| Show POSTAL LEGISLATION What Gen Brlstow Recommends in 1 JO T < His Report I Washington Nov 25Fourth Assistant Assist-ant PostmasterGeneral John L Bris tow in his annual report recommends an amendment to the Interstate commerce I com-merce law prohibiting telegraph and I express companies or their employees from aiding abetting In green goods I I or lottery swindles or any scheme carried car-rIed on partly by mall and partly by I common carrier and In violation of the I postal > laws Other I legislation urged Is i as follows Authorizing postofilco Inspectors to take out search warrants whenever t nccessary authorizing payment of Incidental In-cidental expenses incurred by local ofll oers or others In the arrest detention and keeping of prisoners violating postal laws until transferred to the United States Marshals custody con Ktrucllon of Inspectors lookout towers In po < toflcos whenever deemed necessary I neces-sary by the PostmasterGeneral and I prohibtloifof loose pouching of circu lars calendars etc owing to small pirces of mall matter frequently slipping slip-ping in large unsealed envelopes In I transit Thorp were 15142 appointments of i I I postmasters made during the past fiscal I I year 1IIJ5 bUng of the fourth class I intlOi being Presidential an increase I I of 53S in all over last year There has I I also boon an increase In the number of I I resignations especially of the fourth dluss postmasters Fewer removals for Irregularities were made than last I year There were HOOO posLodlces es I I tablished 1 during the year an Increase 1 of GJ3 over last year and 1912 oftlces I I I were discontinued an Increase of 407 discontinuances over last year mostly I I due to rural free delivery extension and public highway improvements I I A vigorous I effort has been mode to suppress postolllces conducted throughout through-out the country for the sole benefit of some corporation patent medicine firm or othHr private Institutions whoso op orations deprive tho Government of its I legitimate l revenues The company or j I I corporation usually has some one connected con-nected with it appointed postmaster I nnd thus gets the advantage of the dancellatlons or the salary and allowances allow-ances of the postmaster These Insti tutions for eome time have derived thousands of dollars of revenue from the Government which virtually amounted to a discount or commission v on their postal business There wore 47 resignations and 45 deaths of Presidential postmaster and JU9 deaths and S013 resignations of fourth cjasii postmasters I On June 0th Inst th number of post ofllces was 76088 ae follows First class 19J second 852 third ZlSli fourth 72IG5 The total number of arrests during the fiscal year for offenses against the postal laws was 152n Including 119 postmasters post-masters 29 assistant postmasters and Kl postofilce clerks carriers and other I postal employees or the total number I arrested B2G were convicted |
