V. The Postmaster-General's Apportionment of Space Between the Mail Service and the Other Services Rendered on Passenger Trains Did Not Allow to the Mails the Space which They Actually Require and Use and this Had the Result of Unduly Reducing His Estimates of the Cost to the Railways of the Mail Service 9 VI. The Postmaster-General Ignored Data which He Had Obtained Showing Expenditures on Account of the Mails Largely in Excess of the Direct Expenses for that Service which He Reported 11 VII. The Month of November Is Not a Fair Average Month in Any Railway Year or One that Is Typical of a Year's Business and Its Use as the Sole Basis of the Postmaster-General's Calculations was So Unfavorable to the Railways as to Deprive the Results of Any Value Even If in All Other Respects His Methods were Beyond Criticism 13 VIII. A Commission of Senators and Members of Congress which, Between 1898 and 1901, Most Fully and Carefully Investigated the Subject, Ascertained and Declared that Railway Mail Pay was Not Then Excessive; Since Then there Have Been Many and Extensive Reductions in Pay Accompanied by Substantial Increases in the Cost and Value of the Services Rendered by the Railways 14 IX. The Administration of the Post Office Department Has Not, in the Last Twelve Years, Effected any Reduction in the Annual Total of Its Expenses for Other Purposes than Railway Transportation or in the Proportion of Its Revenues Required for Such Other Expenses, but the Whole Saving Which Has Nearly Eliminated the Annual Deficit of the Department Is Represented by the Reduced Payments, Per Unit of Service, to the Railways 17 X. The Continuous Refusal of the Post Office Department to Order Reweighings of the Mails Except After the Maximum Interval of Four Years which the Law Allows, the Demands for Station and Terminal Services that Are Rendered Without Any or Without Adequate Compensation and the Unjust Discrimination Against Compartment Cars Used as Railway Post Offices Are All Abuses, Seriously Injurious to the Railways, Which Have Grown Up Under the Present System of Payment and Ought at Once to Be Remedied 18 XI. The Postmaster-General's Proposed Plan of Payment Based Upon Operating Cost and Taxes, to Be Ascertained by the Post Office Department, Plus Six Per Cent. Is Seriously Wrong in Principle and Would Encourage and Perpetuate Injustice 20 _Appendices._ A. Extracts from the Postal Laws and Regulations 23 B. Classification of Operating Expenses 27 C. Receipts from Passenger and Freight Traffic by Months 28 D. How Railway Wages Have Increased 29