The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-05-02
TYNER TURNED OUT.
Prominent Post Office Department
Official Removed.
Taking Of Papers said to he Imper-
tant from the Safe by Mrs. Tyner,
and Refusal to Return
Them, the Cause.


Washington, April ga most SEN
sational development OF the investiga-
ton of post Office department affairs
occurred just before the department
closed Thursday, when Postmaster
General Payne announced the sum
mary dismissal of James n. Tyner, as
sisiant attorney general for the post
Office department., coupling with the
announcement the startling charge
that all the papers and records in the
safe in the latter's Office had been abb
stracted by Mrs. Tyner. wife of the
discharged official, with the assistance
of others. The postmaster general
states that Mrs. Tyner has refused the
demand Of the government for the re-
turn Of papers taken.
..H Important Papers.
1t is suspected at the department
that the papers have some connection
with the recent conduct of the Office.
Some weeks ago turf investment con-
Germ, whose affairs were aired in court,
alleged that its operations and work
ing methods had been sanctioned by
the assistant attorney general for the
post Office department.. The charges
involving the Office of the assistant at
tOrney general, and IA lawyer formerly
connected with that office, were vcnti-
lated very generally at that time and
m investigation was ordered by the
postmaster general, This was really
the inception of the investigation that
has spread into every part of the de-
partment.
Resignation Asked.
The complaints crystallized into a
formal request for Mr.. Tyner's rcsig-
Payne on March last. Mr.. Tyner had
been in exceedingly bad health for a
long time and had visited the office at
only rare intervals, leaving the Office
entirely in charge of his assistant for
months at time. lie is suffering from
an unusually severe case of paralysis,
and in consideration of this fact the
request for his resignation was based
on his i'll health.
Asks Public 10 suspend Judg mcnt.
Gen. Tyner asks from the public a
suspension of judgment until lie can
put before them the facts relating to
his removal from Office and the cause
assigned therefor by the postmaster
general The matter has come upon
him so suddenly that he cannot now
make detailed statement, but must
necessarily confine himself TO the
brief statement that. realizing that
his usefulness as a public officer was
seriously impaired by his illness, he
conferred with the postmaster general
as 10 the time of his resignation, and
1t was agreed between them that il
should be accepted to take effect on
May !, 1903. On Tuesday last, feeling
that the time of his retirement from
Office was very near, he realized that he
should remove from his Office certain
private property and papers belong
ing to his wife and to himself. These
were contained in safe in his room
nj the post Office department.
''Being unable himself TO do so he
asked his wife TO go to the Office and
secure from the safe these papers. Tbs
Mrs. Tyner did. II is easy 10 see now
that il would have been better had
Mr.. Tyner gone to the postmaster
general and asked him TO be prese Ut
and supervise her act. But neither
Gen. Tgrrr nor herself contemplated
any Nr1ng doing or imagined that such
wculd he imputed 70 them. His many
gears service and her frequent visits
10 MS room made il seem only natural
that she should go there 10 take his
property since he could not go him
s.f. When the inspectors came TO his
Tes5nenre and demanded these papers
Gen Tyuer upon the spur Of the mo-
ntnt and without other guide than
his indignation refused to deliver
them. Later on the same evening he
sent letter to Xr. Bristow asking him
to come 10 his house, intending % put
the papers in his charge. Unfortu-
nately Mr. Bristow was unable 10
come. These papers are now in the
possession Of Gen. Tyner in the same
condition in which they were when
taken from the safe. They are all the
private papers Of Gen. and Of Mrs. Ty-
ner, save one bundle. which relate TO a
matter not at all connected with any
thing now pending in the department
and long since closed. These papers
will all be placed at the disposal Of
the proper authorities Of the govern
1nent"
Labor Costracts Held Legal.
Austin, Tex, April 20.--Attorney