Show I I II I I i I T f LETTER C CARRIERS lf They The Will Have a Hearing More Before MoreHouse House Committee On OnI I WILLS WILL ASK INCREASE OF SALARY L Added A Work lbs Has Not Iken by II Added e Promotion Practises Special Spectral Correspondence Washington W Jan 23 2 1901 great many Interesting facts are expected to tl tol tobe l be developed In the tho heating title this to bt be b given members of or the he Letter Car Hers rices association a null and the tho Association cf CC Hull ny Mall before the house hOURI committee commit toe on and post road These men niemi who consider themselves tho th poorest t paid antI and hairiest worker worked em 1110 es In lit time the government service will make aloha the strongest 1 kind of tit an effort to Influence tho time members of at the com tel for tor or an Increase of at salary solar The railway mall service Is irs In a particular particularly ly 11 hAll had way ny Just nt pt II t present because of oC Its It lock lack of ot adequate force which makes make It rather hard on the present force toreo and this Is IA In a Il measure the fault of or the th department In failing to make mako mal o oboth both reasonable anti and seasonable esti zanies mites to the appropriations committee of oC the house hou c This ThU Is evinced by the report of oC the th second assistant postmaster ter general who deals deaia with this hits sub subject subject subject as follows ESTIMATES R The estimates submitted to Congress s In III my may III last Int annual report for Increase iJ In force of ot railway rail 10 vestal postal clerks have proven Inadequate to handle the Increase In III po business The fhe weighing In thiS middle west demonstrated tile the fact that thal the Increase e during tile the past tast four years ars In III volume of ot mull handled bandied was as 1505 per cent ns as O our previous louR estimate of oC 15 per her percent cent This explains the fact that Ihal our atm clerical ch force torce hits hns proven Inadequate to o I properly handle business bU thrown upon It and om It II becomes necessary nr to wk n k Con Comm I greets gresH to 10 provide In lit the urgent ur ent deficiency bill for tor or additional clerks of ot the Ca va Carious various a arlous I rious grades gradel The Th committee com compiled complied plied piled with lila request III In a 1 most re reo way wa After Iter the language of ot oftie the tie appropriation for tor the railway mall mail service for tor the tho th current fiscal year ear was wasso so 80 as to allow allo this lisle Increase asked for tor or by b the tho second assistant post postmaster postmaster I master general this clause follows ColloR I i I I Provided that this change be made without IncreasIng the aggregate sum of oC money massey appropriated for tor clerks of the time several classes of ot the tile railway mull service In the appropriation allan atlon act of ot March 3 1903 A 4 STRANGE SITUATION After reading this clause and then studying the lie other pages of 01 tho the urgent deficiency bill the he situation would strike anyone one as al being lJ very cry unusual An n allowance of ot additional men for tor forthe forthe the railway mall mail service 24 21 In Ira each of ot the time linn three gradl anti and ane 22 In the thelast thelast last und and without nn on addition of ot rae CillO cent to the expense of ot the government while every other Item In the deficiency ncy Nil hill Is nn an appropriation to supply a shortage of oC funds In some ome department nt or bureau The question arises arheR how can clerks clerk be paid for tor thc five fh months work at salaries ranging from 1000 to 1400 without t any nn appropriation In other words the department which last November did dill not ask for tor this Increase has hns In III some seine way II at Its command from torn tire the appropriation of ot the current year a n amount to take lako cure core of 01 men alert Iho p e salaries for or five fIc months would be more titan than A PLAN AN ANI It I Ii Is promised from some porno quarters that on art Investigation It 11 will sIll be bo shown that the men now Cull no in III the service are lite di dl directly 11 r taxed to support tho the government r that thai while on time the th face lire mire so much yet et In various ways aR dollars dollar by bythe b bythe the thousands are kept from the lie mm amen every year It IH Is that hunt port part of ot this money Is collected In this fashion A t railway clerk cleric gets a it promotion Ho lie continues on his luls old run and ho imo hohn linn hits hn been theme theio for or a 1 month or six nix weeks without any advance In III salary ho re receives notice that trot he hl has hai been selected for far tho the new Ithaca and anywhere nn from tram three to six Ix months after he lie tho ho additional compensation time tha pro promotion promotion motion calls for tor which should have been licon his a long tIme limo previous the tile de tie department In the Interim having practically cally saved or rather taxed the man titan manfrom manOn front from On 80 GO to Thero Thoro Is no nu doubt that the Iho committee In the tho hearing will willi take cognizance of this surprising nj ss system I Ilem tern tem of o economIes economics and may many mn also alfo haves tI ato In the future the complaints c of or business 8 men Cn publishers of ot news newspapers Pipers papers anti and periodicals periodical nn nil to the met Inet of ot the tics railway mall mail service In irs Innot I not hating nn on force of ot men mell to handle the thO mall mail which In IR Increasing en every Ier year At t present rail rall railway way wo mall clerks working overtime no nothey they mare nr are to 10 tho tim mall ball to the of oC the tho business ole olf el I ment concerned In It |