The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-13

Ilzee Coz tie ilsal yeag Nns 20 Z
lB ID oi1t q
- 8eneEal treasury We % 81 -. -,
g 80 Per cent. Is the amount e.
4ed. The receapta were % 40 OH. 6S
g exCeas uk those Of the pregious
ys4< ind "a y57S 81. 81 ID exceas
9 the estimate made tW0 yeaxa
80, before tie present period
q polnees prosperity had fairly begun.
1he whole number &C letters mailed In
lhis country IN the last fiscal year ex~
ce4ded / 900 900 900. The registry
gy3eent 3s reported to be IN excellent
condition having been remodeled during
eh4 past four years with good results.
The amount Of registration fees col
eeGted during the last fiscal year was
W42, $3.50. 90, an increase over the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1877, Of $345, 49,
%. The entire number Of letters and
packages registered during the year Yves
6,SS8, 010 Of which only 2,O6l were lost
or destroyed In transit.
The operations of the money-Order
system are multiplying yearly under the
development of the newer states and
Territories, and the consequent demand
tor additional means Of interCommuni-
cation and exchange. During the past
year 1913 additional mOney-order Offices
have been established, making total
Of 400 In operation at the date Of this
report. During the year the domestic
money orders aggregated In value &105,-
075g769.35.
A modification Of the system is sue.
gesfed, reducing the fees for. money
orders not exceeding IS from ten cents
to five cents, and making the maximum
limit 500 In place of $50. Legislation
for the disposition of unclaimed money
orders In the possession of the postoffice
department Is recommended, in view of
the fact that their total value now ex-
eeeds one million dollars.
The, attention Of Congress is again
invited to the subject of establishing a
system of savings repositories in con-
nectiOn with the postofice department.
The statistics of mail transportation
show that during the past year railroad
routes have been increased in length
6 ,249 miles, and in cost 81 ia 1892 while
steamboat routes have been decreased
in length 2,182 miles, and in cost 1884,
054I The s0-called star routes have been
decreased in length 3,949 miles, and in
cost 1854 ,1A. Nearly all of the more
expensive routes have been super
seeded by railroad service. The cost Of
the star service must therefore rapidly
decrease IN the Western States and
Territories. The postmaster general,
however, calls attention to the con.
staHtly increasing cost of the railway
mail service as q serious difficulty In the
way of making the department. self.
sustaining.
Our postal intercourse with foreign
countries has kept pace with the growth
Of the domestic service. Within the
past year several countries and colonies
have declared their adhesion to the
postal union. 1t now includes all those
which have an organized postal service,
except Bolivia, Costa Rica, New Tea
land, and the British colonies In Aus
tralia.
THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
Az has been already stated, great re-
auctions have recently been made in
the expense Of the star route service.
The Investigations of the department Of
justice and the pOstofice department
have resulted in the presentation Of In
dictments against persons formerly con-
nected with that service, accusing them
of offenses against the United States.
have enjoined upon the officials who
are charged with the conduct of the
cases on the part of the government
and upon the eminent counsel, who,
before my accession to the presidency,
were called to their assistance, the duty
of prosecuting with the utmost vigor Of
the law all persons who may be found
chatgeable with frauds upon the postal
service.
Z he acting encouragement calls at
tion to the necessity Of modifying the
present system of the courts Of the
United States, q necessity due TO the
large increase of business, especially In
the supreme court. Litigation in our
Federal tribunals became greatly ex-
panded after the close of the late war.
So long as that expansion might be at
Ribhtable to the abnormal condition In
which the community found itself Inn
mediately after the return Of peace,
prudence required that no change
be made in the constifu-
don Of our judicial tribunals.
But It has now become apparent that
"A immense increase Of litigation has
directly resulted from the wonderful
growth and development of the country.
There Is no ground for belief that the
business Of the United States courts will
ever be less In velume than at present.
Indeed, that it Is likely to be much
greater b generally recognized by the
Bench and bar. In view Of the
fact that Congress has already given
much consideration to this subject ]
make no suggestion a. to detail Bat ex-
press the hope that your deliberations
may result Ia such legislation as viii
give early relief TO our over-budened
.c0ufts. The acting attorneygeneral
also calls attention 20 the disturbance Of
the public tranquility during the past
year h the Territory Of Arizona. A
band Of armed desperadOes, known
e. + cowboys,r probably numbering
from fifty TO one hundred men, have
been engaged for months Ia committing
acts Of laWlessneas and brutality which
the local authOrities have been unable
to repress. The depredati0ns Of these
.coFbOys have also extended into
Me4tc0, which the nnaxNudeTs reach
from The Arizona frontier. With every
disposition 10 meet the exigencies Of the
Csc, / am embarrassed By lack Of an
thOKfty to deal with them e6ectua1ly. The
punishment Of crimes committed within
Arizona should ordinarily of course, be
leetlto the Territorial authorities. But
6 y worthy 1t consideration whether
acts which necessarily tend to embrOil
the United States with neighboRing
noVAEmxnenkg nhould NOT l1as DECLARED