Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-09

gon. l do not believe that 1t is the puDisc Interest to protect criminals aal sns sranca of the public service, and exactly as we have again and again ourlng the past seven years proseeut- su ana convicted such criminals who were In the executive branch of Jne government. so in uy belief we should pc sven ample means to prosecute them if f-'lnd in tEe legislative branch. Hut IS this Is not considered desirable a special exception could be made m the law prohitsng t;ie. use of the secret service force in investigating members of congress. Ii would be far better to do this than to do what was actually done. and to strive to prevent or at least to hamper effective action against criminals by the executive branch of the government.
 Postal Savings Banks.
 I again renew nx recommendation for postal savings banks, for deposi- ting savings with the security of the government behind them. Tae object is to encourage thrift and economy IA the wage earner and person of mod. k}ste means. h fourteen states the deposits iii savings banks as reported 70 the ccmptroiler Of the currency amount to sS. 590, ,2f5. .40e, or 9s4 per cent Of the entire deposits, while in the remaining g states there areonly Sfo,seS,54S, or Is per cent, showing conelusively that there are many To. calit'es in the United States where sufficient opportunity is not given to the people to deposit their savings The result is that money is kept in hiding and unemployed. It is beliey. ed that in the aggregate vast sums O. money would be brought into circula- tion through the instrumentality of the postal savings banks. While there are only 1,453 savings banks report ing to the eofnptroller tnere are nlore than 61,000 postofices. 10000 of which are money order offices. Postal say ARgs banks are now in operation IL SsracicAlly all tue great civilized countries with the exception of tht United States.
 Parcel Post
 In my last annual message ] com inended the postmaster general $ Recommendation for an extension oa the parcel post on the rural routes Tho establihment of a local parce post on rural routes. would be to thu mutual benefit of the farmer and thu country storekeeper, and it IS uS' sirable that the routes. serving mor' than 15,O00,000 people, should be util ized to the fullest practicable extent An amendment was proposed in h. senate at the last seSion, at the sus gestion of the postmaster general providing that, for the purpose Or as pertaining the pTactieability of estab fishing a special local parcel post ss- tenn on the rural routes throughout the United States, the postmaster gen srai be authorized and directed to ex pertinent and report to the congress the result Of such experiment by es publishing special -lCcal parcel pos system on rural delivery routes in no to exceed four counties in tae Unite' States for packages of fourth Class natter originating on a rural. route O at the distributing peStCffice for de livery by rural carriers. Ii would seem only proper that such an experi ment should be tired in crder to dem onstrate the praetfeability Of the prvp osition, especially as the postmaste' general estimates that the revenue de rived from the operation of such ; system on all the rural routes woun amount to many million dollars.