Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — BURLESON TURNS ON CRITIC [ARTICLE]

BURLESON TURNS ON CRITIC

Steenerson Ignores Fact That Independent Official Makes Audit. Waslhngon, D- C., Detc. B.— Postmaster General Burleson, replying today to a statement by Chairman Steenerson of the house postoffice committee, attacking Mr. Bur-

leson’s annual report, said Mr. Steenerson "does not seem to understand that a postal audit is not made by the postmaster general, b-t by an independent official of the treasury department, which happens to be a member of the Republican party to which Mr. Steenerson belongs.” “It is true,’’ said Mr. Burleson’s statement, "that the postmaster general during his administration of the wire service, received the earnest, patriotic co-operation and assistance of Messrs. Vail, Carlton, Kingsbury and Bethel, and hundreds of other telegraphic and Independent officials, which Mr. Steenerson Ignores, but Mr. Steenerson seems ignorant of the fact that amounts ascertained as just compensation for the wire companies, were not fixed by these gentlemen, but were furnished the postmaster general by Dr. Henry C. Adams and Dr. David Friday of the University of Michigan, two as able

and clean economists and experts in their line as can be found in America. \ "As for the compensation allowed the railroads for mail transportation this is fixed by congress and not by the postmaster general.”