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    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
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    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
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    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
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    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
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    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
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    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 7 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY PRELIMINARY REPORT AND HEARINGS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON POSTAGE- ON SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER AND COMPENSATION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES JANUARY...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
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    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 9 of Railway mail pay. EAILWAY MAIL PAY PRELIMINARY REPORT AND HEARINGS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON POSTAGE ON SECOND-CLASS 9¥ MAIL MATTER AND COMPENSATION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 10 of Railway mail pay. \\k s JOINT COMMITTEE ON POSTAGE ON SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER AND COMPENSATION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL. Congress op the United States. Senators Representatives JONATHAN BOURNE, Jr., Chairman. JAMES T. LLOYD. HARRY...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 11 of Railway mail pay. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Preliminary report 3-11 Adams, Guy, manager mail traffic, Union Pacific 1088 Albright, P. R., assistant general manager Atlantic Coast Line R. R 251, 635 Anderson, Alfred W., general...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 12 of Railway mail pay. IV TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. McFarland, Frank, superintendent, Railway Mail Service, St. Louis, Mo 1320 Madden, Martin, B., M. C. from Illinois 1174 Maddox, Samuel P., counsel 1112 Mallette, J. E. representing...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 13 of Railway mail pay. TABLE OF CONTENTS. V II. Page. The conclusion as to railroad mail pay 989 The railroads claim as to underpayment 989 The department s refutation of claims of underpayment 991 The railroads...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 14 of Railway mail pay. VI TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Space basis 918 General remarks 919 Post Office Department s original plan 919 Post Office Department s modified plan 921 (a) Cost 924 (b) Steel cars (effect...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 15 of Railway mail pay. KAIL WAY MAIL PAY. To the Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Glass Mail Matter and Compensation for the Transportation of Mail: Gentlemen: The Post Office appropriation act approved August 24, 1912, contained...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 16 of Railway mail pay. 4 BAIL WAY MAIL PAY. this important subject. I accordingly, on July 26, 1912, introduced S. 7371, a bill to provide the manner of determining the compensa- tion of railroads for the...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 17 of Railway mail pay. KAILWAY MAIL PAY. 5 all cars or parts of cars used in the transportation and distribution of the mails, and place them in stations before the departure of trains when required to...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 18 of Railway mail pay. 6 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. the transportation and the handling of the mails on railroads, and to employ such special clerical and other assistance as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 19 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. REPLY BY COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY MAIL PAY. In a letter dated October 3, Mr. Ralph Peters, acting chairman, committee on railway mail pay, representing 268 railroads operating over 214,275...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 20 of Railway mail pay. 8 KAILWAY MAIL PAT. purposes occupying less than 40 feet of the car length. This distinction is a purely arbitrary one and without any logical reason for its existence. (d) For a...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 21 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 9 wliicli prove that this belief is warranted and, incidentally, a refutation of the estimates made by the Postmaster General and reported to the Congress (H. Doc. No. 105,...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 22 of Railway mail pay. 10 BAILWAY MAIL PAY. the Postmaster General s conclusion. Everyone recognizes that a railway is entitled to at least a reasonable return upon the value of its property devoted to the public...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 23 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 11 miles, showed that their gross receipts, per car-foot mile, 3 from services rendered on passenger trains during November. 1909. were as follows: Mills. From mail 3. 23 From...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 24 of Railway mail pay. 12 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. variation, yet the mail pay is so far below reasonable compensation, from the standpoint of the cost of the service and a return upon the value of the...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 25 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 13 be might have used in applying this method, and these statements showed that 9.32 per cent of the total space in passenger trains was required by the mails;...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 26 of Railway mail pay. 14 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. VI. THE POSTMASTER GENERAL IGNORED DATA WHICH HE HAD OBTAINED SHOWING EXPENDITURES ON ACCOUNT OF THE MAILS LARGELY IN EXCESS OF THE DIRECT EXPENSES FOR THAT SERVICE WHICH...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 27 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 15 to a whole year. The truth is, however, that November is not a typical or average month and that all of its deviations from the averages of the...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 28 of Railway mail pay. 16 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. Since the commission reported, the volume of the American mails, the revenue of the American postal service and its demands upon the railways for services and facilities have...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 29 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 17 No one will contend for a moment that there has been any net reduction in the cost of supplying railway mail services and facilities since 1901, the year...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 30 of Railway mail pay. 18 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. That increases in postal expenditures were necessary between 1901 and 1911 is not denied. The period was one in which steady and extensive increases in the cost of...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 31 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 19 ceed tlie total compensation of the mail routes on which they occur. The extent of these requirements in particular cases is largely subject to the will of the...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 32 of Railway mail pay. 20 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. interest in the reduction of the amounts paid to the railways that is incompati- ble with an impartial ascertainment of what is fair compensation. This inter- est, coupled...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 33 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 21 and post office, except in cities where other provision for such service is made by the Post Office Department. In all cases where the department has not made...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 34 of Railway mail pay. 22 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. When night mails are caught from a crane the railroad company must fur- nish the lantern or light to be attached to the crane and keep the same...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 35 of Railway mail pay. KAIL WAY MAIL PAY. 23 Appendix D. HOW RAILWAY WAGES HAVE INCREASED. In the year 1901 the railways reporting to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion received, in gross, from operating sources the...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 36 of Railway mail pay. 24 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. giving their indorsement of the response of the committee on rail- way mail pay Augusta Southern Railroad Co., A. B. Andrews, president. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe System, George...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 37 of Railway mail pay. RAILWAY MAIL PAY. 25 Mobile Ohio Railroad Co., R. V. Taylor, vice president and general man- ager. Nashville, Chattanooga St. Louis Railway, J. W. Thomas, jr., president and general manager. New York,...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 38 of Railway mail pay. 26 KAILWAY MAIL PAY. merit based upon reasonable compensation for the services they render the Government. Their pay now, notwithstanding the increased facilities they have provided and the increased responsibilities they have...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 39 of Railway mail pay. KAILWAY MAIL PAY. 27 use of apartment cars without pay, the court ruled that the road had no redress in the matter while working under the contract made with the depart- ment,...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914
  • Image 40 of Railway mail pay. 28 RAILWAY MAIL PAY. REPLIES OF RAILROADS. Below are given the replies received from all railroads, arranged in alphabetical order, to the inquiries propounded in my circular letter of September 11, with...
    • Contributor: Bourne, Jonathan - United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail
    • Date: 1914