Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14
COMMUNICATED.
wAsHINaroN. May Ill, sOa

COMMUNICATED.
WASHINGTON, May Ill. sCa.
While the President of the United
States is loudly inveighing against
corruption in public and private
life in his speeches at thededication
of the Worlds Fair buildings at st.
Louis, the corruption in the Post
Office Department under his own
administration which is being daily
unearthed by the investigation now
proceeding smells to high heaven.
IL is the expressed opinion Of many
officials OF the government here that
it would be the policy OF consistency
for the President to return here at
once and see to it that the investi-
CATION is made thorough ahd that no
guilty man escapes the punishment
which is his just due. The truth OF
the matter is that this investigation
in the Post Office Department is
digging up more snakes than the
administration can conveniently kill,
and the administration would like
nothing better than TO kill theinveS-
tigation. When Postmaster Gener-
oil Payne returned here from his
trip among the West Indies islands
with Secretary Moody and others,
he was amazed and terrified at what
he found. When he left here and
told First Assistant Postmaster
General Wynne TO go ahead with the
investigation he supposed nothing
would be unearthed beyond a few
irregularities which could be fixed
by the suspension or discharge OF
few scapegoats.
What he found was that a num-
Der OF the divisions of his depart
ment were rotten to the core and
that several of the heads OF those
divisions had already resigned un-
der FIRE, and that several more would
have to resign or kicked out. The
investigation was either unearthing
more serions charges against these
men every day or else he was re-
ceiving from other sources serious
charges. Cne o. the. men who al
ready had resigned had his wife go
TO his old Office in the p. o. Dept. |
and rifle q safe of papers that would,
presumably, incriminate him and |
perhaps others in his division of
the Department. Now comes a
man named Seymour Tulloch, who
had been cashier of the Washington
City post Office for over twenty years,
and was fired by Postmaster Merritt
at the dictation o Perry Heath, |
who then was the First Assistant
Postmaster General, because Tulloch
refused to pay people who were car
ried on the rolls o. the city post
Office in q fraudulent manner. Tul-
lock charges that some men were on
the pay rolls three times under diff
ferent names and were drawing
salaries; that q certain newspaper
man was on the rolls Us the physi-
clan to the city post Office, and that
ne knew no more about the practice
of medicine than hog knows about
navigating a ship, yet he was re-
ceiving salary of $1,000 q year.
He says these frauds and irregu-
larties have been going on ever
since Perry Health. who now is the
Secretary of the Republican Nation
oil Committee, was installed as First
Assistant Postmaster General; that
he has the papers in his possession
to prove all his charges and only
asks the opportunity odoso. From
the way things look now he proba-
bly, will not get the chance to prove
his charges. Mr.. Payne is making
o bluff atinvestigating these charges
made by Tulloch, but from his mo-
tions he hardly will give MIR. Tul-
loch an opportunity to go on the
witness stand. He sees what the :
whole thing is leading toand is doing
his bestto squelchany further inves-
tigation. He as shrewd politician,
was placed in the cabinet as Roose-
velt's political guide and counsel
lor. and ID evidently is his belief
that continuance of the investiga>
ton win result in serious consequent
ces 70 the administration. Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachu-