Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21

the present rural free delivery service?
Mr.. Clay: l do not think that the
report OF the postmaster general gives
any accurate information which would
| authorize me to answer the question:
The postmaster general assures us in
his report that where the service has
| been established and put in thorough
operation the revenues have increased
| from ~ to IS per cent, I'd says that
| in few years after the service is per-
fected in all probability it will we self
| sustaining. There are not sufficient
facts and figures in the report of the
| postmaster general up to this time to
answer accurately the question asked
| by the senator from Indiana.
Mr.. Fairbanks: Mr.. President, l
have been much interested in the sena-
tors statement of the development OF
the rural free delivery service because
| it is service in which I have taken
considerable interest from its early eX-
| detrimental days. AS the honorable
senator has shown. it has justified in
the fullest degree the hopes and ex-
pectations of it's authors. 1t has oc-
Cured to me that there is reasonable
opportunity for increasing its efficiency
and without any additional burden up
on the government.
| Congressional Record, Vol. SO, Part
Opp. PITT to BOTS and appendix;
57th congress, End session, Feb. IA to
March 4 1903 The quotation above
begins about the middle OF the second
column on page 1908, senate proceed
ings of February %. 1908. and ends
near the bottom of page 2610.-De
| France.)
| Senator Racon's Endorsement.
! Mr.. Bacon: Mr.. President. wish to
say a word in reference to the presen-
tation which has been made by my col
league on the origin and authorship,
if may so term it, of the free rural
delivery system. l am very much
gratified that my colleague has brought
forward and had reinserted in the
record the history of the origin and
authorship OF this important part OF
the postal system. It's true that in all
great discoveries and inventions and
reforms, in the beginning they are in
the public estimation comparatively
insignificant and their importance is
not then appreciated and SO while it
is true that this narrative was already
in the Congressional Record, yet at the
| time of the occurrence there was not
an appreciation of the very great i'm
| portance of the inauguration Of this
which has already developed into such
magnitude and which promises so
much for this country.
| Justice to Mr.. Watson.
! When there have been developments
in these great discoveries, inventions.
and reforms. after they have become
the agents for great growth and de-
velopment, after they have become in
terwoven in the business and life of
| the country, then it is a matter OF
| great Importance to know who it was
| that originated them. Hence I think
| it is a matter of justice to Mr.. Watson
that there should be now. in this DAY
of its development and success, the
recognition of the fact that the first
appropriation ever made for the pur-
pose of inaugurating the free delivery
Of mail in the rural districts was in
serted in the house of representatives
upon the motion Of this distinguished
! Georgian in the year 1893. 1t is due
to him that this honor should be ac-
corded to him, and for all time it will
be to him an enduring honor. ;
(Same volume of Congressional Rec
ord, beginning near bottom of second
column Of page 2611 and ending near
France)
Chairman, Jas. H. Ferriss, Joliet, Ill.
Vice Chairman, w. S. Morgan, Hardy,
! Ark
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III. :
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