Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-24
Senator Burleigh Filed
with Post Office De-
partment De m a n d S
from K e nm e b e c
Routes
PROTESTS AGAINST
APPROPRIATION BILL
Senate Committee Promises to
Consider the Objections -
Burleigh and Johnson March
ed Together in Joint Session
Procession

Rural free delivery carriers all over
Maine are writing down to Washington
for an amendment to the postoffice appro-
priation bill. 1t is an amendment pro-
posed by Senator Hardwick of Georgia,
who has been through a great fight with
the postoffice department about the or
ganization of rural delivery routes. A
goodly number of Georgia rural carriers
have soft snap" and have been I'M
willing TO live up to the rules of the de-
the frightening of routes by automobile
service and Georgia Democrats in Con-
gress have simply been raising Sam Hill
at the department and have gotten no
where with their protest. because the de-
partment did not think the protests we'll
founded Accordingly Senator Hardwick
returns to the Senate and is now under.
taking to enforce his protest by legisla-
ton.
However there are said to be good pro-
visions in the amendment, in spite Of the
fact that 1t is loaded with jokers to the
benefit Of those irate Georgia Demo-
Gratis. The amendment provides that
rural mail delivery service shall be eX-
tended SO as to serve as nearly as prac-
tba - %ho
United States. Delivery of the mail as
contemplated in this act shall mean as
nearly as practicable delivery by the ru-
raj carriers at the home of each family
provided that when in individual in
stances such delivery at the home Is i'm
practicable delivery may be made at road
intersections when the distance is not
more than one-fourth mile from the place
Of delivery to the home of said family
The meat of Senator Hardwicks amend
ment is in classification of standard
horse-drawn vehicle routes and stand
ard motor vehicle routes One provision,
in which all rural carriers are concerned,
has to do with appointment OF carriers
on new routes. 1t requires the postmas-
Ter general when reorganiZing routes to
give preference to carriers who were
formerly in rural delivery service and
who were separated therefrom on or aft
er June 80, 1915" Still another provision
the carriers are interested in would re-
cure the government to pay carriers.
whose salaries were reduced last year,
the amount of the reduction
Appeals to Senator Burieieh
senator Burleigh has had a large
number Of letters, largely from rail-
ROAD employees in Maine. protesting
against paragraph in the postof1ice
Appropriation hill. This paragraph re-
lures that The postmaster general
may require railroad companies carry
'is mails to deliver them into and tax 2
"'eM from the terminal and internedi-
o'hces and transfer them between
'"if"ad stations on their routes with
'DN additional compensation. under such
''suiations as he may deem proper, in
"here he does not provide for
service otherwise; provided, that
postmaster general in his discre-
'''" may relieve any of the roads Of
such service"
i"lS paragraph was in the appropria-
''oh Dill as it passed the House Tho
opposition in Maine has come from va
.;, parts OF the States. Representa-
guernsey has also received a con-
number of these protests and
aSHeo Senator Burleigh to see what
oe oone, as the bill has now left
'ursdlction Of the House Senator
gu IN turn. has talked with Sem
weeks or Massachusetts,, who is
meihoer of the Senate postoff1ce COM
luce Senator Weeks told Senator
ourieish that the postof11ce bill had NOT
nj. oeen completed in the Senate COM
.,os TO- and that the paragraph in ques-
VIZ. "ao not been considered at all, but
t..' "hen 1t is taken up he would look
wv, 'he provisions. remembering the
crest or Maine people in it.
., SENATOR Burleigh presented to the
.YaF'h assistant postmaster general No.
Y,. VI patrons of the rural free de-
hwy, routes at Augusta. Gardiner Hal
ana Winthrop in favor Of the
a'ioh of the service to former
The old schedule will be re-
q, oE order OF the department, Apr.
6 ms matter has been before the
ya ,s' 'nent for some time, both the
81, 'He senator's having interested them
selves in it.
uo "Neh the Senate adjourned to the
s...s 'ne other day to attend the joint
'oh before which President Wilson
appeared to review the relations Of this
Ioh i"'hent with Germany, Senators
nsoh and Burleigh, Democrat and
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