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Show POWER OF BRISTO W IS ATTACKED IN CONGRESS , . . . . Waters Shows That the Fourth Assistant, Inspired .Charges Against - Congressmen In Report there were a hundred such cases. The answer was that about 700 reductions had been made. Mr. Cochran said if Mr. Waters did not want to "volunteer" "volun-teer" the information he would have the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General write a letter, asking for the information. in-formation. Mr. Waters requested the letter. His recollection was that the letter was later received,- although he put his clerks at work to prepare the list. The letter, however, la not on file in his papers and he concluded that it was never received. The list was prepared up to November Novem-ber 19. 1903. At the request of Mr. Bartlett, the original list was produced and retained by the committee. Mr. Bartlett then went over the ground with Mr. Waters to get his impression im-pression for the reason Inspector Cochran Coch-ran wanted the list In the first instance, and asked, "They wanted the list of the names of Congressmen and wanted you to state if it was safe to say there were 100 such cases?" "That is my recollection." " "Did he give you any reason?". "I Inferred from the conversation that a statement had been made or he was called upon to make a statement about a number of such cases, and he wanted to know if it was safe to say it." "Prior to that. time," aaserted Mr. Bartlett, "a statement had been made public in which it had been stated that there were 100 cases of that character?" "I could not say that any such statement state-ment had been made public," replied Mr. Waters. "I had not at that time, or since, seen the Brtstow report." - Mr. Waters added that he thought that was the only object In preparing the list. , . The committee then went into executive execu-tive session and discussed-the' testimony testi-mony which bad been taken. WASHINGTON. March 23. Outside of a few routine matters the House of Representatives Rep-resentatives devoted the entire day to further discussion of the postof floe ; appropriation ap-propriation bill, but disposed of only one page of the bill. Mr. Butler (Pa.) endeavored ' unsuccessfully unsuccess-fully to have passed sn amendment -designed to trsnsfer back, to, the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General Jurisdiction of the free delivery and rural delivery service. Mr. Moon (Tenn.).. the-ranking minority minor-ity member Of the committee, said It was a conspiracy to take away the Fourth Assistant Postmsster-GeGiieral's duties given to him under the law. He said there was a motive 'behiad it alL . An amendment by Mr. Tawney (Minn.), which was agreed to, prohibits the Postmaster-General from ordering out of post-offices post-offices telephone companies other, than the Bell Telephone eompany. Another amendment by Landls,' permitting permit-ting the leasing of cancelling machines, wss adopted after a spirited debate. The Senate spent the greater part of yesterday on the Indian appropriation billj Mr.-Lodge took exception. to the provision exempting candidates for the position of Indian asency farmer-from civil service examination, and on his sugiretlon the amendment was passed over without ac- llLater in the day Senator-elect Dick of Ohio appeared in ' the Senate chamber. He-went direct to Senator-Foraker a seat' ... and was cordially greeted, but their conference con-ference was cut short by the announcement announce-ment of an executive session from which Mr. Dick, not yet having taken the oath of office, was excluded under the rules of the Senate. WATERS RELATES HOW - BKISTOW - REQUESTED ' THAT LIST OF NAMES. WASHINGTON, March 23. In his testimony before the House committee, Charles W. Waters, superintendent of the salaries and allowance division of the Postoffloe department, said that' on- the '1st of November, 1903, ' the . chief postofflce Inspector, Mr. Cochran,. sent for him and told him that on account of the statements state-ments that would be made In the Brls- tow report he wanted to know how much work It would-be to get up a list from1 the files of all matters relating to reductions for separating allowancea Heasked .to have the statements show whether the allowance, when made, was excessive. Mr.. Cochran ; was told this would entail a large amount of work. ; Mr. Cochran asked If it was safe to say |