Show THE POSTAL SERVICE postmaster gameral reports a deficit of ten millions NV washington aShIngton nov 21 24 postmaster general wilson has fiade his first annual report to the Preel president dent the ro re celata as of oc the fico department for the year ending jurie juno 30 1895 and the expenditures 86 it Is 1 gratifying says the T report that a luge portion of tho the dell 1 money lency occurred in the first quarter of the year and that revenues ore are increasing with returning prosperity sir mr alison estimates eH matei the tha revenue rv nue tor for the tha year ending june 30 at lva 9 and the at 1000 1 tho the afir Terence ll to be made up by congles atonal appropriations speaking ot if the delL clency tenc r sir mr says the regular antill annuel 0 dell deficiency lit in the revenues reven uca of 0 the postal service nervier emphasized as it appears to be by the unusual amount ot ol 01 tile the deficiencies for the past two years roay may call forth orth comment from those who te bc tei i reve the u le be self sustaining but it should b be r that tho the tree SH done by this department for or other branches bra riches anti and departments ot of the government I 1 ern erni ment nent it paid for or at c regular or cost I 1 rates would more than wipe out its lt deficiencies the polma iaci refers lo in tin the crowth grow th of 0 tile the tree froc delivery service ond and says 1 I bellove believe it Is rood policy for congress anti and lor for tills this department to foster faster the tha extension of this service by judi judicious cloUS appropriation anil and judi cl cloua tan administration tie the vigorous and and effective efforts of 0 my iny immediate T predecessor rede cessor seem to have produced at 3 least east an all honest administration of 0 the right hour law and made letter cor car larrs trip and time lime reports actual find and truthful records of fier lief to bring about this substantial reform just alike to the department find and to th carriers as well ns As to lay the foundation for or other necessary im improvements prove ments in thin service it a special investigation 0 of the carriers system was iras b gun under his administration involving a thorough tho examination into the needa and details ol of the system ile he concurs in III tile recommend allor of tile te chet assistant postmaster gen oral cral for or prom ottlig tile the effi efficiency clency of V t work clr M r wilson reiterates the necessia essit of c legislation to punish train wreck ing ine and obstructions to mall mail urged by life ills predecessor and recommends len 19 Irl atlon authorizing the use of 0 private postal cards SECOND CLASS ABUSES concerning the abuses ot of second class mall matter emr wilson says 1 I can adil add little to the reasons riven given by general beneral bissell and post fost master gendral WaTI wanamaker AMaker for amendments to the tha law as to second class matter imperatively u c eded to save the postal service pcr ice from enormous onor moua abuses and consequent enormous to loss of revenue which no regulations of 0 the department or watchfulness or oc its a of can guard against I 1 respectfully and earnestly I 1 le eromm commend end to con I 1 rass cs a careful scrutiny into tills this abuse ut such remedial legislation as a s shall e e necessary anit and effective for its corl cori action upon another feature of t the he second class matter tho the postmaster general bays the volume of second class matter passing through the malls increases rapidly and has haa reached rea such s h proportions as to seriously retard the of malls mails in the larger post ollices and railroad flees the department through its local representatives ban bep urged publishers lahera to separate their publications by states and routes where w here the quantity for any one state or territory Is in sufficient to justify it before sending them to tile the maillia ma halll illig ig offices and has haa endeavored to show th them em that their own interests would be sub served thereby CIVIL SERVICE RULES postmaster general wilson allson rays bays the civil service rules rhoud be extended v maerever practicable ile he bays ys the alif magnitude and multiplicity 0 of it its a bustness business operations the perfect perfection tion of the service se ivice which the people are learning to demand anti and expect of it and the palpable truth that such business operations erat ions can be cairned on oil and such perfect service tendered only by men trained and expert all these and many other reasons call for uch such stability of as alone can command or beget the requisite training eliell kill and enthusiasm the continuity of tile department should be preserved in changes of administration not orny only along the line of its subordinates and separate service but Is in that larger grasp of its history its daily work and its healthful progress w N aich Is found alone with those who direct and control its chief bureaus I 1 concur in fit the judgment of one of my recent predecessors that at least three of the assistant postbag ter generals should hold their ofT lecis by a civil sort ice or merit tenure and not lot by political tenure I 1 refrain from offering ott ering it like suggestion as to the alie fourth postmaster general because fourth class artless whose appointment Is primarily allotted to him are yet outside of that tenure the question of extending civil ser see ice methods to the selection of fourth clars postmasters has naturally received my attention since I 1 have been ot at the head of this department but I 1 I 1 do not find myself able to make its as yet any cillo recommendations on this important subject in the line of 0 the legislation chich 11 alch has been proposed pos d the th order 0 which you have recently tip approve proved d providing that when the postmaster general shall consolidate with rl free delivery filly any other post such consolidation shall carry into the classified service at the free delivery office the post postoffice office roster of employees of the office consol consolidated td abed including the tvr may be accepted as the beginning and foundation of a better postal service for the public a better and more businesslike business like accounting to this depart department merit and also P a wise extension of the civil service ice system to postmasters it Is my purpose to proceed under tinder the authority tit of this order as discreetly as I 1 can and in the long run its as tar far its as experience ill justify on nn as ail to secure commendable results |