Milford chronicle., 1905-05-05

tlce. Already raids have been conducted
, and numerous arrests made in Tacoma,
San Francisco and in Cleveland, although
no arrests were affected in the last named
city. Within a few days raids will be
conducted in eleven other cities where
= lotteries or their agencies are fonrishing,
according to information which has
e reached the Postoffice Department or the
: Secret Service men. The men thus far
arrested claim that they represented the
Mexican Lottery and that the tickets
. seized were for a Mexican drawing, but
the Secret Service men are of the opinion
Y that the concern has headquarters in San
Francisco. They claim that the PRINTING! of
the alluring tickets took place in that city.
/ In addition to the efficient assistance
rendered to the Postoffice inspectors by
the Secret Service men, who track sus-
poets and aid in the arrests, the Depart
ment Of Justice has issued instructions to
the United District Attorneys, wherever
raids or arrests are made, to render every
possible assistance to the representatives
Of the other departments. The coopera-
ton of the detectives of two departments
and the lawyers of a third will, in the
estimation of the high officials, render life
unbearable for lottery agents in this coun-
try and they are confident the evil will
be thoroughly eradicated within short
time as a result of the drastic course now
being pursued. Within the past few days
the Postoffice Department has, moreover,
issued fraud orders against agents of the
German State Lottery and the Hungarian
Lottery, both of which appear to have
been doing a thriving business in the
United States.
Another reform which Postmaster Gen
eral CortelyOu is setting on foot concerns
political activity by postmasters and other
employees of the Department. Although
the law and the civil service regulations
strictly forbid pernicions political activity
on the part of the federal employees,
postmasters in various sections have been
in the habit of writing to the Postmaster '
General or his assistants for special rul-
ings in their cases, hoping, of course, to
secure more lax construct of the law |
than has been general. Mr.. Cortelyou }
now purposes to have prepared and sent
to all postal employees a circular of in
on this subject, clearly defining g
'he extent to which they are entitled to a
engage in politics and partisan undertak- ID
ngs. Offensive partisanship will be COM =,
'rehensively defined and it will be made a
lear that no postmaster or similar en-
'loyee can associate himself with any b.
ommittee or society the purpose OF which ID
the raising of campaign funds 'There
fill be nothing particularly new I'm the
ircular," said the Postmaster General, IN
but it will be plain enough to leave no at
round for reasonable doubt in the minds tn
those to whom it is directed. The very IN
est service postmaster can render his an
arty is to be a good postmaster. Once 2
circular is issued it will constitute the Co
lly reply sent to those who ask for fur 70
iSA AhAoA h4alAou duu bllo6t WHO NlOldlt r,rf
; iniunctions will do so at their peril. vii
heir punishment will take the form of ow
scipline, even to the extent of dismiss Of
if the violation is of a gravity which -, T
erits it. of
General Cortelyou has some aga
her reforms of importance in view but yea
his plans are not yet formulated he thai
es not care to discuss them for publica- clai
Il at this time. Altogether, the admin ter
ration Of the new Postmaster General, ate
IN should it be brief, will doubtless see Y,
Ich needed improvement in the postal of e
vice, especially if Congress is willing has
with him and to aid by leg as II
ton in the needed improvements. and an a
ere is some fear, however, that Con- have
ssmen will be inclined to resent the it VIC
tmaster Generals insistence that his oppo
ordinates shall not take off their coats ''T ~,
AIRY doubtful congressional districts ter |
perform other similar services. fairly
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