The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-29
Roosevelt Issues Orders Regarding
Creased Route" System in
Postal Department.
AFFECTS OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
Misuse of Authority Said to Ex'
tend Into Pension Office, Cen
sus Bureau and Treas
ury Department.
The Republic Bureau.


18th 81. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington. June 2S.-Willful and glazing
abuses of the civiI-service law disclosed by
the postal scandal and the go-called
creased route system employed to pro-
mote protegcs from humble. unclassifea
portions to high-salaried. classified jobs in
various departments are to be stopped By
additional rulings, authorized by the Presi-
dent before leaving here. which are to b.
enforced by the Civil-Service Commission.
Commissioner Proctor OF the Civil-Service
Department had q number OF conferences
with President Roosevelt recently. Tho
postal scandals revealed as never before
how near the civl-service law Is to crumb-
ling and becoming mere paper law. These
disclosures not only showed connivance and
misuse of high official authority to violate
civil-service regulations in the Post Office.
but likewise in the Pension Office. Treasury
Department, Census Bureau and other de-
partment>.
PROMOTION SYNDICATES.
Another report is forthcoming from form
er Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith. in which he will reply to the report
Of the Civil-Service Commission. applying
to violations of the civil-service regulations
in the appointment and promotion of en-
ployes for the postal service. The evidence
y
Post Office has been supplemented by ad-
ditional testimony received by CnIe1 lnspec-
tor Cochran. showing that similar systems
were operated in other large cities
Commissioner Proctor and Postmaster
General Payne propose to work out series
Of new regulations, which will make it i'm
service regulations. This was one of the
parting instructions from President Roose-
e1 Defqe bs for
cerned over the maintenance Of the law.
The appointment of Attorney Bonaparte TO
assist IN the prosecution OF the cases Pc
plans Of the President for the strict OBJ
| servance of the civil-service law The OBJ
| lection made to Bonaparte, because he hnd
| taken a bold stand against Harvard Uni
versity granting President Mckinley de-
| gree is waived. inasmuch as Mr.. Bonaparte
Is recognized as consistent champion Of
| vil-seryice reform.
MORE INDICTMENTS.
Tomorrow the Grahd Jury will reassem-
| BILE to hear postal cases completed for the
/ United States District Attorneys office by
| Fourth Assistant General Br1Stow and Chlee
\ Inspector Cochran.
:"fhere will be more indictments before the
| investigation Is concluded" said one of the
l postal officials to-day when asked II there
| would be further developments. The i'm
preston is conveyed by Postmaster General
| Payne and Fourth Assistant Bristow that
| fore the decks are swept clean. There are
| still some features of the Tulloch charges
and the report of the Civil-SerVice Commits
sion to be investigated
| AT present the investigation Is still con-
/ fined to the divisions within the office of
the First Assistant Postmaster General. and
1 no effort has been made to take up alleged
l charges against the officers under Second
| Assistant Shallenberger. with the mail
4 transportation and Alaskan postal divisions,
and the bureaus under Third Assistant Mad
| den.
Third Assistant Madden is due to arrivs
here tomorrow from Detroit. he Will b9
/ e., nactlr
| how the specifca tons were drawn up for
| the supply of patent carbon paper Tor the
| registry division and supplied by the Gen
| eral Manifolding Company OF Franklin, Pa.
! Mr.. Madden also will be asked to explain
| the reflections he cast upon First Assistant
| Wynee and Fourth Assistant Bristow IN MS
| published letter denying that he had been
| Responsible for the award OF the carbon
| paper contract.