| Show PAYNE RISES IN tN HIS WRATH AND 1 BOUNCES POSTOFFICE FIREMAN FIRtMAN Washington on May Xay Postmaster General Payne today dismissed df James Jame I Dower Dow a fireman employed in the poet po t office department as a result of ot charges that Dower recently I against Chief Engineer James O ton nell nen and other r superior officers Dower aT al ged that a ring to govern promo promotions i tlona tiong and other matters existed in n the engine room and that improper con contract CO contracts tract tracts had been made The charges j I A were ere investigated by a postoffice po in inspector and the report does not sus sustain su tan tain tam them The postmaster general an announced flounced today that the action of I Dower ower in making the frivolous and scandalous charges giving them pub publicity publicity I betty and then falling failing utterly to sus sustain IS 1 tain tam them is to the detriment of tT e I service sence and subversive of ail all discipline dt cl i pline the discharge of Dower is or ordered ordered ordered dered for the good of the service The inspectors report says ys Dower is report reported ed by Assistant Engineer En neer Anderson Andersen n to have incited or attempted to Incite other to acts of insubordination tion turn Dowers complaint t e inspector continues contains statements con confirming confirming confirming firming the declarations as te to his Ills dis dissatisfaction satisfaction with his assignments a and acts of ot insubordination and conduct de do demoralizing demoralizing moralizing to the force Mr Dower has haJJ permitted his feeling of resentment re over his bis failure to secure a promotion to betray him into disseminating dl scan scandals I daIs dals and recklessly ly formulating charges barges involving the official integrity j of his hi superior perlor officers Some of his charges charge are grossly y exaggerated while I other charges as U shown by the i I statements statement of his associates are ab absolutely i untrue Inspector Ift Fornes Forn s today I took charge of the free tree delivery serY service servIce ice lee General Genera Superintendent Machen who was relieved from duty yesterday did not appear to turn over the office He sent word that he was too ill to come Possible Po Changes Postoffice Po Inspector In Thorpe of New NewYork Tork York City who has been assisting in inthe inthe the th investigation of the department will Mill remain a as 88 acting superintendent supe to assist as Mr Fosnes in handling some of the details of the work The investigation may result in other changes in inthis Inthis inthis this branch of the service One of the F possibilities pos of the present situation is I Ithe the abolition of the office of general geneI superintendent on the ground that it itis ItIs itIs is a place the Ule functions of are covered by the superintendent of the city free delivery service and iu JW tAe te su superintendent superintendent superintendent of the rural free delivery service and the tile superintendent of af the rural free tree delivery Postmaster General Payne said tiki today I that the transfer of the free delivery I to the office of the fourth assistant and andI Mr indefinite leave was without the full knowledge and acquis I cence cones of oC the first assistant postmaster general Mr Wynne Wyn e Tulloch in Washington Seymour w Tulloch the former 1 cashier of t the Washington city dt post postoffice postoffice office who in a newspaper interview lB nIe made grave charges against the ad administration administration administration ministration of the postal service at atthe atthe I Ithe the time of his removal moval r was wu In the city today Mr Tulloch saM said that as asa asa asa a matter of courtesy courtes to the postmaster O general he M would await a reasonable time for that official to act en on his hs re request request request quest for copies of letters from Former Postmaster ter General Charles Emory Smith Comptroller Post Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster master Merritt of oC this city and anC Fourth FourthA Assistant A Postmaster General Bristow M Tulloch declined to say whether whet he would then make public the information Information mation maLlen in his hands bands to sustain his statements statement though insisting that he had ample data to corroborate his charges Opinion of Bristow It is a curious coincidence said s ld Mr Tulloch that the suspension of Mr Machen follows so closely the be e receipt of oC the replies to the letters the post postmaster postmaster master general sent regarding my m statements If the truth were told the information those replies contained must have fully borne out everything that I have said Mr Bristow is 15 a thoroughly honest and an l fearless investigator investigator investigator and his reply must have em embodied embodied embodied bodied data of which the postmaster general had not been previously aware If the replies already in exonerated the officials accused the letters lett rs woud have been immediately made m de public p bl c The department now knows all about the conditions I have haye referred to |
