The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-12-09
THE POSTAL SERVICE.
IT'S GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY.

THE POSTAL SlRIICE.
ITS GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY.
The report of the postmaster general is
gratifying exhibit of the growth ami efficiency
of tho postal service The receipts from post
age and other ordinary sources during the rast
fiscal year were $3G, iS9. SlG.JS The re-
ceipts from the money order business were
S295, 5Sl 30, making u total of $50, 49,
397.97. Tho expenditures for the fiscal year
were $3.50, Pol, 1876 i6 The deficit sup
piled ont of the general treasury
was S2.iSl, 12a35, or 63 per cent
Tho receipts were $3, 400, 9lS,63 IN
IN excess of those of the previous year. and
Si,575, 397.97 in excess of the estimate made
Two wears ago before the present period of
business prosperity had fairly begun. The
whole number OF letters mailed in this country
IN the last fiscal year exceeded ,OOO, OOO,O 600
THE REGISTRY SYSTEM
l. reported to be in an excellent condition, hav-
ing been remoieled during the past four years
with good results. The amount of registra-
ton fees collected during the last fiscal year
was SIP, 49, 20, an increase over the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1877, of $3i5, iI3. 10.
The entire number # letters aud packages
registered during the year was s. 1873 ,9l9, OF
which only 2,06l were destroyed or
lost in transit The operations of tho
money order system are multiplying
yearly under the impulse of
newer States and Territories, and the conse-
quent demand for additional means of inter
communication and exchange During the
past year 1913 additional money order offices
have been established, making a total of
$3.50 in operation at the date of this report
During tho year the domestic money orders
aggregated in value $40, 507, $780, 3.
modification Of the system is
suggested, reducing the fees for money
orders not exceeding 80, from 10 cents TO D
cents, aud making the maximum 500 III
place Of $50. Legislation for the disposition
of unclaimed money orders III the posscsripn
of the p0stoflice department is recommended.
on view of the fact that their total value X
iceeds IS |, 900, 600 The attention of congre : Is
again pointed to tho subject of establishing
a system of savings deposits in connection with
the postoflice department. Tho statistics of
mail TRANSFORMATION show that during the past
year the railroad routes have been increased
III length CAD miles, and in cost 81 IA 49,.
while the steamboat routes have been decreased
in length ., lS2 miles, and III cost 1854 ,054.
in length 3,Ol9 miles,, and in cost
So, 1854, Ia. Nearly all of them are
expensive routes and have been su.pended
by the star service. The cost of the star route
service, therefore, will rapidly decrease in the
western States and Territories. The postmas-
er general, however, calls attention TO the con-
staatly increasing cost Of the railway mail SER
vice as 4 serious difficulty in the way of making
the department self-sustaning. Our pos
tai intercourse with foreign countries has kept
pace with the growth of tho domestic service.
within the past year several countries and col
Ones have declared their adhesion TO the postal
union. 1t now includes all those which have
an orranized postal service, except Costa Rica,
Now Zealand and the British colonies III Aus
tralia. As has been already stated, great re-
tho expense of the star route
service. The investigation of the department
of justice aud the postoffice department have
resulted in the presentation of indictments
against persons formerly connected with that
service, accusing them of otfenscs against the
United States. l have enioiued upon the Of
iicials who are charged with the conduct of the
government, and upon the eminent counsel
WHO, before my accession to the presidency,
were called tO theiy Assistance, the duty of
prosecuting, with the utmost vigor of the law,
all persons who may he found charseable with
fraud upon the postal servica
DEPARTMENT. OF JUSTICE.
A MODIFICATION NEEDED.
The acting attorney general calls attention to
tine necessity of modifying the present system
of the courts Of the United States, a necessity
due to the large increase of business, especial
ly in the supreme court. Litigation in our
federal tribunals became greatly expanded
after the close of the late war. So long
as that expense might be attributed
10 the abnormal condition in which the
community found itself Immediately
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