Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-01

Annual Report Of the Post
master General.
A Review of the Years Trans
actions.

WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-The annual
report Of Postmaster General Wana-
maker for The fiscal year ended June 30,
| 1890, has been made public
In the administrative methods Of the
department itself, he says, some changes
for the better have been made. a new
series Of smaller stamps, criticised and
justly criticised. at first so far as the
two-cent stamp was concerned, are
now, ii is believed, quite acceptable to
the public. Over $500, 600 have been
saved ON the contract for postal cards,
which, though they were properly criti-
cised at first, were quickly brought up
to the required standard by the CON
tractor -Four hundred thousand dol
lars has been saved ON the contract for
stamped envelopes. Two hundred thou
sand dollars or more has been saved on
certain lettings Of contracts for carrying
the mails, and at the same time the
mail routes have been extended over al
most 100000 miles Of railway and
steamboat and stage lines,
The anti-lottery legislation has en-
tailed much extra labor upon the in
spector force, but, on the other hand,
the temptation to thieying among en-
ployes OF the department has been much
diminished by the same means.
The past year has been made very
disagreeable to the green goods 3"
swindlers
NEGOTIATIONS with tho German au-
thorities looking 10 the eseablishment
of sea postoffices have been successful.
A commission OF postmasters has ex-
aJnined 900 models. designs and sug-
cestious house letter boxes to find some
thing which, ii universally adopted
would save Il quarter part Of the time of
the carrier force OF the der tment.
A few fgures given illustrate how
much the business Of the department
has grown. The gross revenue is nearly
S5 600 .OOO larger than it ever was be-
fore Almost 5000 new . stodices.
more than in any one year before. have
been established upOn the petitions of
communities which have needed them.
The star route mileage has increased
over 5000, 900 miles and the railroad
mileage owe, 1I.0VO.O0O. The railway
postal clerks have reduced the number
Of pieces usually sent to the dead letter
office by 2.000, 600.
The one lde9 WllGn QaS OOINiD9TeO
the department this year is, he SAYS. to
make the mails go faster, more safely
and more frequently.
He submits few illustrations of the
ENLARGED service in the west. In fifteen
months 1 ,1l9, ,70G miles of mail service
were added in the state Of WASHINGTON
alone. Four years ago the service was
NOT So large bv 1000. 600 miles In Wv
o.
added ahout 8O.O0O miles OF service and
in Idaho in fifteen months about l60, 600
miles
In one form or another. SAYS the post
master general the Dublic ifnDeratiyelv
demands cheaner t6legraphy, and the
postoffice dppartment can supply it at
less rates thau anv CORPORATION. un-
less the latter has rent, light and fuel
free and carriers and clerks without nav.
This statement is supported by an ex-
tended argument on the same lines. as
tbe argument made by the postmaster
general before the committee of con
0ress
The postmaster general recommends
tbe esfablishment of Dostal savings
hanks i'm states having no laws reaulat
inc SAVINGS banks, and in other states
mon nofifion of a considerable number
of residents of any one locality.
The recent lottery legislation is brief
w revicv-ed Concerning the exclusion
cf "fbe Kreutzer Sonata" from the
mail tho rpnort after reviewing 4he
law on fbe subject at length. saws: a
frans1ation of n questionable hook. was
os a matter Of fact. presented some
months since at the postofice in a west
ern city for transmission in the mails
If was held and referred to this depart
mont The assistant attorney general.
fnding II indecent under any definition
of tbe word iqsued an order excluding
Il Toevcl11de the book was the simple
drtv of +be dpnartnent For myself /
nevcr diseuss the poiicv or wisdom Of
breolying tha law. and the officials of
tbe nostofiice dnnartment do NOT
NJ nroG+ from tbe foreign mail
ser,-ico df,,.ino, tbe wear was more than
20 0do 600 The coinnengation for trans
Tto,.+;,,g. +bis mail maid 10 lines of
staa,n6rs 2 fo Latin American countries.
tbo ,loei,na-ter general saws IS made
onata and he recommends The massage
6f tbe subsidv bill ORIGINATING in the
earste and nov nendino IN fine 6onse
Tbe numEer of presidential nost-
,n5sters removed duiing the last two
1-ao,.5 1ros no OF these 35O were re-
ynored On ipsnectors' reports aud 3fO
For inconDetancy and other causes for
the gaad of thegserviee. Of the latter
$40 5a1 served four years or more. AT
fa,,,.,b closs offices fine removals were
-71o IN 1880 and 6.Ot9 in $3.50
0f civil service reform in the depart-
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