The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-30
ROOSEVELT REPLIES TO TYNER.
Among Tyner's Sins He Gives PrOmi-
nent Place to the Old Mans Eff
forts to Give His Daughter Il
Soft Berth i'm the Postal
Service.
;By the Associated Press

Washington, Oct. 2S.-By direction
Of the President, Secretary Loeb today
sent to james n. Tynar the former
assistant attorney general for the Post
office Department reply to Mr.. ny
ner'S letter dated October g. and made
public last night The letter says that
as the question of Mr.. Tyner's guilt on
the criminal charge on which he was
tried has been passed upon by a jury
the President acquicsces i'm the jury's
findings, but the evidence seems to
him overwhelming that you (Mr. Ty-
Eer) were guilty. either of moral obli-
guilty in performance of duty or of
the grossest inefficency."
Secretary Loeb's letter says get-rich-
quick concerns We're Improperly fav-
ored in Mr.. Tyner's office, nstancing
the Arnold turf concern as to which
Il committee of the Missouri Senate
reported that if the department at
Washington had acted promptly and
properly upon the recommendation Of
the DOStoffice inspector millions of dol
lars would have been saved the people
The letters says the issuance of fraud
orders which Barrett, Mr.. Tyner's ne
pheW, prevented, has been resumed
by the present attorney for the Postof-
flee Department and have i'm no case
been made void by the courts. The
Postofice Department safe by Mrs.
Barrett and Mrs. Tyner as a matte"
necessary to consider when the Presi-
dent is requested to rehabilitate 1yneT's
character The letter says it 10 not
known exactly what documents We're
taken from The safe ana assumes they
were such as would "gravely incrim-
mate" Tyner and Barrett.
Tyners Daughter Brought In.
The letter describes ut length TY-
ner's efforts to provide 4 place for his
daughter in the postal service. quoting
from letters written by Tyner to the
postmaster at Portage, Wis. asking
that his daughter be retained in the
office there and promising an addi-
ton to her salary, at the same time
intimating that if the appointment
were not made the salarv would &C
to some other office. The postmaster
declined this proposal. saying the sal
ary demanded for Tyner'S daughter
was proportionately much larger thar;
other employees receive and it Wouif
be better to have her transferreU.
Commenting on this transaction seer
tary Loeb's letter says:
Accordingly Miss Tyner was trans
ferred and the position which ShC
held at Portage was forthwith abo'-
ished and no appointment to the vac
.ancv made. 1t appears clear tHcre-
fore that YOU were keeping Nouf
daughter in the postal service simply
for the sake of giving her the sal
airy. and when she did not occupy the
position it was not deemed necessar y
to fill it at all; and you actually called
the attention of the postmaster at
Portage to this fact in order to m
duce him to retain your daughter
pointing out to him that. as actually
happened he would lose the appropria-
ton for the position unless he acted
as you desired.
The letter refers TO request made
of the postmaster at Ware, Mass, by
Tyner for the appointment of Cora
Watson as a clerk of which the let
ter SAYS
at was not bona fide appoint
ment. but one designed improperly TO
get Miss Watson in the classified SER
vice"
Mr. Tyner issued a public state
ment tonight affirming that the Presi-
dent had misstated facts in the letter
of today, and expressing the opinion
that his action with regard to his
| daughters appointment was entirely
legal.