The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-12-10

u
rom the auditors office and the finance
lIvIsion of the department show the ex-
penditures for the two frat years, not IS,
IN part, estimated IN the annual reports,
out corrected according to subsequent
facts; while the cost for the past year is
necessarily in small part the subject of
only.
ROR THE xKAR EsDfsa JUxE so. 1884,
Q 'dinaTy postal. ,ls.Os7. o7s "a
mess .e......-.. Al.eis 81
Total, ........ SIS. sos saa a
% SEPT; s.. 1855 ;sa2.MsIoo So
70 Sept. 50, lssl ssoseo %
70 Sept. 50. 1885. sl.sa7 II
Set balance closed
iSg isss $500 8.
audited claims
waiting spprO-
priation ---..---- lbs z4-s43oSs,149 y
Cash Surplus. s1.9ls,0is 50
Deduct amt. cred
ited Pac fic Rail-
road Companies
for Transports
tion OF mails, -. 915,T10 %
Total net surplus I,oss. ass II
FoR TIE YEAR HEDIEG JuNE a.. 1854.
Revenue
Ordinary postal 81, SIS .G25 90
meas .' O-.1l Dsi 5ls.4s2 Os
TOtai........... sls, SIS. la7 O8
To sept %, 1854 .4s4O4.0sO So
70 sept: So 1855 1881 50
%. 1855 1000 81
Ne c baIanc.s closed
by bad debts dur
Ing 1884 .-...---. ., 80 ~
Amount due Dem
yer & Rio Grande
pended. ~ 5000 II
audItei claims
pEiatiOn: 1os.629 sr-s4-, c4l,e 80
CAshdencieney is.TO8, 5as 81
Add anO Mt cred
tied Pacific Rail
road companies
TIN in issI.-.... I.sso.I79 81
To which the
further amt.
lied in iSs5.-.... ssa.2ss Ca-1 1.54s.4lT 60
Total net de-
Fos THk rEiE ENDING JUNE 50. 1885.
Ordinary postal. :4s,iu.9 $40 So
ness.... s.. 4os9ss 80
Total. .......... ;4a.E8O.al8 50
Expenditure
| 10 sept 30, 1885. .S49. 3l7, 1sS d
| Estimated out
ties ,.......,..... IS, 010, O5-$4s. 500 .lss Al
dedcIency -. sz.o4l. si4 IS
Add amt. credited
| Pacific Railroad
| companies for
| tran 8 POI tation
| during the year. 1,3iO.zzo d
/
Total net def
| cheney (paElIy
estimatedJ.. S.3Sl, DOL Al
The general result to the public treas.
ury from the transactions OF this depart
ment during the past two years is thus
shown to have changed from the receipt
of q cash surplus gain of nearly two
millions TO an outlay of over seven mil.
lions surplus of cost; or reckoning also
the amounts credited 10 the Pacific rail-
road companies for mail transportation
the difference in the pecuniary results Of
the service, resliZed during the two
years, exceeds $9.400 600.
This difference is due, first, to the de-
crease of the revenues, which amounts
in total only 10 So 947.S48 70; aud second
ly, 60 an Increase OF tue expenditures to
the extent OF Sc. 466 955 80, of which So
042. 4S9 10 have heeI iu the cash dis
buIsemenis, and 1924 5iG 81 II the ccs'
of transportation upon the Pacific rail-
roads. Chiefly tbs decrease of EeveuuC
has resulted from the diminIshment il
The rate If letter postage from 3 To 2cents
upon the half ounce, which " rs the uni
of weighs during tina Period, while the
increase of expenditures has arisen
principally from the material increase o
mails to be carried, and the natural ex-
tension OF the service. although other
causes have contributed something t
both effects.
THE REVENUE.
The revenue for the last year beins
less than for the preceding, while the
expenses continued to grow nearly a.
before, il might hastily be Inferred tina
The rate OF postage has heen reduced tn'
gre ally to justify the expectation that th'
service VIII sagEin become self sustain
Ing.
A more attentive examination gives
reason 10 think such deduction 10 b.
erroneous. The reduction of the rat'
took effect on the 1st day OF October
1888, leaving but nine months Of the ifs
Cal ysar 10 its operation; and although
oy anticipation sOms effect was pTaril
cally experienced duting the al ec.-iepi
three months ia diminished urckases o
STAN ps, yet the sales for that Qu.. e
still remained large. and of couTsI
yielded for the amount OF cent stamps
sold sum 80 per. cent greater thar
wo1ld have arisen for 2cert price
while To the extent that purchasers hat
suspended buYiHg to secure the
cheaper rate, the sales Immediately
following its taxing eff ct were in
creased IN volume. II also appears froE
the account of sales that there werr
large purchases OF stamps,s and especially
of stamped envelopes, IN that quarter. ID
anticipation of taeir use In the next. anC
preparatory TO it. But the full effect o
the change has been continuously opera
tive during the entire year recently
closed, and has only been counterscteC
by the same cause, which was at leas
equally IN force, pr6portlOnably, durInl
the year preceding, the steady growth II
the public use OF the mail service.
A comparison OF the loss of receipt;
severally sustained during each of these
years should indicate, in a general way
the pecuniary influence upon the TeveD
ne of the natural increase in the public
employment of the postal service, ano
might afford approximate percentages
for computation as tothe future, If othel
special causes from recent legislation
had not interviewed Such comparison
should be limited to the receipts fol
postsge alone, to be most instructive
These have been as follows:
In the year ending June so, 1888 .$4s, 100 9s2 o;
| In the year ending June 81, 1884,. 1850 72s 81
al the ye r esdinR J une 81. ASS. 40,056 226 6!
The falling of IN this revenue be.
tween 1888 and 1884 was therefore
So sos 534 20, or 5 5 per cert; while
between 1884 and 1885 II was but $500,
500 90, or little below PR cent, Civ.
ing ratio OF improvement which, il
Otherwise undisturbed, would warrant
the expectation of a considerable net in.
crease, instead OF further Ioss, during
the current year. The showing for the
revenue of the past years is entitled to q
further advantage by the amount o.
$l54 go 90, which should be deducted
from the revenue of the previous yea
IN Insti,uting comparison. on account
of official stamps and stamped. envel
opes, then credited TO revenue, which
during the past year. disaPpe ared by thC
substitution OF the penalty enVelopes
and the entire dIscontinusHce of ofticia
stamps GU the 30th OF June, 1884.
The other sources of ordinary posta
revenue during the three years ia ques-
ton, mainly box-renis, show steady
gain from year 70 year during the pas
three. Thus:
In 1883 the total from such sources
was ..................$1eSs SO :
| In 1884 ........-.............. 96l 9oS :.
in 1855 =, 1865 s
Although not to be accepted as mai
eating any measure OF IL, these figure
! prove the TACT of steady progress In gan
from growth cOTroboratIve of the infeE
ence TO be taken from the statistics Of tn
other channels of receipt.
A more decisive evidence Of the re
/ -
from postage is TO be derived from
comparison of receipts during the sever
81 quarIer-years of the period under ex
animation. Daring each of tue toul
quarters of the year ending Juce 30
1884. the recsipss of this kind were L..