The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-16
JAS. n. TYNER ASKED TO RESIGN
ENDS 4 LONG CAREER IN POSTAL
SERVICE UNDER 4 CLOUD.
ChafGes Made That IN Attorney Close
10 Him Received Money for Securing
10 Get.Rich-Quic,< Csncernr Immunity
From Prosecution ny the Department.

Frsm Prosecution ny tho Department.
WASHINGTON, March is,-James Noble
Tyner, former member Of Congress. former
Postmaster-0enera and at present Attorney.
General Of the Post Office Department, will
hand his resignation TO President Roose-
welt In day or two and end career In the
postal service extending over forty years
Coincidental with the knowledge that
Mr.. Tyner would leave the service Is the
fact that charges have been fled with
President Roosevelt by 7. c. Campbell
Of Cincinnati. an attorney representing
several Of the turf investment concerns
about which there has been 80 much recent
scandal, alleging collision between the
Assistant Attorney Generals ONCE ana
Harrison j, Barrett, formerly assistant
to the Attorney General for the Post once
Department and now practising Attorney
who Ia related 10 Con. Tyner by marriage
The charges specify that Mr.. Barrett re-
ceived sums of money from the turf invest
ment and other fraudulent concerns Tor
securing them immunity from prosecution
by the Post Office Department
II can be authorit atively asserted that
Mr.. Tyner's resignation was not asked on
account Of the Cling Of these charges, and
that. in fact. the decision TO ask for ms
resignation ante dates by a considerable
period the turf investment scandal Mr.
Tyner has been In feeble health for aorne
time. the Office having been for the past
several months practically administered by
Assistant Attorney General Christiancy.
Mr.. Tyner has spen, but few days in
his Office in the past ak months. the last
occasion being in December. when the
turf investment schemes were under IN
vesti cation. II was on this occasion that
Mr.. Tyner wrote the letter to the Arnold
Turf Investment Company. part OF which
was used by the company in lite published
advertisements. and which Ia ono Of the
facts quoted in support OF the charges
laid before the President. The part used
was to the effect that the case against the
company had been invest gated and closed.
the portion left out stating that this was
not due 10 the fact that the concern was
legitimate, but because Of the lack OF evil
dence 10 the contrary.
Since that time Gen. Tyner has not been
at his desk. and he has been GROWN
steadily weaker. He il n years old. hav-
ing been born on Jan. u. 1920. in Brook
vile, Ind He was admitted to the bar in
1857. was secretary Of the Indiana Senate
in is57-6i. wss Presidential elector in
1890, and from 1891 10 1903 served a. special
agent OF the Post once Department. He
was sent to Congress to I'LL the vacancy
caused by the election OF Daniel d. Pratt
to the United States Senate and served
until 1909. President Grant then appointed
him Second Assistant Postmaster-C'en
eral and from the resignation OF Marshall
Jewell Till the end Of Grant = administration
March ;. 1877. he was Post n,aster-t' General
In April. 1871. he became First Assistant
Postmaster Genera! and resigned in Octo-
her. 1881 In 1889 ne was made Assistant
Attorney General for the Post Office De-
partment and served until 1898. He was
reappointed TO tho same Office by President
Mckinley In 1889. and has served continu-
ously ever since.