The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-15
CUTS THE RED TAPE.
FAR-REACHrN0 ORDER OF THE
 sTBR-GENERAL.
Plan fo Consolidate Under One Buresa All Related yubjects--Serious
 Delays Will Be
 AvOaded.

washinRton. Nov. 14.-Postmaster General Cortelyou today issued an or der of far-reaching importance, reois- tributinR the duties of the four As sistant Postmaster Generals ana ai- fecting the entire postal service. The order will carry into enect De cember a plan of the Postmaster cenerai to consolidate the work under one bureau of all related subjects. The result will be to place under the Post master Generals personal supervision the direction of the postal service; the First Assistant, the postomce person nel and management; under the cecono Assistant, all matters relating 10 tne transportation of the mails; under the Third Assistant. all matters oI poss finance, and under the Fourth Assist ant. the rural free delivery and miscei-s laneous postal business.
 This order will carry into enect De- cember a plan the Postmaster-Gen- eral has been perfecting for the re- organization of the Postomce Depart-
 ment Thus, by taking the division oI
 appointments, the division or bonus
 and commissions and the division or citv delivery from the Fourth Assist
 ant. and giving them to the First As- sistant. inc latter official will have un- der his immediate supervision the en- fire personnel of the postofices throughout the country, including postnlasters, assistant postmasters' clerks and carriers texcept rural car
 riers), and a great deal or neeoiess
 correspondence between the bureaus with serious delays In action arising
 from a division of authority. will be avoided.
 Transportation of Mails.
 The office of the Second Assistant
 Postmaster- General will continue to
 have charge of the great supJect oA transportation of the mails, and while It's division organization is not anected, the transfer to the First Assistant
 Postmaster General of the controi or the movement of mails within the Ju-
 risdict,on of the larger postofiices is .oontemplated under the order.
 < The ofiice of the Third Assistant Pestma ster General Is affected by the transfer to 1t of the division of money orders from the office of the First As- sistant. The Third Assistant already has the stamp division, the reeistry division and the division Of postai finance, and the addition of the money
 order division will bring the princlpal
 ravenue- e-uroducine branches of the de-
 partment under one head. The divis- ion of files and records of this ofnce
 is abolished and its personnel ana
 work is assigned to the chief cierK or
 the bureau, making that official duty
 conform to those of similar positions
 in the other bureaus. While the office of the Fourth Assist ant Postmaster-Ge General has had taken from it the preparation of cases TOT the appointment of postmasters. it gains in having transferred to It the division of dead letters, division or nostoffice supplies and the typograph- sr's office. It will continue to have the rural free delivery service, the growth Of which in recent years has been phenominal, and 1t is here that much can be in the direction of inn proved service and economies of ad- ministration.