The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-14
ORDERS Of POSTAL
OFFICIALS IGNORED
Postmaster Thomas Disregards
Direction of Postmaster
General.
LIKEWISE DEFIES CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSION
What the Records Reveal and
What Is Absolutely
Clear.


Through the incompetence. Ignorance or
connIvanco OF Postofiice Inspector Sharp
and the secretary of the local civil Ser
vice Board, Postmaster Thomas has been
able to ignore an order of the Postmas-
ter-General and defy the United States
Civil Service commission
Convicted by the Records.
Tho record is absolutely clear on this
Postmaster Thomas, Postofllco Inspector
Sharp and the local Civil Service board
are convicted by the records and oy In
controyertible evidence now believed 10
be in the hands Of Inspector Mckee OF
Denver.
The report OF the Civil Service commls
sion of 1899 reveals the fact that the
present investigation lis not the first time
that Postmaster Thomas has been put On
the rack FOR Ignoring the civil Service
rules. This report, as made under flo
No. 65S1S, says:
What Report Says.
1t appeared from a list of aP-
pointments made by the postmas-
ter that a l.. Thomas, Jr., son or
the postmaster was appointed Ia
borer on October /, 1898, and that
Miss Eva May was appointed
janltor on the same day, and that
both had been assigned to clerical
duty In violation OF the Presidents
order of June 10. 1895 (Sce pToviso
to Civil Service rule XllI0 On
April l3, 1899. the commission
brought the matter 10 the attention
OF the Postmaster General, and re-
qucsted that Mr.. Thomas and Miss
Eva May be Immediately separated
from the service and their posi-
tons filed by ccrtncatlon and SC
lection from the eligible registers.
rules. on May the commission
was informed that laborcrs and
jnnltors would not be permitted 10
perform clerical work I'm his office,
and that the service Of the persons
named would not be used again on
CLASSIFIED work"
Violated the Rules.
II will be seen that away back in 1898
Postmaster Thomas violated the Civil
Service rulo by having his son and his
friends relative entered on the roll as la
boror and as Janitor respectively. and
that they drew their salary for services
which they did not perform,
When the attention OF the Civil Service
commission was brought TO this violation
by a member of the local board the
commission reported the postmastcr's
misconduct to the Postmaster-G General
Ordered Separated From Service.
The Postmaster General directed that
the postmaster's son and Miss May be
Immediately separated from the service.
and their positions filled by others who
wcro on the eligible register
Postmaster Thomas, on May o 1899 no.
tilted the commission that he would not
longer permit laborcrs and JanitoTs TO
perform clerical work in his office, and
that the services OF his son and Miss May
would not again be employed on the
classified work
Did Not Keep Faith.
Postmaster Thomas according to prov
able facts, did not keep faith with the
committee. Up to the present time Miss
May has not served as janitor. but mas
tyn rod ag "a N 40
clerical work. as she had been doing
the case several years ago.
Inspector Sharp Knows This.
Postonice Inspector Sharp knows this
and has known 1t ever since he was sta
this violation OF the law. The local Civil
Service boards secretary knows this and
II he has not reported the facts to the
Civil Service commission as they exist he
is either incompetent or for some purpose
has sought to assist the postmaster in de-
feating the purpose of the Civil Service
laWs.
Serious and Striking Case.
1t is serious and striking case Of
the absolute ignoring OF an order OF a
department. The only way to account
for the fact that the department has not
long before acted In this case is that
poStoftlcc inspectors have winked at or
connivcd at the local offenscs.
Had Frazier Removed.
Postmaster Thomas had Walter J Fra
Zier removed from the service on the
grounds that Frazier had struck his su-
peTior oihcer, man namc1 Paddock
Postmaster Thomas knows that this was
not the real cause leading up 10 Fra
zcr's dismissal He knows that any man
with self-rcspect would have acted very
much as Frazier did in that case
Ugly Story Behind This.
There Is an ugly story behind this FRA
zler afInir, and VI the department ever
gets the facts of II, there will BE- several
vacancies In the local postofHce
What Is Alleged.
Postmaster Thomas, il Is alleged and
those who say IL say they can prove It.
knows thut one OF Walter J. Frnzicr's
tormentors carried postal funds out of
tho postofflce and kept them lurng his
vacation, and did not return them until
Clerk Smith was arrested foc Ieculatlons
Postmaster Thomas Knows.
Postmaster Thomas knows, or at least
has been informed and was In position to
know, that one OF Ills particular heads of
a ,nYnts has r..I . Ia