No. 29 RESPONSE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL HEARINGS BEFORE THE 4.S. Congress House. COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 109 TO INVESTIGATE THE POST OFFICE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 47 411 дру COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. [Committee room, room 293, House Office Building. Telephone 589. Meets on call.] RESPONSE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL TO THE COMPLAINT FILED BY THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO. WITH THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, Hon. WILLIAM A. ASHBROOK, Chairman Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. SIR: Receipt is acknowledged of your communication of June 26, informing me that your committee has decided to investigate the complaints made by the Lewis Publishing Co., of St. Louis, Mo., against the Post Office Department, inclosing a copy of a formal bill of charges filed by Mr. Edwin C. Madden, attorney for the company, and inviting me to present, through the proper sources, such facts relative to the matters under inquiry as may be deemed necessary, and in reply I have the honor to submit answer to each separate allegation made on behalf of the company, and, furthermore, to request the privilege of appearing before your committee through the proper representatives at such times as you may designate, for the purpose of submitting such other facts as the department may deem proper. Of the several official transactions of which complaint is made only one, to wit, the action of the department in relation to the Woman's National Daily and the Woman's National Weekly, on applications for formal reentry on change of frequency of issue, was performed during my administration as Postmaster General, and I, therefore, have had no personal knowledge of or connection with the other matters and, in respect to them, can only supply such information as is contained in the records and correspondence of the department, but will endeavor to furnish your committee with all information obtainable from these sources and will accompany this response with such explanatory exhibits as will enable you to ascertain the facts in relation to the circumstances under inquiry. In this connection it is suggested that it would no doubt be instructive to the committee, as well as of interest to both parties to the controversy, to hear the statement of each of the officers whose conduct has been called into question and whose official acts have been the subject of inquiry. In relation to the publication known as the Woman's National Weekly, formerly the Woman's National Daily, I attach hereto, marked as "Exhibit A," a copy of Senate Document No. 26, being a response by the Postmaster General to Senate resolution No. 10, and ask that that portion of it containing an explanation of the connection |