Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-06

ADDITIONAL TELEGRA1fA.
New MsFshaI-sta gsute Case.
WASHINGTON. Dec 4.-NcMichsel, e.
S. Marshzl for the District of Coium-
bia, took the oath and took possession
Of the office this mornining.
The star route case this morning vas
postponed on account of tbs absence of
several members Of the panel. One of
the counsel reported s. W. Dorsey ssei-
oosly Ill.
Lest in . stern.
NnwAuxm, Dec. during Q gale
on Sunday night the Goodrich steamer
Dspere ran ashore sooth OF Two Rivers.
3 q had no passsnaers. The crew were
saved bu3 the cargo may Prove total
loss. The vesssl ran high upon the
beach Shs was valued at 228000.
Schooner I. w. Perry was stranded
the same night six niles north of She
boyRan. No lives lost. Valued at ssyan
thousand dollars.
Mere abeat Clipper
NV YoRx, Dec. 4.-The freight mar
ket shows no material change since last
week, and the prospect is that the re-
mainder of the year will be rathef quiet.
The Currier has sailed hence With cargo,
leading items of which are so tons coal,
100 tons muck iron, 100 tons pig iron,
100 barrels beer, 225 barrels whisky, 90
barrels rosin, 240 barrels cement, 150
barrels plaster, LEO barrels pitch, go
cases naphtha, 500 cases oil, 150 barrels
sugar, 500 cases canned goods. Rates
remain unchanged. Tonnage is still
very scarce. In fact, it Is a long time
since so few available vessels were at
this port dhovever, both California lines
are we'll supplied for some time to come.
Latest engagements are the Chas. Den
mis- for San Francisco; and the Red
Cross TO arrive with cargo of rails to
Portland. The fact that the Pacific
railroads have not a. yet notified ship
pers that their contracts will be renewed
on and after January LIST next, although
sixty days have been given, has caused
great anxiety during the past few days,
and various are the rumOrs in connec-
ton Herewith. No indication of what
the railroads propose to do i'll the mat
ter, bat it can hardly be possible that
they mean to have any undue advantage
of shippers, as it would react ON them
with greater force than can be Imagined
by those not cOnversant with the feel
ings Of shippers, who have been unjustly
created during the past few years, but
who mean to be protected hereafter.
The r. n. G.s Report.
WARRINGTON, Dec. 4.-rhe report of
Postmaster General Howe for the fiscal
year which ended June Both. 1882, shows
the disbursements of the postal service
to be $4O,482,02l; ordinary receipts,
Al .5l5, GAP; receipts from money or
ders, $3.50, 767. Excess receipts, 81. 1884,
1888. For the first time in 81 years the
postal service has not be burden upon
the Treasury. In order to determine
the real cost of the postal service,
for the past year should be deducted
from told disbursements, $442, $50.
which though paid last year, was for
services rendered during previous years
and should be added to $328, $50 esti-
mated due for services rendered last
year, should also be added to the 81
1914 earned by railways for the trans
portation of mails between the Missouri
river and the Pacific coast. The &C.
count thus stated shows the excess of
earnings to be 1885,, $50. The deficiency
for the previous year is $2,446,3 1873.
In the year of 1860 the deficiency more
than $l0,OO0,000. Part of this great
improvement is due to the wonderful
growth and prosperity of the country,
but the larger part is due to the i'm
proved methods of the administration
service. The heaviest item is the trans
pOrtati0n of mails on railways, and the
next heaviest for the pay of ppstmas-
ters. Those two items must swell the
volume Of business, since the rate of
compensation is in proportion to the
amount of business. The expenditure
next in rank, for the star service,
includes all transportation not ON
railways or steamboats,, for the year
for the year ended June 30. 1882; Star
service 1857 ,296 miles, transportation
cost $6,597 1856. For the year ended
June 30. 1882, the same service covered
76.924 1867 miles. and cost Sc, 56S.S49 Es-
Inmates for 1882 promise financial re-
suits still more fattering. The esti-
mates are for total revenue of $780,
GU, 496, total expenditures $46,74l,1l
excess VI rsuenue $685., 345. In the
report Of the First Assistant Postmas-
ter General. Hatton, is shown an esti-
mate for the compensation of postmas-
tors largely in excess of the sum appro-
priated, asked for during the current
year.
The reason assigned IL the sum ap-
pr0priated is wholly inadequate for the
pay of p0stmasters, which Il limited not
by appropriation bills, but by fixed
statutes and to the extent of their legal
compensation. The postmasters col
lect postal revenues, aud are authorized
by law to deduct from the money in
their hands their legal compensation.
They account to the treasury for the ex-
cess only. 1t seems hardly practicable,
therefore, to effect much in the interest
of economy by appropriating SIS, OOO, 600
TO pay postmasters, while We place $iO,-
600, 600 in their hands, ont of which
they may pay legal dues to themselves.
The Postmaster General culls some
statistics from the report of First As
sistant Postmaster General HattOn, and
proceeds:
! quite concur in the recommends
ton Ut the First Assistant Postmaster
General for tho reformation and aug
mcntation Of the blank agency depart
ment. The First Assistant Postmaster
General calls attention to the great diff
fculty experienced in adjusting salaries
Of tho poetmastcrs of the first three
Glasses, and Of making allowances for
office expenses TO those Of the first and
second classes. He does not sxaggerate
the difficulties, and it may we'll be doubt
ed il be could exaRRsrate them. Con-
grees Is invoked to make one more eff
fort to enRraft upon the postal service
the system of appointments for small
sums, and the Recommendation 10 made
that second class matter be abolished.
After the fullest consideration have
been able to subject the postal tele-
graph, l Am forced 20 the conclusion
that the time has fully come when the
telegraph and postal systems should BE-
embraced under one MANAGEMENT.
After assigning reasons for this con-
clusion, the Postmaster General contin-
ucs:
when computation of profits to the
public who purchase the services is made,
II becomes injurious to the companies
which sell, when competition ia extin-
Ruished by the purchase and absorpti1 IN
Of the competitors. The pric. paid for