Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The annual report.of the third assistant postmaster general shows that expenditures exceed receipts by $11,411,779. The legation of Guatemala in Washington received the following official dispatch: “Revolution subdued; order restored all over the country.” John Martin, an employe of the United States treasury, has been arrested and indieted for taking silver dollars from bags and substituting lead to make Up the weight. The report of First Assistant Postmaster General Perry 8. Heath for the fiscal year ended June 30 has been made public. Among other things he says: July 1 there were 3,733 presidential postoffices, embracing 109 first class, 750 second class and 2,814 third class. The net increase for the year in the salaries of the postmasters at these offices is $230,000. With the consolidation of the present independent postoffices within the limits of the new city of New York a saving of at least $62,723 in salaries and commissions of postmasters will be effected, Another considerable reduction in C-ttpcnsCs tally be made by the merging, or the abolishment in many cases, of the geveral heads of divisions'and other officials receiving the higher salaries. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, embrace $16,250,000 for compensation of postmasters; for clerk hire, $11,300,000; rental and purchase of canceling machines, $125,060; rent, fuel and light, sl.750,000; miscellaneous items and furniture, $200,000, and advertising, $20,000. The estimate for the free delivery service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, is $13,810,400. Since the close of the fiscal year 1897 the service has been established in more than forty offices, and before the close of the current year all offices entitled to the service will receive the same. Domestic and international money orders issued aggregate 26.113,240, amounting to $188,071,056; aggregate number of payments and repayments, 25,580,566, amounting to $180,141,660. There were 5,967.960 pieces of original unclaimed matter received at the dead letter office, a decrease of 276,403.