Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-22
The First Fruits of General
BriStOw's Report
REMOVAL OF EMPLOYEES
Some G:;ilty Of Crookedness, Others
of Extravagance and Others Of In.
cOmpetency-The Fall Of Others
Will Likely Follow.

Washington, Oct 21-Postmaster
General Payne today removed from
office Michael W. Louis. superinten-
dent of supplies of the postoffice de-
partment: Louis Kempner. CHEZ of
the registry division of the third as
sistant postmaster generals Office, and
G. r. Terry n $500 clerk in the post
Office department. and directed the
postmaster at New York to remove
Otto Weiss. a clerk.
These removals are the first results
CT Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gem
eral Bristow's report on the irregulari-
ties in the postof1ice department. In
formation of the contemplated dis
charges did rot leak out at the de-
partment until after o'clock and at
4:30 the postmaster general made an
official announcement of his action as
follows:
michael w. Louis has been removed
frcm the office of the superintendent
OF supplies because the recent irvesti-
CATION shows that he Influenced the
awarding Of contracts for supplies to
favored bidders: that he has been eX-
travagant and wastefui in the admin
istration OF his Office, and that he has
paid excessive prices for supplies to
favored contractors.
Louis Kempner, superintendent of
the registry system, has been removed
fer incompetent and negligent admins
tratiorJ; Tor wasteful and declared ex-
travaganca ir' sending expensive mani
fold registrat ton books to j large num-
ber of small foIrth-class postoffices:
and for violating the revenue laws by
system of petty smuggling.
&C. p. Terry, q Clerk in the division
CT supplies has been removed for max
irg false af]davits; attempting to OBJ
tain money from clerks under the
guise that he could influence their
promotion anG for general inetficienov.
The postmaster general also stated
that the postmaster a New York had
been directed to REMOVE Otto Weis,
cfSrk in the New York postoffice fol
collecting money from clerks to in
fiuence Legislation and to procure pro-
motions.
In reply to questions Mr.. Payne said
the discharges We're the result of dis
closures made by the Bristow report.
81 have read the report he said.
and am free to say that my action
tolisy NaS the result OF It's D6fuSt1t-
He declined tn say whether there
would be ether removals as q result of
the report but it is understood that
that While few others may follow
there Will not be any wholesale dis
! nlissals. 1t is stated that there are
three or four other employees u~cn
whose conduct there is some reflection.
and whose cases hang in the balance.
They were not implicated so much as
those whose cases were acted upon
! today, ar1 some c. them may remain
permanently in the postal service.
| though possibly not in their present
positions.
Weiss the New York clerk, who has
been relieved. is said to have enjoyed
confidential relations with George W.
Beavers, late superintendent of the
salary and allowance division, and he
is charged with having acted as a
medium through which other clerks in
the New York postoffice were ccm-
nluricated with.
Terry is from Indiana He was tenn
porary clerk in the pestoffice depart
ment and vas after lrds removed
He made charges that le had been dis
charged from his position by John NJ.
Masten, then chief clerk of the first
assistant postmaster general, but row
assistant superintendent of the rail-
way mail service, because he had re-
fused to give money to Masten for his
retention and the president directed his
reinstatement. 1t is understood that
the investigation failed to subsantiate
Terry's charges and his permanent re-
nloval is the result of that failure.
The possible effect of the Bristow in
quiry upon the fortunes Of Louis and
Kempner had been much discussed.
Both have been in the postal service
some years.