The National tribune., 1903-05-21

name of its splendid Commander. Chas.
q. Clark, now Kear-Admiral. command
ing the officers OF the Naval Home. Grays
Ferry Road, Philadelphia. In token Of
appreciation of his distinguished sery-
ICES while c4mmqpling the Oregon, Ad-
cent sword, gold 1hkunted and jeweled.
from the people of Oregon. The sword
is of gold and silver bearings, and on
the diverse side isCa picture of the OFF,
GERS as they lined up in the battle of
Santiago. and on the reverse side is an
inscription. Admiral Clark's monogram
is on the hilt in pearls. rubies and sap
phires. Accompanying the sword was a
magnificent silver TED set for Mrs. Clark,
with a letter of presentation from Col.
Il. w. Mitchell, off Portland, Secretary
of the Testimonial Committee of Oregon.
The very last development in the Post
office scandal is Mr.. Tulloch and his
tongue Mr. Tulloch was for good
many years connected with the Washing
ton POst-oflice as Cashier. He has been
limiting for some time that the deep, dark,
clammy things lie knew would make inter
esting reading, and rather muss up the
plans of some of the people who thought
that they were going to go scot free in
this investigation. Postmaster-General
Payne, who holds recherche receptions at
} O'Clock every afternoon, at which time
the newspaper correspondents are the
guests of honor, to whom he unfOlds just
as much of the Post-ofiice scandal as they
| have already ferreted out, and which he
knows he cannot keep from them, has
been disposed to deal very fippantly with
Mr.. TullOch's charges. and insists that
they are of such long standing that they
are musty, quite musty, and. anyhow, the
things which Mr. Tulloch says happened
and that he can prove them, cannot pos
| Sih1y Mr. ha ho-
cause they happened long before he took
| hold of affairs
| Mr.. Tulloch made his remarks about
matters and things so persistently in the
public press that the Postmaster-General
| had to take notice of them, and he told
| Mr.. Tulloch if he had anything to say to
do it properly, presenting his charges in
writing to him, the Postmaster General,
and he would sift them to the bottom.
Mr.. Tul!och first asked the Postmaster
General to permit him to see the letters
| which EX-POstmaster-Ge Smith, Ex-
First Assistant Z. NJ. G. Heath, and one
or two others had written to Mr. Payne.
| specifically denying all the charges which
Mr.. Tulloch had made through the press,
which letters Mr.. Payne had seen fit to
give to the public in fragmentary fashion,
those fragments being aimed principally
at Mr.. Tulloch, and not conducive to
Soou leelils Ill lne HelTl VI StHtlt-
man. This the Postmaster-G General some
what derisively refused to do.
Mr.. Tulloch then wrote out his charges
and statements and filed them with the
Postmaster-General, supposing that lie
would give the same to the press. This
Mr.. Payne did not do. He met the CORE
spondents at the usual afternoon recep-
ton, the only time that they are privil-
eyed to meet the high official. and he with
the 80 typewriter pages of Mr.. TullOch's
confession" in his hancs, made merry
over its contents, and referred to them as
'glittering generalities." Finally coming
down to business, he said that in the 80
pages he had found three that were de-
voted to specific charges and accusations,
with names specified, and these should be
investigated "and given careful considera-
ton" The newspaper men wanted the
whole business, bHt'fhe Postmaster-Gen-
eral declined to give iany more than ex-
tracts. by
Feeling that he had been fippantly
treated. and desiring that the whole coun-
try should know that he had sustained the
| charges that he had umade, Mr.. Tulloch
decided that he would no longer endure
the excoriating to which he had been sub
jected by the Postmaster-General, and on
Monday gave 80 pages of charges to the
pItSS 4NOW, just huTs', HIS
served up juicy addition to the scandal
that is a-brewing, rand if what he says
cannot be proved I've must be a far bigger
fool than the famed 5IlhOmpson's s colt. He
has been for threef years in private life,
| and need not have mixed in this scrap,
unless he really wanted to hunt trouble.
Mr. Tulloch charges many irregularities
in the Porto Rican Post-office affairs: he
alleges that funds were furnished for trav-
cling expenses to various people who had
no possible right to them; addresses of pa
irons of offices were given, he says, when
such action is expressly forbidden by the
Department regulations; extravagant pur-
chases of pOst-Office furniture were made,
and he cites the instances: favoritism in
appointments is charged, and assessments
on salaries, to substantiate which he pro-
ceeds to give q lot of names. He then
touches up Postmaster Merritt. He says
that the Washington Postmaster has ap-
pointed his son and stepsoH to high sal
the Merritt family was now drawing
$4,000 year from the Government. Mr..
Tulloch uses names with lavishness that
is all but appalling, and his statement of
conditions when he was in the POst-ofIice,
if proven to be true, must result in an
inquiry why Mr.. Tulloch, as an honest
man. would permit such things to con-
tinue. Why did he not make his charges
when he was in position to prove them,
and was drawing big salary himself?
If old Diogenes comes fooling around
Washington just now, he should bring q
fiashlght. One little old candle will only
serve to make the gloom deeper.
Illinois Ladies of the GAR.
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