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Show POSTMASTERS MAY NOT PAD RECEIPTS WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.-The Postmas-ter-Oeneral Is empowered not only to fix the salary of a postmaster on the basis 6f the gross receipts of his postofflce, as provided by law, but to go behind the receipts and determine whether they were obtained properly, according to a decision rendered today by Comptroller of the Treasurer Trace well.- The opinion affects af-fects many postmasters charged with padding receipts to raise their salaries, by soliciting or hsvlng their friends solicit business for their postofflces that belongs be-longs to the limits of neighboring postofflces. post-offlces. The Comptroller hold that even If the postmaster himself Is not party to the solicitation of business from outside out-side his jurisdiction and if that solicitation solicita-tion is done by friendly citisens of his town, the Postmaster-General has the right to inveatlgate the method of obtaining ob-taining the receipts In. Using the salary of the postmaster. |