The Atlanta constitution., 1903-05-18
PAYNE SCOTS At LIST
OF SCANDALS
But He Admits That There Are Some
Things Which Need Investiga-
ton, and He Says He Will
Continue To Use the
Probe.

Washington. May16-The formal charges
of Seymour w Tulloch cashier of the
Washington city postofice for many
years, until his removal four years ago,
alleging irregularities in the postal ad-
mnistration, was submitted to Postmaster
General Payne today. Mr.. Payne and
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow went over the statement in de-
tail Postmaster General Payne. review
ing the charges of Mr.. Tulloch. said:
The great bulk Of the Irregularities of
which Mr.. Tulloch complains was the re
suit of the government taking over the
postal service of Porto Rico. Mr. Tuloch
refers to troubles caused by the pay
ment OF the Porto Rican accounts through
the Washington city postofiieC. and makes
some other insinuatons. as. for exam
pie. the promotion of letter box schemes.
etc. but there is no evidence nothing but
words. All that Will be of any service
whatever TO the department in looking up
matters in connection with the investiga-
ton Is comprised in three pages.
The bulk of the statement, however.
consists of an airing of his own grieV-
ances and Of comments on his own re-
moval lie deals in glittering generali-
ties in crticising eX-Postmaster General
Smith. lie refers to vouchers and pay
ments of certain people. which he claims
to have been Illegal and makes a pret-
ty severe attack on the comptroller Of
the treasury. lie makes some reference
to the alleged smotherng of the exam
ination OF accounts OF the local postffice
but offers no new evidence or documents
TO substautiate his allegations. merely re-
ferring to certain people, certain Vouch-
ers and certain accounts.
There are no particularly new points.
except an explanation OF what he here
tofore has said in a general way. / am
greatly disappointed that the document
will not be of any great help to US.
Papa, Send a Transport.
"Nr Tulloch mentions 2 rumor about
the department that h cabiegram had
come to the department which said:
Papa send a transport here quick +
m sick btt that IS given only as n
rumor
There are some things that Of course
look on their face, to be wrong and
that need explanation. The bulk of the
ofcnse alleged is that vouchers were
charged 20 the wrong accounts. All Of
the items which were not allowed by the
less than 500 We will look into the
records of these matters. Of course
the charge that physicians We're carried
on the rolls of the postotiices without
authority, that there had been fifteen or
twenty such cases m the tnited States.
This was a matter OF administrative pol
/ icY he said and entirely within the PROV
iuce Of the postmaster general. but that
he himself last autumn restricted the en-
pl0yment of physicians to pOstofiices
whose revenues aggregated S1000,oW a
year
Nix. Tulloch," continued Mr. Payne,
refers to the return postal card scheme
of tine Economic Postage Association.
which never was adopted. and usinuateS
we are not uuprepared to find Mr. BeaN-
ers and NE Machen recommending the
| plan. Mr. TuHoch charges that there
Is ring in the salaries and allowance
division Of the postofficc department with
Out whose approval nothing could be
done, saving tho ring consisted of the
head Of the division, the first assistant
postmaster general and the postmaster
general Well, those officials were the
only ones who had anything to say
about such matters anyway. He says
that some man was carried on two pay
rolls but the laws specifically provide
that an employe can draw from two
pay rolls If properly authorized If his
/ aggregate salary does not exceed $500
Junkets of Officials.
MT Tulloch mentions alleged 'unkete
Of officials and employees who went tc
Cuba and porto Rico to install tho postal
service thora nov docs Nr Tullocn
-, 800 -, tt,, ,,,og+i,,, -,.i,,t,,o,
f ' .
these sentemeh Simply went on a ]"lNel
/ He refers to man who was appointed
10 place in Porto Rico, but who got
drunk in New York OF the way. Well.
oncA N while nostmastnr defaults
80 a,,,, a =, 4,,. 80,
ana S''r VI, "''N '"i - W." az
cordng 10 MS desert M uioeh mas
made the statement that the Cuban ad
ministrative troubles were as nothing
,,o,,,,,oro,4 20 porto Rico ,rhera bae hoo,
- S,.-.,-;.'. ,''-9 -
oniY ON '@SV oi "'''9c''''tS o- an a".
minlS'ratiVe othclal IN Porto klco and
that was a clerk in the Ponce postoffice.
who defaultcd about 5000
"Mr Tunoch refers to appointments Of
ID 1i t,, nv, o,'J ~,
Saae u,o,o ,,o4 in ~ ci,-iI ea.,,;oo TTa
sars +hat +hov either nerforned M IN
ties at all or often did work along lines