Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-05-08
READY TO MAKE GOOD
Tulloch Says He Can Substanti-
ate Any Statement Made Re-
garding Postofiee Affairs.
FACTS KNOWN BY MANY PEOPLE
Wants Replies Of People to Whom
Postmaster General Payne Has
Written Before Going Into Details.
Essx
No New Developer ents.

No New DeVeiopT
Washington, May 8.-The feature of
the developments in the postoffice in
yestigation was letter by Seymour
w. Tulloeh, for many years cashier
of the Washington city postoffiee, to
Postmaster General Payne, in reply
to the latter's letter requesting any
information Mr. Tulloch might have
to sustain his published statements
charging irregularities in the postof-
fee department and the Washington
city postoffiee several years ago.
Mr.. Tulloch takes exception to per-
sonal comments of Mr.. Payne and re-
trains from giving any facts bearing
on the investigation, suggesting that
the officials TO whom Mr.. Payne has
written have all the necessary data, If
they choose to give it. While thus
refusing to give any information in
the letter under the circumstances,
Mr.. Tulloch said that he is ready to
substantiate everything he has said
and that he wants first to read the re-
plies of the parties to whom the post
master general has written before
going into details.
Can Make Good Any Statement.
Mr. Tulloch, in an interview, said:
"In answering the postmaster gen.
erals letter as | did it seemed to me
to be necessary that should put my.
self right before the public, as the
postmaster general alluded to me in
the terms mentioned in public man.
ner and as he stated that the gentle
men to whom he wrote did not con,
firm my statements. I reserve to my
self the right to read the replies Of
those to whom he wrote as a result
of the publication of my statements
and to refresh the memories of those
parties, If necessary. stand, as | al
ways have stood, ready to make good
any statements that l have made. Be.
fore going further into the matter,
however, or exposing the evidence
have at hand, l want to have an op-
portunity to lead and criticise the re-
plies of the persons mentioned in my
letter. That is only fair. The next
move now rests with the postmaster
general.
"The postofIce department is max
ing careful investigation of it's af-
fairs. The facts have stated are by
no means new They are known to
scores of persons in this city and are
known to Fourth Assistant Postmas-
fnr Orsc y Al
ates There is no necessity for my
appearing as a public prosecutor in
the case | was willing at the time
of the original investigation to render
Mr.. Bristow what aid could by stat
ing the conditions of affairs in the
postoffice department and the Wash
ington postoffice four and five years
ago, with which l was personally ia
miliar at the time of my removal as
an obstacle.
Conditions are now more import
ant than details
Efficient Man Removed.
ut is well-known fact that Thomas
w. Gilmer, the special expert of the
comptroller of the treasurer's office,
and one of the most efficient men in
the service, was removed by Comp
troller Tracewell by order Of Acting
Secretary Vanderslip, who, believe,
afterward repented of his hasty ac-
ton and advised Mr.. Gilmer to apply
for detail to another and distinct
bureau Of The treasury Mr.. Gilmer
had the written orders of the comp
troller at the time of his removal,
prohibiting him from taking up the
affairs of the New York and Wash.
ington postoffices. AS far as known
no further investigation of the sue.
ceeding and still more interesting
quarters of the year was made by any
one else"
At the postofice department Post.
master General Payne said there were
no new developments in the investi.
cation. The inspectors are still at
work in most of the branches of the
department, and Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow has re-
ported to Mr.. Payne that he expects
to submit his report on the investiga.
ton between June / and June Is. The
recent REIMBURSEMENT of salaries of
clerks in the presidential postoffiees
is being infinitely examined and it is
expected that the rolls in many of the
larger postoffices will have to be over.