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Show CORTELYOTJ IS ITOT MUCH . 4 "WOSBXED ABOUT DSPXCIT. ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Postmas- j ter-General Cortelyou, ' In his annual report Cor the past fiscal year, says that, while a self-sustaining condition of the Postofflce department would be gratifying, he is less concerned about the deficit than the efficiency of administration. admin-istration. For the fiscal year 1903 the total receipts from all sources were 1162,826,585 and the total expenditures $167,399,169, leaving a deficit of $14,572,-684. $14,572,-684. In connection with these figures the Postmaster-General directs di-rects attention to the increased amount of free matter handled, which, he says, averaged 12.68 per cent of the entire weight carried, or a loss in revenue reve-nue of $19,822,000. "Manifestly," he says, "had the matter mat-ter carried free been required to have been prepaid, notwithstanding the large expenditures for the rural free delivery service there would have been no deficit." defi-cit." |