Show fiscal report of the department A deficit of over nine millions franking privileges abused enormous sale of stamps estimates washington nov 11 first assistant postmaster general frank jones has submitted his annual report to the postmaster general I 1 is a review of the work in abe department under his charge for the year ending june 1801 ard contains his actions for improvement of abe bervice Eer vice mr jones recommends legeia tion ta protect the postmarking post marking stamp in use at post offices as the stamp Is now beine used for unlawful purposes lie renews his recommendation for legislation to prevent the boycotting of postmasters by of at places other than at the office which results in reducing the Ba laries of the postmasters boycotted he calls attention to the misuse of the franking privilege lie there s e ns to be some sion members of congress as to the scope of the frankin ff privilege which has resulted in some postmasters declining to send speeches or other matter presented for mailing and this department bs been called upon to civo instructions in such matter instead of the name being written or placed on the envelope by the band stamp it has been in sonje instances improperly print abe speeches therein con fahed have borne advertisements for the formed no pan of the congressional record and therefore are subject to postage third class matter in addition to ibis some of alia packages sent by mail under the frank of abe member have been found after delivery to contain printed matter outside of the congressional record and public document sand are therefore not under abe laws above quoted the literature being sent under seal the is of course unable to detect every violation theres Th ereis no penalty attached to the misuse of the privilege hence no action can be taken by me farther than to call the attention of uie number to the matter As this department is required to carry without one of revenue of additional limitations should be placed on the use of alio frank or penalty of some kind imposed for its unlawful e and I 1 respectfully bog cost that the attention of congress be called to this matter for such action as it should denn proper air jones recommends legislation al 1 wang ohp suspension without pay not to exceed ten days of employed emp loyes violating the postal rules also that disabled diba bled employed emp loye mav be granted leaves of absence with pay in abe classification 0 salaries which were heretofore recommended the lemorl aives details of the different assistants office it by the salary and allowance division that there are first class offices agg second class and 2687 third class the aggregate salaries of thee was 5 TO receipts the following estimate are made for the salaries clerks etc for the next year con pensa lions of postmasters clerks in rent fuel and licht first and cecone ceass xa incidentals and furni lure first and second class offices first and second class post ollices rental cancel iiii machines mr jones says owina to the scant appropriation the free delivery system has been curtailed there have been no now offices made free delivery during the year there has bren a slight increase in the number of carrier there has been A t of many overtime claims of carriers during the year mr jones commends as heartily as he did last acar the experimental free delivery and the rural free delivery tried by his predecessor lie estimates atie free delivery service for the next year at the estimate for at abe lice department is ta 00 a decrease of from tae present year the money order business busin shows offices were constituted money order offices during he apar the amount of orders issued was paid receipts expenses the esaue of he posed notes was postal the postal notes have been discontinued act of congress the amount tionne money orders issued wag foreign issues paid of the operations of the bend letter office mcjones Mr Jones bayst the number of pieces of original dead mall matter received during the year for treatment was lOH a decrease of pieces from the proceeding year instead of an annual increase of this class of matter which in 1883 amounted to these figures chow a difference in favor of the last year over tho preceding one of ant indicates a larger degree on the part of the general postal service the number of parcels and letters delivered was a gain of pieces the percentage in delivery hot hafl yet attained by abo dead letter office of tho lettera and parcels opened and recorded contained money amounting to drafts money orders etc with a lace val ue of 1050 contained costa notes value faw 40 11 ll contained raid notes receipts legal and other papers of a character contained photographs contained conte ined 1 contained inar chandi tp books etc 1000 contained manuscript und were without separate In closures and were returned to abe writer when practicable otherwise without record there were restored ret to the owners letters containing containing draft notes money orders etc alth a face value of postal note lettera valno masce 1 caneon paper remaining merchandise book etc containing photograph containing Lontai ning postage stamps containing manuscript and without tc parate inclosure ct remainder either not re tuni tible or in process of restoration there were received at the dead letter obice pieces of aall from foreign countries and to foreign countries mr jones says that so vigorously have the provisions of the act of congress h een enforced to prevent the mails being aed for fraudulent purposes that green men do not now to u replis s throngs he mull but use the entirely th tr are now re feor deil efte aull names aud by these grafi bode not one of whom is letters by betl alch are ad dressed to the names given in lars the revenue of the department for the june SO 1894 shows a falling off abile the expenditures have increased the deficiency for the fiscal year of 1893 was while the deficiency for 1891 Is the de create of receipts was and the in crease of expenditures the loal expenditures 1801 is and the department suffered losses amount vs 1 to by outstanding bad debts and with debtors the difference be made up by appropriations some of the facts regarding the colam atan taken from the report of the third assistant postmaster general are interesting there issued the 5 bitne the order was in force columbian stamps of were 2 arnts stamps and 1 cent stamps A review of the transfer print ing froni the american haute note company to the bureau printing is made and it is declared that not withstanding withstand inK the complaints made of the character ot the bamps tamps issued by the bureau it bus been successful and there will he i saving to tho government of s1 sa one year and 1413 aw for t four yea re f the third assistant postmaster general criticizes criticises thy act of july 10 which al lowed admission to the mails as second class matter publications of benevolent and charitable associations mostly secret society publications he fays that bince that act forty six publications heretofore s excluded have been admitted 10 the malls whose annual aggregate circulation Is about copies ane estimated weight of this matter is about pounds if e says many of these publications are purely advertising sheets or 11 but as they conform to the law they cannot be excluded there has been a tailing aftin registered letters during the year of olO SoO the total pieces registered amounting to there have been complaint cases of registered packages lost during the which were investigated by the chief inspector and 1657 are still outstanding of abose investigated there was no loss in 2433 and a loss in 1826 with an actual loss after being traced of |