THE TRIBUNE.
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FAT PlckIscs.-Congress, in recen, report,
publishes the facts. that the cnst Of mail bags,
from 1881 to l64l, was S336,000; that Mr..
Jewett Of Ohio, contractor was paid S6S, i2f Is
for 4,7s2 bags; that in November. le4o, there
were on his (Jewe,t'sl hands 4,020 bags not
wanted, which cost S65 600; that large over
plus was in the hands Of other contractors; tina
bags could be got for so per cent less than was was
pad in those years; that for hianks, S3JO'oU''
were paid between 1929 and le4!, gencra"y al
about so per cent more than a lar price, leaving
a supply on hand for twenty years TO come; thai
the s,ora,e for these surplus articles was charged
and allowed thai. by there and other frauds, the
expenditures of the Post Office Department were
made TO exceed It's revenue, one year, by $780,
75s l9, and another year S22OO0o, thus re
curing special appropriations out OF the revenue
from customs and oublic lands.


fCleveland Evening Herald.