Show POST r OFFICE INQUIRY ExCashier Tulloch Replies to Gen Paynes Letter I DOES NOT LIKE COMMENT i Takes Exception to Remarks Attributed to Mr Payne Refrains From Giving Any Facts Bearing Upon the Investigation I Now Being Made Washington May 7A feature of I todays developments in the postoillcc investigation was a letter by Seymour W Tulloch for many years canhier of 5 the Washington City postofllce to Postmaster General Payne In reply to the latters letter requesting any Information In-formation Mr lulloch might have to sustain his published statements r charging IrrcgularitlCB In the poatofflcc department and the Washington City p postofllce neveral years ago Mr Tulloch In his letter which was mailed to the Postmaster General tonight to-night takes exception to personal comments of Mr Payne and refrains from giving any facts bearing on tho investigation suggesting that the officials offi-cials to whom Mr Payne has written have all the necessary data if they choopc to give Il While thus refusing to give any information in-formation in the letter under the circumstances cir-cumstances Mr Tulloch said tonight that ho is ready to substantiate everything every-thing he has Paid but that he wants first to read the replies of the persons to whom the Postmaster General has written before going into details Mr Tullochs letter to Mr Payne says I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the uth inst referring to certain statements said to have been made by me reflecting upon certain officials of-ficials und which appeared in the Washington Post According to accounts published throughout the dally press it would W appear that the Postmaster General during a public Interview with reference refer-ence to the article In question and in the presence of representatives of the I leading newspapers of the country referred J re-ferred to me as a mere windbag as one Who should make good his hot air or be publicly branded as a calumniator calumni-ator a slanderer and a liar Such language lan-guage at such n time was apparently unnecessary und certainly undignified It is also publicly stated that you have addressed letters to exPostmas ter General Charles Emory Smith Fourth Assistant Postmaster General It J Tracewell Comptroller of the Treasury and John A Merrill postmaster i master at Washington D C requesting request-ing them to Inform you as to the trujLh of the statements contained In the interview in-terview as published If the gentlemen In question will reply and tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but I the truth they cannot I i believe but fully substantiate the statements made and anything further from me is unnecessary un-necessary Considering however the language attributed to the Postmaster General I would consider It a favor to be furnished fur-nished with copies of the replies received re-ceived In response to this request Mr Tulloeh In an interview with the Associated Press tonight said In answering i an-swering the Postmaster Generals letter I let-ter as I did it seemed to me to be I necessary that I should put myself right before the public is the Postmaster Post-master General alluded to me in the terms mentioned In a public manner 4 and as he stated that the gentlemen to whom he wrote did not confirm my statements I reserve to myself the right to read the replies of those to whom he wrote ns a result of the publication pub-lication of my statements and to refresh re-fresh the memories of those parties 1C necessary I stand UI I always have stood ready to make good any statements state-ments that I have made Before goIng go-Ing further In the matter however or exposing the evidence I have in hand J want to have an opportunity to react and criticise the replies of the perKons mentioned In my letter That is only fair The next move now rests with the Postmaster General The postofllce department la today making a careful investigation of Its affairs a af-fairs The facts I have talcd arc by no J meana new They arc known to nconjs of persons In this city and are known to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General and hIs associates Thoro IB l no nocea nlly for my appearing as a public proBc tutor In the case I was willing at the time of the original Investigation to ren tier what aid I could by staling tho conditions con-ditions of nffalrn In tho pOHtofflco department 4 depart-ment and the Washington porflofflcft four and live years ago with which I was per Bonnlly familiar at tho limo of my removal re-moval as un obalacle Conditions fire now more Important than details It IB a wellknown fact that Thomtw AV GHmcr the oiieclnl expert of tho Comptroller of the Treasury office and one of tho most efficient mon In the SLrvlcu wan removed by Comptroller Tmri wf > lt t liv order nf Aotlntr Secretary Vandorllp who Y Iwliovo I afterward ro ICn leI or 1U hasty action and mJvwod Mr Gllnior to apply for n detail to another an-other bureau of the Treasury department depart-ment Mr Gilmer had tho written orilcni r r of the Cniintrollcr at the time or his removal re-moval prohibiting him from taking up tho airalra of the New York and Washington Wash-ington postofflcce AH fur as known no further investigation of the succeeding und Dtlll more Interesting quarters of they the-y nr was made by any ono else At the pOBlpflloo department today Postmaster GeiTonil Payne said there wore no ntw development In the Investigation Investiga-tion The huipictont are still at work In 11 w of thu branches of the department nJ tho Fourth Asnlstant Postmaster General han reported to Mr Pnyne that he cxpecta to submit hlu report on tho Invalidation between Juno 1st and Juno lth Tho recent rnulju tmont of salaries of clerks In tho presidential postoftleea la liiIng minutely examined anil it IB ix peeLed that th rolls in many of tho larger pastofJce3 wut have to bo overhauled |