Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — Poetmaster General Vilas's Report. [ARTICLE]

Poetmaster General Vilas's Report.

The annual report of Postmaster General Yilas says the service will soon become self-sustaining. In view of this he recommends: A regrading of salaries and re-classiucation of offices; that postoffices should be built by the Government; that the free-deliverv system be extended to every city and town; that the special delivery be maintained, although it has not increased in business the past year; that civil service rales and regulations be applied to clerks in the service, and they assured of a tenure during good behavior; that the Government should own the postal cars; that a fourth assistant postmaster general be provided; and that, in case it is decided to establish a postal telegraph system, wise provisions he made for a safe and satisfactory establishment of the requisite force of employes without dangerous increase of federal power.