New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
POSTAL INQUIRY ENDING.
SO MR. P4YNE ANNOUNCES
SeUeraI More High officials Likely
To Be Removed. a
rrRoM THE TRIBUNE BuREAu.l

Washington. July 11.-Postmaster General
Payne can see the end of the postofice invest-
cation. This fact he announced to-day. Mr.
Bristow, who is conducting the investigation,
will not commit himself the subject. Mr..
Payne says he cannot fix the date of the final
announcement, but he has been comparing the
vast amount of work which has been done with
what he believes remains to be accomplished,
and the result is a belief that the worst is over
and that the end may fairly be said to be in
sight
What + a be the outcome of the long period
of silent woek in which Mr.. Bristow and his
esEr e inspe.,ess :4avF beer engaged since the
Machen indictments were secured is puzzle in
some degree even to the Postmaster General
himself Mr. Payne has invariably taken
prompt action on recommendations for dismissal
or arrest made by Mr. Bristow heretofore and
the fact that the recent long period OF work Dy
the inspectors has produced no public results
leads to the conclusion that nothing warranting
indictments has been discovered against otner
officials But that there are several officials who
cannot remain in their present places as the re-
suit of Mr.. Bristow's Investigations there is not
the slightest doubt and with this fact generally
known at the Postoffce Department the ques-
ton is being asked more and more persistently
vhv the removals are not made at once
A list of officials whose usefulness TO the gov
ernment is regarded as having been DESTROYED
through the investigation includes the following
names:
III. H. RAND, confidential clerk to the POST
master General ,.,.
oHARLEs ARstGf bsFI2erG. HEPGEs' superintendent
NJ. A. w. LOUIS, Superintendent OF DIVISION
of POstOffice Supplies.
of Railway Mail Service.
w. ID. II. HAZARD, Division Superintendent
of Rural Free Delivery newborn
This list will undoubtedly be enlarged by dis
missaIs from the New-York City Postofice and
from other large postoftices.
That these recommendations will be contained
in the final report of Mr.. Bristow If. indeed
they are not made before that time. is the
firm belief of persons familiar with the organiza-
ton of the department. If conditions Whlcn eH-
listed before the investigation began were detrl-
mental to the efficiency OF the service, thoSe
conditions cannot be remedied without elimi-
mating all persons who have contributed ma
terially to the decentralization.
Some of the persons to go are believed to be
thoroughly honest, but their interests and
methods have been of such a nature as to tdentl-
fly them with the old regime. and the old re-
gine is not to be continued.
II Mr.. Bristow is going deeper into the records
of employees who have been enmeshed in what
is popularity called the Postoffice scandal, with
q view to invoking the law against some OF
them, his delay in reporting recommendations
hardly affect this phase of the situation.
Postmaster General Payne's sea trip TO Bos-
ton, beginning Wednesday on the revenue
cutter Onondaga, is to last exactly ten days, and
when his announcement of the end of the in
vestigatiOn is taken in connection with this trip
and the seeming reluctance to be definite eX
hibited by Mr.. BristOw. the impression is
mistakably given that Mr.. Bristow has assured
Mr.. Payne that he cannot be ready to make
final report until after the Boston trip at least.
Postmaster General Payne said to-day that
the incident of Mr. Madden's publication of
communication refectng other officials in
connection with charges against the registry
contract may be regarded closed. He said
he had received a letter from Mr.. Madden in re-
ply to request for a letter of explanation of
the circumstances attending the publication, but
that the letter was not to be given out at pres
ent. He added that the inspectors had not yet
reported the investigation of the manifold
paper contract