The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-25
ANNUAL STATEMENTS
THE PoSTOFFICE BUSHES:
Revenues Are Increasing In the
Closing Months OF the Year
The Director of the Mint
Gives Out Figures.


General Wilson has made his annual
report to the president. The receipts
OF the postoffice department for the
year ended June 30, 1895, were s76, ,161. :
OsO. and the expenditures $50. 7s0. .172.
1t Is gratifying. says the report, that
a large portion of the deficiency oc-
Cured in the first quarter of the year
and the revenues are increasing with
returning prosperity. Mr.. Wilson esti-
mates the revenue for the year ending
June 80. 1897. at $50. .7ss, l20, and the ex-
penditures of $94,s17. .900 the difference
to be made up by congressional appro-
priations.
Speaking of the deficiency, Mr.. Will
son says: The regular annual de-
ficiency in the revenues of the postal
service. emphasized as 1t appears to be
by the unusual amount of the deficien-
cies for the past two years. may call
for comment from those who believe
the postoffice department should be
self-sustaining, but 1t should be re-
membered that the free business done
by this department for other branches
and departments of the government, IL
paid for at regular or cost rates, would
more than wipe out its deficiencies"
The postmaster general refers to the
growth of the free delivery service, and
says: II believe 1t is good policy for
congress and for this department to
foster the extension OF this service by
judicious appropriations and judicious
administration" Concerning the
abuses of second-class mail matter.
Mr. Wilson says: 81 can add little to
ofx hxr Do
eral Bissell and Postmaster General
Wanamaker for amendments to the
law as to second-class matter impera-
lively needed to save the postal service
from enormous abuses and consequent
enormous loss of revenue, which no
regulations of the department or
watchfulness of it's officials can guard
against. 1 respectfully and earnestly
recommend to congress "a careful scru-
tiny into this abuse and such remedial
aid as shall be necessary and effective
for its correction"
Upon another feature of the second
class matter, the postmaster general
says: The volume of second-class
matter passing through the mails in
creases rapidly and has reached such
proportions as to seriously retard the
distribution of mails in the larger
postoffices and railroad postoffices The
department through it's local repre-
sentatives, has repeatedly urged pub
fishers to separate their publications
by states and routes, where the guam
tity for any one state or territory is
sufficient to justify it, before sending
them to the mailing offices, and has
endeavored to show them that their
own interests would be subserved
thereby"
Postmaster General Wilson says the
civil service rules should be extended
wherever practicable. He says: 1.-The
magnitude and multiplicity of its busi-
ness operations, the perfection of the
service which the people are learning
to demand and ask of ii and the pal
pable truth that such business opera
tions can be carried on and such per-
feet service rendered only by men
trained and experts, all these and
many other reasons call for such sta
bility of tenure as alone can command
or beget the requisite training, skill
and enthusiasm. The question of ex-
tending civil service methods to the
selection of fourth-class postmasters
has naturally received my attention
since i have been at the head of this
department. But I do not find myself
able to make, as yet, any specific rec
concentrations on this important sub
ject in the line OF the legislation which
has been prposed."