Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-03-21

ter postage, IN addition TO thai which the rn.
| paddy growing prosperity of the env pro Tue.
ed, must have constituted = tormidsbls item
for tho Postmaster General TO exhibit In con.
ttAst with that III tho preceding year. shall
not stop 10 estimate postage on ofhce hunting
letters nj that day. The gentlemen on The
other side have Ear better means OF Judging of
hi. Doubtless II wns enormous. Nor shall
! point the attention of The gentlemen 10 the
many cases ~ " hlch The revenue I'm. declined.
after the removal Of good officers But as this
aud all like i,rms are embraced IN the whole
mass of revenue for the year, ! answer all
vHunIs OF this k'ud from the depart men,, by
toqurny IN infn-what have you done with
the money! fou tell us that YOU have exprn-
ded about two millions oi dollars, aud absuae.
ted rom the funds in one year eigh,y-i.o
thousand dollars bes,de.. How have you dis
bursei this Immense sum Aud II your Inn.
bil''y 10 comply with the public demand 10,
mail routes. presenting. ms ' gu admit ~ dots,
an uneIampled state OF embarrassment 10 the
| adm oisiration OF this branch of The public
revenue, be not owing 10 the improper di'-
missal OF msritoTi rus oiheeik. and tn subHifu-
Ton ol ineiicient ONES to Gil their places
To what cause do you asoI,be this state oil
| things
! 10 this important question tho gentlemen
reply, hrsi~~thnt u IS 10 he ascribed ~ the in
creased mail facilities which have been esiab-
lished aud they quote from the last rcpou.
thaifron the lst day Of July, 1929, To the La
| dav July, 1890, tho transpo, alion Of III.
mail was increased in stages equal 10 7f5, 767
miles, and on horseback aud IN sulkis. 20 ~.
lo4 miies. Admit this statement to be slrict-
true, yet they should have remem b.red thai
similar mail facilities have always been grant
ed before and they also should have rsad
TO US 50 much OF the same report az states
'h"' u ~ IN part owing 10 these improvements
'h"i tho amount Of rereaue is so much aug
Ice uarf al 4 hpa
improvements must he 10 increase the smount
Oh hostages, and TO dniray, if not all. mt least
avery large part OF their expense But if they
mad proved n dead loss 10 the whole amount
o. their cost. itwoulJ not account for ono hall
OF your expenditure. We are told ia tho same
Tpor', the average expense OF transporta ion b,
horse or solky Is five oenis per mlle. and b,
stages thirteen cents per n,la in the souths IN
"'iso NOW, suppose tIese improvements
"h'ch nave " 30 much augmented iba re,e-
nus did augment u TO an amount equal TO on
hhi Their cost, aud Suppose that every mile OF
'hs Increased mail transportation IA stages
cost thirteen cents instead Of eight cents, (ihe
| mean difference betn cen the cost of thnt mod.
OF Incorporation aud tho irauppoi taiion by
| hoises snd sulki"s,) the expense Of the whole
40. 767 miles is but 90 .9Iy dollnrs aud seven
y -one eeais and then adding 1919 do lars
aud twenty cents for the %. l0I mles o nsns-
portatIon by horses and sulkirs, NJ five cent.
|
dollars aud 81 cents Il the one half q { hi, va
have supposed ~ pad by tho increase at ,e-
venue II haa produced How dos this at
count Tor the fact that 100 900 dollars wet.
last year expended beyond the dlsburse mrot u,
any former year, and that since the resig na,Io,
| OF Mr., Mclean the whole annual revenue has
en- sunk, and lld000 dollars drawn fIom u.
iuuds he lett
Bot II this excuse DO insult ccni. say the
gentlemen we have another: Their. were
new post routes established Ia tina time OF ih,
predecessor OF the present Postmastar Gene
raj, u part oil the cost OF " hich has fallen o.
| the latter. On nj. subject sir, fhink II eau
/ he easily shown that the expense Of establish
! ing the new routes alluded 20, amounting 10
| something more than Two hundred did no
exceed 10000 dollars Al the reuenuc Which
he routes esiabi,shed by he tar Of 1928 produe
ed, uds receipcd by The present POSimdsfcr
! GeHerat--not teutoJ Il by ms predecess0r.
| The whole expense oil the first quarter the
routes were established, Was incurred and
paid before the Isl of April, 1929, out o.
| The funds in the hands OF that pIedecessor
| forming, therefore. no deduction from the SUI
| plus OF 100000 dollars, which was lefi on the
| LIST OF April, 1929. No law has passed since
the present Postmaster General came into
| office to compel him TO establish single new
| route. HIS predecessor eStablished, 653,
including those enumerated Ivy thu act Of 1927.
pad the eIpsnSes of them ali without, Calling
on the Treasury for dollar and lett more
han 100000 dollars IN the Department
During all this time too there was eorTcspo nd
| ing increase OF mail facilities u every descrIp-
| uOn. The following statement will show how
| htle in his day tie funds Of the Department
| we're affected 10y sdch cdu,es as ara now as
signed for their unprecedented decline
| By the acts of the 3 OF March, 1923, ana
| 80 Of March 1925, 2Tg new post routes wa,o
established ot which "a we're included III the
last ac'. From the Lot OF J,ly, 1929. 10 the
l.t Of July 1924, the tran.pOT alton oi he mail
was increased 40. ID miles, OF which 374270
miles consisting OF stage transporiatIoD--the
cost Of all which hr Mclean en,nstes at
! 80 900 dollars IN his report of 1924. BY the
! report of November, 1920 II appears that
from this lst day Of July, 1923, to the 1st day
oi July, 1870. the incrsase OF mail sccounDod5 =
ton amoanled TO ,625, o2l miles, aud during
the same time 40 new pos, Offices were ss-
iablished. " YET" saws tho report Of that
day, such has been the accession of receipts
| for postage that the additional expenditure
! required by this extension OF the mail will be
n,et without diff cult, and il Congress should
THINK proper 10 relieve me Treasury from all
charge on account Of ms Department. me uSHdt
app, Opridtions may be dTdWh from ais 0Dh
! fund" In these Two years, notwuhsi sndI"g
all these drafts on It's funds, so vastly greater
tnan those " hich have uiTcd since tue 9th
! OF March 1929, at the period ~beE the density
aud amount oi population were far from cor
ferring tue same advantages for Increasing Its
revenue which now exist, the whole expenses
we're p, ompiy met by its own funds, aud yet
there wos an ereess Of revenue Tor these tno
years of $50, III, ~. Tue report of Nov.
1926, shows an augmented conveyance OF the
mad, since 1928 OF ,S57 ,343 miles, add All
increase Of ,754 ne" Post Offices. Yet the
revenue was found sufficient or allih expen
ses, and there Was att ercess OF II in that very
year over The expenditures, OF TO- loo dollars
AMI 81 cents Tue report Of November 1927
shows an augmented transportation of tue