Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-14
DEPARTMENT. REPORTS.
Jones Discusses Mail Matters-Miles ant
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Jones Discusses Mail Matters-Miles and
the Army.
Washington, Nov. 1 T. First Assistant
Postmaster General JoEes has submit.
ted his report. 1t calls attention to u
saving in his branch Of the service dur
ing the past year of $1.595,577. Mr.. !
Jones recommends an appropriation OF
SIT 100000 to cover compensation OF
postmasters for the next fiscal year and
$10,500,OO0 for clerk hire at first and
second-class post Offices.
The salaries of all presidential post
masters amounted to SIS, s97 200, and
the gross receipts of post Offices $780,
538,O97. The number of presidential
pcstmasters are 3,491, of which 159 are
first-class; 700 second-class and 1852
third-class. The total number of posi-
tions brought within the classified
service during the year was 52,395.
An estimate of $12, 900, 300 is made for
the free delivery service next year.
The money order report shows that
there are 1861 domestic none order
offices, and orders to the amount OF
$l56, 7o9,GS9 were issued and $3.50, $780,
$50 paid. Mr.. Jones recommends Leg
islation requiring clerks handling
money order business to give bonds.
Concerning dead-letter matter, the
report says: The number Of pieces OF
original dead mail matter received dur
ing the year for treatment was $685.
673, a decrease Of 7Sl,l71.
He recommends the order recently
promulgated by the president providing
for the consolidation of fourth-class
post offices, and says the only positions
at frst-class post Offices that are now
excepted from civil service examination
are assistant postmaster, private secre-
tary and stenOgrapher. cashier ard as.
sistant cashier; at second-class Offices,
assistant postmaster, under whatever
legal designation known.
Mr.. Jones does not favor maintaining
experimental free delivery service III
towns and villages, but states that if
the people still demand it he assumes
congress will pass the necessary appro-
priation to establish the service. In
view of the great saving effected and
the general improvement in the service,
especially in the large cities, Mr.. Jones
recommends the employment of a mum
Der of men in the larger Offices whose
regular duty it shall be to inspect the
work Of carriers, make suggestions as
to extensions and changes of routes,
and, in fact, to have general super
vision of the work of carriers outside of
post Offices.
Mr.. Jones says that besides the ac-
tual saving effected, the improved eff
| cheney in the service in the Offices in
vestigated must be credited to the Sc
icret service. At every office the dis
cipline of the force and efficiency Of
the service have been much improved,
the work more equally distributed,
among the letter carriers, and at many
Offices extensions made and facilities
increased without additional cost.
The assistant postmaster general rec
| omn,ends that the attention Of congress
should be called to the advisability of
| providing penalty for the use OF the
postmarking stamp for unlawful pur-
| poses, or for counterfeiting it, or for
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envelope or postal card for the purpose
of deception. He says some penalty for
the unlawful use of the franking privi-
lege should be imposed.
| Mr.. Jones renews several recommen-
dations made in his last report, such as
more stringent legislation against oh
scene mail matter; the power to sus-
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temporary and substitute clerks; care
for disabled employees; the better class
ifcation of salaries of clerks in larger
offices, and the employment of substi-
tute carriers.
Washington, Nov. 11.-An important
\ exposition Of the defenseless condition
of the coasts of the United States is
made by Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, com
handing the army, in his annual report
TO the secretary of war. 1t has been
estimated that to fortify all our COASTS
would cost in the neighborhood Of $685.
100000. To put the Pacific coast in a.
proper condition of defense would re-
quire in the neighborhood of 375 mod
ern guns and mortars, with their proper
carriages and munitions. 1t has also
been estimated that their cost would be
something like $31,OOO,OOO. Gen.
Miles has recommended in the past that
$250,0OO be appropriated to perfect
titles to strategic points neces-
sary to be occupied for the
defense of the Pacific coast; that
$1,000, 900 be appropriated for the estab-
lishment OF a plant to be constructed
under the direction of board OF officers
Of the army and navy to be ordered by
the president for the construction of eff
fective guns and war materials for both
army and navy on the western coast,
and that $25 100000, or such portion of
it as could be utilized in four years, be
authorized to be expended for the con-
struction Of the most improved and eff
fective guns and war materials as will
be required on the coast tits believed
that Gen. Miles makes recommends
tions Of a somewhat similar character
in the annual report. He also urged the
appropriation of a large sum for the
erection of Notifications for the protec-
ton of the Atlantic coast. Suggestions
are also made with reference to the
great lakes.
New Turkish Ministry.
Constantinople, Nov. s.---Hali Rifat
Pasha, the Turkish minister for the in
terror, has been appointed grand vizier
i in succession to Kiamil Pasha, resigned.
4 A new ministry has been formed.
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The Pope In Bad. Health.