Show I CO APART REPORT GIVEN OUT Gives front from JC legal or ilU and Nature of thc Tulloch Changes Chauges AUDITOR CASTLE CENSURED and ilnI Gravely buses l In Office of hest sst l P IL General r Dee Dec report ot of Conrad and on the made b by S W Tulloch for formerly 01 merl merly mender or of thc he city Ilce the of tills this ulnae waa mode today Under Instructions from the thc the report the from a eta The report lie with n brier history of oC the nil nn turn turo o of the charger CS It taken es tip 1111 In III detail the ot of Improper liP m or of and er el of oC public funds and the tho were well ell found roun founded ed It adds that the Iho le poll for thin extend In tunic to tho lute pO ho to 10 lit at tolerated the Iho lifter after ot of Its existence to the lute and the present lit each Inh of oC who to tn have accepted the transfer ter to tits ot of n II number ot of persons Ihus employed so far aN Is shown I or exposure facts to 10 In loll bur Mer letter of oC June JUlie 2 the tho ot of Corm furnn furnner Cormer er Auditor the report says Wu Vu night might give gle further lIolIs of the apparent to 10 the usual the tho hut but thiN Is III bemuse 1 the came HilmI In our Judgment In matters far more Hellou SALARY ACCOUNTS WI Ve ha 1 already Neon Heen t that lUI he not only parsed the Iho for Cor the ers rs or 1111 Ill and ot of the In III Oil on overtime tho scene and of aC who o o othe the could not had find out from Crom the or any One OM rice ns lis to the these elt It Is IH although hardly probable that ho he army have bee been II mis misled led hut huh actually Mr the tho Illegal anti fraudulent claim for Cor expenses whIch os ne dr 11 own says really constituted salary the salary or of an 1111 Heavers did not lIot end could not legally hold and which no one not nol even tie could have him fit fitos 80 os as to bind the United either elthor le Ie gully or morally to keep keell the Conrad and Bonaparte In Ii hit that The discussion lon of oC the Tulloch charges es I has reveal tl the existence of oC Ie de and gravely discreditable aliases during the Ille years ears 1899 1698 1899 1898 and 1800 1000 In the anti the of oC the Bret po post t muster general ACTS These abuses ell involved conduct on the pert of oC the various nubile which woe Was certainly often oCten illegal and mn may have been bUt such If IC ro committed 1111 were ere In ht nil 1111 mort then yens before wu we wire 1111 ordered to In the charges rind FO to fill far as we tse clearly I Informed more than Ihan three years 11 interview ot of May 11 t 1 last Inal and Conrail nn Ilo department and subordinates for the tho actual conditions condition set lot forth Corth In the report but bUI mill add PARTIES Charles Emory mor Smith late Into ter lor James P 1 Willett lute post taster of oC Washington no nosy deceased i Johll Jahn A Merritt 11 his hI successor In the 1441 hi and Its present Hobert J and A Castle II HilI auditor ot of the post III all appeared to 10 have hlo shared to In some their re IC lie late postmaster gen gell oral for his hili seeming failure allure repented to 10 vinte the gravity or of they misconduct the Necessity for its prompt trod punishment the Iho two tor COI toleration of ct these and to 10 ho orders without exposure or nil op fiul the Iho and comptroller for noting upon lax and nud III ar arbitrary principles In the Iho of oC their whereby the payment ot of Illegal and fraudulent claims h by the treasury was WaR rendered possible PUBlIC The continue The ho of subordinates In about to 10 become classed for tor forthe the purpose of oC thus securing their nil ad lon without Into the classified was 1 a practise In legis and guilty or of It their own unfitness for IIII The or labor to do work was clearly Illegal filth under the express lions of the tho service rules rule to 10 ho be pa h by from froll All agreement II by nil any with 1111 any lIer person oll or out of oC the Iho public H that the latter shall rr 11 calve coho the Iho or of ment coder the pretense or of being crit 1111 nn any services to 10 the government constitutes n conspiracy to 10 defraud hy by nay nil overt net len lending to Its 1111 II by ot of the tho Par Parties ties renders nil of cC then un 1111 del the terms lerms of oC the United re ce revised section UNJUST TO 10 The Tho or of Thomas W V to 10 different work lit of 1 a low lower grade aril nl at n reduced b by p i A Van then thell acting secretary of the tho treasury under nil the It was apparently unjust mud and certainly In 10 tho Interest It would h ba generally and naturally understood by bl cognizant ot of It ns nit n a indicted 01 on II a who hail h by the honest discharge of oC his duty dilly red the ho of oC active and politicians It seems to have been beell preceded by no on line Iho part of oC acting secretary would render proper investigation ot of the tho conduct were Iw ho still lu III the tho United States ser service service vice I NO OPINION express no ns its to tc the propriety of oC W removed from Crom the tho of oC cashier h by Merritt the tho anti discourtesy hy by the tho latter In effecting this removal seem to have been and tend to cast grave doubt douht upon the tho Rood good faith fulth ot of his explanations o of the tho removal It self nut his hili course was IS clearly regel iii hi public Interest nM as leading nit to lO the better hollor that tho Iho cashier had heen In feet for Cor his allure In comply with vi hi Irregular curd tiled ovell Ille Illegal gal Kul upon the funds lu III hid hili cus custody tOIl tody II N 0 I very NT respectfully recommend n II bo be ordered It If It II hits hns not been a 01 tiered n II of the Ihl or of Iho b 0 of the tho nd 1111 of cf the Now York post and c of oC the Iho 1 8 IU to II tit of the o of the tho al tar tOr ll the Acts yours It Is probable that this lugs been belli In III great part pile pilI alit Id h by tho at tIon ot of the tho host hut huh 1 C lire are not lIot at the Iho of oC lag Ing this report full fully Informed its to 10 the Ihl scope of oC the mow 1101 for fOI several months hs In III his orders we e to 10 submit it II V f have e been very Ir favorably L C the zeal fidelity IIII and of oC the Inspectors mid deem theta them fully competent under III the ut of the tho Kon geu to 10 conduct an as Is III hero hem suggested a carefully chosen choson fl small 11 ho hI hy by the pi III esl dent to t n plan ehy the work worl of the or of the Ihl e fird ot of llie may he be removed from all 1111 political or 01 other othol e l the um om herein employed protected fro runt Injury through thE Ihl they Incur In III thu Ihl or of and the complete cad untie of nil all engaged in this o of the government secured through their selection hy by tree free pro 1110 f lr only anti assurance o of tenure luring during the tho ot of on their uw n t rho Is 18 eth 11 to III the Ira of oC II a letter Clout Merritt grave against Jh It These Nuns uto 1111 considered In III detail mud tho conclusion reached that they tb not require of nil nay of the tho con or hereto heretofore fore Coto nude The report to a letter lettel tram Crom former I ter to 10 tho In which certain meats lire are node on the report and Pays Smith letter lettel nothing leading 1111 to 10 doubt the Iho cur cor or of the In the tho report rho report odds 11 letter shows to our minds not only that there was us ns W we said n a allure 01 of his part while in III to 10 the rho gravity of oC the disclosed hy by tho tunings t Ill 1 received hut but that ho he fulls to appreciate thIs situation Dec report of oC MeRn Conned and Oil on their ot of the Iho report en cn endorses that thai report generally hut but non lion concurs its to certain passages recommends prompt publication of the report It suggests that the report should tote how gravely lh the statute or of has Interfered with the tho or of notorious of oC offenders fenders f exposed la the report and HUg Fasts that pro tho statute eon he be length tined to lit al Tenet live years eaIS The fhe line tow tOll report In referring to n says The Of the legality of n a with a Is 1 a mat matter ter that should reccie consideration III connection with this bits case Conrad and Bonaparte sug eug gesl fIM that the thu none and the tho material facts In III the transaction should have given They Thoy ulso soy In that the lie of oC the names ot of the members of oC Congress with wham Mr MI says Heavers Beavers made mude Ion cone for the rental ot of Is just to congressmen smell generally They Ther non In ht the conclusion or of Mr ho he says he does OI lint offer 1111 uny men lit at whose Instance Beavers In Increased creased n rental where 1 a ten years urs lease t Exceptions ore ads III PO tn taken en to 10 Mr 11 to Consul lit at its liS probably mowing as much about hula fraud liS as any other parlY Conrad lint I parte Imrie say 11 while Ills his connection I needs neels lie he Is fairly entitled to I it suspension of judgment until h he heline line hils bind opportunity to explain III as ashe hu he Is u 11 null of cr Roof good They 1111 aleo object to the inclusion lolI o of the name ot of U 0 A the 11 clerk recently allowed to resign in 1 a In the report that speaks o of the o of Ty Tyner f nero ner Barrett IIII and etc fh They Ha say as the tho anco of II wits recommended n a toll Cull ho hoIs hols ls Is entitled to the tho benefit or of fit 11 front nil all suspicious o of of cC It h by that his methods were the tho same liS as and |