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Show as provided in the act of March 3, 1 SOI. will, it Is believed, enable tho department to secure contract service ser-vice tn these parts of the world. During tho year there were IM railroad rail-road accidents In which postal clerk -i were either killed or Injured or In Ahich mail matter was lost or damaged dam-aged Twenty clerks, four substltjtes and three mail weighers were killed, fix seriously and 017 slightly Injured. The year was mere disastrous In the I number of clerks killed on the railroads rail-roads than any in the histoiy of Ihe service. ' Among tho recommendations made J by Mr. Stewart are the following; Thatithe deportment be enabled t 1 readjust the compensation lor the transportation of moll on riilroali routes during the four years' term. I That tbo postmaster general be ailthoilzerl to pay for the services f,f . vessels of the sVcond-clas in rarry-I rarry-I ing the mails to various ports in South I America and the Far East. I That salaries of supervisory oi fleers I of the railway mall r en ice be In creaed. That authority of law be chm for granting further P ave du -1 n periods of disability, not exceeding twelve additional ad-ditional months, with pay a fifty per cent of his regular salary, m a rail- j way postal clerk who Is so seriously j Injured as not lo ba able to recline i duty at the expiration of twele I months. j That thirty days' annual b-.ive of , absence be granted to ralUny postal clerks. That provision bo made for the retirement re-tirement of incapacitated r superannuated superan-nuated railway poftal clerks. i RAILWAY AND OCEAN SERVICE Washington, Dec. 21 Conditions of railway and ocean mall service are discussed fully In tho annual report of Joseph Stewart, which the second assistant postmaster general submitted submit-ted yesterday to Postmaster General Hitchcock. A considerable saving was affected during the year by the bureau of Ihe second assistant, which Is charged with tho authorization and direction of the transportation of both domestic and foreign malls. The aggregate cost of the transportation transpor-tation of domestic malls during the year was $81,709,133 C8, while the cost of foreign mails w as $3.1 1 2,302 46 Notwithstanding the increased bulk of mall handled tho percentage of Increase In-crease In tho cost was only 1.1 " per cent During the yc-ar 2,37u mail routes were In operation, covering a distance I of 220,7-P) miles. The distance traveled trav-eled by the- mail of the United States was 420.023, 109. i." miles. The amount of money necessary for railroad transportation trans-portation for the fiscal year ending Juno 30. 1912. Is $48.03,0110, being 5.C per cent more than the approprlutkm for the current fiscal year. In every instance possible the jol-icy jol-icy of equalizing the ive of pay for the transportation of ipall bv railway rail-way routes on tbo basis of lowest low-est cost has been followed The department has saed $12,271. 4s by the operation of the new method meth-od of adjusting pay, to and Including ( the present fiscal year. Is sixteen railroad rail-road companies hae filed suit against the United States attacking the validity val-idity of the order of the Postmaster General in readjusting the rate of pay. Particular diligence has been manifested mani-fested by the department Iu Its inquiry in-quiry Into the cost to railroad cooj-piinies cooj-piinies of carrying the mall. Ihe need for improved ocean mall service ticaln Is cutlet to the attention atten-tion of the congrtsv. The pussauo of nu act t" authorize the postmaster general to pay tor ocean mall service in vessels oi the second class o i j routes io South America, the Phili;-- ' pine.;. .I'ipau. China, and Australia at li pile per tnl'e ti I cuci' lllij; the nt- ai'iill' aide to vessels el lUe Uui tlaaa |