BRISTOW IS CAUGHT IN HIS OWN INVESTIGATION OF POSTOFFICE AFFAIRS BULLETIN. ' WASHINGTON, March 7. Mr. Overstreet, chairman of the Committee Commit-tee oh Postofflces and ' Post. Roads, called up in the House today the privileged report of that committee on the Hay resolution calling for certain cer-tain information regarding the use i 'inln.en.cV Jb. jaemJbeJthe -j House to secure increases in salaries, etc., of postmasters. By unanimous agreement action on the resolution was postponed until Wednesday, when there will be three hours' general gen-eral debate on jthe motion to table the resolution. This was done that the report cf the committee on tne reso- Bristow Is Caught. ' (Continued from Page 1.) lution might be printed and read by all members of the committee. "WASHINGTON, March 7. Another chapter in the postofflce investigation of last summer was revealed today when Chairman Overstreet of the House Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads laid before the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives a document of 213 pages recounting re-counting the Instances on file In the Postofflce department In which members mem-bers of the Senate and the House are alleged to have used their Influences with officials of the Postofflce department depart-ment to secure increases in salaries of postmasters, additional clerk hire, and advantageous leases of buildings for postofflce purposes. This report is the result of an inquiry by the Committee. on Postoffices and Post Roads Into the charges and assertions asser-tions of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, whose much-heralded assertions as-sertions have during the past few weeks been so conspicuous in the newspapers of the country. The report submitted to the committee commit-tee by Bristow contains a great many charges of misuse of Congressional Influence In-fluence in the department to secure leases for Congressmen and Senators themselves, their relatives or friends, and other allowances. But the committee commit-tee finds upon Its own investigation and In its own judgment, unanimously, that the law has not been Infringed upon and that the Government has not been wronged. . . The only severe censure that seems to appear in fhe report made today by the committee is upon Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow himself, who has received so many favors for relatives and friends, favors upon a parity with those he has been so free to condemn. The report says: "ERIE, Kan. On January Tt, 1S99, J. L. Bristow, inclosed a letter from the postmaster, requesting that his allowance allow-ance for separating clerk hire be Increased In-creased from $120 to $180. stating that he would be very glad if the postmaster could be given the allowance requested by him. "On February. 25, 1S99, Mr. Bristow was informed that 'it had been decided, in view of your wishes and the figures submitted by the postmaster to increase the annual allowance for clerk hire at Erie, Kan., from $120 to $180, effective July 1, 1899.' "This Increase was made notwithstanding notwith-standing the report furnished by the postmaster, dated February 19, 1899, showed that he was only entitled to $50. "On June 27, 1903, the allowance for clerk hire was reduced to $50, effective July 1, 1903, the same being based on a report submitted to this office by the railway mall service." It would appear from various excerpts of the report that a number of Congressmen Con-gressmen or Senators either had post-office post-office leases made in their own names or in the names of relatives and- friends, when they themselves were the owners of the property. The report, it Is understood, will He upon the table indefinitely.