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Show oo POSTMASTER'S SALARY MAY EE LOWER Considerable agitation has resulted among more than 400 postmasters because be-cause of the passage of an amendment amend-ment to the postoffice appropriation bill by the house of representatives of congress. The amendment affects the rating of posfofflces and may result in smaller salaries for postmasters in the smaller cities Including Ogden anil Salt Lake, if the bill passes the senate sen-ate and is signed by the president. As It now stands the amendment provides that, in computing the rating and the salaries of first-class offices, which are based on the sale ol stamps, the amount received from the sale of parcel post stamps shall be de ducted first md the computation made on the sale of ordinary stamps. Since the parcel post law provides that all matter formerly considered as fourth class matter must bear special parcel post stamps and as that class of matter mat-ter amounts to about 15 per cent of mail handled, the amendment would have an effect upon a number of of flees, including Ogden oo |