Financial summary, 3; revenue, 5; expenditures, 7; work of First Assistant's Office sum.
marized, 9; renewal of postmasters' bonds, 9; free-delivery statistics, 10; division of
post-office supplies, 11; salary and allowance division, 11; work of and allowances in,
12; expenditures of Second Assistant's office for railway-mail and transportation, 13;
for steamboat service, 15; for star routes, 15; for mail-messenger service, 16; fines and
deductions and remissions of same, 16; railway mail service, increase of, &c., 16; for-
eign mail service, facts and statistics as to, 18; receipts therefrom, 20; expenses of, 20;
Universal Postal Union, congress of, 21; extension of, by conventions, 21; Third As.
sistant's report summarized, 23, and statistics of, given, 24; money-order system, sta-
tistics of, summarized, 25; Chief Inspector's report summarized, 26; postmasters'
claims for losses by fire, burglary, &c., 27; the current fiscal year, estimate for, dis-
cussed, 29; special-delivery service, 32; foreign mails, negotiations with steamship
lines, &c., 35; additional departmental building recommended, 47; estimate for next
fiscal year, 48; general topics, and recommendations, 49; the taxation to support postal
service discussed, 49; carrier-delivery service, should be extended, 52; collection deliv
ery service recommended, 54; other local improvements mentioned and suggested, 54;
railroad transportation of the mails, 55; money-order service, reduction of fees rec-
ommended, suggestion as to clerk hire for, &c., 55; post-office leases, recommenda-
tion as to, 56; abuse of the mails by "frauds," &c., 56; insurance system for railway
postal clerks recommended, 58; legislation as to hotel mail suggested, 59; as to return
of undelivered postal cards, 60; as to protection of postmasters from combinations to
deprive them of their compensation, 60; as to disallowed claims of postmasters for sta-
tionery, 60; limitation on claims for readjustment of salaries of postmasters, 61; post-
office supplies, extension of, system of furnishing suggested, 61; departmental changes
recommended, 61; dead-letter office, creation of, as independent bureau, 62; finance
division, salary of chief, increase of, 62; acknowledgments to subordinate officials,
&c., 62.
APPENDIX A.-Report of commission to investigate division of post-office supplies, 65;
organization of division, 78; recommendations as to same, 79.
APPENDIX B.-Tables exhibiting the business of the lines indicated in transporting United
States mails