The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-11-11
From WASHINGT0g.
REPORT or POSTAL AFFAIRS.
Weat the service Costs the Country
Regort on tho Indian oaes;ion.
Jouett Sent to tho Isthmus.
smith Sworn In-More
Postmasters Named.

WASHINGTON, Nov. lO.-First AS
slstant Postmsster-asnersl A. Il.
Stephenson has submitted 20 the pos,.
mastar-geueral his annual fopor, ON
tne operations OF his bureau for the
nsosi year ended June 80, 1855. From
inc report 10 appears thai the num-
ger Oh postoificss established during
tne year was 2,l2l aud the number
discontinued $50, making the wbole
NUMBER OF post offices ct the end of the
hscai year 57l 252, u net increase of ,o2S5
uutng the year. The number of ON
ces subject TO appointment by
tne president, presidential grade,
was 2,233, and the numbsr
suolect TO appointment by tue
postmaster-general, fourth-elsss, waa
as,Vls. The whole Number OF appoint.
ments during the year was ll,20S, n,sde
up as follows: '''0
On resisnstions and commissions
expired, 6,2O4; removals and suspeu.
sions, $40; changes of names aud sites.
2oi deaths of postmasters, 4i2; lestab.
lishment OF new offices, 222. The in
oroaae Ia thsuumber of postotlices was
distributed as follows:
Now England States, As; Middle
slaths aud District OF Columbia, III:
Soushern States and Indian Territory.
oso; the 10 states and six Territories OF
the West and Northwest, 375; the three
Stasas aud Territories of the Pacific
slops, %. The greatest increase In any
ate or Torritory was 100 In Virginia.
ihe Increase IN Dakota for the year
was n, and in Mississippi, SO. The
only decrease WAS In Nevada.
Ihe total number OF money order
Offices was 6,992, an increase OF 7l9
over the preceding year. The number
OF cnanges In postnasters during this
year wss less than the preceding year,
ahd The large dourease in
tho number Of ceees acted
upon during tho year as
compared with tho preceding year was
aus, sGys General Stevenson, TO tho
tacs Tint very few chauges were made
IN thoss offices during the winter
months.
Uador the head of tree delivery sys.
tenn, ths report states that tho number
OF irse delivery offices &C tho closs OF
the year WAS IFS, an incrsass OF 10, and
OF 46S.
This entire cost of the seryice was
$S,9S5,O52, leavingi an unexpsnded bal
anee or $40 047.
The service has now been extended
10 nearly ali citie5 having population
ol zoV5O inhabitants, or returning S20,-
W. gross receipts por annum, and its
iurther extension must, under the la y,
await the growth OF the cities to tho
requirements above noted, or
| Ia.
ercd by legislation. Tho first
warrants the recommendation that
authority bs conferred by legislation
Tor lts extension to places of 10000 in
habltants, ur having a gross revenue
OF $4,000.
The report briefly states the advan-
tsses that have resulted from the con-
eolideli0u of large free delivery
offices, and recommends that
the same policy bo applied
10 non'iree delivery offic
40 as tcglve them tho benefit of free
delivery. Its believed that this con
solidatlun would reduce the labor q
exaMining clerks by cutting down the
nuupor OF separate posto Il ces, aud
wouldresult III greater harmony In
the service.
Under the head or saIarv and o,,ow
anoe IL ia stated that tha io,si a,,,o,,r
allowed for clerk hiro in nI' nnst.
Offices was Si 56g. far rs,,t
fuel and IiVht OF nnstoilices' saea oao
for salaries OF po,tmastors. 81 aiS.' a'I sJ.
justed during tho wear. s37GI'G 'GG0
Slnce April, 1885, 80 400 npnlica.
tions TOR ravIaw oy ,,ilriaa =,
postmsstera. under the sct nt meSer
3, 1883, wero received and filed' Tha
number received and rnadiusted yas
| 1851, and r $40 anplications war. al.
llowod Involving tha additionsl
amount for oomnonsation an
back pay of postmasters
OF 1878 922. As o result of the emansl
aoi iptmont of salarIes. IA ofIicea weya
added TO the presidsntial iiat and IN,
otlicss wers relsgatad In ths ynnr,h
class.
The grand total of vrnsa race,nta a,
pre,iden,isI Offices for tbe iour IN ar.
ters ended Marah m. lss,. amonntid "a 20
SSl 7D2. .22O. nnd the sg$rnssts aai arie, ~
OF pos,inaslers will absorb ii AZ of cha
revenues, Tho postal rsreinl, asvs
Qeilerel Stovnnson. forming tha hat
of the sslaries of presidsntis, nnst,ns..
terp, fluctuate with tbe favnrsbIe ~,
untsyorsble condition of IN.
business OF the eouptrv
ina conn,rv 4. antarinI vnn sna,
prosperity snd plenty, and therefore,
not less than 50 200. 900 will be required