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Show Postmasters in Peril. Tho Jobs of 500 postmasters axe nt stake In a Mil now In conference at Washington. The bill ostensibly alms nt ronrRanlzmq the postal savings system, but neatly embedded in It as It passed the senate was a provision making the county coun-ty a postal unit and each postoffico located lo-cated therein nubsldinry to the main office. of-fice. IcM-nted at the county seat. This would reduce t ho num her of account Inc offices fmtn r.fii'M to .ri,.. The jobs uf preont rural post masters would be ahoilfhrd. belli;? channel into tho.f of superintendents nf the subntatlons. which would put tho postmaster general In position posi-tion lo appoint one post must or in each county and put nil other post offices In that county ub substations, subject to his Jurisdiction. In ot her words, tho 50,noo postuiastershlps being wiped out. the offices of-fices would be open for appointment of new clerks The house, ever edronjT for Its control of the pOBtal patronage. Is reported Rreat-ly Rreat-ly evrn-lsr-d over tho provision. Critics of Kos! iriRMttT ienernl Hurlesnn object th.nt It s;t orn too much of puliticul ' machine bulldtnif. particularly tn a presidential year. Meanwhile tho news .s apt to ho disconcerting to some 50. fi(W postmasters, wtneif alarm may have unexpected effects politically to those who have engineered the proposition.--Pittsburg Dhspnlch. |