| Show TULLOCH ANSWERS P Pa M GEN PAYNE He Takes rakes Exceptions to His Per Personal Personal Comments GIVES NO INFORMATION lie Ue 1 II Heady Read to 10 Substantiate lie He Has IIii II To Put Pul Washington Wll angton May fay ra feature of lodas developments In tho Investigation was a it letter Utter by Seymour W AV Tulloch for tor many years ears cashier of the tho Washington City posto to Payne In reply to the letter requesting any In ln Information Information formation Mr Tulloch might have hove to sustain his hla published statements chanting Irregularities In the department and the Washington City several Jereral years ago Mr r Tul Tulloch Tulloch loch In his letter which WaS wan mailed to the tonight takes exception to personal comments of Mr Payne and refrains from rain giving any facts bearing on the Investigation suggesting 8 that the tho officials o to whom Mr Ir Payne Pyne has written have all alt the th necessary data lla alt It if they choose to give It While thus refusing to give any i matlon matton In tho thu Utter tetter under the Mr tr Tulloch said aid tonight that he Is ready to substantiate everything I he lie has hos said but that he lie wants first to read the replies of or the tho persons to Whom the has written be before beI I tore fore going Into details Mr r letter to Mr PaYne says eys 1 I J have to acknowledge the receipt of or your letter of ot the tho th referring to certain statements statement said to have been Leen made by me reflecting upon certain cerI tain and which appeared In Inthe Inthe Inthe I the Washington Post According to accounts published throughout the doily dally press It H would ap appear appear appear pear that the postmaster dur durIng durIng Ing a n public Interview with reference to tho the in question and In the presence of or representatives of the IheI leading leadIn newspapers erR of or the country re me reo I 4 termed to me as a 0 mere nere windbag ns al alone g gone one who should make good his hll hot air airor airor or be publicly branded brandel an LU n a calumniator tor a 0 slanderer and a II liar Such lan Ian language languagE guage lit nt such sucha a time was apparently I unnecessary lot certainly undignified It lt Is also publicly stated that you OU h 1110 Ve addressed letters to Chart Charles Emory Smith Assistant Postmaster H n J comptroller of or the r 4 treasury fliRt and John A Merritt post postmaster postmaster postmaster master at Washington D P C e C request requestIng f Ing them to Inform you as aa to the truth of ot the statements contained In the In Interview interview ns nl published It If the tho gentlemen In Question que will reply and mid tell the truth t the te whole truth anti and nothing but bIt the truth they cannot I believe but fully tull substantiate the statements statement made and anything further from me Is Ia unnecessary unnecessary sary Bar Considering however the language attributed to the c I f would ii lf consider n It a l favor to be furn turn furnished furnished l copies of or the replies replieR received In 4 response to this request I r I 11 jr an a with the tile Associated Press tonight said laid In nn flu the letter as I J did It seemed to me one to be necessary story sary sar that I nut Iut Ut myself tight right before the public athe ui U the po master general gell alluded to me In the terms term mentioned In a II public manner and as ashe ashe he stated the gentlemen to whom he wrote did not confirm my state statements ment ments I reserve to myself mt the right to wad read the replies of those to whom he wrote ns as a of or the publication of ot my nw m statements mid to refresh the tho memories of or those parties If necessary I stand M as I always alwa a have stood st ready to make good any statements that I have made Before Defore going further In Inthe Inthe Inthe the matter however or exposing the i evidence I 1 have I want rant to have i 1 nn opportunity to read and ond criticise the 4 replies relies of the personA persons mentioned In my i letter That Is only ont fair The Tho next j t move now rests meets re to with the tho postmaster 4 general The e department Is b today making n a careful Investigation of ltd its It Itt t 1 affairs The facts I T have baO ave stated are by byno byrom byno no rom means nt They The are known to scores of ot persons 1 In tItle this city and are known to Fourth Assistant Postmaster Po t and his hll associates There here Is ii I no necessity for my m appear inc In as a 1 public I prosecutor In the tho race can I Iwas Iwu was wu willing at nt the time of the original Investigation Inv to 10 render Mr t what hat aid 1 I could bv by b the condi condition lion tion of affairs affair In the depart department department ment and the Washington I four tour and five years yearn tIo ti o with which I Iwas Will was aR familiar at 01 the timo of my m removal remo l an an obstacle Conditions ore now more mOIO Important than detAils It Is Ie a n well known knowlI fact tact IhRl Thomas Thoma W tV Gilmer dinner the special ex expert expert pert of the comptroller of trip the treasure e 1 otilee and nM one of the tho most efficient men In the service WAR removed bv by Comp Comptroller by IW order of Acting Secy ey rIl rho ho I believe bellee after I repented of or hili hie hasty hUI action nellon and advised Mr to ta for a n de detail detail tail lall to another bureau of the treasury department Mr GIltner had the writ r ten Orders Order of or tIle lite nt at the Imp of ot his removal prohibiting Mm him t from rom UP liP the th affairs or of iho the New I I York Vork and nail Washington ton posto lee As Alii fir as liS known no Investigation I of the and still Mill more inter t quitters quarters of O f the tho year ear wa I made maderi ri j by b elpe A the po d nt today tn J Payne PA ne cold cald hl there no new ne In th the In Inv inc c v atlon The Th ln In ti t re If still nt fit 1 work vOrk ork In most moat of I the bt of If the lie i j F uth ih Assistant i 1 lo re Ce d to in t Mr that h he rp ets to I submit his hili report nn on the lou l rt between June JUM 1 I and June U It I The Th cent r i of or salaries o ot 11 erk In the belna minutely examined and It II Is f thai hat ih the In many of th thI I L will have hue to 10 be over ocr 1 |
