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Show WILL BE PUNISHcJ?; MAYBE. Eiaminiug Into the Charges of Violating the Civil Service Law. Washington, May 13. The house committee com-mittee on reform in the civil service yesterday yester-day resumed investigation of the charges that certain federal employees in Baltimore had violated the civil service law without incurring in-curring punishment. Postmaster-General 'Wanamaker appeared, bringing with him, at the request of the committee, the report of the postofnee inspectors, in-spectors, giving the result of their investigation investi-gation into the Baltimore postoflice. He desired to say, in view of the comment upon the time that had elapsed between the investigation inves-tigation and the denials of the employees, that more than four months elapsed before the commission's investigation report reached the president, so tiiat the men had had no opportunity to make an earlier response re-sponse to the charges. Wanamaker further said that he had no disposition to defend these men, but could not personally investigate investi-gate them, but turned them over to the proper ollicers, and was governed by their reports. Boatner said: "It appears that these parties par-ties came before the commission authorized to make the investigation, and admitted their guilt, but that the postmaster, whose duty it was to dismiss them took no action, and when the matter came to you (Wanamaker), instead of acting upon the confessions of the parties, you instituted another investigation for the purpose of enabling the people to deny what they had already admitted." The posmaster.general moved his hand in remonstrance while the question was being put, and then replied: "I respectfully protest pro-test against the statement thai the investigation investiga-tion was institute i for the purpose of having the men deny the charges. It is not the truth." Kaines requested that Wanamaker be permitted per-mitted to proceed with the statement he had prepared, but Boatner insisted that the committee com-mittee wanted light on the point he suggested. sug-gested. He wished to know why the postmaster-general's department gn red ihe recommendation of the cdmtniss-O i and accepted ac-cepted the statement, ol the men made in exonerating the iisclves a- haTiug greater weight than the statements iUe made in-culcatiug in-culcatiug themselves. The postmaster-general quietly remarked that he bad n" informatiwn on the subject tha: he. was not Willing an I anxious to iay be .'ore the commit ee, UUi, he d -llicd the truth of tne Statement tiiat. any attempt was mode to shield the men or thai any unusual course was pursued. Mtv. : |
