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Show NATION SHOULD OlfLOINGS Rented Postoff ice Structures Cost Large Sum WAHIIINOTO.V, May I - Kvery poat-offK poat-offK huildlnir in the country ahould I he owned ly th Kovernment ami the j old rUMti m if Uaslnic hulldltiKa ahotihl j "wraptf-d." declared Klrnt Aaalut- nut I'omnia iter Ccncral liartli ti t- j I day In vuU inkT lln.ipirnvHl of a - j j (em w hkh rnailit It ceHMjry Tor the l-oHtoffi, d.si.artinei t re. rtitlv to l-aj at an ttdtiu-il nut a I nf too re than a , niilllofi ui'liiiH m l.r.- etru'ur tor , n all iiiiijnif.K in - Voi k City. Mr. liartlett f.ud hat ifm tt o -i iiinen t could h-im iniHi'iii.4 i( a niiiuniin e-ti hunt-B'-wa ioi;rii-Ti ioild ! luld h.fora iorii:reia tth ft fair rhanr of hidue. Iiih that lio.ly to u ppropi ntn a aiiff-e aiiff-e ii nt an in filch year rir purcaaao in-Hend in-Hend of Itunli.K I'lilldlliK. The pntoffru lepa rt me nt hnn P'lf-f P'lf-f n h'lit funila lo learn- any tintMlng- to he tiereafur to lllit prop. r condm t of Ihe uiftal Hi--iil. It hum eKplHliie.1, hut no nppt oprint ion la h ! Ul-1- for I h- itirelme of n a' met ur-. I'lana reienilv wtte completed rovlllnit that the d. i-aMiin-i.t ehoiihi Ichu- n hulld-li.n hulld-li.n In N'i'W 1 ork filv lor twenty veara at a r.nial of J' t'oo.i jHI ),e de part nu n t ht en . r tint t. il l ctijire-iM lo pureli.t-i'- land a nd erei-t I'a mi I'liililliiK, the whnln Iriinna- tl.o rould I liiiM- hern harolUd for aliout fvun",- . Mr, H.irtl.-ti expluitied. addltiK that I t tin i 1 1 1 1 of tlie tw.nt....t p.-riod ! Ill k i i-r nitti' nt would h i m poH'0-aNi'l iho liiitlilinu. wli'Tiun liiider t h. Icaai the KiiM-rnniftir will he out t J&.DuiVunu j ai.d hava nothltiit to xhoH for It at the expiration of Hi" lc:me. The whole aystein I radlcMly wrong and Nhould he hani(ei at once," the H-wtstttrit poHtrnantei ifn r:il f;i'I ";hi h year oiiKirxN nhould -t aaiile n certain an in to he uaed In the con-, al r ue i hi n of tin 1 1 !( n izh and xradun II y a leanea ixplrn all over the country! the !. piirttnent W ould find Itaelr the poxat'MNiir of a avaiem of aplendfd at r i: dure. Thin rue! hod w ould rt-ault . In tha aiivlt.ic of million of dolhira to the puhllc. i many iiiMiaiii t-a the ov . eriiinent la made to pay rxm lufnnt rent. I'or liixtuiice, I h dt-o,,rt itnrt will lerin.- a hiitldnii in a m:ill community for. ten year, and heraUHe nf tlie peal of f Ice J aito property In Ita Iclnit y will lu- : creaae In ahie, the population of the town may tncreaan tenfold, nnd when the 1 aa expire, the owner of the propertv very frequently demnnda! ftlmiit three or four tunea th orlKlnal i rental nnd we are vMlKed to pay it or look fur Home othrr propertv." Mr. Hartleif aald he npp"M-d tha nr. j t Ion of the foint pttnta I corn m lf -ion I n I reennimeiidlnic tin- Ii ase f the New York hulUHn. The commission fdt. howevir. It waa H.ild, that consrreia would llkel v oppoae audi a move nt ' Una tluie and aiiyii-ii. d thnt in view t of i on icented cond 1 1 Ion tn t ha me , trotwM a la-ie he rtevot in t ed "In thl limtaniT." Mr. h.ir'l'-tt prh. i "the owiirm of the land i' ti thoa w ho will erect IhK new hu Ihlini- which In I to ha lined aa n n annex to the present j pnntoffh e hulldlnu. will he ohlied lo; pav tnxfw. hoi-row money at the rnte ; oMiihly of 7 per cent, and meet other I condition which, of rnnrmv would not! ha v to he oliNi rv d hv tha Kovern-merit. Kovern-merit. The khiiih condition prevail' throughout the 1 nlted State and the rooner conprea and the pcojilo renttxe i what It In cofHinif in dollara and cent! the Pnoncr currectio muasurra will be I taken." |