Show DEFICIT AMOUNTS TO MILLIONS washington april 22 figuring on the basis furnished by the returns for the first two quarters the deficiency in the department for the current fiscal year will exceed in a report of postal receipts and expenditures issued today the net deficiency fici ency for the first six months of the current fiscal year Is estimated at against the deficiency for the corresponding period of the fiscal year of 1907 of the giant share of this deficiency was in the first quarter amounting to whereas the deficiency tor the quarter just expired was only in tho corresponding quarter of last year there was a surplus of tho postal receipts for he last quarter were while the expenditures were the receipts increased over alie first quarter by more than but the expenditures increased by almost 5 postal officials attribute the deficit largely to the general increase in salaries allowed during the year in the service |