Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-20
Old Claims Of Postmasters
Cause Agitation.
Maine List Of Claimants In
cIudes WeII-knoWn Names.
\pwhsgan and naIlowelI Build.
\ ing Bills Introduced.

otdic causing tne SENATE cOIlSlOer-
xkitation just now. When the
dA finally shaped into vigorous
ia few days ago Senator Hale,
ne, spoke forcibly about the char
these claims, which, from all
harPrmation available, appear
have any standing at all.
- claims attorneys have en-
Fo many people in Maine and
.. lotlier states to believe that
anJ mcritorious claim and, first
IT, lso many resolutions have
NtO the Senate touching
to post ~, ~ oe uuc
',1.1 the opinion has become
owes thta -. W. ''.''' ~ e'1.'S
49, aa ~ in the aggregate. From
o.a a few days ago, while
1T effect was taken, the
~ to be very decidedly
u.;. that no money at all is
Nv Ie'a.aa,tt from the Committee
sr.I. IND Postroads TO that
80. II in a few days.
,,,a;. fmasters IN Maine, or
.,a =. tiSns. have been rcr-
Co.,, ,,,oe., payments, however,
,vc. .1 ,o-.1 of salaries between
-, .....,tir cases, like those
,hro,,uha,,. other postnasters
,Runtry-many thou
Ii, " depend upon q
,'h;,f Walter q. Gresham,
l1aster in President
mulgated by his .,o.,,- 49,,
49, ., - by the Postmos-
't. Gresham how
,a., as having in
,,ar.,,, ZOO hgress, approved
49, oo'' adjustment Of
,oc, masters between
A' .1g that the adj
juStmcnt should be- .a.;e,,
men 90 pio'pec'iVlnd should be
figured on the prov. 80 a. ,o,,,
of July l, 1854, ratI.h,n ,,non
law which Congress o,ad IN zoe,
Eut the interpretation, rorarre.a a.
benjamin II. Brewsta at,orno,,
general. He overruled D,a.om,>
Departments Interpret, ana ho,d
that the act of March ., ;,to,doa
W. '"''' 'tioo'" Used on the
go VI CONDENSATION ilby the act
of 1864, not on the ratesoon,non,o
ton fixed in the act of 1SAu doubt.
about it were removed aot of
Congress of August 4. 1Id,cIorino
that the claims should ,di,,,tod
only on the ''prospective.n And
on that plan some $4,000 caA,nount-
ing 10 an aggregate OF II .0O969.
were paid to the benefcI, I,,,t
lor Years law hrn ol WhHarvey
Spalding, of this city. is chief
Iheinoer mas oeei WORKING re pay
ment of excess of Salaries tho
Retrospective" plan. 1t wastod IN
the debate the other day tII.tos
G. Rathbone. at one time I'd Az.
sistant Postmaster General, | fol,
into disgrace during the pr(, oe
postal affairs In Cuba some ysapo
was now the chief factor insing
further adjustment, apparentlyrk-
ing in cooperation with Mr.. Sing
Many circulars have been sent 70
these ex-postmasters, some of ,ch
have recently been printed in then
gressional Record. They accuses
tai officials of defrauding the ext-
out of their due and refo
the opponents of the readjustmers
Flaw killers
The Maine list of claimants,
have been urged to press for additid
payments. includes many well-knd
names. There are three such clai
from Hallowell. one for $3.50 allies
to be due Postmaster Thomas HOY
for services between 1864 and Il
He was paid for his services dur
that period S2.400. 1t is claimed Il
he should have been paid $3.50 on
basis of the law of 1854 for comput
commissions and box rents. Or beh
OF Postmaster f. Rowell. of Hallow
there are two claims pending-one
$500 for services between 1870 6
1872, for which he was actually p
$1,000. and another for $500 for s
vices between 1872 and 1874. The p;
mcnts to him by the government
services during that period were So
Joseph p. Blunt's services as 20
master at kendalls Mills are made
basis for two claims. one for $267 {
for $50. Some of the clai
are for small sums, as in the case
Postmaster William II. Rounds,
Miuat. There is claimed to be still
for his services. performed betw'
1866 and 1866 the sum of $75. On
half of Otis Holden. well remembel
by many Maine people as postmaster
Moose River. away up toward
Canadian border. the claim agents {
ure an excess of SIG in salary for
two-year period from 1864 to 1866 a
also sums of $40 and SIS for two ST
SeQuent two-year periods.
Another of the claims is for 1896
behalf of Henry Hall. who was pc
at the National Military Hoi
as it was then called. from 1868 to Is
Another claim is for 5000 in behalf
Thomas Gray. postmaster at MOI
Arson, and dead many years ago.
son. Stickney Gray. served long, a
as postmaster there. Abijah Colem;
a prominent citizen of North y
Portland. now dead many years,
represented by claim for S26 and
another claim for 500.
The Attorneys say that Charles
McFadden. postmaster at Watervi
IN the late COS and early 1o's is {
titled to two additional payments fir