The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-11-23

inaster-General Cortelyou has been al
work on its reorganization ever since
he entered the Cabinet at its head, and
last week promulgated his order. In
brief it is as follows:
Office OF the Postmaster-G General
Chief Clerk, Private Secretary, Assist
|ant Attorney General, Purchasing
Agent. Chief Inspector division OF
Post Office Inspectors), Appointment
Clerk, Disbursing Clerk.
"Office Of the First Assistant Post
master DISQUALIFICATION of Appoint
siCns, Division of Salaries and Allow
ances. Division Of City Delivery. Divi-
sion Of Correspondence.
"Office of the Second Assistant Post
master General-Division of Railway
Mail Service. Division of Foreign Mails
sion of Contracts. Division of Inspec-
tion Division of Equipment.
"Office of the Third Assistant Post
master DECENTRALIZATION of Finance
Division OF Stamps, Division of Money
Orders. Division of Registered Mails
Division Of Classification. Division OF
Redemption.
coffee of the Fourth Assistant Post
1naster-G DECENTRALIZATION of Rural De-
livery, Division of Supplies, Division OF
Dead Letters Division of Topography.
THE regulations of the Post Office
Department are hereby amended in
conformity with the foregoing trans
fcrS and designations.
This order is to take effect Dec. l,
1905"
Thus, by taking the Division of APP
pointments, the Division of Bonds and
Commissions, and the Division of City
Delivery from the Fourth Assistant and
giving them to the First Assistant, the
latter official will have under his i'm
mediate supervision the entire person.
mel of the post offices throughout the
country, including postmasters, assist
ant .postmasters, clerks, and carriers
Except rural carriers), and great
deal Of needless correspondence be-
tween the two Bureaus, with serious
delays in action arising from a division
OF authority, will be avoided.
The office of the Second Assistant
Postmaster-General will continue to
have charge of the great subject of the
Of the mails and, while
it's division organization it not affected.
the transfer to the First Assistant Post
General of the control of the
of mails within the jurisdic-
ton of the larger post Offices Is contem-
plated under the order.
The office Of the Third Assistant Post
is affected by the trans
fer to it of the Division of Money Or
ant. The Third Assistant already has
the Stamp Division, the Registry Divi-
sion, and the Division of Postal FL
nance, and the addition of the Money
Order Division will bring the principal
branches of the De-
partment under one head. The Divi-
sion of Files and Records in this Office
is abolished, and it's personnel and work
are assigned to the Chief Clerk of the
Bureau, making that officials duties
to those of similar positions in
the other bureaus.
While the office Of the Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster-Gen has had taken
from 1T the preparation Of cases for the
of postmasters 1T gains in
having transferred to it the Division of
Dead Letters Division of Post Office
Supplies and the Topographer's office.
1t will continue to have the Rural Free
Delivery Service, the growth of which
in recent years has been phenomenal,
and it is here that much can be done
In the direction of improved service
and economies of administration. In
being relieved of the immense task Of
the appointment and bonding of post
masters and the supervision Of the City
Free Delivery Service, the Fourth AS
sistant can devote a larger share Of at
spects most important, branch OF the
postal service.
The Chief Post Office Inspector, in
addition to the supervision OF the In
spectors, Will hereafter have charge of
he rural agents, who, as members of
he investigating force Of the Depart
ment, can with great advantage be as
signed to the Division Of Inspectors.
The Division of Supplies IL being re-
organized and enlarged 80 as to en-
brace practically all OF the supply work
Of the Department. The order also in
wolves a change in the names Of several
simplicity Of designation. Under the
secured by the Postmas-
order the broad plan upon
which the Departments work is now
allotted may be stated briefly as fol-
lows:
Standardization and
supervision OF the postal service.
First Assistant Postmaster-Ge General
Post Office personnel and management.
Second Assistant Postmaster-General
OF the mails.
Third Assistant Postmaster-General
Postal finance.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Rural free delivery and miscellaneous
The American Mining Congress,
which met in Ell Paso, Tex. last week.
by vote memorialized Congress to add
TO the Presidents Cabinet Secretary
Or Mines and Mining.
The Postmaster OF Goshen, Ind.
chauncy d. Sherwin, on the report Of
was suspended recently for
bringing pressure upon Post Office
clerks to contribute to campaign funds"
Then the Post Office Department pro-
ceeded to thoroughly investigate the
Goshen pOstoffice, with the result that
Mr.. Sherwin Is reinstated, al no evil
dence can be found that he solicited
funds in 1902 in any way
and that incident is closed.
Admiral Dewey agrees to disagree
with one of the greatest novelists in the
world. Admiral Dewey thinks that old
men should not officer our Navy. Victor
Hugo declares that old soldiers have
more courage than young ones. because
they are farther removed from the
warmth Of life's morning, and more au-
dacity because they are nearer death.
Judge w. J. O'Brien, a member of
Congress from the Baltimore (Md.)
District, 1905. died last week.
Prince Louis in a jaunty and de-
bonair way remarked that New York
would be at the mercy Of any fleet (no-
tably the British) that might turn it's
big guns loose on the big metropolis.