Weekly journal-miner., 1913-05-21
MRS, W|NGF|E[D WINNER OF THE AUTO
 BY LEAD OF OVER A MILLION VOTES
POSTAL SERVICE
 FACES HEAY DEFICIT
BY WINFIELD JONES.
Special Correspondence.

a deficit in postoffice funds that vii cause a serious curtailment of tho postal service of the entire United States.
 Unless Congress passes an appro- priation of $6O0,000 the Postmaster General will either have to cripple the service through the laying of of employees or will have to incur deficit in his appropriations and face the consequences.
 A recent act of Congress provides that any officer of the government who oversteps an appropriation or spends funds that are not available, is liable to immediate dismissal, fine and imprisonment.
 To relieve himself from this pre- dicament the Postmaster General has made urgent appeal to Congress, to the Attorney General of the Unit ed States ,and the Comptroller of the Treasury. In answer to the appeal the House today passed an appro- priation carrying $60O,000.
 This must yet be taken up by the Senate, however, which is now deep in the tariff bill, and must then re- ceive the signature of the President There is no doubt that great pres sure will be brought to bear upon the Senate for quick action
 This grave situation was brought resulting from the eight thour law passed at the last session of Con- gress, and the parcel post. The eight-hour law provided that postal clerks and carriers could not be worked more than eight hours a day and that this eight hours of actual work could not be extended over a ten-hour period. It provided further than when clerks or carriers were compelled to work on Sunday they should have compensatory time of during the week.
 Because of these provisions Con gress added s56O,OO0 to the estimate of the Postofice Department for clerks and $400000 for carriers, to meet emergencies that might arise This extra $o0O,00O has already been exhausted, however, as has a $2O0,- 000 allotment for the parcel post, by the extra help in auxiliary clerks and carriers made necessary by the cight-hour law, and the phenomenal growth of the parcel post system.
 The department is consequently now extremely limited in funds for clerk and carrier salaries ,and unless it gets an additional appropriation must curtail the force.
 In an appeal to the Comptroller, Postmaster General Burleson asked if he might entail a deficiency to maintain the service, but the Comp troller gave little comfort, holding that the question was legally be- yond his power of solution. He re- minded the Postmaster General of the penalties provided by law, how ever. Attorney General McReynolds has not yet been heard from.
 Wilson Is Rested.
 President Wilson has collided with the Underworld Clark organization in the House and the result of the collision up to date is that he has been beaten. The President has failed to control the organization of the Democratic Congressional com mittee.
 Shrewd and farseeing politicians declare this to be the preliminary battle over the control of the Demo cratic national convention in 1916. They assert that the Clark Under wood forces in the House, the op- ponents of Wilson, are setting out to organize the Democratic machinery in the campaign next year SO that neither Wilson nor Bryan can be nominated.
 A petition for the meeting 10 or ganize the committee was signed by a majority of the committee, which has forty-six members. Chairman Lloyd in the face of opposition from the President, having been unwilling to cali a meeting unless protected in it by a petition.
 This is the first open ruction be- tween the President and the House machine.
 HAITI ING ORE AGAIN