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Railway Mail Service Commission

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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The provisión in the Post Office Appromation bill authoriziDg the Postmasterïeneral to appoint a commission to take nto eonsideration and report upon the iondition and needs of the Railway [ail Service, was in accordance with ■ccommcndatioES made by Assistant 'ostmaster-General Elnier in hia report 'or 1881, and repeated inhis last report, 'ho Commission, consisting of Mr. Eluier, Superintendent Thompson and J. S. iSlater, ehief of the división having charge of the adjustment of the pay of railroads for carrying the mails, have not yet had a meeting. It will not bo a roving commission like that known as the Gardner G. Hubbard Commission of several years ago, but wil] send out notiee of its purposes to the managers of tho railroads, and invito an expression of opinión from all som-ces. "Wo want," said Mr. Elmer to a Washington correspondent, "to formúlate a law that will do away witli all special privileges and with a number of vcxed questions. We want to do it with the approval of the railroads as a rulo." "Whatare the voxed questions to which yon refer?" "Tho just distribution of pay for ; viccs rcndered and the question of side supplios aro among thom. There are i and others porkaps that do not get a fair equivalent for thoir work. Tho questions of weight, speed and space ought all to be taken into consideration in adjusting the pay of raüroads, and they are hard questions to deal wlth. Wo send a pair of boots to San Franoisoo upon tho fastest trains at the samo prico we send the same weight In letters. Why not send them on a slower train?" Senator Plumb, who was instrumental in shaping the provisión under which tb is Commission is raised. approves the views of Mr. Elmer. He is in favor of tho establishment of a unit of meuímrenient- a rate of pay for transporting a given weights in ono squaro yard of spaco at a certain minimum rate of spoed, and pay ing an additionaï proportional sum for increase of speed. Thia would enablo the Department to enlarge the fast mail systern whenovor business demanded it without iajustico to any one.

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Ann Arbor Democrat