The Postmaster-General (Mr. Mulock): The issue of 2 cent purple-stamp envelopes ceased when the supply thereof in the department became exhausted, the last issue having been made on the 7th January, 1899. The subsequent issue of 2-cent stamped envelopes was in red, in accordance with the recommendation of the Postal Convention. * * * The schedule hereto annexed shows the names of the post offices supplied with such purple-stamp envelopes and the respective quantities so supplied them. List of Post Offices to which 2c. purple envelopes were issued, and the quantity in each case. Post Office. Quantity. Belleville, Ont. 500 St. Catherine's, Ont. 500 Toronto, Ont. 2000 Corinth, Ont. 100 Haliburton, Ont. 100 Mount Albert, Ont. 100 Tamworth, Ont. 500 Hagersville, Ont. 100 Hamilton, Ont. 500 Loring, Ont. 100 Newton, Ont. 100 Ottawa, Ont. 700 St. Casimir, Que. 100 Sherbrooke, Que. 500 Montreal, Que. 1000 Rigaud, Que. 100 Maitland, N. S. 100 Truro, N. S. 100 Yarmouth, N. S. 100 Andover, N. B. 200 Centreville, N. B. 100 Shoal Lake, Man. 100 Winnipeg, Man. 2000 New Westminster, B. C. 100 Greenwood, B. C. 200 [215] =Weekly Philatelic Era=, XIII: 285. Further questioning by the same gentleman, in an effort to show that "inside" information had been given concerning the remainder of the 2 cent green envelopes at Toronto and the limited issue of the so-called "purple" ones, in order that favored parties might "corner" them, resulted in nothing definite except that in replying to the question "Was the issue of the 2c. purple stamped envelopes done by mistake?" the Postmaster-General said: "There was no mistake whatever made in the issue of said envelopes, but, on the contrary, the issue took place in the ordinary course of business, and was made on requisitions in the usual way, coming from postmasters." Considering the date of their issue, the cause of the change in color and the above reply of the Postmaster-General, in connection with an examination of the table of distribution of the 2c. violet envelopes, we must say that it seems clear that the whole business, as far as the Department was concerned, was legitimate and straightforward, and the aspersions cast upon the issue of this envelope were only animated by a spirit of jealousy or revenge on the part of those who unfortunately did not happen to get any, whether "tipped off" by friends in or out of the post-office, or not.