Show I TELEGRAPHIC NEWS t I Van Wycks Economy Chicago Washington special Second AEritnt i Postmaster > > General Elmer declines to be at all alarmed at Senator Van Wycks attack on the letting let-ting of the mail contract on the route from Niobrara to Deadwood There is nothing he says in the objection that tbe route rcns through the Black Hills country where government has m right of way Congress he says created a postal route through the reservation which it had a ri ht to io as it has done in many other cases In le and to the general I utility of tbe route Elm < r says the department bad information sufficient to jutify it in letting the contract and the service was asked for by the whole of the Nebraska delegation except Van Wycb that is by Manderson and Valentine Valen-tine It seems a little curious virtue lust leads Van Wyck to object to the expenditure of a considerable sum of money in his own fetal l Tbe star route trials show that tnis kicd of virtue is not very common but they aso show that several congressmen have got themselves them-selves into warm water by being too urgent for postal service in their district which circumstances do not justify One of Elmers predeceesois is on trial for being too willing to accommodate statesmen states-men of this class |