain that his collapse was
feared by his family. 1t is not believed
that up to this time General Bristow
department upon which criminal prose-
cuuons could be based. But 1t is an
open secret that his expenditures have
been reckless. AS the business and
population of the country grew the
revenues of the postal service have in
y, =! easeu q. allilost a geohetrlcal ratlo.
4; 10 il'a.eer no" iast the money came M
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