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

1cG4 QLEH41 4e1C4 - CAto4At-
The revenue from the money order
denotes the condition and the
having fallen on from
$50 ,492 % in the preceding 10 but /
e4OS 933 80 In the last year, q smaller L
sun than was realized two yesrs before.
Since this service consists of the trans /
OF small sums oil money, its di-
mInished employment is strong mark /
of the unfavorable circumstances which /
have attended the business affairs of the |
people during the year.
Another similar evidence of the bust |
ness condition is disclosed in the dIvis- |
lou OF registration. which reports ce-
crease from the number in the previous
year of registered domestic letters and |
parcels amounting TO 296 500. or 3 2 per
cent, while for seven years before there
had been an increase averaging 1877 per
cent. during the first six, but dropping
TO per cent II the seventh, the system
thus appearing to be fair barometer OF
business.
As already shown by the results, and
as appears fro0I the reports of the great
er number of pieces handled by postal
cleTks, the Increase in the number OF
communications and articles transmitted
by the mails has, Notwithstanding, been
considerable. although beyond question
thus greatly retarded but IL can only be
a matter of interesting conjecture to at 4
tempt 20 estimate the diminution of rev
eoue which the service has suffered.
II is q subject OF congratulation TO the
country that the depressing Structure
upon Industry and enterprise has now
heguu 10 relax, as Is SO Significantly in
dIcated by the improving condition of
the postal revenue during the last quar-
ter of tie year under review
EXPENDITURES.
OF the total Increase OF expenditures
fo- postal service made and estimated,
a. before given, for the two last years,
aside from that arising from transporta-
ton OF the mails on the Pacific railroads,
the sum OF So 48I. 9I165 occurred In the
va ending June so, 1884, aud but $2,-
$50 527.51 during the past year; or about
per cent during the former TO 514 dur
log the latter The difference IN sp
parent favor OF last year Is due chiefly
| To the same cause which has diminished
the income-the refuctInn in the rate OF
letter postage. LIS effect has been
| marked upon the compensation OF post
masters; although possibly In some
small degree contributed to by
the act Of 1888, which di-
1 lAclE ShfdIlCS W Do ESCA-
/ oned upon cancellations instead of sales
| and the lessened amount of that item OF
| int cost of the service more than ac-
counts for the difference 10 the total ex.
| peuscs of the two years. In the yeaI
| ending June 80, 1888, the increase in thu
item alone Yves $l,350,7 "a, and in the
ye4r ending June 30, 1884, il amounts tC
! 1908 ,43G Al, while during the past yeal
there was an actual decrease of $50 981
90 There has also been less increase
IN the compensation of clerks In post
Uffices-but S13S 794 u during the las
to 1857, $40 Oh during the preceding
year.
The total cash expenditure for trans
! po1talion Of the mails has arisen by thu
sum of 81 .936, sol 80. or about ten pei
cent, as against sn increase during tht
year of $1,472, 1874 81, or little NOR.
than eight per cent. This has been du'
entirely TO increased and prompteF pay
menis to railroads, there having been I
less increase IN the cost of star service
than during the preceding year, and
decrease in the cost of steamboat servic,
of S24. 642. 81.
The increase ia the item of compensa
ton to postal clerks has been 1914 $50.
81, as c0ntrasted with an Increase during
tho pr4ceding year ia the same item o
$3.50. s24.42.
Inc increased expenditures for ire,
delivery have been during the year $4S1,
746 03. as against $3.50. 900 OF incrcas
the year before.
These figures show the most marked
changes in the debit column which hsv
occurred during the fiscal year unde
discussion. The tables which accom-
pany the reports OF the third assiatan
: postmaster general and the auditor ex
, hibit the details If the receipts and ex
pendilures, arranged by quarter years
land contrast the totals of the seVera
items respectively with like amount
disbursed in former years.
The sum total vi the cost 0f the servic
for the year figures $50, 942 415 "a, in
GLIDING the estimated uppaiu liabilities
or, setting to one side the cost of trans
pnrtaiioa Un the Pacific railroads. $40
COS, 1873 Al. For this the Appropriated
: m4de IN thIrIy-seven items, were $50,
! TAT, 400. None of these Items have beer
exceeded, except the one compensation
. to postmasters, which fall short S243,
. SIS 81, and the one for ship, steamh~a
: and way letters, which lacked $3O1.1
of the expenditure. Both are bey0n
. control of the department. being gov
, erned by law, postmasters paving them
selves
For these items deficiency appropria
, tons Will be necessary IN order TO clos
|, 1he accounts.
J In the remaining thirty five item
|, there remains uueXpended Yet total c
$1,074, 36l "a available against wbic
are the estimated liabilities Of 1884 00(
On account of previous years there hs
been dishursed during The p4st year III
sum Of $729, GAG so. the greater part {
which was Tor the unpaid liabilities {
: 1884 and tor readjusted salaries of post
. masters pursuant to special epproprIs
; lions therefor.
THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
So mucn has besn sid already IN re
{ specE 10 the financial problem of IN
present wear, as affecting prubzhle n
ceipts. that nothing Deed rs added to a
3 PLAZA the necessarily arbitrary characte
! OF the estimation attempted in order I
) furnish some Indication OF future rsveE
ne. No way Is open but TO conjeciuT
i the probabilities, and no test of the valu
, of different conjectures is possible.
? Starting with the unknown guam
tity OF the present years ordI-
nary postal reveaue, taken at
! the figure. previously arrived
e at arbitrarily. OF $45.eSo.o3z
> And deducting the amount there
in counted as arising from sec
} ond class matter .....,..-...-... 1.CsA.4z6
To which result Of. ........... 4. sss. 59s ;
Adding an assumed incFc acc
from irRproY~d business of
per cent Observation-Disclosures. S,&gS.USI
4 And the present years
revenue from second
class matter Of 81. Col. 4S6 90
: With an estimated -.
! lain OF 10 per cent. 109, 142 69-l20o. S6S
Gives O result of the ordinary
postal revenue OF H,l43 25S
or deb Business sda ss'tIe ?. money 10000
: And the gross revenue for the
year ending June 50, 1881,