Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06
PAYNE CALLS FOR DATA
Tullooh is Asked to substantiate Charges
Against Postofioe Department.
VENEZUELAN PROTOCOLS TO BE SIGNED
President Mail RObber Re-
ported Dying OF Consumption I'm
Fort LenvenwOrth PEN
Tertiary.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-There we're two
important moves In the postotice lnvesu-
CATION t~oday-hrst, the dispatch OF a letter
calling for the evidence in the possession
Of the former cashier OF the Washington
city postofice to substantiate his charses
against the administration Of the depart
ment several years ago, and, second, tho
announcement that the present investtga-
tion was agreed upon early last winter.
Postmaster General Payne In his letter to
MIR. Tulloch said, he would be pleased to
receive any statements, accounts, docu-
ments or other papers conhrmatory OF the
allegations made. Mr.. Payne subsequently,
said that he would personally go over these
papers and decide whether the matter
should be referred to Mr.. Bristow for in
clusion in his general investigation Of the
department. Replies have been received
from Mr.. Bristow, Postmaster Merritt and
presumably former Postmaster General
Smith. but Mr.. Payne said all the replies
called for had not yet been submitted.
Former Representative Loud Of Califor-
mia. for many years chairman of the house
committee on postofices and post roads,
was in conference with the postmaster gen.
eral today concerning the investigation. The
postmaster. general later announced that
the present investigation was contemplated
as long ago as last December and that the
work along the lines now being pursued by
Mr.. Bristow was then decided on. Mr..
Payne said this was provided for in an item
in the last appropriation act.
Final permission reached the italian,
British and German ambassadors tonight
to sign the protocol submitting the ques-
ton OF preferential treatment TO The Hague
tribunal.
AS soon as they can agree among them
: cpIyae ne 40 vyhafbar The ne n ~ co,,-nnNto,
shall be signed separately or jointly the
signatures will be affixed.
PardOned by the President.
The president has p~ardoned Martin Gull
ford. who in November, 1902, pleaded guilty
to robbing a postofice in Indiana. and who
was. sentenced to eighteen months i'm
p%risonment in the penitentiary at Fort
L~eavenworth, Kan. The pardon was
granted upon the representation Of the
prison physicians that he was in the last
stages OF consumption.
Old Alaskan Interpretation vor
The strongest point in the American case
In the Alaskan boundary dispute, which was
recently delivered to the British ambassa-
dor, is the communication of the Russian
ambassador to the British king, when he
delivered the exchange of ratification of
the Russo-Anglo treaty in 1925. 1t is a
part of a record OF the American case that
the ambassador was instructed by the Rus
sian government to inform the king that
the Interpretation which the Russians
placed upon the treaty was that the clause
relating to ten marine leagues meant that
the distance should not be less than ten
marine leagues from the sea. The fact
there was no contention over the boundary
and that this Interpretation Of Russia was
communicated to the British government is
believed by the American counsel to make
a strong legal point in favor Of the Amer
lean claim. hfH'2s ~"