The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-14
MIR. BRISTOW
 VEpY ANGRY FOg. A Assistant to Wynne $ Resigns.
NEW JOB MADE FOR HIn
Transfer of Inspectors Cause
 of the Trouble.
At Conference Among Burton and Bankhead and Morgan and Pettus,
 Agreement is Reached Re-
 garding Alabama Rivera

Washington, Jan. 13.--(Special. )--
 The biggest sensation in executive cir
 cles for long time was the transfer | yesterday of the administration of the postofice inspection service from the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General | to the Postmaster General It came as
 a thunderclap to Mir. Bristow, the in-
 cumbent of the subordinate offlce, and | he is reported as having. become en- ragged. He lost no time in getting to the White House and there told the
 President that he had been treated as
 no faithful servant of the Government should be by a superior. but ill-condi- tioned officer. Bristows resignation 1 followed.
 Postmaster General wynne at the
 Cabinet meeting today was just as l much put out as was Bristow at the l very idea of the man running to the President before consulting his chief ! in the Department. This after-clap is
 one of the many that have ensued since
 the beginning of the investigations in
 the Postofice Department. Mir. wynne,
 when First Assistant Postmaster Gen
 eral. had been largely Instrumental in
 the efforts at reformation of loose
 methods in the Department, and while
 acting in place of the late Postmaster
 General Payne had so enlarged the scope of turning hidden rascality in- l side out that no part of the Depart
 ment felt 1t was safe from perilous
 scrutiny.
 The powerful engineering of the
 postofice inspection had been turned
 over to Mr. Bristow. and he went to
 work with extraordinary zeal. even ex- | tending his prying. operations. under the very nostrils of the First Assistant | Postmaster General.
 1 From that time on there began to
 be unhappy feelings between Messrs. | Wynne and Bristow. Thence it grew I until 1t eliminated in the shift yes- terday, when the First Assistant hav- ing become the head of the Depart
 ment strengthened his functions by the transfer De a branch of the ser- vice which had given to MT. Bristow a power and importance which had caus-
 ed everybody to marvel
 It was Bristow's report which inn pugned the motives of Congressmen who visited the Department and so
 angered many of them that there
 threatened to be revolt against the
 reform methods of the administration
 even among old-time Republicans.
 These men were the gladdest of the shorn power of Bristow. when they
 learned of the transfer of the inspec-
 
 Postmaster General
 There was a string of people in and
 out of official position going to see
 Postmaster General Wynne today, all
 having suggestions to make or Jroffers
 of service and among them not a few
 candidates for positions as postoffice
 inspectors. Among them were some
 crude but ambitious servants of the
 Government who were rural free deliv- 1 vryI.n | Postmaster General Wynne had to
 inform them that the service was not yet organized under him and would
 not for some time be in shape to con- slider its perfection by the addition of l new material. This was before the Cabinet meeting, where for the first | time Mir. Wynne learned that his su-
 bordinate, MT. Bristow, had been to the
 White House to lodge protestations. | There is q deal of gossip about the further developments likely to come It is known that Bristow had his
 favorites among the inspectors and that
 he knew a great lot of things about eminent and important government of
 hcials derived through the zeal and industry of his several Sherlock
 Holmes.
 Bristow's resignation will take effect l January 20. Late this afternoon President Roosevelt issued an order that MT. Bristow should be appointed a
 special commissioner to visit the ports
 on the Atlantic coast of the United States, the Pacific coast and the isthmus of Panama for the purpose of examining into trade conditions with a view to facilitating the transportation trade across the isthmus via the Pana- ma Railroad