Show IT FELL VERY FLAT A Confemptable Attempt to Stai a Scandal WHAT WILL THEY DO WIT IT Distinguished Celestials Studying America 3Iethods < V Candidate for Corea Mr Jacksons Appointment Special to TUB HERALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON April 22The attack Qn the part of certain enemies of the administration tration upon PostmasterGeneral Wana maker connection with the circular letter let-ter of Wauamaker Brown to countr postmasters has fallen rather flat The postmastergeneral so promptly showed < that he was not connected with the firm of Wanamaker A Brown and had not been for a number of years that there was no time for a scandal to be started It is a common custom for periodical pub ications aud dealers in all sorts of notion t o offer commissions to postmasters for obtaining ob-taining subscriptions and orders and this custom is not discouraged by the postoffic department The first and second cass postmasters are forbidden to engage in anther an-ther business but this does not apply to the postmasters of lower grades some of whom receive no more than 115 I or 20 per year from the government Postmaster are certainly asked to do things requiring vastly more labor than recommending for an agency and where it does not interfere with their official duties they are encouraged encour-aged to comply on the ground of courtesy to the public The gossip in the hotel corridors last ngnt clears tao postmastergeneral 01 any blame and is rather severe upon the men who have sought by this means to put him down The President is understood to cordially sustain him |