Show I 1 rTE r-TE EGR THIG NEWE 4 JYW8r Washington 23The forlhoomlnj report to President Arthur by Judgi e Tjraer first assistant poitmftBtar general excites interest here Judge Tyner it8 sid will claim that he first called attention atten-tion to the star route irregularities alsc that from his TynerO report Postmaster Postmas-ter General James obtained his firs knowledge of the subject Judge Tyner tonight declined t see reporters upon the ground that he was very clesely engaged en-gaged PoEtmatter General James being questioned tonight said he had no means of knowing what claims or asser ticms Judge Tyner would make in his statement or whether he would make aiy statement at all and until he Ihould have something more tangible than newspaper reports of Judge Tyners intentions in-tentions he must decline to talk on the subject A trustworthy source says Postmaster Post-master General James did not obtain his first knowledge of star route irregularities from Judge Tyners reports Jfailmlle Tsnn 23Judge Key ex postraaster general was interviewed today to-day by an American preES reporter relative to the recent publications regard i g aasitiMtt Peitmaster General Tyners alleged oamotion with the star reute frauds Jugde Key says in the summer of 79 he sent Tyner to mrettisate the service on the Pacific coast Tyner returned in the autumn and submitted sub-mitted a written report Key read it and told Tyner that if the report was published that we should have a row that Brady would feel that his territory had been invaded and advising him Tyner to have a conference with Brady that he believed Brady to be honest and capable private examination showed that in every instance Bradys action was sustained by reports to the department depart-ment Judge Key says that he did not doubt the department had been imposed upon in some instances and expressed in strongest terms his confidence in the honesty of both Brady and Tyner 3e refers also to the fact as an indication of the approval of his conduct that Congress Con-gress considered the recommendations by himself and Brady and made an appropriation ap-propriation to supply the deficiency recommended re-commended He concluded that it would have beau impertinent and inexcusable inex-cusable to have flown in the face of Congress Con-gress and claimed more wisdom and honesty than that body Judge Tyners statement will be laid before the President probably tomor row after which it will be given out for publication The statement made by friends of Tyner to the effect that he early called the attention of Postmaster general James to the existence of hit report re-port on Oregon and California routes is denied by high postofflce officials They say that not until Uegruo was removed did Tyner produce his suppressed report all the facts in which had by that time become > known to James from his own investigations New York 24The Times referring Tyners statement published yesterday says Tyners tale that he discovered the star route frauds in 79 and made a confidential con-fidential report on the matter and that he was persuaded by Preaideht Hayes to keep his report to himself for the sake harmony in the party is delightfully ingenious The report has just been broughtto the light of day and it is thesis > the-sis on which Tyner builds his defense To account for the appearance in 81 of a report said to have been written in 79 and to get in a claim for Tyoer being the original discoverer of the star route frauds it was only necessary to propar a document and then assert that it had been locked up in Tyners safe over since 79 The grotesquely improbable part of this story is that which represents him as anxious in 79 to prosecute the moa whom he was busily defending in 80 Times Washington The President fully understands this entire matter and the request for Tyners resignation was the result of thorough inquiry into that gentlemans official conduct Nothing that Tyner or his friends can do will save him and Frank Hatton will be nominated tomorrow or Tuesday to be first assistant postmastergeneral The story that Grant interceded with the President Pre-sident for Tynors retention is also untrue un-true Grant has not uttered a word in Fyners behalf but on the contrary oined in recommending the appointment of Hatton as his successor In an interview inter-view with the President yesterday Fyner discovering that he could not ontinue to hold his present place asked to be appointed commissioner of railways rail-ways which office is now vacant but hia request was peremptorily refused by he President it to |