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Show Arguments In Favor ol n Fast it! ni I. Cleveland, 23. Tho special commission com-mission on the postal railway service met here this morning, and were met by a commission appointed by the board of trade and deputations from leading mercantile and banking interests of the city, who read sentiments senti-ments in regard to the necessity tor iucreased mail facilities. All were of the opiuion that there was nearly twenty-tour hours dinVrence in Hit receipt of mails from New York and eastern stales by the fast mail, and the samo time was Baveu in remittances remit-tances of exchanges and collection of drafts and checks from towns on the line of the fast mail; that the eavitig of interest alone was much more than the entire cost of the fast mail. Mr, Sherman, postmaster of this city, alio gave the particulars of the detention of mail by the withdrawal of the fast mail train. He stated that he hd no doubt tho revenue of the dep.irt-!ment dep.irt-!ment from letter correspondence of i Cleveland would bo increased to such an extent hy tho fast mail as to equal the increased ccst of service, which would properly be assumed upon Cleveland as her share; thai the sole correspondence and a large portion of the newspaper mail that was sent by the fast mail now goes by expreae and pays postage iu addition to express ex-press charges. |