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Letter from Robert John Wynne to Henry C. Payne

Letter from Robert John Wynne to Henry C. Payne

Assistant Postmaster General Wynne provides the history of a list of members of Congress implicated in a recent indictment regarding clerk-hire allowances at post offices. Originally, the names were omitted, but pressure from the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads led to further research and to more names being included on the list, which was kept by the Post Office Department.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-12

Creator(s)

Wynne, Robert John, 1851-1922

Letter from Henry C. Payne to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Henry C. Payne to Theodore Roosevelt

Postmaster General Payne encloses a memorandum of correspondence between himself and Representative Jesse Overstreet, chairman of the House Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, concerning the preparation of data submitted to the committee. Though Payne and Overstreet discussed the information that the committee had pressured Payne to produce quickly, that information was not published in the report on the Hay Resolution.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-16

Creator(s)

Payne, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1843-1904

Exhibit “G” Draft of a letter from Henry C. Payne to Jesse Overstreet

Exhibit “G” Draft of a letter from Henry C. Payne to Jesse Overstreet

Postmaster General Payne transmits to Representative Overstreet, Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, a list of third and fourth class post offices where allowances for separating services and for “unusual business” have been reduced or discontinued. He also includes the salaries of the postmasters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-30

Creator(s)

Payne, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1843-1904