Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — POSTAL REVENUES GAINING. [ARTICLE]

POSTAL REVENUES GAINING.

Postmaster General, In HU Reoort, Bays the Increase Is Noted. Postmaster Generul Wilson has made ■his first annual report to the President. The receipts of the postofiice department for the yenr ending June 30, 1895, were $70,171,090, and the expenditures $86,790,172. It is gratifying, says the report, that a large portion of the deficiency occurred in the first quarter of the year and that revenues are increasing with returning prosperity. Mr. Wil„on estimates the revenue for the year ending June 30, 1897, at $89,793,120, and the expenditures at $94,817,900, the difference to be made up by Congressional appropriation. The postmaster general refers to the growth of the free delivery service and .says he believes it is good policy for Congress and for this department to foster the extension of this service! by judicious administration. Mr. Wilson reiterates the necessity for legislation to punish train wrecking and obstruction to malls urged by his predecessor, recommends legislation authorizing the use of private postal cards, and says that the civil service rules should be extended wherever practicable.