The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1903-10-08

IN the Post Office Investigations,
yet the air is full of mmors and
several important Indictments are
still expected. The Postmaster
General has been in consultation
with the President and has promis.
ed to have the report on tbs cases
ready in a short time. The report.
on the Tulloeh charges by Charles
IL. Bonaparte and Holmes Conrad
has been given TO MIR, Roosevelt
and Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow is still hard at work
and hopes to complete his report in
about ten days. These several re-
ports may be withheld from the
public for some time as their pub
LEGATION would give Hose who are
now under indictment an advantage
which their attorneys would be sure
to exploit.
Many Republican politicians, es-
peeially those from the West, fear
that the democrats will attempt 10
make political capital out of the
postal scandals and they wish to
forestall such an event by a rigid
congressional investigation Of the
entire Post Office Department.
They believe that such an investiga-
ton should be quite independent of
what Mr.. Bristowi is now doing, and
should include the bureaus which he
has not investigated. In view of
the facts much interest centers
around the choice of chairman of
the House Comlttee on Post.ofices
and Post roads. Speaker-to-be
Cannon has not mentioned whom
he will select tor this position, which
was made vacant through Mr..
Loud failure to be reelected to
Congress butR Representative Ketch'
am, of New York, is said to be the
most likely candidate.
Washington is saddened by the
news of the death of Sir Michael H,
Herbert, the British ambassador to
the United States. He died from
an affection of the lungs, in Switzer.
land where he had gone for nj;
health. He was only forty-6yt
which is very young for the import
ant diplc matte post which ne held
President Roosevelt sent a persona
message of coincidence to Lady Her.
bert. He was a personal friend Of
the late ambassador.
The Miller controversy has beer
settled. Immediately on his return
to Washington president Roose.
welt had a conference witt
President Gompers and othe'
officials of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and informed
them that Foreman Miller of th'
Government Printing Office woulC
not be dismissed at the request o
the Central Labor Union o
Washington, nor would there be
any change in the order that there
should be no discrimination between
union and non-union labor in thu
/, government employees. AS the la
: Dor leaders left theWhite House thu
President issued a statement whiel
ended as follows; ''In the employ
. ment and dismissal OF men in thu
i. government service, | can no NOR
recognize the tact that a man doe
or does not belong 10 a union as be
ing for OF against him, than | car
, recognize the fact that he Is a Pro
/ ~testant or Catholic, a Jew or a Gen
tile. as being for or against him.
In the communication sent me by
, the various labor organizations pro
testing against the retention Of Mil
! Ter 10 the Government Printing OF
fee, the grounds alleged are two
: iola; First, that he is a non unioi
man and Second, that he is not per
sonally ia. The question of per
> sonal fitness is one 10 be settled II
/ the routine Of administrative detail
5 and cannot be allowed 10 eonhie
with or to eomplieate the large
E question Of governmental discrimina
/. ton for or against him or any olhe
: man because he is or is not a mem
Der Of the union. This is the onll
? question now before me for deeis
y ION, and as TO this my decision /
final" Nh. Gompers said he ha'
= no opinion to give on the President
! statement. AS Tar as the admins
' ~tration is concerned the accident i
/ now closed. The contest is nov
: clossa The contest may lie carrie,