| Show DEFICIT IN FREE FRE DELIVERY SERVICE ER VICE It Now Aggregates Nearly a Quarter ter tor of a Million MR MI IS SEVERE I t II In Ic Very try lle lor A to IIi lIaO Sia o u a lug Ills III Relied Hulled Vp Up tI h 1 I i iI I I Washington May Mn will willbo willbe bo be b asked at nt this tho opening of Ita 11 n t its Plan sion to make an appropriation to euver In both the lie r rl de do delivery livery service rind and the tho rural fr tree fito e lilly delivery cry ery Cf service of or the department Payne Announced ell today that list this deficiency now Wr lr gates gats exactly of which IOU Is II in tho the fr free delivery deliver breath The rho saul h its vrr viry much regretted the existent f of at th t and for tor the lie tINt lINt t time publicly criticised the administration Uon ot of A W Machen the ot of t the tier fre delivery who IH Is now on In III Indefinite definite of If r This Is not the flirt fim time that a 11 de Ite deficit has occurred In the tue service Mr Payne lane but I 1 r rr t tIts Its Is existence At the tho opening ol of ot the flie thelast lust last nArs Mr Machen oil out th t M nc nt more inure routes route could be It l d be hi beyond yond hose tho c ready lendy to be installed Jan JIn 1 He lit qaid If It Congress i g appropriated O printed for the purpose the lit h work smut could be continued during thi h ho horest rest or of tIme the fiscal 11 year Ir This lion Ion was wan made hut but it was waa exhausted D this fact the Iho office tho thi lice free fr e delivery tie as loin going on Increasing the t II deficiency end and It if we WI hit not taken ste steps to curtail the tho ex expenditures nail and suspend the establish meat ment of at routes routen until tho ho nf ot n the lime next fiscal year the deficit would have been larger It was not good administration Continuing the th po said paid putt of ot the tho deficiency CY WB was dieco Ero before Mr Ir was WIS given hit his hitHe hl II ievA v vUo He lie reported a II part port of ot It H Mr Payne added First l I Wynne W rec reported l to o me that deficiency existed Iri iii h the tia rural service amid Mr Wynne I agreed lint by econom l ini Ial nl rn the department elep might eliminate that I 1 suppose that was wu the tho I amount reported to Mr Wynne Immediately following that tha t report lie I I lo I sent lInt the follow following ing I letter to Fourth Assistant Postmaster General dated May MIlY 9 On the General Wynne WInna nIl ml me nie of ot the till probabilities of ot a t do hilt of at in the rural free delivery end ond that It the tho activity of ot the time bureau was wall kept up Ul In the lie wor worl pt pf preparing to Install additional free fee delivery routes until July J I 11 this deficit would largely lar ly be bo Increased It Is my that lien should be 11 IH iii defIcit denett Cor greEn at Rt Its Us list last made nide n dl an tin additional appropriation of ot ott off t f ttO X for tor Hit thir rural ruml tree delivery d ser serj j making the tho lie appropriation Imme ly available and wn we should hould cor co duct the lie business of the to so o as to not dot exceed this appropriation I 1 have huo therefore to request that you will vili Investigate te the situation promptly and curtail the expenditures so that If It It be possible we te e will not miot have hlo a deficit at nt the end of at the fiscal year yea I In doing this however It Is ad nd advisable that care enre should be taken not to suspend the tho actual Investigation of ot proposed rural tree free delivery deliver routes more moro than Is absolutely necessary I should think It entirely practical to bring about economies e in other branches of ot the bureau would the result deI Mr subsequently reported to the with a detailed 1 statement showing that hut the amount In numbers aggregated Mr Payne lIne std sAid that It was not feasible tea sible to cripple the service by b suspending any nn of ot the lie service now maintained and ond that a n deficiency appropriation would be asked from froni Congress Payne tonight In InU U the lie big bIt deficiency In the free tree delivery service sold said 1 It Is 11 very or reprehensible for a bureau officer to have a n deficit of at rolled up on the 1st let of or May It Jt wax was bad very Ver bad administration A bureau officer should not Incur a deficit con can consulting c n suIting his hi superior officer the th t 1 I cannot stand that kind of administration and do of ot It An Au official must be held hel to a n more strict accounting I t do not say lIa ay timM there was anything any thin I criminal or any ant nn thing wrong in Mr Machens action adl n but bul It was certainly loose administration tion lion and nn 1 he should have had hall his hii busl new ness more In hand I believe b however weer that Congress will JJ vote the money mone to cover coer the tho deficiency Mr Ir Payne said that A W Machen the general eun lIu superintendent would be BU civen n an nn opportunity to be the subject t Time The entire entin map work of ot the rural free tre tr deller service has been suspended find prid nd no more maps will wilt be made before the bt beginning of ot the next fiscal year yur funds for this e bring being exhausted Sup Supt Machen when told toM tonight ht of ot the I criticism about the lie free delivery deficit said aid there had been bemi no Intention on his hili part rt to deceive his departmental superiors aU He if said I I forwarded to Mr at nt the clo closi of ot April a II statement of t te e deficit then existing Tho Those figures cro on rt already established Cho for routes route tn in b be It t t 1 May In 15 IS and June Junt 1 and June tun l hal pot pat ot then been put pue on nn the thi bookin book y the Ih book bookkeeper b k keeper Therefore the of ot was not a ut ur th ac nc actual teal condition of ot the appropriation at ut that time 0 I J should hat ikid odd ed the free ra ret delivery nt tIter a larger r sum titan than Irh was s soled v voted oled td at th the last for tor the fiscal year fur The Th pressure fur alone mor rural routes route was wan very ven 1111 and I j to It beyond wl what t the appropriation mil pW ld l The Th Tb semi sam thing line has bun been Joni done In years year gone by hr and oM Con on l crew gresi 1 has haa always readily voted u the tha them mou m y nce necessary sary r to make up UI the Ot di t Confederate K ew w Orleans Orleana May Th actual Julin bushmeN e of the reunion was wat brought to aji Ip It end nd today and the sin die at t noon Ota Gui Gordon WAS ed l and all aU the t d pertinent On Ue Walker anti and Ca Cabell cabell Cabell bell wore wort r reelected t All 11 th tl tIme elections l c lions verc re unanimous The place NN of holding boWing the th next reunion wa was wat left to lo tilt the executive Ute tive committee commute It will wll be held lurid In LouIsville Nashville or St L Lo Louis iU 0 1 P F Train lie Han Stamford Conn May Ia Jt l or Fran Pran i ria de Train Is III it III t the time home of qt t thie hie hi 1st M Id U IA f In iii tills tit I tit clr from tram fI a mild ee u of small smal eel nax iff Mr 11 TrAIn cane came h here r r t from New w York Ills His physIcians thAt ie e C Clies lies haj been III for Cor at least a week wiek V elc |
