Show GOMES BACK ONCE MORE Mates Marcs Defense Defonso Against Counter CounterCharges CounterCharges CounterCharges Charges of Mr Merritt ATTEMPT TO fO DISCREDIT HIM Regarding Sn SI J To lu Compare Illi J Ill With Itt Kli ilia Ike hurll Washington Juno Tune W V Tulloch formerly cashier ca LIt of the Wash Washington ington city 1 under date datu of oC June 3 has huts written writ ton a letter to t Payne In to received from Crom Po ter of ot the tho Washington and other to tho the charges of or made by Mr letter In defense of ot coun ter s made hinds by lIy Mr Men Merritt lit Mr MI At Tulloch Mr Tulloch says that thin the tho charge chal e that under hit his regime us cashier cn of oC the Washington I payrolls Wore required to be signed Binned in iii blank even If true trul would only produce a n smile In Washington where huere probably the iii greater portion of ot governmental sign payrolls In blank The charge that a false voucher had been put hut lut In While Mr Ir Tulloch was cashier lie Ill save WAil nn on nay y nn ran attempt to discredit him and oven Mr Ir Merritt admits that the tho transaction was aas directed by II the recoil by the assistant o sl tant postmaster anti and aaA m directed for articles not that persons were ere paid two or three little or no sor un unIce Ice lee that a u physician was Illegally ap up appointed pointed whose position was a sinecure I lucre have been told that a n operating table woo was purchased for PrIvate uw uee anti and charged to this the th department a apostal tiM postal furniture that bitt promotion Wit wn suggested upon the thc proviso of or division with high In the time department that persons were appointed from from whom no ho service ns required upon a It complimentary roll that arrests In III Porto lorto Rico were not fully rull that hint useless Junkets were frequent to Porto Rico and Cuba that patrons paid bald from the thc military postal service A AA Y TT T T the tho money retained was vas paid to persons dUlY duty designated ine J 11 hi ie tarts hf Ie says are re that substitutes lutes tulls named by the till vIed civil com coin commission mission served ened the without IY except when they the tilled temporarily the place of at clerks und recoiled receIved their In ay As Ate some clerks to 10 pay 1111 their substitutes the th postmaster IH directed that to of ot clerks who had been absent the signed l re cc receipts colitis hi full till of the substitute should l bo be u put lilt In the tho clerks pay lU envelope and una the amount It IL called lor br and una paid laid to the substitute by b his hub division superintendent The fh particular In III Instance stance tonce cited by top Postmaster Merritt he hc wag where whre an nn employs tatter after a n drunken spree was lined IUler I than dismissed t stud and the money divided ed hy liy II Ills Ids superintendent nt among substitutes for tor services rendered the postmaster by b written order directing the cashier to do o this Mr I r Tulloch declares that tho t while In he ht dill did report Irregularities to hi hl his Immediate superiors anti and the tho inspectors lit lie denies the charge that ho was WUK as mercenary with Ith the late lato Postmaster Willett and says sn Mr I Wil Willett lett lell himself suggested payment to the IIII write fm to seti hing his accounts anti and that Tulloch offered to do It for Mr Ir personally for tor or nothing but Liter It was arranged that some sonic of at the clerks should do 10 the work vork which re cc related hated chien to 10 Porto Rico RIo Mi Mc II letter Itter then thon continues In closing I may state that It tins him not ant been be shown hown to 11 the contrary In tn any ai nf or the replies you OU have hae hR published that t n m n ver Wi from local funds Instead of ot by I the tho proper disbursing of oC the department l that an attempt was suns made to cause caUM all employee to bond under und r a II pIngle blanket Fond bond with some ethic of ot the t h favored fa com corn that the regulations r of ot Iho tIm department dt were ere tainted In tn tor fn a 11 aletter aletter letter box In which prominent officials wore were raid pall to be Interested upon the he public even to 10 the unauthorIzed usa uee of or the postmasters authority and aimI against his protest that payments were iere had their th lr salaries continued for Cor months after ceasing all service and that sill sal salaries set aries urics were also continued utter after had hn ceased et to take taku up UI Irregular ex cx expenses eXpense pense As s to the reply rell of or former First Ir t As Assistant heath Mr r Tulloch says All that thaI Is necessary Iq 11 l to compare my Ill charges with his general denial He lie then that his representations remain In all i essential s par lar true rule and not dIsproved l and closes with a u denial that there Is any III otIl within the th gift of ot the department that he would accept or that lint he ever authorized tl his hili friends to 10 seek seck his hl reinstatement |