The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-30

4 yuefS- Mrs. Iynnr stated that she
went to the Office and secured the con-
tents Of the safe under the direction OF
her husband, which statement he con
hrmed. As a result Of this episode Ty-
ner was summarily removed from the
once OF assistant attorney general and
Christiancy resigned
For six years under Tyner's admin
istraticn certain favored frauds and
I lotteries were given free use Of the
mails Barrett's scheme to resign and
practice before the Office, and Tyner' s
part I'm that scheme. as set forth in
/ the body Of this report, was the climax
I OF official perfidy. more evil in its re-
suits and more demOralizing 20 the pub
7 lie conscience than outright embezzle-
ment or open theft.
Tyner and Barrett were indicted on
/ Oct. 5 by the grand jury for the Dis
( trict of Columbia for conspiracy to de-
fraud.
Money Order System.
( For supplying money order forms for
I four years from Sept 4 1903. the bid of
Paul Herman was S44.S49 less than that
! Of the Wyhkoop- Halenbeck- Crawford
company James II. Metcalf superin-
/ tendent Of the money order system.
/ asked Herman TO withdraw his bid SO
/ that the Hallenbeck company. where
his son was employed, would get the
contract He assured Herman that if
| he did so he would have him reinstated
4 in the position ne formerly held with
/ that company. Metcalf knew that such
/ withdrawal would cost the department
/ about $4,000. For this action of Met
CATS the postmaster general summari-
! ~ removed him from Office.
/ Mailing Of BOOks.-In 1899. upon Met
/ calfs recommendation. the WynkOOp-
/ Hallenbeck-CraW ford company was Civ
en- the contract TO ship the money or
/ der books to pOstmasters, for which It
/ was to receive 31A cents per book. Aft
erward, upon Metcalf's recommends
/ ton, the price was increased to AZ
cents
1t was further discovered by the in
/ vestigation that Metcalfs son, who is
l employed by the company. was reCeiV-
] ing I 1-6 cents per book for all of the
I books shipped by the company under
/ this arrangement. From December,
/ 1899. TO May. 1908. he was paid S9.547.11
/ in addition to his legitimate salary.
/ Inferior Paper Used.-Ihe lnVestiga-
/ ton shows that inferior paper was
being used in the printing of the
/ forms and that Metcalf knew this fact,
but made no effort to require the
/ company to adhere TO the specifications
hin respect 10 paper.
/ Metcalf made other unjusti6able and
/ WynkoOp- Hallenbeck-Craw com
pany. which resulted in loss to the de-
/ Dartment Of nearly $4,000.
/ Combination of .Printers.-It appears
/ from the correspondence between j. n.
] Metcalf and J. Horace Mcfarland that
! Metcaf was a party to a combination
| Of the four principal bidders for the
l purpose of raising the price of money
/ order supplies at the last letting. When
the bids were opened &c was discovered
/ that the prices of printing were ad-
vanced about 30 per cent. When
/ knowledge of this combination was
l brought to the attention Of the post
master general he refused to approve
/ the awards and ordered a new letting
The result was that the combination
I went to pieces and the department
/ saved SOL. 12A16 on the contract.
on Oct. 3. 1903 J. T. Metcalf. y. r
Metcalf and II. G. HaIlenbeck were in
/ dicted by the federal grand jury of the
District Of Columbia for conspiracy to
defraud the government
Division OF Free Delivery.
August W. Machen entered the postal
service as a clerk in DE Toledo. o.
post office and was appointed assistant
postmaster in 1887 by Postmaster
/ George +. LOrenZ. On July 81 1900
/ Lorenz retired from Office. In 1S9.
| Machen came to Washington in the
/ nope of securing some kind of federal
position under President CIeveIand's
! second administration. On May 8. 1888
/ he was appointed assistant superin-
/ tendent Of free delivery and on Sept
| 10 following he was made superintend-
ent. AT that time ne was a bankrupt
I financially, with numerous judgments
/ recorded against him. When he left
Toledo he borrowed sums Of money
. I fefr 10, -
loans out Of the first salary that he re-
celved, which he failed to 90. Various
fraudulent representations were made
! 70 square loans, and upon one occas
he even resorted to forgery.
A simple statement Of facts will give
the clearest idea of Machen's methods
Carriers Straps.
On Sept 10 1893. four DAYS after
Machen became superintendent of free
delivery, he wrote the first assistant
psImdSter general recommending that
leather straps be substituted for Irvine
used bE letter carriers in tying up their
man, stating that 20 equip the service
! would not cost more than 81. $50 a wear
The recommendation was approved
ana Machen ordered several thousand
I Straps from George d. Lamb of New
/ Haven. Conn. Up 70 the time Of Ma
chen removal over 1000. 600 straps had
[ Deen purchased, at cost of S13., 2I7. 80
or over $4,000 a year
on July q. 1900. the postmaster o.,
| worcester. Mass, wrote the deDart-
ment asking permission to buy car
/ fleis straps from a local dealer. stat
ing that he could buy them for about
haif the price the department was nav
ing. Machen refused this request. stat
ing:
The straps for this year werc pur-
chased Of Mr. George r. Lamb I'm ac-
/ cotuauce with contract with this Of
| flee"
This bold statement was made in the
lace OF the fact that no contract had
ever been made. MaChen buying the
! straps from Lamb at a price fixed bv
I q verbal agreement between them.
/ George Lamb is now dead and the
business is conducted by George y. RI
I l-amo. his son, who advised the In
/ SpectorS that he knew nothing of the
( details of his fathers arrangement with
: Machen. but that "A man named w q
Z Long appeared at his father Office nj
! regular intervals and collected 215
I cents for every strap furnished Durine
/ the nine years that these straps were
/ used Lamb paid Long contributions az
/ gregating about $4,000. "A part M
I hands
Long, Machen and stern have been
! indicted BY the federal grand jury In
{ the District OF Columbia for consnira
/ ~ to defraud i'm connection with those
/ transactions.
Carriers Satchels.
/ Carriers satchels are purchased under
] four-year contracts.
| Boyle Contraction June .. 1884 a
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