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VOL.IX.
COLUMBUS, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1903.
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THE NEGROES ! LOSE.
EDUCATORS MEET.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
PAPERS HELD BACK.
Celebrated French Army Case May
Be Opened Again.
HE WRITES A POLITE REQUEST
Dreyfus Claims That the Court That
Tried Him Was Unduly Influenced
By Outsiders.
Paris, By Cable. Alfred Dreyfus
has suDmiuea to Minister or war
Andre a lengthy letter, in which he
earnestly asks for the re-opening of
his case by means of ah investigation
by the Minister, as the supreme, head
of military justice. The . letter, which
is dated Paris, April 21, confirms the
reports that Dreyfus had been living
quietly for some time. It promises to
cause a tremendous agitation among
the various elements of the political
groups for and against Dreyfus. The
first part of the letter is an earnest
plea that the court which condemned
him at Rennes was Improperly in
fluenced, first, by the annotated docu
ment ascribed to Emperor William
and, second, by the false testimony of
one of the witnesses; Czernski.
After arguing on the extent to
which these contributed to his con
demnation, Dreyfus recalls in graphic
terms the long series of horrors to
which he had been subjected. The let
ter throughout is couched in a highly
dramatic style, which is likely to
make it one of the notable papers of
the case. It refers to Esterhazy as
"one who stands before the entire
world as the culprit." One of the pas
sages, showing the rhetorical style,
is as follows:
"I will not recall, Mr. Minister,
what I have endured since 1894. Pic
ture to yourself the horrors of a sol
dier whose life was devoted to duty, to
work, to loyalty, and to profound de
votion for his country and who in an
instant is stripped of his good name
and despoiled of the honor of himself
and his children. For five years this
soldier is subjected to horrible suf
ferings. They seek to crush him physi
cally, to annihilate him morally. He
is absolutely innocent of all crime and
struggles in vain to penetrate the mys
tery, proclaiming his innocence and
struggling with all the forces, .of . his
mind and body for that supreme pleas-
-ate ot vindicating his good name and
character. Days, months, years pass
thus in most cruel agony, amid the
tortures of a murderous climate. At
last he is brought back to France the
guilty one is discovered and the sol
dier hears himself proclaimed inno
cent by those who before reviled him
as a-traitor. It was thus, Mr. Minis
ter, that I hoped to see my martyr
dom ended. But alas if I returned to
And the devotion of friends who had
battled for the truth- it was to 'find
also that deadly hatre.ds had been un
loosed, i .
"In the processes of 1894 I was stab
bed in the back; I cannot imagine how
such conditions can prevail through
falsehood and deception. But so it was
and my second condemnation was but
an aggravated reaffirmation of what
occurred in 1894. When the guilty one
was known and unmasked and Eater
hazy was recognized as the author of
the treason, the same men who had
cheated justice in 1894 again sought
in 1899 to cheat justice fojxthe second
time by the same criminal manoeuv
res. Conscious of these methods, the
government of the republic will not
permit itself, to keep in prison one
who is known to be innocent. .
"In constant thought of ultimate le
gal revision, I have reassembled little
by little all the divergent elements of
testimony contributing to my convic
tion. I have remained silent with the
firm conviction that justice would
surely have its day of triumph. The
victim of criminal tactics and viola
tion of the law twice committed
against me, now I address myself to
the supreme chief of military justice,
and, supporting myself by new facts
which have been elicited and by the
existence of the pretended bordeau
and note by Emperor William I am
going to ask that you Institute an In
quiry first upon the uses made of this
false document at Rennes and the
consequences it produced on those
rendering judgment; second, upon the
false and fraudulent testimony of
Czernuski at Rennes."
Instructions to Be Opened.
Buffalo, Special. Attorney Wallace
Thayer will open the sealed instruc
tions left him by the late Arthur R.
Pennell. The instructions are supposed
to relate to the disposition of $25,
000 of life insurance held by Mr,
Thayer by.an assignment in trust for
Pennell. The document will be pro
duced in court tomorrow. The insur
ance money, it is believed, is intend
ed for Mrs. Burdick.
Negro Beaten to Dath.
Bainbridge, Ga., Special. Monday
night at an .early hour Andrew Rainey,
a negro, was .taken away from Con
stable Bell by a mob and so badly
beaten that he died. The constable
was on the way to this place with
Rainey to place him in jail to await
" trial on a charge of arson. He was sus
pected of having fired the residence oi
Fred Lange, a farmer, thirteen miles
in the country, in the night time and
when the family were asleep in the
house. Near the' town the mob over
took the deputy and prisoner and de
manded the latter under pain of death.
Rainey was terribly - beaten and his
skull was fractured. After the beating
he was carried to jail, where he died
this morning. . , , ,
Many Matters of Oeneral Interest In
Short Paragraphs. .
Down In Dixie.
Two inches of snow fell at Bluefield,
W. Va., on Wednesday.
Before Judge Moffat, in the Roanoke
county court at Salem, Va., Wednesday,
eight cases in which the Norfolk &
Western Railway was some time ago
convicted before a- magistrate's court
of unlawfully running freight trains on
the Sabbath, and fined $50, and costs in
each case, the jury decided against the
railroad.
At The National Capital.
The Postoffice Department has dis
continued the services of inspectors of
stamp-canceling machines.
The Government is planning to con
struct . the largest artificial lake in the
world in Arizona for irrigation pur
poses. It is said Civil Service Commissioner
William Dudley Foulke may resign in
order to try to combat the Fairbanks
Presidential movement in Indiana.
Officials in Washington are watching
with interest developments in the
tcharges of smuggling made against
certain officers in Porto Rico.
An animated controversy is in pro
gress to decide whether the naval ob
servatory shall be transferred to the
Department of Commerce or remain
Tinder the Navy Department.
A bid of 102,513 for all or any part of
the $3,000,000 certificates of indebted
ness of the Philippines was the best re
ceived. '
At The North.
It is reported that Miss Halite Erm
inie Rivers is to desert literature for
the stage.
Sons of the American Revolution
held an annual banquet in New York
Saturday night.
The Northern Securities Company
has declared the regular quarterly divi
dend of 1 1-8 per cent., payable on May
The boodle investigations at St.
Louis and Jeff ersdh Cltyv Mo., are lead
ing to the belief that bribery was much
more extensively practiced in the Leg
islature than had been supposed.
Stockholders of the United States
Steel Corporation chose directors who,
it is said, will re-elect President
Charles M. Schwab.
The Pressed Steel Car Company has
declared the regularly quarterly divi
dend of 1 per cent, on the common
stock and the second quarterly install
ment of 1-4 of 1 per cent, on the extra
dividend of 1 per cent, recently -authorized.
The Northern Securities Company
and allied interests filed at St. Paul
their appeal to the United States Su
preme Court in the merger case; the
company was allowed by tho court to
disburse dividends.
Justice Gilgerich, in New York,
granted an order permitting William
K. Vanderbilt, head of that family, to
marry again.
Frederick Spang, of Pittsburg, in a
crazed condition, terrorized the great
crowd in Herald Square, New York,
Sunday night by shooting and waving
a pistol.
In spite of .the prediction for an im
mense grain crop in the West the rail
road companies, with their vastly in
creased equipment, except to be able to
move it without a congestion of freight.
Senator M. A. Hanna, of Ohio, says
he will answer at Columbus tomorrow
the strictures made upon organized
labor in the recent annual report of D.
M. Parry, president of the Manufac
turers' Association, at New Orleans.
It is believed the new Republican
movement agitating the development
of Central and South American trade is
intended to offset the "Iowa idea" of
tariff reform. -
From Across The Sea,
The party of German agriculturists
who are to tour this country will spend
nnA av in. Baltimore.
At the International Ami-Alcohol
Congress, in Bremen, the abstinence
element proved stronger than the
"moderates." ,
The Russian, Austrian, German and
Italian Ambassadors at Constantinople
nrirprt the Sultan to sundress the out
break in Albania.
A hurricane in Berlin injured many
persons and caused great
destruction
of property. i-
The Dominican rebels are besieglag
Monte Cristi by land and sea.
Sir Oliver Mowat, who was Premier
of Ontario 24 years, is dead.
Miscellaneous natters.
Coal operators locked out about 30,
000 miners at 32 collieries in the an
thracite region because they refused to
work nine hours on Saturday.
Eight persons were killed and 10 in
jured in a collision near Jamestown, N.
Y. between a limited express train on
the Erie railroad and a freight train.
The body of the murdered man found
in the barrel in New York was identi
fied as that of Benodotte Meduanio, an
Italian of Buffalo.
Case of Giles, From Alabama, Tried
in the Supreme Coijrt .
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HIGHEST TRIBUNAL PASSES ON IT
Court Claims There is No Redress in
Cases Where Voters Are Refused
Registration.
Washington, Special. By a divided
bench five to" three Justic Day being
absent, the United States Supreme
Court denied the application of Jack
son W. Giles on behalf of himself and
5,000 other negroes in Montgomery
county, Ala., to compel the registrars
of the county to place thei names on
the registration books. The case was
brought in the Federal Court for the
district of Alabama, alleginjgthe depri
vation of their constitutipnbl right un
der the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments, but the court dismissed the
cases for want of jurisdiction, and on
that question it was brought to the Su
preme Court on 'appeal and by certifi
cate. Justice Holmes, in delivering the
majority opinion said the 'question of
jurisdiction and the merits' of the case
at bar were so interwoven that it, be
came necessary for the court to take
up both, for it was impossible in a
suit like this, that the relief sought
should be granted. It would be an ex-,
traordinary and unheard df extension
of political relief. The Justices render
ing the majority opinion )' were , the
Chief Justice and Associate Justices
White, McKenna, Holmes .and Peck
ham. The dissenting opinions iwere
from Justices Harlan, Brewer ! and
Brown.
To a layman the decision of the court
seemed at least peculiar land it was
commented on around the capitol by
attorneys as being almost remarkable.
A report at first gained currency that
a test case of the new Alabama consti
tution had been decided, but later it
developed sfronexpressioh's the
court that the validity of j the consti
tution of Alabama. A negro claimed to
allow him to register. It came up
before Judge Thomas Goode Jones,
judge of the United States Circuit
Court for the northern Alabama dis
trict. Judge Jones was! undecided
whether he had jurisdiction, but dis
missed the case on the ground that he
had not, In order that .'the. United
States Supreme Court might pass
finally on the question .of (jurisdiction.
The case therefore was presented to
the Supreme Court for the determina
tion of this one question. Justice
Holmes delivered the opinion for the
court. He said that according to the
usual precedence the court had no jur
isdiction, but said that thi$ was a most
extraordinary case and the Supreme
Court had determined to lay aside for
the time the question of jurisdiction
and go into the merits of I the case. It
was impossible, he said, to grant the
relief that was asked by the petitioner,
the negro, first, because I he had re
lated that he is a qualified) voter under
a system which he admits is fraudu
lent and in violation of the constitu
tion of the United States.!
A Woman Killed.
Spartanburg, Special. Monday af
ternoon about 3 o'clock irijthe western
section of the city, inhabited by ne
groes, Jafus Mncomson, a! negro, shot
and killed Katherlne Williams, in the
home of the latter. The djeed was ex
ecuted with a breech4bading shot
gun, and only one shot was discharg
ed. Macomson was arrested directly
after the shooting and lodged in the
county jail. The woman i lived about
twenty minutes after she jwas wound
ed. The greater portion of the weapon's
discharge entered her right side, but
several of the bullets ranged inward
and pierced her heart. There were
several witnesses to the
negroes.
tragedy, all
To Drain Everglades.
Miami, Fla., Special. The Florida
East Coast Railway, through its land
department, is preparing to drain the
Everglades. The services jof civjLl en
gineers have been secured jand they are
now formulating plans for the work.
In some sections the railway company
has joined hands with the
the work of ditching has
gun. -
farmers and
already, be-
Bids Opened, j
Washington, Special. -Bids were
opened at the bureau of! insular af
fairs of the War Department Monday,
for $3,000,000 certificates jof indebted
ness .of the Philippine islands,., au
thorized by the last Congress.! The
certificates are to be dated May 1, and
bear interest at the rate of 4 percent.,
and are redeemable in bne year in
gold coin of the United States. The
best bid was by Fisk & ifoblnson, for
all or any part of the loin at 102.51.
The next best bid was that of the Na
tional City Bank, of New York, at
102.27.. The - certificates j were ; sub
scribed about eight times. It is esti
mated that the premium j on ' the best
bid will be about $75,000.!
W. A. Blair, of Winston-Salem, Treas
urer; for the Ensuing Year,
R.C. 0GDEN IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
Dr. Alderman and Dr. Mclver Re
: sponsible for the Beginning of the
Present Revival.
Richmond, Va., Special. The attend
ance at the meetings of the Conference
for Education in the South was large
and enthusiastic. The following offi
cers were! elected for the ensuing
year: President, Robert C. Ogdon, of
New York; vice president, Edgar G.
Murphy, of Montgomery, Ala.; secre
tary, B. J. Baldwin, of Montgomery,
Ala. ; treasurer, W. A. Blair, of Win-ston-Salem,
N. C. The executive and
resolutions committees are; Executive:
Chairman,! B. B. Valentine, Richmond ;
J. G. Brown, Raleigh, N. C; R. B. Ful
ton, Mississippi; President Caldwell, of
the State Normal School of Louisiana;
Superintendent C. B. j Gibson, Colum
bus, Ga.; D. F. Houston, Texas; Presi
dent Jesse, of the University of Mia
eouri; Superintendent G. P. Glenn,
Jacksonville, Fla.; S. A. Minders, Ten
nessee; Hi H. Snider; South Carolina;
committee on resolutions, Richard
Watson, Gilder, editor of The Century;
United "States Attorney General P. C.
Knox; E. C. Brohson, Georgia; State
Superintendent Joyner, North Caro
lina; E. C. Sanford, Knoxville, Tenn.
' Dr. Lyman Hall, of the Georgia in
stitution of Technology, was the first
speaker at the morning session. He de
clared facetiously that if the move
ment continued its work, the people ot
the South would be talking of "Darkest
New England,' 'and referring to "illit-
erate Boston." He took a most encour
aging view of the future of the South
educationally and industrially.
The next address was by Josephus
Daniels, editor of The Raleigh News
and Observer, and a; member of the
national Democratic committee from
North Carolina, He started out by say
ing that there have been four obsta
cles to educational progress in the
, South: 1, 1 : The negro, enfranchised
: against the protest of the people, who
freforc
taxes to 'educate him; 2. Poverty,
grinding poverty, following war and
reconstruction such as this generation
knows not of; 3. The lack of qualified
teachers and the lack of inducement
to capable men and women to become
teaichers ; j 4. Geographical difficulties.
The greatest of these obstacles has
been and is now and must be at least
in this generation, the negro. He has
been the lion in the path, the ever pres
ent and often, insurmountable obstacle
to public education."
Mr. Daniels took a hopeful view as
to overcome all these obstacles and
touching the greatest, said in part:
"There is a class, and in that class, I
believe most of the thoughtful people
of the South are to be found, and feel
that, whatever may j be the result,
they dare not shut the door of hope
and opportunity! to any people any
wherethe negro in the South, the In
dian in the West, the Filipino in Ma
nila. They hoped, they believed, they
trusted that eventually it would prove
beneficial,! because they have faith that
light and knowledge will surely bless
wherever they abound.
The last speaker was Dr. J. H. Kirk
land, chancellor of Vanderbilt Univer
sity, who j made an interesting talk on
teachers and the State. The conference
then took a recess until 3:30.
. The fine audiences attending the ses
sions of the Conference for Education
have continued to the end. The Acad
emy of Music was again thronged at
night, the members of the conference
and the ladies with them being re
enforced by, many of I the most promi
nent people of the city, not only edu
cationally speaking, but as respects so
ciety, the professions and all lines of
business and industry. The speakers
were Dr. Walter B. Hill, chancellor of
the University of Georgia, who spoke
on "Negro , Education at the South,"
and Hamilton W. Mable, associate edi
tor, and Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor, of
the Outlook, New York.
Dr. Abbott's theme was "Impressions
at the South," and he spoke eloquent
ly of the revival of j education repre
sented by the conference. The highest
education, he said, is that for service.
Industrial training, instead of being
looked down upon, should, and would,
eventually, he believed, be regarded as
of the highest type in its direction. He
paid a glowing tribute to the f hos
pitality of Richmond nd expressed joy
in the growing unity of the country.
The civil war, he said, taught the
North and South to respect each other
as they had never done before. Refer
ring to the suffrage, i he quoted Henry
Ward Beecher to show that many men
In the North believed that placing the
bollot in the hands of the negro could
not be a I success until the black man
should fit himself to exercise the priv
ilege intelligently. The ballot is. a pre
rogative and a responsibility, he said,
rather than a right. Mantood suffrage
is the thing, he continued, but it must
be remembered that manhood comes
first and! suffrage second. Dr. Abbott
closed with a beautiful forecast of what
the present educational revival will re
suit in, of what the twentieth century
will effect in the way of perfecting
manhood. He attributed the beginning
of the present revival, by the way, to
a " certain evangelistic trip made some
14 years ago through North j Carolina
b ytwo young men, Dr. Alderman, pres
ident of Tulane ' University, New Or
leans, and Dr. Mclver, president of the
Normal School, at Greensboro.
Industrial Miscellany.
S. J. Jackson, recently reported as
contemplating the: establishment of a
knitting mill at Sparta, Tenn., has or
ganized the Sparta Knitting Mills, with
capital stock of $15,000. Richard Hill
is president; S. S. Dibrell, vice-president;
J. R. Tubb,: secretary-treasurer
and S. J. Jackson, general manager.
An equipment will be installed for a
daily output of about 150 dozen gar
ments medium to heavy ribbed and
flee'eed underwear-4-and the company is
ready to correspond with jmakers of
machinery relative to awarding con
tract. Water-power . will be used,1 arid
the equipment fort this purpose is not
wanted. The company is also desirous
of securing a superintendent and fore
woman conversant with the; knit-goods
demand in the South and bouthwest.
Reference was made last week to ru
mors that the Madison Manufacturing
Co. of Huntsvillej, Ala., is about to
srect a large addition. The Manufac
turers' Record is i now authoritatively
Informed that the! company will build
a mill to be equipped with i.5,000 spin
dles and 525 looms for manufacturing
print cloths; The erection of the nec
essary buildings will begin j within two
weeks. In January j this company adopt
ed its present title, which until then
was the Madison Spinning Co., and in
creased its capital stock from $100,000
to $300,000. This additional capital will
be invested in the new plant. The pres
ent plant has 7200 ring spindles, and
manufactures hosiery yarns.
. Lumber Notes.
D. P. Tate and R. L. Burkhead of
exington, N. C., have purchased 12,-
600 acres of timber land in Polk county,
and will develop same.
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The plant of the Valentine Lupert
Lumber Co. at Butler, Tenn., was de
stroyed by lightning. The loss is esti
mated at $10,000, with $2000 insurance.
The Low-Gills-Powell Lumber Co. of
Austin, Texas, has been incorporated,
with a capital stock of $20,000, by Theo
dore Low, Simon! Gillis and J. W.
Powell. -1
The Bennett & Roach Lumber Co. of
Yazoo City, Miss., has been incorpor
ated, with a capital stock of $10,000.
The incorporators are R." L. Bennett
and J. H. Roach. 1
Messrs. W. A. Cattiey. Charles M.
Putnam and Thomas Settle nave incor
porated the Mountain Island Lumber
Co. of Asheville, N. C, with a capital
stock of $10,000. ;
The tide in the Tennessee river
which set in last' week Drought down
another large lot I of logs, making the
receipts at Chattanooga by recent tides
more than 10,000,000 feet.
C. H. Rexford & Con of Pennsylva
nia, who recently purchased 18,000.
acres of timber land in North Caro
lina, have purchased 12,000 acres ad
ditional in 'Swain jcounty of that State.
The exports of lumber last week from
the port of Mobile amounted to 1,586,-
D07 feet. The shipments for the season
aggregate 52,900,039 feet, against 63,
397,664 feet for the same period last
year. - j
The St. Louis Cabinet Co. of St.
Louis, Mo., hs been incorporated, with
a capital stock of $200, for manufactur
ing furniture. The incorporators are
Jacob Burber, George L. Weiss, John
Janses and others! ',"
The American- Planine Mill Co. of
Thomasville, Ga.,j recently incorporat
ed, began work last week. The plant
has been built at; an expense of $13,
000, and has orders ahead to keep it
Dusy for. several months.
The record for the hierhest rjrice ever
paid for one saw ! log in Alabama was
DroKen last week,! when J. G. Grayson
paid to Andrews j& Co. of Huntsville
$25.43, one which will net over 1000 feet
of lumber. The log was poplar.
The Ensign Lumber Co. of Tifton.
Ga., has applied for a charter. The cap
ital stock of thej company is $20,000,
with privilege of Increasing it to $100,-
000. The incorporators are J. Lee En
sign, Thomas B. Puckett and John H.
Powell.
The Woodruff saw-mill nlant at Eu
reka Springs, Ark., was destroyed by
nre on the 14th Inst. The lessees, W. H.
& Willis Baker, lost machinery, dry
kiln and entire equipment, with a large
amount of finished lumber. The total
loss is $12,000, with no insurance.
Textile Notes.
A company will be organized to build
a knitting mill at Clinton, S. C. P. S.
Bailey will be present. - !
Efforts are being made to i organize
company for building a $20,000 knit
ing mill at Camilla, Ga. t
B. F. Flournoy of Trion Factory, Ga.,
will build a cotton mill. He has not
decided as to location nor other de
tails, i
Efforts are being made to organize
the proposed branch company, refer
red to last week; for building a silk
mill at Clarksburg, W. Va. The Ram
say & Gore Manufacturing Co. of Pat
erson, N. J., whese president and sec
retary presented the proposition for ihe
above mill, ha3 a $150,000 plant at Pat
erson, not $50,000, as stated last week,
Grantville (Ga.) Hosiery Mills has
let contract to R. D. Cole Manufac
turing Co. of Newman,. Ga., for erec
tion of an addition two stories high,
48x56 feet, and will install additional
machinery in position.
. Newnan (Ga.) j Cotton Mills has de
dared a dividend of 6 per cent, and
appropriated $17,000 to its machinery
fund.
Further Developments in the Facioas
Postoffice Frauds
MRS, TYNER AND THE DEPARTMENT
Assistant Attorney General Chris
tiancy Bounced, Pending an Inves
tigation.
'Washington, Special. -The two im
portant developments In the investiga
tion of the sensational abstraction of .
papers from the safe, of "the office of
the Assistant Attorney General for the
Postoffice Department, which led to
the dismissal of that officer, were the
submission of what purported to be
:he papers to the inspection of the pos
tal officials, and the decision of Post
master General Payne to immediately
relieve Acting Assistant Attorney Gen
;ral G. A. Christiancy from his office,
pending an investigation of his con- -duct.
The action in the case of Mr.
Christiancy was taken at his own re
quest. He states that he courts the .
fullest investigation. Mr. Ghristiandy
has held the office of Assistant Attor
ney General since January 1,' 1901,.
and has been in charge of the legal af
fairs of the department most of the
time r since then, owing to General
Tyner's absence, caused by ill health.
General Tyner's counsel submitted to
Postmaster General, Payne and Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow
papers which they said Tyner had
caused to be taken away, but a state
ment later by "the Postmaster General
reciting the correspondence on the
subject and the submission of the pa
pers specifically declines to accept the
statement that the papers submitted
necessarily constituted all that were
abstracted.
General Tyner's counsel, after leav
ing the Postmaster General, made a
statement in part as follows: "Yes
terday In response to a notification
from the department of Justice that
General Tyner deliver the papers to
the Postmaster General, Mr. Perry,
proposed to the Postmaster General
that a representative of the Postoffice
Department should meet counsel at
General Tyner's house, where the pa
pers, should be examined and such a3
were private" returned to General
Tyner and the others;' somewhat pub-.
ic in nature, delivered to the depart
ment. It was especially desired that
he government representatives should
question fully General Tyner, Mrs.
Tyner and Mrs. Barrett as to what oc
curred on Mrs. Tyner's visit to the
Postoffice Department, on Tuesday
last, and as to all of her acts in con
nection therewith, and her authority
therefor, General Tyner explaining;
hat all of Mrs. Tyner's acts were au
thorized by him. The Postmaster Gen
eral, in reply, said substantially that
if General Tyner would cause the pa
pers to be returned to the department
he would have the same examined in
the presence of General Tyner and
would restore to him all the papers.
documents and other property found to
belong to him.
This morning, after consultation.
the Postmaster General was asked to
permit Mrs. Tyner and Mrs. Barrett
to come to his office with counsel for
a full examination by any government
official as to the facts connected, witn
the taking of the papers. . The Post
master General refused to permit
either Mrs. Barrett or Mrs. Tyner to
be present and declined to question
them. Thereupon, acquiescing in his
decision, counsel brought to the Post
office Department all papers in ques
tion. They were examined minutely
and in detail, in the presence of the
Postmaster General by Mr. Bristow,
Including the most private property of
General Tyner and especially of Mrs.
Tyner. On the conclusion of this ex
amination all the papers were, by di
rection of the Postmaster General, re
turned to General Tyner, except the
papers indicated in a v statement of
General Tyner which referred; to the
matter connected with the conduct of
a former inspector of the Department,
now dead, and which had neverbeenv
filed and which matter was disposed
of over four years ago.
Subsequently the Postmaster Gen
eral gave out a statement covering the ,
submission of the documents which
plainly says the department does not
aeree to the assumption that the pa
pers submitted constitute all - those
taken. After reciting the proposition,
of General Tyner's counsel and Its re
jection by him (setting forth the text
of the letter in reply, the statement
concludes as follows : !Thls morning
Mr. Perry and General Michener came
to the department, bringing with thera
a package, which they stated ; con
tained the papers and documents
which had been taken from the de
partment in the manner heretofore set
forth,; and offered. to submit the same
to the inspection of the Jfostmastcr
General, or any other official cf the de
partment. '-' j ; - -
"In response to this offer, Mr.' Perry
opened the packages in the presence
of the Postmaster General, . ' General
Bristow and Mr. Michener. . Careful
scrutiny of each paper and document
was had and all the papers so ex
hibited were found to be the personal
and private property of General Tyner
or Mrs. Tyner, excepting one pack
age of papers which contained the lat
ters statements, r memoranda i and
other evidence relating to department
al matters that had been concluded
about four years ago. The department
does not accept the action taken this
morning as evidence that all d.ocu
ments, papers and other properties ao
carried away have been returned.