The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-07
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ing that "the truth should be brought
cut and the department purged Of eve:y
element of graft.
MIR. Carmack declared the irregularities
In the Postoffice Department had shown
an lnefficiency in the administration.
Mr.. Spooner said there could not be
any dlsputing the fact that ineficienry
Lad been shown, and that it was begun
N the Cleveland administration.
Mr.. German said he was willing to have
all the resolutions calling for investiga-
items OF the Postoffce Department Pc
ferred to the Committee on Postofflce
and Post Roads as he had received assur-
apces from the chairman that prompt ac-
ton would be taken.
In this connection, however, ne said.
he wanted to call attention to the fact
that all of the debate on this subject had
but emphasized the necessity for an in
vcstigation of the Postoffce Department.
He said he had no desire to investigate
any particular officer; that he believt|s
the investigation should be much broader
than that, as the Irregularities had crept
in by degrees and the corruption possi
bly, had been a part Of three or more aG-
ministrations. It now has reached POM
selves have disclosed the corruption OF
Others
My purpose" he added. ''is not so
much to expose this corruption as by tho
action of Congress in making protective
terms to eliminate the chance of >such
corruption in the future in the rost-
office Department"
Mr.. Spooner asked if Mr. German would
ho will -
gestion by calling upon Congress for a
thorough investigation of all departments
at stated periods Mr. German answered
that he would be willing to make the
change, but for the present he was con-
tent to deal with the question in hand.
Continuing, he declared that the corrup-
ton was not a party matter: that the
present postmaster general could not have
been responsible for the state Of aairs in
his departments as it started before he
entered upon his duties at the head of
the department.
The Senator expressed a Willingness to
do justice TO the President Sin this time
OF trouble in his official household but
said he could not understand why the
Republicans in the Senate had persistently
refused to give to the minority official
information concerning the departments.
He declared that the determination to
ignore the wishes of the minority had
been manifest at this session for the first
time since he had been a member OF the
Senate. He called attention to the reso-
lutions introduced by himself, by Mr. Car
mack ard by Mr.. PenroSe. asking Cor the
Bristov reports of the Postoffice investi-
CATION, and declared that every effort to
get this information had been thwarted
by the republicans
A severe denunciation of the charge of
suppression CT information was made by
Mr.. Lodge, who said that he was thor
oughly tired OF that old weasened story
which had been made over and over again
by Senators on the other side of the
Chamber. He said it is quite true that
the Republicans had nearly two-thirds of
the members of the Senate, and that he
wanted to inform the other side that
they were thoroughly responsible for their
conduct of affairs and that as they were
responsible they proposed to conduct their
affairs in their own way. Continuing, he
said:
1--WE are not afraid of daylight; we
are not afraid of the Senator from Mary
land, and least of all we are not afraid Of
that old time worn story OF suppression
Of Nublic information"
After some further 'colloQuy between
Messrs. spooner and Teller over caucus
control of party action in the Senate an
agreement was reached to postpone furth-
er discussion Of the postoffice question
until Friday next and the Senate ad-
iourned.