MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if an assistant postman who previously served in the Militia will have a prior claim to an established appointment before an auxiliary postman who has neither acted as a telegraph messenger nor served in the Army or Navy?
§ MR. HANBURYUnder the existing rules, service in the Militia confers no claim to preferment for an established appointment, and a man would not be given priority simply on account of such service. An auxiliary postman who has neither acted as a telegraph messenger nor served in the Army or Navy has not much chance of obtaining an established appointment.