Show M 0 REiN ME I Jc IP M ru L CH Castle it ad a T Tr eWel gai Explanations AllEGATIONS I ARE DENIED D Dj j OB PF OF iS MENTS livEN G vE OU OUT OUTS S Washington May Gen General ral Payne e toda today made public the answers of Henry A C Castle Je the die auditor of the treasury for r the depart department mente ment and Comptroller r Trac well ol of the treasury the Tull Tulloch h charges of r irregularities in the postal adminis administration administration The rs specifically deny allegations of f wrongful procedure Com Comptroller Trac Well charges T W formerly an expert of hiS office with abstracting g but s subsequently re returning returning turning upon demand the letter author authorizing izing Mr r Gilmer to e examine the ac accounts accounts counts of any postoffice except Wash Washington WashIngton ington and New York Mr alleges that this letter was written by Gilmer himself without any suggestion from the Mr Castle that the sum of f the allow allowances ances by Expert tilmer Gibner and the comp comptroller aggregated that the credits I finally disallowed d out oSt of a total of a a n were vete or of which he cla ms only 7 was incorrectly aud audited This Mr Castle says is the basis of Mr charge of of or The p I generals st statement nays that the let letter letter ter ate te made public at the st of j the two officials and that it wilt will ap appear appear pear from them b bow w much foundation there was for the Tulloch statements Porto Porte Rico Irregularities Regarding th the settlement arid quent revision of an account ot or the late inte I Postmaster Willett of Washington which involved Irregularities in POrto POrtoR PortoRico R Rico o the military tIon there C Castle sU s th that t every item bel believed to be illegal was disallowed by the auditors Office Mi Castle continues Some months after one Of df the quarterly I tery terly accOunts of th the Washington post postoffice office reporting rUng 2559 96 in expend expenditures es estOr fOr tOr aU all purposes with s veral thousand I distinct items had been T W Gilmer presenting the comptroller of the treaSury withdrew the same for rf r vision as by law He was new to postal Work and raised many entirely irrelevant questions in d letter asking for explanations whIch Mr Tulloch erroneously cites as a letter tram from the comptroller disallowing amOunts One after another the objections were abandoned by ExpOrt Gilmer or overruled b by the comptroller I Iwho who had secured d from the officials pledges that the Irregular practices ex cx posed b by Tulloch would be discon discontinued until the e amount disapproved to 9 96 Auditor CasU details to s show ow that this sum 1 was Vas legitimately e ex expended Short Summary The answer e of comptroller I to the general denies that I any political pressure was brought to t I bear or ci to se ure the sup i of the investigation t the Washington and that the eC cx hadr n completed He says says the general and the first as assistant assistant charged till Gil Gilmer tillmer mer with b anti and o and nd th that t caus caused d his d dt tie t tail iJ not ren v o 0 r officio e The letter says Gi 1 er ei was com competent painstaking and a Industrious |