The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-12-23
posr oFEICE REFoRM.


We clip The subjoined items from New
York Wing paper. We pass over the remark.
about Post Office REFORM with huta single obser
walton on The censure Of the Department, because
the writer could not send his letters in The Ed
tors Bag on the Sabbath. We had supposed
that even yro Of newspaper correspondent
knew the fact that but one mail for New York
left Washington city on the Sabbalh-lhis has
always been the case.
While upon this subject we would add word
al explanation about this Editors Bag TO New
York. The mail which leaves Washington
city al 6 O'Clock in The morning reaches New
Y ork about ii o'clock al night. In order that
the publishers of newspapers should have all
the advantage possible TO enable them TO get
their Washington matter in the morning papers,
the Postmaster General, upon application, or
dered the Postmaster at Washington 10 send an
Editors Bag to be delivered TO their agent at
Jersey city upon the arrival oflhe cars.
! 10 this bag he directed the Postmaster to send
nothing but prepaid letters and newspapers TO
editors. This. arrangement was communicated
TO the editors, and they seemed 10 be satisfied
with II. As the letters are not 10 be delivered
to the Postmaster al New York, postage must
be paid at Washington. Some Of the editor.
and letter-wrters abuse the Postmaster Gene
raj because he will not permit letters franked by
members Of Congress TO 90 in this bag. Two
reasons would seem to forbid the sending of such
letters in the Editors mail. The one, If let
| tiers ranked by members were sent, the Edi-
lois' mail might become 100 large and incon-
venient and, therefore, no, answer the purpose
designed. The other was, that the Postm ster
General had no right to suppose that members
OF Congress would engage in The business
OF reporting the proceedings of Congress for
the New York papers; neither ough. he
10 have supposed they would frank letters, writ
ten by others, TO editors in violation oflaw. He
was, therefore, tight in excluding from the Edi-
tors Bag iranked letters. The portion of the let
ter OF Mr. Greedy who, we understand, is the
correspondent Of The Tribune, TO which we in
vlte attention particularly, relates to the public
documents concerning bids for Post Office con-
tracts.
The law of 1886, for some purpose unknown
TO US, and, as we think very unnecessarily, re-
CURES this report TO be made 10 Congress every
Var Last session Of Congress when il was
made II was ordered 10 be printed by Wing Con-
gress, for no other object, as we can perceive
than 10 give the lntelligencer, the Wing organ
OF that body, fat job, aud it is unkind in friend
Greey thus TO censure his Wing friends for
sustaining his colaborer in the Wing cause:
"But about the Mails shall give up writing from
this place and return to New York speedily, because
cannot endure the mail Irregularities find in the
tribune, OF Friday letters which | wrote and des.
patched on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdap-the first
rendered completely obsolete by the detention
went to the Post Office on Wednesday to see If 4
could not avoid these alctions and was assured that
every letter put in the Editors Nal box at night and
postpaid would be to go off the ner, morning
and go straight through to New York, q had pre-
viously learned, 10 my sorrow, that the Afternoon
Mail could not be relied on) So to-day held back
my letter, as Argus did his for the Editors Mail in
the morning; and astonshed on going TO the Post
Ohce, with the Information that no Mail is despatched
on Sunday morning, but the Editors Mail is sent off
on saturday evening! So am sold again and YOU
viii have no proceedings Of to-day for Monda, 5 pa
per. | shall give up ibis"
"'rhis morning the members found on their desks
some i've or more copies each of document of near
ly thousand pages from the Postmaster General
imoouyng statement oil all the offers for mall-ser-
vice for the year 1912 specifying those which were
accepted For printing this Recommendation an extra
number OF which can imagine no possible use-tbe
Treasury has doubtless suffered at least three thou
sand dolars-beng fully two thousand dollars thrown
away, and now the Post Office itself-or rather the
payers OF postage-must stand the next infection :
Here something ike ton OF useless matter nrob.
bly, equal To the full weight of the whole letter mails
to-day, passing over all the through the Union
These documents, having been addressed by the Hon
Members with Free-Tom. Tompkns NJ CT tact
ed on, are now being carried out of the House NV
arms full and bags full into the Congressional Pos,
Ofhce, whence they will be transported at another
charge TO the Government, In the city Post Office :
There the Government will stop paving ON them
and put the rest Of the load on the business Of Inc
country-on the poor and undisnguished who are
hardly known TO Nj. C.s except at eeciions-on the
widow who receives few dollars by mail
from her son at work away from her. or lust
returned from sea to distant port the bod
CARR r, the boatman the sick among strangers
who receives some pittancc Of his hard earnings
through the mail or writes a letter 10 hrs
friend his creditor must pay twice what he ought
for the carriage, in order that this mountain of spoil
ed paper may be sent at free cost to men who will
hardly consider II worth the nothing il costs them =
And this fragrant abuse is likely TO be still further
Lerpetuated in this beautiful land Of Republican
Equality
Friends OF Post Office Reform | assure Won
alter extensive inquiry and observation, that you
must WORK II you desire any essential reduction
OF your useless burdens at this session The De-
partment is against you--the private interest and
personal consequence of the Members OF Congress
are against you"