Stamped Envelopes; Hearings Before the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, House of Representatives. April, 1910 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910. Excerpt: ... Mr. Lloyd. There would be this objection from your standpoint: You would have to pay the expense? Mr. Clapp. I am coming to that. There is another objection: In a country as large as ours with only one government contracting establishment, the question of transportation from many points would be absolutely prohibitive. California would hardly send the sheets to Ohio and have them embossed and sent back. Mr. Stafford. There is another provision in the bill I introduced, that they may be delivered to the stamped-envelope agency or other designated manufactory, which provides for the embossing just as was done by the Government during the time of the war-revenue tax in 1898. Mr. Clapp. While I have no official authority to speak for other manufacturers, as far as I know a plan that would permit manufacturers and printers and others to send died-out blanks to a reasonably convenient manufacturing establishment under government control and have the stamps embossed upon them would be satisfactory, but as I see it that is not covered by the bill. Mr. Lloyd. In that connection, is it not true that even if that was permitted at St. Louis or Omaha or Denver and there was not an establishment in Chicago, that you would still, as a Chicago manufacturer, be required to send whatever you had to St. Louis or Omaha and pay the transportation charges there and back? Mr. Clapp. Yes, sir; and then another point would come up, and that is the question of the value of the stamped paper in transportation. As I said before, the gentlemen selling these stamp-affixing machines find the express company insurance charges on the stamps so high that it is impossible for them to transport the stamps from one citv to another. This stamped paper when it comes back would be in the same p...