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Show DEFICIT IN P08TAL SERVICE. j Receipts for 1020 Given as $17,270,492 H Below Expenses. jH Washington, Operation ot tho H United States postnl scrvlco for tho M fiscal year 1020 resulted In a deficit IH of $17,270,-182 tho second largest lit jH tho history of tho service Postmaster M Oenernl Burleson shows In his annual M report to tho president, ln which ex M pcndlturcs ot the postofflco, dopart- H ment nro placed at $151,1122,009 and H revenues nt $137,150,212, M Tho postmaster general charges con H gross with direct responsibility for tlua M deficit, explaining that tiio expend! M turcs Included approximately $33,202, M GOO paid as a war bonus to postnl em- M ployces hnd stating (hat but for ths M thero would have been n surplus of M ?18,427.017. M Mr. Burleson says ho declined to np- M provo tho bonus action of tho legls- M Intlvo department, milling that ho hud M offered suggestions of another plan M for compensating tho employees which M would havo served tho purpose with M out at the samo tlmo giving n blanket B lncreaso ln pay to "thousands who jH wore already amply compensated." M |
