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Show Discuss Political Situation and Forthcoming Democratic Demo-cratic Convention AVASHI.VGTON. May 31. President Wilson nnd Cummlns of the Democratic Demo-cratic national committee conferred for two hours today, discussing the political situation and the forthcoming forthcom-ing Democratic national convention at San Francisco. Later they had lunch together. Mr. Cumming3 said he had visited the While House at the president's invitation, in-vitation, and that ha and. the president! had talked "very freely And frankly."! The league of nations Issue, ho added,1 was "sharply defined" by the pres!-1 dent to his 'gratification." Asked as to the immediate future of, the peaca treaty, Mr. Cummings said! he had discussed the matter with tho' president, but did not feel at liberty to lalk about it. "Will the treaty be sent back to the senate soon?" he asked. I "1 don't caro to comment on that." 1 he replied. "The president has very definite idea. on the subject, and o j have 1." j I "Do those ideas conflict in any! way?" he was asked. i "They do not," the chairman re-J plied. 1 Mr. Cummings said platform ques-' ques-' tions were not discuesscd at length, in i view of the president's recent letter to ! Senator Glass of Virginia, expressing I approval of the Virginia slato con- vention platform. ! Asked if tho senate investigation 1 into pro-convention expenditures had j been discussed, Mr. Cummings said no j had nothing to say on that subject ex-; ex-; cept that the president was in "good 1 humor." I -Tho next president of the United Stales will be nominated at San Francisco," Fran-cisco," he addd. Jf there has been I any doubt of that, the ItepubIIcan have .dispelled it." .Mr. Cummingh t said he had submitted a copy of the I keynote speech he in to deliver at J S.in Francinuo, and that the president j w.is woll Hatlsfled with It." I President WIl6on took a direct hand today in th arrangements for the Democratic national convention at .San F'rancisco, June 2S. Summoning Chairman Cummlnc" f the Demomcratlc national cnimli-thu cnimli-thu president discussed with him .he party platform, the league of nations na-tions mi a campalg-n issue, the status of the peace troaly, the senato Investigation Investi-gation Into pro-convention campaign financing and Mr. Cummings" keynote peech. Mr. Cummings leaves tomorrow for Jan Francisco. Ke said th president had talked very freely and frankly." The league of nations Issue, he said, nad been sharrply defined. I never had any doubt of ilm verdict." ver-dict." h added, "if the laague lrau I 4 wore taken to the people cleared of extraneous matters and misrepresentations." misrepresent-ations." platform questions were not discussed dis-cussed at length, Mr. Cummings announced, an-nounced, because tho president's views had been set forth In his lettor last week to Senator Gluts of Virginia, approving ap-proving the platform adopted by tht Democratic convention there tv weeks ago. It was indicated that tin national party platform would be pat-terned pat-terned along the general lines of that j of the Virginia convention. j President In Good Humor. Mr. Cummins declined to say anything any-thing about th peace treaty discus-' lon Curther than to announce that both ho and tho president had "vorj'l j deflnlto ideas" on tho HUbJect. Ho! would not say whether tho treaty would bo returned to. the senato soon. Hj had no comment to make on his talk with tho president o.bout tho senate sen-ate campaign investigation other than to say the president va "ingood humor" hu-mor" and that if there had been any doubt that the next president would bo nominated at, San Francisco, "tho Republicans Re-publicans have dlspollod It." The president was well satisfied, Mr. Cummings continued, with tho keynoto spoech the chairman has prepared. pre-pared. Mr. Wilson is expected to confer with other party leaders bofore the convention, and while tho San Francisco Fran-cisco meeting is In progress he will bo In direct touch. rlora, with $400 for Hupervisory offi-cer, offi-cer, woro recommended. No increaaeo for first-clRaa poatmastora receiving about $5,000 a year woro proposed, however. Estimates by the commission place tho lncreano of tho postal payroll at about Sl'9,000.000 for tho aocond year and H3. 000.000 for the third and fourth yeara. Rural 3)ollvory Salaries. For rural delivery carriers tho oom-mlnuion oom-mlnuion recommended $2,800 for a 24-mile route, and an additional 530 for each mile In excess. Motor routo carriers covering 60 miles or more would receive not in excesa of $2,600. The pay of vlilago delivery carriers would bo from $1,000 to $1,200. Should recommendations of the commission, com-mission, baaed on hearings held, bo adopted, clerks at flrat and sccond-clusj sccond-clusj poatofflce anil city carriers would be dividod into ftv classe, with thoBe in tho first olaea receivinpi $1,400 annually nnd S100 added for each class. Substitutes and temporary clerks would receive 60 conta an hour, while apodal clerks would bo paid from $1,900 to $2,000. Watchmen, messengers and laborers would bo divided di-vided Into two grades, the first receiving receiv-ing $1,530 and tho second $1,450. . SIX CLASSES OF CLERKS. Clork3 in tho postal mail service would be divided into sis clnsscs, witn those in the first class ' receiving $1.G00. those In tho sixth $2,300. and tho others graduated betwoen. 1 Service for all clerk?, the commis-slon'.o commis-slon'.o report recommended, would bo on an average oight hours pr dny, 306! days per year. Dfvlsion suporintond-1 ents In the postal mall service, under tho commission's rccommondatlons.l would receive $4,200 annually: aselsi-l ant superlntcndont.1. $8,200; chlerj clerks $3,000 and assistant chief clerks $2,500. I Pay of postoffice inspectors would range from $2,300 to $4,200. with nn allowance of not more than $5 a day j for expenses while traveling. Clerks at division headquarters of tho post-office post-office inspection service would receive from $1,600 to $2,600. A graduated Increase was proposed for first-class postmasters receiving I0S3 than $5,000 annually, ranging from $200 to $400 for postmaatora now receiving $3,000 to $3,700 annually; $400 to $500 for those now getting bc-, bc-, tweon $3,700 and $3,800, and $500 and .$600 for thoso whose pay now is bc-; bc-; tween $3,900 and $4,000. Postmasters' Increase. , Second -cl5s postmasters whose I preuont salary rangos from $2,30o 10 $3,000 would recelvo nn increase from $100 to $300. . Assistant postmasters would receive $50 for each grade up to $2,150. Third clasj postmasters would' bo lncracd $300 from basic salartcM each, the salaries ranging from 5 1,000 ! to $2,200. The commuwlon also rec-i I ommendod fourth class postmasters bo I allowed 140 por cent on cancellations I of 475 por quarter and loss; 115 pQr j cent from 5.7G to $100 of concollationa per quarter, and In excess of $100 per r j quarter 100 per cent on tho first $100, j 75 per cent on the next $100 and 60 per cendt on the remainder. |