Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-05-04
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Washington, April %, 1905.
Editor Press
Postmaster General Cortelyou
has inaugurated new regime in
the prosecution Of fraud in his De-
partment, if it continues to be con-
Quoted on its present lines, prom
ises to prove "a terror to wrong
doers.' In fact, that is the Post
master Generals ANNOUNCED pur-
pose. To begin with the Post
master General issued instructions
to the law division of his depart
ment to investigate every concern
on its face appeared to be conduct
ing a FRAUDULENT business as fast as
they could be reached, without
waiting, as has been the custom
with former administrations for
some person who had been eyicti-
mized to file a complaint. The re-
suit has been that a larger number
OF fraud orders have been issued
during the last month than in any
previous month in this history of
the department. With the reor-
ganization Of the Postollicc Depart
ment The inspectors have been
placed under the direct supervision
OF the Postmaster General, instead
of being in the Bureau of the
Fourth Assistant, as heretofore,
and inspectors realize that the evil
dences Of their vigilance come to
the personal notice Of Mr.. Cortel-
you, 50 there is every inventive to
do thorough work. In time the
Postmaster General hopes to de-
velope this good work to an extent
that will enable him to hold re-
sponsible the Inspectors or the Of
fiCials of the Law Division when
an apparently Objectionable adver-
tisement appears continuously for
given period in the newspapers
without its authors being inspect
ed by the postal authorities.
But Postmaster General Cortel-
you has not confined his energies
to the insurance of fraud orders
against concerns doing a dishonest
business. He has also instituted a
crusade against persons conducting
or acting &5 agents FOR lotteries.
In this work, in which the Post
Office Department has, in the past,
been hanpeTed by lack of coopera-
tion from other Departments, Mr..
Cortelyo0 has enlisted the SYM
pathie8 and cooperation of the
Treasury Department and of the
Department Of Justice. Already
raids have been conducted and
numerous arrests made in Tacoma,
San Francisco and in Cleveland,
although no arrests were effected
in last named city. Within few
days raids will be conducted in
eleven other cities were lotteries or
their agencies are Hourishiug, ac-
cording to Information which has
reached the Postoffice Department
or the Secret Service men. The
men thus far arrested claim that
they represented the Mexican Lot
terry and that the tickets seized
were for a Mexican drawing, but
the Secret Service men are of the
opinion that the concern has head
quarters in San Francisco. They
claim that the printing of the al
Turing tickets took place in that
city.
Postmaster General Cortelyou
has some other reforms of import
ance in view but as his plans are
not yet formulated he does not
care to discuss them for publication
at this time. Altogether, the adj
ministration OF the new Postmaster
General, even should it be brief,
will doubtless see much needed i'm
provement in the postal service,
especially if Congress is willing to
cooperate with him and to aid by
by legislation in the needed inn