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Thursday, February 6, 1913. TXXE CAPO A HI ATT. ! I LOWER RATE AND INCREASED WEIGHT RECOMENDED FOR PARCE POST Mails Carried Free Under Franks Caused Deficit Last Year in Post Of fice Department Freakish Things Sent Through the Mails a Baby hy Parcel Post. Postmaster-General Hitchcock's an-' the system is thoroughly organized nual report made public Monday, ten tatively suggested reduction of some on that basis the scop of the service in its usefulness to the public should An eight-pound roan of beef vu receded and delivered to a woman on the wett tide. It waa properly wrapped In cloth." Many effort haTe been made to end liquor through the mafia by parcel post. Somehow an impression that the law permit the shipping of whiskey and other intoxicant got abroad and hundreds of inquiries on that point have come to the depart ment. No sort of intoxicating liquor can be sent by mail. I be Still further enhrn'oH hv Incrpm. i parcel post rates and increasing the ,ng the wegM Ilmit ,f proper,yj limit of weight beyond 11 pounds; developed under efficient manage-' recommends civil service pensions for' merit, the parcel post will prove to be postal employes; an increase in rates a most important factor in reducing; on Hecona-ciaas man, wnicn tie in- j the cost of living." tends to pave the way for one cent letter postage; the consolidation of the third and fourth classes so books Perhaps the most Important recom mendatlon contained in the report is WITH TIIK LKISKATOIIS. (Continued from page 4.) V!nfIa'M PriMwiiiiigi. The House commltee on agricul ture reported favorably the bill to se cure registration of land title, etc. The committee on constitutional an? personal attack. He asked that action on the bill be deferred. If it wa passed now he would certainly vote araicst it. Judge Co a cell In sisted that the bill be voted on now. Senator Wakefield called the pre vious question. The committee amended, tubstitutlnf 1400 for $7S0 was adopted. As amended the bill passed its second reading. WAKE FAILMEU ItOBHED. Store of Wake Mercantile Cotnpaut? t Horned. On Tuesday night. Henry Beasley. a farmer of Panther Braneh town ship, this county, was returning home from Kaieigh. when he was as saulted by two white men and robbed of $40. The two men had asked Mr. Heaidev tnr a ride, and when ther that the third and fourth classes nfi amendments reported favorably inint ' .k tm. u.a and papers may be forwarded by par-( mail be consolidated so that books I re8oJutln providing for the submis-j rived they hit Mr. Beasley over the cei post, ana points out tnat during and other printed matter may be for-! s,oa of constitutional amendment head and robbed hM warded by parcel post. At present the lo the people by an adjourned or postage charges for these two classes! ca,Ieci 8ession ot Legislature which of mail bear no fixed ratio to each;18 to consider the report of the corn other. For certain weights and i rais8ion appointed to study the need zones the parcel post rates are lower his administration, expense of oper ating the postal service has been cut down $45,000,000. In course of a statement on the condition of postal finances, Mr. Hitchcock says in his report: "In 1911 postal receipts exceeded postal expenditures, leaving a sur plus instead of a deficit. A heavy loss of revenue In 1912 due to the extraordinary amount of franked matter mailed in the political cam paign, created a temporary deficit, but since the close of the fiscal year the income of the Department again has outstripped expenses." The establishing of postal savings banks at Presidential postoffices was completed early In the fiscal year, ended June 30, 1912, the year cov ered by the report. Since then the system has been extended to 4,004 fourth-class postoffices, as well as to 64 5 branch offices and stations in the larger cities. There are now 12,812 postal savings banks at which pa trons may open accounts. The num ber of depositors is approximately :',00,000 and the deposits aggregate about $28,000,000, not including $1, 314,140 withdrawn and invested in postal savings bonds. than the third class rates, while In other cases they are higher. "This condition," it is pointed out in the report, "is likely to result In much confusion and should not ex- of amending the constitution The committee on judiciary, num ber two, reported without prejudice bill relative to the privy examina tion of married women. head and robbed hi The store and stock of goods of Wake Mercantile Company, about eight miles south of Raleigh, was burned on the same night, with a loss of about $5,000. Yseterday the chife of police of Kaieigh caused the arrest of J. F. Gallagher and Charles Shearin In a house on north Salisbury street, and Shearin confessed to Mr. Stell that The committee on pensions report ist. Packages containing books orjed favorably bill to allow widows of both are guilty of the highway rob catalogues do not differ in any es-! Confederate veterans the pensions of bery, and it Is believed that the same sential particular from other parcels! their husbands. Favorable report men burned the store. Two strange and they should be handled by par- on 01,1 ror tne relief of the veterans men were in the store "looking or tne Soldiers' Home, of Raleigh, around" only a few hours before the Favorable report on Joint resolution fire. to pay expenses of Confederate vet-' eel post. Prior to the enactment of the parcel post law the Department urged that these two classes of mail be consolidated, and the recommen dation of such action is now renew ed." The Postmaster-General recom mends an Increase on postage for newspapers, and hopes to give the country one cent letter postage at the expense of the newspapers. The Free Mail. During the fiscal year 1912 more; r-vin& on extra hazardous work. erans to the Gettysburg celebration. Turks Are Given Twenty-four Hour Following bills were introduced: i to Capitulate. Substitute bill to define certain . . E w . . employment as extra hazardous to London. FeD- 5. The bombard abrogate the common law doctrine ment of AdrIanPle ceased temporar of contributory neelieenre MW, at 11 'cIock last nSht wlth Bul" risk, or act of a fellow-servant, etc.. fr!n a"d Serlan beseigers offering ana to substitute the doctrine of comparative negligence. This bill would apply to all corporations car- the Turks twenty-four hours to capit ulate, according to advices from Sofit. Operations will be resumed if no advantage is taken of this offer. than 300,000,000 pieces of mail, hav ing an aggregate weight of about 61, 000,000 pounds, were carried free through the mails under the franks Bill "The report contains no references of Congressmen and of various Gov to subjects which have developed ernment establishments. Had post since December 1, and, consequently, . ae at the ordinary rates been paid the Postmaster-General's considera 'I tion of the parcel post has to do only with the preliminary work of estab lishing the new system, which went into effect on January 1. Tentative ly, however, he recommends not only that the parcel post rates be reduced, but that the weight of packages be increased to a point above the maxi mum weight of 11 pounds. On this subject the report says: Would Lower Hates. "While the postage rates for the new parcel post system range consid erably lower than corresponding ex press changes, it is believed that ex perience will show them to be higher in some instances than is necessary in order to maintain the service at cost. likewise, the restriction that places an 11-pound limit on the weight of parcels mailed should be regarded as merely tentative. After on this matter the revenues of the department would have been in creased by more than $20,000,000. Postmaster-General Hitchcock de clares that "it is manifestly unfair to give the Postoffice Department no credit in the Government's fiscal ac counts for the expense of performing this service. The department, there fore, renews its recommendation that the practice of franking be discon tinued and that legislative authority be granted for the use on official mail of special stamps to be furnished by the Postoffice Department on the requsition of those entitled to them." The report recommends that "civil pensions based oa length? of service should be granted by the Government to postal employes when they become superannuated. It is likely that the expense of such a system would be more than offset by gains in efficiency." Mrs. Jeannette Ennis Belo, found er of the Belo Home for Girls at em. died yesterday at Cambridge, Mass. BETTER THsfl SPfiHXIllG. PA CEL. POST SYSTEM. Ilapitlly Growing in Favor With the Patrons of the System Freakish Things Sent Through Mails A Baby by Parcel Post. A special from Washington to Mon day's Charlotte Observer says: The parcel post system, which has been in operation since the first of the year, is working like a well-oiled Corlis3 engine. The experimental days seem to have been passed and the people are trying to reduce the cost of living by the use of the new postal express. Postal employes are doing their utmost to make the law a success. There are two sides to the enforce ment of the parcel post regulations, one in humorous and the other seri ous. The strict letter of the parcel post act is not being adhered to all along the line. Many postmasters act with out lenrninc the rules and lessons prescribed by Congress and Postmaster-General Hitchcock. Some of the infringements of the law that caused merriment are re ported. In the mountains of Georgia a trapper shipped an odoriferous skunk skin to a friend at Seattle. The postmaster at the receiving point did not know that the package con tained such a loud-smelling parcel and passed it along. The skin wend ed its way across the continent, leav ing its unique trail in its wake, be fore the postal authorities were able to detect it. Anything with a bad odor is "un mailable." "What is a bad odor?" the de partment has been asked. S. J. Batts, a seed corn farmer of Raleigh, has entered his protest against a law that permits the post ing of skunk skins by parcel post and not seed corn. "I see," said Mr. Batts in protest ing, "where one of our farmers has iust sent a skunk hide which had to he kept out of the building until the mail wagon started to the depot. "Now. as I see it, corn for a horse can be sent by parcel post as favored above his master, but surely a skunk will not be preferred to the farmer's corn. "I mention these things in argu ment in behalf of seed corn. The law should be changed." Tho PnatnfficA Department Is in possession of a letter from Miss Louise Moore, of Sandy Springs, Md., expressing her appreciation of the good service the parcel post is do ing. "I have a beautful cat that came to me by parcel post," she added by the way of a postcript. Cats and other live animals are barred from the parcel post, but now and then they get by the postmas ters. John Medrick, of White Oak, Va., sent by parcel post to Mrs. Sarah Lil lington, of Washington, five corn-crib mice that he trapped one night for "Sallie," the family cat. The post- office people never knew about the live rodents until they saw a notice about them in a local paper In Ohio, a rural free delivery car rier, was asked to carry a baby from one home to another. The laws do not provide for such a package, but the carrier delivered the baby for 15 cents worth of parcel post stamps, which were stuck on the basket that contained the new-born tot. The ashes of a citizen of Illinois who was cremated in St. Louis, were sent to the relatives of the deceased by parcel post for burial. Ashes of dead people are mailable. The Post- office Department does not care to have its negro carriers fall heir to such parcels lest it lose some good men. The colored man is naturally afraid of corpses. The postmaster at Clarksville, Ten nessee, has notified the Department that the "system is meeting with ap proval at our place. We are hand ling nearly everything from soup bones to hand saws, and have re fused to accept a bundle of raw hides and a bull pup." That the parcel post is being used by the country people is evidenced by letter received at the Postoffice Department. A letter that drifted in from West Virginia has been framed by some of the clerks of the Depart ment. It reads: "Dear Harry: Please send to me by parcel post a mouse trap, two tin wash pans, and a half dozen papers of pins, my wife has just presented me with a fine boy, and, also, old fellow, two loaves of bread and a half-dozen lemons. See you soon." "A gasoline tank was shipped from Waldo, Ohio, it carrying 32 cents in stamps, and is sent for repairs. to require railrnnrls tr ac cept mileage on trains. The author of the bill, Mr. Stewart, explained S." "1,7 Ha r,o,- , . . u inston-bal " 'fiuiis. wne oi wnicn pro vides for the extension of the privi leges of using the - mileage of the purchaser by any member of his family. The substitute, offered hv i the committee, would do away with Spanking does not cure children of bed the provision requiring the railroads wetting. There is a constitutional causa to pull the mileage on the trains jor trouble. Mrs. M. Summers, Box if thev will tu e i 1? W, Notre Dame, Ind.,wi;l send free to any if they mil carry the family of the mlher her successful home treatment, with purchaser of the mileage. Mr. fan instructions. Send no money, but Stewart said that the railroads have write her today if your children trouble yoa violated the spirit of the compro- in his way. Don't blame the child, the mise, effected in 1908 as they at chances are it can't help it. This treatment once stopped the pulling of mileage also cures adults and aced peoole troubled -u me puiiin, oi mileage difficulties by day cr night, when the agreement of 1908 was made whereby thev aerrpprl tn soil mileage at two cents per mile, and 1 tickets at the rate of two and one-' half cents per mile. j Mr. Connor, to annex certain part of Nash County to Wilson County, j Mr. Grier, of Iredell, to place, electric light, gas, water, telephone,' street railway, and other nnhiir. 1 service corporations under the cor poration commission. Mr. Wall, to amend pension laws relative to widows of Confederate soldiers. In the Senate. Several bills were reported by regular committees. Notable amone those reported unfavorably were the! House divorce bills and those which' have been introduced In the Senate.! Among those reported favorably was Senator Hobgood's bill to allow an' appropriaton of $5,000 per annum! for a freight rate expert for the' corporation commission. 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