Opposes A Postal Telegraph

The postmaster general does not favor the postal telegraph, a system advocated by hls predacessor. Theconditions in this counti'y, ho says, are such as would enormously increase the large deficit. Hetakes as example the system in Great Britain, whirh is a eomparal ivoly smallterritory, and shows that the postal telcgrapli entails i total iimual loss of about$Ü,00(,000. He pointe out t t : 1 1 in a country wliore the territory is 8O largo the oost of a postal tclegriiph would far ezceed any possible receiptsbr benefit. The postmaster general believes ta civil service in the post office department. He says: "If the system has produced such good results in the clerical forcé of the department it is reasonable to inquire whether something like could not be applied with advantage to the lower grade of postmasters. For more tlian one general ion the American people have been trained to regard the postoffice as inseparable from tht: varying fortunes of the two great political parties and in some instances even as legitimately following the vioissitules of mere factions within a party. "This fallacy is be deplorad. The intelligence of pur people has longoutgrown the notion that any one political party enjoys a monopoly of administrativo talent. The postal service must either b taken out of the political field altogether nul surrouuded with the same uonditions which conduce to the health of n private business or be dividel, for wlmiuisi rative purpose. into two tections, the oue political and the othet non-political, each under a separate heatl.'1 As to the bil) iKiw penalng in congress to relieve thi) postmaster general of the responsibiiity of postoffice appointments Bissell says: "Wiiethcr such a plan is or is not the best. that can be devised, it is at least the formuiation of a plan which is entitled to the most eamest, careful and iminediate consideration and may become a foundation upon which to build."