Memorandum of the President and Report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General J.L. Bristow on the Investigation of Certain Divisions of the Post-Office Department - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... Howley, chief clerk to the First Assistant Postmaster-General, copiesof letters taken from her notebooks while she was serving as Rand'sstenographer, indicating that he had been in correspondence with Harrison J. Barrett and others in regard to cases pending before the Department against "get-rich-quick" concerns; but it seems that these letters were written to secure information in regard to the attitude of the Department toward a number of alleged building associationswhich were doing business in Kansas City, Mo. This information was desired by Everett, president of the trust company in which Rand was interested, in Chicago, an institution that appears to be doing a legitimate business. It does not appear that Rand was ever interested in any of these cases, nor that he was seeking in any way to influence the action of the Assistant Attorney-General's Office. It does appear, however, that Rand has been indiscreet in his relations with certain departmental officials. He became an intimate friend and partisan of A. W. Machen, but that was probably more through the designs of Machen than Rand. Machen, always anxious to establish close relations with powerful influences, thought that he saw through Rand a direct connection with the Postmaster-General, and therefore readily interested himself in some of his mining schemes. Rand probably was not aware of Machen's real purpose; but coming into the Department as he did, as the personal appointee of the Postmaster-General, it is unfortunate that he should have allied himself with Machen in such a way as to become his partisan defender when charges were filed against him. With the exceptions of the remarks made to Howley, Miss Wood, and Mrs. Bangs, as to the value of his mining stock, and the dictation of letters ...
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