The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
APPROVAL OF
 PRESIDENT In Sympathy With thc
 Investigation. CoNFERS WITH MIR. PAYNE Roosevelt Says Go to the Bof-
 tom of It. Twenty-Five Inspectors are Now Hu ployed on the Work and Dsvslop- ments of Importance Ara
 shortly Expected.
C0NFERS WITH MIR. PAYNE

washington, June e-Presidcnt Roose- welt fully approves the action of the Post office officials in pressing the tnvestiGa- ton of the departments affairs
 1t is his intention that the investiEa~ ton shall be sweeping and thorough ana that every charge properly vouched for shall be probed to the bottom.
 The situation in the Postofflce Departs, ment was considered in It's general phaa<4 at ths meeting of the Cabinet today.' but General Payne did not go fully into the details, This afternoon, however, the President and Mr. Payn4 had long conference. during which they considered the situation in the dsparf- ment at length. It is understood that the President expressed to Mir. PoynA the desire that the investigation now be- ing made should be searching as the fu- gennuity of the officials could mako ik. and should be pursued until the depart nent has been purged of even the suss picion of dishonesty.
 Payne Sees Bristow.
 Immediately after Mir. Payne returned to the department from the White House. he sent for Fourth Assistant PostrnnstaF General Bristow. whom he acquainted with the Presidents views on the invee- tigation. Mir. Bristow said tonight that he was not anticipating any important developments in the Investigation to- night or tomorrow.
 In view of the constant activity of ths twenty-five inspectors employed in the work. and of the President's earnest ap-. proval of the investigation and his in- structions to Ego to the bottom" frn- portant action at any movnent would oc- casion no surprise.
 The Postmaster General today disrntss- ~A Az worth Upton, the rural free delivery clerks arrested .yesterday oficiais ds- cline to discuss the Status of the case of C. F Smith. the Baltimore contractor. who furnished the supplies that figured conspicu0usIy in the proceedinge aRainnt McGregor ana Upton It is siangfeAY>f however that he haa not been arxe2fAS SO far a1thuugh the inspectors arc t'' touch with hinn
 The investigating ofFicials refused to anS swer questions today ae to whether hH was to give states evidence
 Machen and His Partners.
 Machen's statement yesterday fhat George E. Lorenx of Toledo, O., was his partner in mining enterprises. Is confirm ed by articles of incorporation In the possession of the postal authorities of the National Capital Copper NfinfnA Company, corporation organized at AL exander Va. Copies of the incorporatinw papers are in the possession of the p0x@ tai officials. The directors are named 0s follows in the corporation papers: An~ gust w. Machen. Ohio. President; Henry H. Rand. Wisconsin. President J. p. King. Wisconsin. Secretary; H M. Baker, New Hampshire. Treasurer, George E. Lorenz. Ohio. T. D. Lee, Diss trict of Columbia; Davis H. Fenton, In- diana; Francis M. Croswell. Districet of Columbia, and Samuel W. Scott, Texas. Directors.
 Mir. Rand is confidential clerk to Che postmaster; Mir. King Is chief of dlvis. ion in the rural free delivery, and waa applicant to succeed George w. Beavef as chief of the salaries and ailowaraes division. Mir. Baker is q former repres sentative from New Hampshire: Nlr. Lorenz was formerly postmaster at Tos ledo and once an official of the Postok. flee Department; Mir Fenton is the law | clerk of the law office of the Auditot of the Postofiice Department. IL is al- legged that stock was sold to the ona. ployes of the Postoff1ce Department.