The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-03-30
THE SUPPLIES
FOR CARRIERS
THE RURAL ROUTE MEN HAVE
HARD TIME TO GET
SATCHELS.
SPECIAL CONTRACT LET
Uncle Sam Is Making an Earnest
Effort to Provide.-other Gossip
From Washington.
NV A. M. Tracy.)

al months past the contractors who
furnish the Post Office Department
with Rural Carriers mail satchels
have been forwarding only a very
small percentage of the number re-
quired to keep the Rural Delivery
Service supplied, the difficulty being
mainly inability to procure leather
used in their manufacture, as con-
sequence the bureau of the Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General has an
accumulation of orders for twenty
thousand of these satchels. Recent
ly paragraph appeared in publ
cation having large circulation
among rural letter carriers, advising
those who have not been able to get
satchels by reuuisition to write to
their Congressman and state their
trouble" AS &c result the members OF
Congress have been deluged with let
tiers from rural carriers urging them
to have the satchels furnished, and
the Congressman have been calling
on Fourth Assistant McGraw In large
numbers. AS the Department has
not the satchels to furnish, this
cessful than the regular one of max
ing reouisitions.
special contract has been let for
$1,000 canvas satchels, and this sup
ply, along with the satchels coming
In under the regular contract, is eX-
pected to relieve the pressure some
what However 1t will be several
months before the Department can
fill these reouisitions with anything
like promptness.
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Senator Hemenway has undertaken
TO do what he can to have John w.
Gray, of Spencer, reinstated In his
work at the naval academy at An
napolis. The junior senator feels
with Representative CLANCY that
young Gray was dismissed without
proper cause and that the demerit
marks he received were not merited
It is not known what can be done
with the navy department and the
academy officials. but the effort will
be made.
Robert J. Tracewell, comptroller Of
the Treasury, arrived IN Washington
Monday morning from his home in
Corydon, where he had been at the
bedside OF his aged mother, who re
Gently fell and broke a hip. Mr.
Tracewell reports his mother doing
very nicely and believes that she will
recover from her accident. notwith
standing her advanced age.
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Marcus r. Sulzer. the new post
master at Madison, is in Washington
for short visit. While here he is
getting pointers from the Post Office
department.
The flood of petitions from all over
the country about taking the revenue
tax off denaturized alcohol have had
there effect. The subcommittee of
ported to the full committee in favor
of the matter and 1t is understood
that the full committee will report
the matter to the House favorably
Wednesday. This will remove the
revenue tax from all alcohol which is
used for all arts and manufacturing
purposes, in fact everything except
where alcohol is used as a beverage.
X = ::
John Bonnell. OF Charlottesville,
and revenue collector for that part
OF Indiana. is here visiting with his
daughter who is attending the Nat
ional Park Seminary just outside of
Washington. Mr.. Bonnell is also
looking after department matters
while in the city.
X y
Vice President Fairbanks continues
20 be in demand all over the country.
HE has been invited to attend Grant
dinner at Trenton. New Jersey, in the
latter part of April. Philadelphia
citizens have been trying to persuade
him to come there in the early part
OF April for Benjamin Franklin
celebration. A committee from a
girls seminary has been trying to get
him to come and deliver the class ed
dress in May. Mr.. Fairbanks is de-
clining all the invitations outside of
Washington while congress is in
session. declaring that duty keeps
him at his post. He is one of the
most faithful and punctual vice pres
fdents the country ever had and he
is always at his post.
X x *
Capt. Walter G. Houghland, a gov
eminent mail contractor on the river
at Newburg. Indiana. Is in Washing
ton on business with the Post Office
department.
Our $27 eel range Is a winner.
Peter Johnson Co. cod
See theArQHer bearing castors for
moving b&5& burners. Peter Johnson