Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-03-26
ostmaster-General
Posr OFTICE DEFABTMENr,
MI - I..l

%" - 1870
Sm. In answer TO The inquiries contained in
vour note. Just received, ] beg TO submit the
following statement:
Congress, for the first time since the orgaui-
zarion Of the Government, has expired without
having made appropriation for the service Of
the Post Office Department during the ncXt rs
cal wear. which viii on the Ist II
JuiV. Had the members Of the next Congress
been elected from al the States, the President
ira session, and this omission of the late Con-
gress might have been thus supplied. This was,
however, impossible without DISTINGUISHING the
people Of nearly half Of the States Of The
Union which had not elected members. Atthat
date there were fifteen States without rcnresen-
tauves. New Hampshire has since elected
Rhode Island and Connecticut will elect in the
beginning Of April; Oregon in the beginning
Of June Virginia on the fourth Thursday Of
MAY: Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina,
and Texas, IN the beginning Of August Cali
foTuia early In September Georgia, Missis-
sippi, and Minnesota In the beginning Of De-
tlber. and Louisiana and Maryland not until
the first Monday and Wednesday in N0vem-
Der. This is most unfortunate. There ought
10 Be 10 interval when a fln Congress could
not be convened, and it is to be hoped that
there never viii Be one hereafter.
Had the appropriation bib which failed made
HANHA-ANA NAAN ~ NaN A1NuA NErA ANlANlrNNAA=
on The lst Of July next, there would obviously
have been no necessity for an extra session.
The first quarterly service Of contractors for
that year viii not have been performed, 30 as
% eHtitle them 10 pay, until the first Of Octo-
Der and BY the terms Of their contracts
those for railroad routes only eNcepted-sixty
days more must el5pse before their accounts
can be finally settled, which would postpone
he daT Of payment tl the lst Of December,
within less than a week from the regular meet
ng q Congress. IF itshould Be deemed ad-
Visahle, Congress might Be convened for the
middle cf November, IN ample time 20 provide
for the payment Of what viii be due contract
OTIS FOR the first quarters service Of the next
fiscal wear before IL viii BE-, in fact, payable.
THIS statement makes % manifest, therefore,
1hat had the appropriations proposed In the
bin which failed been intended 70 meet only
the Liabilities Of the next fiscal year, there
would have been no sufficient reason for call
ing Congress together before The regular period
Of is assembling.
such, however, is not the case. That bill
also provided that She sum IT S3.s3s.12 be.
and the same Is hereby, appropriated, out Of
any money in the treasury not Otherwise ap-
~propuatet, 10 supply Deficiencies in The reve-
nues ~ the Post Office Department Tor the year
ending The sob June, IS5a.~ Upon a careful
examination and invest cation, ID has been as
certlined That The deficiency will amount 20
about The sum q $3.50. 2SI.95. It ought. how
ever, to be observed that, after The 30-h June
mex, the sum Of 10000 granted TO the De-
partment By the acts Of March 3, 1889, and
Marcha, 1851. for Tie transportation and de-
livery Of free mail matter for Congress and the
Executive Departments, may be applied 10 part
90 dhe eElinguishment Of this deficiency Tins
SAD leave the balace 10 be provided for $685.
zsl-a5. OF this som Of s .3S5,2sI.e5. the de-
hciency which existed in the quarter endingo o.
ne alFt December amounted to.--.S 149.SL6s
That Tor The quarter ending 3IEt
AtLcu lo---- .-..------ l-30a.l51.2h
MAT for the quarter ending 30th
June to- l.6u, 2s5OI