The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-05-13
READY TO MAKE Good
TuIloch Says He Can Substanti-
ate Any Statement Made Re
garding PostofHce Affairs
FACTS KNOWN BY MANY PEOPLE
Wants Replies of People to whefa
Postmaster General Payne Has
written Before Goirs Into 0etsis7,
r.
No New Developments

WASHINGTON. MAY Sine leatlfe ~
the developments in the postofIlce in
vestigation vas letter by Seymour
W. Tulloch, for many years cashier
Of the washington city postotiee. 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 postonfee several years ago
Mr. Tulloch takes exception to per
sonal comments of Mr.. Payne and re.
Trains from giving any facts bearing
son the Investigation. suggesting that
the officials 10 whom Mr.. Payne has
written have all the necessary data. II
they choose to give it. While thus
refusing to give any information in
the letter under the circumstances,
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. TuIloch, in an interview, said:
| In answering the postmaster gem
erals letter as l did IL 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.
1
men to whom he wrote did not con.
firm my statements. | 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, IL necessary. | stand, as al
ways have stood, ready to make good
any statements that | have made. Be-
fore going further into the matter,
however. or exposing the evidence |
have at hand, want to have an OPP
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 postof1ce department is max
ing a careful investigation of its 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.
ter General Bristow and his associ-
| ates. There is no necessity for my
| appearing as 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 postoiiice four and five years
ago, with which | was personally ia
miliar at the time of my removal as
| an obstacle
Conditions are now more import.
ant than details.
Efficient Man Removed.
1T 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
trolier Tracewell by order Of Acting
Secretary Vanderslip, WHO, I believe,
| afterward repented of his hasty ac-
ton and advisedpMr Gilmer to apply
for G 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 postofices, 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 postoffice 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 1 and June Is. The
1 recent REIMBURSEMENT Of salaries OF
clerks in the presidential postofices
Is being infinitely examined and it is
expected that the>rolls In many of the
larger postoflices will have to be over
hauled