[84] Postal Laws and Regulations of 1913, Title VIII, “Money Order System,” p. 529 ff.

[85] Congressional Globe, 38th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 1694, 1771, 1861.

[86] Act of June 25, 1910; 36 Stat. L. 814. A system had been recommended by postmasters general in 1871–1873, 1880–1882, 1887–1890, 1907–1909. See 61st Cong., 2d Sess., House Rept. No. 1445, and for Mr. Moon’s argument, ibid., Part 2.

[87] Wilson v. Shaw, 204 U. S. 24 (1907).

[88] Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 96 U. S. 1 (1877).

[89] Davies, The Collectivist State in the Making, p. 39.

[90] Below, Chapter VI.

[91] Below, p. 80 ff. See also “The States and their Roads,” N. Y. Nation, August 20, 1914, and Bourne, “Practical Plan to Spend $3,000,000 for Public Roads,” N. Y. Times, May 11, 1913.

[92] Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, 1914 (Report of the Chief of the Office of Markets).

[93] Report of the Postmaster General, 1914, p. 8 ff. See also U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletins, inter alia, Nos. 594 and 611, and The National Parcel Post News (Washington), October 7, 1914, and weekly thereafter.