The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
BEAVERS AND GREEN
INVESTIGATION AS TO SELLING
 OF STOCK.
It is Understood That the Bundy Company and Others Interested Have Filed Replies to
 the Charges.

the charge that New York State Senator George Green and George w. Beavers, until lately Chief of the Division of Sal aries and Allowances in the Postoffice Department, were interested Jointly m the sale of certain copper mining stock to postoffiee employees and that the two had a joint bank account.
 This fact is regarded -s of particular significance if true, as MT. Green is one of the prominent stockholders connected with the Bundy Manufacturing Company of Binghampton, N. Y.. and he conducted the negotiations with Beavers and other postofhce officials which led to the pur- chase of large quantities of the time clocks made by the Bundy Company. At the Postoffice Department 1t is stated that the Department paid for these clocks from $100 to $125 each. according to the size. The regular market price is given as from s55 to $50 each, when purchased singly, and a considerable reduction when purchased in lots of one dozen or more Mir Beavers, however, before leaving the Department claimed that he did not ex- ecute the contract with the Bundy peo- pie, but threw the blame on John Mas ten, his former friend, then Chief Clerk to the First Assistant Postmaster Gen. eral, who signed the contract as Acting First Assistant Postmaster General. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow declines to give any information as to the progress of the investigation as to the matter of this contract but 1t Is understood ha he Bundy Company and ohers interested have filed replies to the charges.
 N. H. Baker, who represents the Day Time Register Company of Syracuse, N. Y.f a successful test of whose ma chimes was made in the Washington City Postoffice just prior to the execution of the four year contract with the Bundy | Company, has filed statement with First | Assistant Postmaster General Wynne, which has been referred to Fourth As | sistant Postmaster General Bristow, in which he makes some caustic comments | on the methods employed by Beavers and | others in this connection. MT. Baker charges that Beavers attempted to pre- vent test of the Dey register being made | and even went so far as to request the Postmaster General to have the test made in some other city, in the hope that Mir. Baker would abandon the case. Having | learned of the existence of the four-year contract. MT. Baner says:
 We then realized why MT. Beavers wanted to put us to as much expense and trouble as he could; he supposed that we would get tired of the case and would | obligingly fade away which would save him the necessity of giving up the in- formation relative to the four-year-con- | tract; Mn. Baker says that the question | of the legality of the contract was re- i ferred to Comptroller of the Tretsury | Tracewell. who said that if the contract came from the Department worded so that he could go into the facts he would decide that the contract was illegal and against the policy, but that his decision | would necessarily be controlled by the wording of the request. The request, when it was made" says the letter, was drafted by ma nwho evidently knew his business, for it simply inquired as to | whether the Postmaster-General could make contract for free delivery sup plies extending over a period of four years, and the wording of the request l prevented the Comptroller from taking the fact of this particular contract into consideration. Mir Tracewell afterward l remarked to MT. c. D. Baker and myself that the people in the Postofice Depart ment knew their business
 MT. Baker injects some humor into his remarks in treating of the actions of Rob- ert B. Brown, Jr., who secured favor- able report on the Dey Register sometime l ago. Speaking of Brown, he says that he introduced himself to the President of the | Dey Company as the man who does things" Continuing, the letter says. MT. Dey had had two or three experiences in | trying to strike pay oil in the Postof-
 
 in locating nothing but dry holes There fore, when the hatless and coatless Brown rushed in and wanted to carry off the register to make the test, MT. Dey says: Nay, Brown. Show me-" Brown sang him the story of his past conq1iests in the Postoffice Department and sang it fin | sweet and seductive strains. telling in heroic verse the wonderful influence he had with the Sultan of the Department | xtyit1 bn Q into Browns arms weeping for joy over the fact that he had at last discovered a man who could break into the charmed circle that had hitherto separated him from the Government trough without using a pick-axe.
 After the favorable report was made the letter continues, But fate was against Brown. His great and good friend Masten had in the meantime be come cold or jealous of the fame or schekles that Brown was to receive fl he succeeded in having his machine in stalled. Masten ordered that Postmaster Merritt's report be filed hid or lost At any rate by mental or some other system of telegraphy the Bundy Company was made aware that some thing was doing down in Washington
 The Moguls of the company donned their department clothes and hied themselves to the city where contracts are obtained
 
 'Mumm's extra dry and few other things, the gentlemen who spend Uncle | Sam's money in the Postoffice Depart ment insisted that unless the Bllndy peo' pie would consent to the aforesaid gentle men as representatives of the Department purchasing a ten-year supply of the Bundy clock they would in the future re- fuse to look a time clock in the face Knowing that they were cornered the Bundy representatives gracefully yielded and gave their consent and the four-yeal contract was entered into without the silly formality of advertising it and sc giving the competitors a show for theiI white alley
 Later on, according to MT Bakers ac- count, the Dey people decided to take another whirl ct tine Postoffice Depart ment so they got into connection with a couple of men who foolishly imagined they were on to the curves of the De partment, and who after they had made a contract with the Dey Company took the Cannon Ball Express for the place where they expected to chew off a few hundred thousand dollars worth of con- tracts" Here they ran against First As sistant Postmaster General Wynne and
 inquired whether 1t would be necessary for them to demonstrate the merits oi their machine or would he take theh word for 1t and give them a contract
 Mir. Wynne replied that while he knew a great deal more about the Department
 than he ought to know. being only the
 First Assistant Postmaster General, stil | ba did mt believe that he RiVine