I desire an early reply to these inquiries relating to the general plan, and, if you are not ready to do so now, shall be glad to have you submit later a detailed discussion of this bill and of House Document No. 105, 62d Congress, 1st Session, with which, I assume, you are familiar.
Yours very truly,
(Sgd.) Jonathan Bourne, Jr.
Chairman Senate Com. on Post Offices and Post Roads.
APPENDIX G.
Committee on Railway Mail Pay.
October 3, 1912.
Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
Chairman, Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:—
The Committee on Railway Mail Pay, representing 268 roads operating over 214,275 miles of road, has been investigating the subject of mail compensation for about three years, or since the Post Office Department, in 1909, sent out a series of questions regarding the space furnished for mails in passenger trains, and the cost to railroad companies of the service which they perform for the Government in the carriage of the mails. Therefore the Committee has thought it would be of interest to you to receive from it an answer to the questions propounded by your letter of September 11, 1912, addressed to the officers of railroads throughout the country.