Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-22
Result Of Bristow's Report.

In reply to questions Mr.. Payne said the
discharges were the result of disclosures
made by the Bristow report.
Il have read the report he said, and
am free to say that my action today was
the result of its perusal." He declined to
say whether there would be other removals
result of the report, but it is UNDER
stood that while few others may follow
there will not be any wholesale dismissals.
1t is stated that there are three or four
other employees upon whose conduct there is
Scme reflection, and whose cases hang in
the balance. They were not implicated SO
nUch as those whose cases We're acted
| upon today. and some of them may reiuain
permanently in the postal service. though
possibly rot in their present positions.
WeiS, the New York clerk who has been
RI lieved, is said to have enjoyed coniiden-
tial 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 post Office were
reached.
Terry is from Indiana. He was tenn
porary clerk in the Post Office Department
and was afterward removed. lie made
charges that he had been discharged from
his position by John NJ Masten, then chief
clerk of the first assistant postmaster gen
eral, but now assistant superintendent CT
the railway mail service, because ne had
refused TO give money TO Masten for MS
retention in office, and the President di-
rected his reinstatement. 1t is understood
that the investgat ton failed to substan-
tate Terrys charges, and his permanent
removal is the result of that failure.
The prominent removals that have been
made since the beginning of the Bristow
investigation those OF Machen, follow
ing the resignat ton of Beavers; Superintend-
ent Hedges of the city free delivery serv
ice and James 7. Metcalf of the money
order division. Those that were made yes
Ia nile ta M ar
the result of the BriSte% investigation, for
although the report of Chat official has not
yet been formally presented to the Post
master General for transmission to the
President, it is tacitly admitted that the
removals were made at the inJNgation OF
the fourth assistant and in furfheraace of
his desire to rid the, Jdepartnl~ai of all
those high in authority who had any con-
nection with the Macfien regime
Charges Against Louis.
Louis. who is native of Poland, but who
has been for many years in this country
and long connected withotha Post Office De-
partmert, has been the center of the polit
ical maelstrom that has been circling with
in the department for months. and has been
openly charged by contractors with favor
itism in making awards for supplies for the
division of which he was the head. From
the beginning of the investigation of his
Office It has been freely predicted that he
would be added to the list of employees who
had been trusted and later dismissed for
cause. Many charges of unfafrness were
circulated, but his friends vigorously denied
that he had been guilty of any action that
would warrant his dismissal, and insisted
that the charges were unwarranted by the
facts In the case. Before coming to WASH
mgton Louis lived in Cincinnati, and in this
city was under the protection of Perry
Heath. then first "a ssistant postmaster gen
erai. He had been chief of the division of
supplies since July l, 1897. His salary was