Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazetie.l
Washington, ID. O., Oct. %.

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The summary dismissal yesterday. OF
Louis Kempner, superintendent Of the
registry division Of the Postoiiice De
partment. is significant in that it marks
the first official sweep of the official axe
in the bailiwick of the Third Assistant
Postmaster General. The dismissals
heretofore have been confined entirely
to the divisions under First Assistant
Wynne, and the official probe has been
welded so eflectually that but two heads
of the division remain, j. r. Ash, OF
the correspondence and ID. P. Leibhardt
of the letter division. Ash's name has
never figured in the charges that have
been filed at the department, but it has
been charged that gross improprieties
exist in the dead letter Office. 1t is UNI
derstoOd that no evidence has been Sc
cured TO connect Leibhardt with them
but it is understood that in the clearing
up of the odds and ends of the investi'
CATION, he will be asked to "retire for
the good of the service The best adj
vices are that dozen or more dismissals
will shortly follow, two of them being
under the Third Assistant and four in
the free delivery branch. Recommends
tons for such removals are understood
to be portion of the report OF Fourth
Assistant Bristow, nor yet made public
Certain persons who are protected
from prosecutions by the statue of
limitations will be punished by pub
icity," said Attorney Conrad after a
conference with the President, Attorney
General Knox and Attorney Bonaparte
this afternoon on the postoflice investi-
CATION. Mr.. Conrad said that the re-
port made by him and Mr.. Bonaparte
prominently mentioned several such per-
sons and that it was the intention of the
President to lay before the public fully
the facts in connection with their wrong
doing.
1t is current belief that Ae dismissal
of G. B. Terry, OF Indiana, a clerk in
the division of supplies, will involve the
department of Third Assistant Post
master Shallenberger. Terry is the
protege of Congressman Heminway who
is known to hold decided opinions as to
Terry's honesty and capacity.
The Postofiice Department today had
under consideration for final action
charges filed against Landvoight super
intendent of the classification division
under Third Assistant Madden. 1t has
been discovered that his youngson holds
an important position with the General
Manifold Company, of Franklin, Pa,
through the improper manipulation of
whose contract for manifolding registry
books, ]. T. Metcalf, superintendent Of
the money order division, was dismissed
and indicted, and Lewis Kemper, super
intendent of the registry system, sum-
marily dismissed Later Landvoight
presented his resignation, at the request
of Mr.. Payne.
Comptroller Tracewell has decided
that w. A. Miller, assistant foreman of
the government printing office bindery,
is not entitled to pay during the time he
was under suspension.
Quo warranto proceedings were insti-
tuted today against the National Real
Estate Securities Co., of Philadelphia, a
concern chartered in the District of
Columbia, and a receiver and an account
ing asked by Philadelphia parties.
The morning session of the Pan
American conference of the Episcopal
Church was devoted to a discussion of
the relation of the Episcopal Church to
other churches and the methods of
evangalizing the especially dependant
races in America. The session was
held behind closed doors.
Madam Lydia Mamreoff Won Finkel-
stein Mountford, Bible scholar and
lecturer on the Holy Land, called at the
White House this morning for the pur-
pose of demanding the dismissal of DIR.
Selah Merrill, U, S. Consul at Jerusalem.
Madam Mountford was unable to see the
President but poured forth her troubles
to Secretary Loeb. DIR. Merrill, she
asserted, is prosecuting her because she
refused to take him into partnership with
her in the illustrated lecture business
several years ago. He has bounded her
ever since, she claims, by writing to
prominent persons along her pilgrimages