_The Postmaster General is hereby directed to ascertain by such investigation or experiment as is found necessary_, and to report to Congress at its next regular session, the lowest rates of postage at which the Postoffice Department can carry by mail, without loss, parcels not exceeding 11 pounds in weight; and he is hereby authorized to place in effect for one year, beginning April 1, 1911, _at such postoffices as he shall select for experimental purposes_, such rates of postage on fourth-class matter _as he deems expedient_; and the sum of $100,000 is hereby appropriated to cover any expenses incurred hereunder, including compensation of temporary employees and rental of quarters in Washington, D. C. (Page 26, 1910 Report.) We will here drop the subject of parcels post for the time. In a later section of this volume I shall discuss the subject--largely aside from Mr. Hitchcock’s attempts, as has been authoritatively reported to me, to delay if not to block its successful installation. I will make a few more quotations in evidence of Mr. Hitchcock’s desire to acquire bureaucratic powers: To provide for a postal note in accordance with the plan outlined on pages 10 and 11 it is recommended that legislation substantially as follows be enacted: _The Postmaster General may authorize_ postmasters at such offices _as he shall designate_, under such regulations as _he shall prescribe_, to issue and pay money orders of fixed denominations not exceeding ten dollars, to be known as postal notes. SEC. 2. Postal notes shall be valid for six calendar months from the last day of the month of their issue, but thereafter may be paid under such regulations _as the Postmaster General may prescribe_. SEC. 3. Postal notes shall not be negotiable or transferable through indorsement. SEC. 4. If a postal note has been once paid, to whomsoever paid, the United States shall not be liable for any further claim for the amount thereof. (Page 29, 1910 Report.) Let us next look at a peculiar, “an unusual,” request for legislation granting authority to the Postmaster General to do a most “unusual” thing, the granting of salaries higher than $1,200 a year to clerks and carriers, who are paid under the present law $600 a year, whenever the postmaster “certifies to the department” that “unusual” conditions in his community prevent him from securing efficient help. The italics are my own and make comment unnecessary: