Show t iV i R GREAT GROWTH to- to OF THE TIIE POSTAL SERVICE i 4 r k ASHINGTON Feb 2 23 New 25 New ew mom mom- i who ewe c here as long as the speak- speak tho the house has been in congress will wille J e receipts and expenditures of or the 1 1 pox places as large as the entire expenses a L v ett the entire nUre government today declared harman Weeks reek of the tho committee on and roads in explaining a estimates esti- esti nile nilet dp 1 rates mates for t the postal t service C I in 1911 when 4 4 of the postoffice 1 loth 1 bill blU began In the house hO AH He He will see the number of whirl 1 now exceeds the forces engaged St t Gett by 60 50 per pr cent increased to ta a n million n men continued Mr Weeks fi that Mr Weeks s said aid that If the I postal service sect ice were a a. private phate business s. s those responsible responsible sible aible for its success probably would find Sod the right man to manage it and would pay him a year Regarding the difference between rats rates harRed the government for postal service and Weeks that said charged requirements express of companies 1 the he n govern govern- ve Mr client w were re much more severe than those of th the express Os companies The probabilities are sue that the pay of railroads railroad Is la substantially near what it ought to be said Mr Weeks There are lire rn members of or the committee who be ve lif-ve th the tha pay on some railroads i is III s lc-s and on others greater than it ought tobe to tobE be No o comparison could be ma made e bet between n postal nl service in the United States and nd I Canada h he said paid because of the difficulty diffiCUlt of of 1 learning what hat was really paid for or fori i service r en on the government railroads of Canada Second-class Second matter in Canada bad been placed at a a. quarter of or a a. cent ceni e L a pound with a R. view to encouraging the he I publication of periodicals he said Interrupting t Representative e s n Sims In of Tennessee T said said fi he took exception IO to t the statement of or the postmaster-general postmaster that the he net annual loss to the government o on n the rural free delivery service was I Mr 11 Sims complained Of the method by which the postmaster general had lad estimated the revenue derived from the he rural free delivery |