The rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1891-07-31
POSTAL REFORM.

erE.nissa 90 . Modern nasaas.s stand
ard.
wAsnIxarox. July al.-Under an ~
der issued ~ Postmaxier-Genera Wan
amaker yesterday the organization Of
the department after August ! viii he
as follows:
Under the first Observation-Disclosures
Of salary and allowance. free delivery.
money order. dead letters. correspond
ence and post Office supplies and gen
eral executive work of the depart
nentS
Under the second assistant-Rail-
way mail service, foreign mails, all
forms Of mail transportation. the adj
justment division having charge Of the
fixing of pay Of railroads carrying
United States mails. and he inspection
division. which Is charged among other
duties with hat of imposing fines and
deductions for imprope performance
of the service.
Under the third assistant-The issu-
ing Of drafts and warrants and pay
ment of balances reported by the audi
tor to be due TO mail contractors or other
persons. superintendent OF the collee-
ton Of revenues of post offices, regis
tered matter, aud the general control
and management Of the registry system
of the Office. 10 which Is attached also
the division of postage stamps, stamped
envelopes and postal cards, classifca-
ton OF mail matter, the rates of postage
and the entry OF all seeond-elass publ
cations and correspondence relating
thereto and the special delivery system.
Under the fourth ~assistant-The dt-
vision of post office inspectors and the
divisions of bonds and appointments.
The order Just issued is the onsum-
nation of the postmaster-generaIs de-
sire. which he expressed in his first an
nual report 10 rsorgauize the depart
mental force, rs well as the post office
and transportation force outside of the
department, ON business lines. He
found ut the beginning of his incum-
bency, two years ago, that there had
been no general reorganization of the
departmental force since the Office of
third assistant postmaster-general was
created years ago. lie found, in
deed, that the new bureaus, ere
ated from time to time, were
performing their work independent
ly and without particular refer
ence TO the department as Il whole
Numberless needless details were forced
upon the personal attention of the
acknowledgement himself and more
than all he found that the different bu-
reaus, while they were performing
their work conscientiously, were not
approaching their relation to the me-
thodical and progressive whole, which
he hoped TO make of the postal service
and not only therefore were the various
/. bureaus failing somewhat 10 keep in
. touch with all the qualifications of the
business. and the immense system was
therefore failing, in some degree, to
progress with the immense develop
! ment Of the country, but he, himself,
had little time for the thoughtful con-
sideration of such policies as he be-
: lieved might affect the administration
4 and the country.
:, In his first annual report Mr.. Wanna
maker recommended the division of
the country into postal districts so hat
the best postal men in these localities
might nave supervision of the system,
cutting off needless routes, putting on
needed ones. saving money, preventing
!. irregularities and depredations, instead
of waiting until the offenders should
have been detected, and in general
studying the service with a view of inn
proving it In all possible details, big
} and little. In the same report
!, he recommends the creation OF a
general officer, called the comp
t~roller. who should be permanent
sufficiently salaried and best all ROUND
= postal and business man to be had il
the country. Neither recommendation
- was enacted into law, but by the crea
l. ton of the office of fourth assistant an'
by the transfer of some of the indie
\ pendent bureaus to this Office and SOM
others to the office of the first ant
\ second assistants, he Is enabled t
= practically bring about In part the stat
of affairs which he had first desired.
Col. Whitfield does not become comp
n troller, and his Office is not permanen
or higher salaried than it was befors
but he becomes the general executiv
officer, seeing mem bers of congress
who have any number of importar
matters of business with the post ofiC
w department, applying himself to tn
'm general study of the needs of the diffe
'ef emit sections of the service, u as I'll
a' carrier force and the matter of cier
70 hire, developing these branches OF u
i services on broad lines and keepir
eu promptly up with the great volume
les correspondence which the postmaste.
. have to address TO the every day worI
,or ing bureaus of the department.
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ct THE GRAIN CROPS.