New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-13
MIR. Raerriek,s Bill.


Before passing is,tbey excepted Bank Notes HON
the operation of this penal act, so they may be
sent a. hitherto but the motion to exclude Nescs-
papers was defeated by the following vote:
Yr.s-Messrs Bates Crafts. Huntington, Phelps Porter
NsYs-Messrs Allen, Bagby, Barrow, Bayard, Benton
Graham Hsnderson Kerr, Kirg, Linn Nc Duiie, Mangu
Merrick, Miller, Morebead Sewer Sturgeon, Tappan'
Walker, Wright Young.
The question was then taken on striking out the
words uritten and printed matter," and decided
in the negative, as follows:
YEAs-Messra Bates, Dayton Evans, Graham Hunng
1 Lon WIIeoa, Woodbridge sia' woodbary@is
NAYs-Messrs Alien. Bagby Barrow Bayard, Benon
sss kns hn" Mepe eRo5ers Me
rick Sewer TappaD Walker, Wright Youns-2a
So ell Magazines and Pamphlets weighing less
than one pound each Gas all do) must be transmit
ted by Mail exclusively, or pay penalty of sl3o
And this conversion of the Post Office into the
most oppressive and destructive monopoly is sane
toned by such freedom loving Free Trade De-
nocrats as Messrs. Alien. Benton, Buchanan
Calhoun, Waller and Wrtght--in short, all the
Loco-F ocos but three, with eight of the Wings
Thus the bill has been driven through the Senate
by a minority vote of that body.
We can hardly hope that our voice will be heard
on this subject by the House, yetwe cannot believe
that the Post Office Committee will report this bill
without very essential amendments We have
said what we thought most material on this sub
iect, vet we must be allowed few more illGstra-
tons:
|. This bill is most detrimental to The public.
1t is often great and general benefit to have news
expressed through from point to point in advance
of the Mail and published, preventing spectators
from taking secret and unfair advantage of it,
This bill cuts off oil this, and leaves the public a
the mercy of those who mtH get important news
through ahead and make private use of it.
2. II is angst 10 tic cheap press The cash
papers pay moro revenue to the Department than
the others, yet do not load it with half the bulk.
Yet this bill! tends to break down the cash press.
and drive the public back to the broad sheets. The
cheap press, frestricted in this way, must become
more local in its character than it now is, and
then, if a man is forced to pay just as much post
age fer daily papcr-s3, 10 year, or S4,68 if
over 100 miles-he will oftener choose a large one.
Thus tho Department will be compelled to carry
much greater weight for the same money.
3. IL is oppressive to the Poor. Thousands Of
poor mechanics in ew.Haven, Hartford, POUCH.
keepse, Newbursb, Hudson, Newark, Paterson,
&c. now have New-York paper served daily at
their doors at the earliest moment for nine to
twelve cents per week. Pass this bill, and these
men must wait hours longer for their paper, pay
double for it, and then have to walk quarter tc
threequarters of a mile for 1t. The result is OBJ
vioas they will be forced to go without. and while
they and we crippled, the Department will but
pick up here and there penny from it. The
Newark mechanics now have The Tribune with
their breakfast pass this bill, and they cannot have
II at all, until so late an hour that they cannot find
time TO read it. Why should this be-
A. These restrictions and penalties are rrons
in principle. If the Government chooses omakc
letser-carrying monopoly and punish it outside
of the Mails with felony the people will stand it,,
though it is going just the wrong way to work bu,
it is impossible that this law should be obeyed
Our carriers in Brooklyn, Jersey City, &c, within
.igh of our Office, will be trespassers against its
letter. All the Magazines will be compelled to VIC
late it, or be ruined.
There is not particle of need of any such law
The Government is able to carry letters and news
papers cheaper than any body else, and as quick
any. Yet, while the price of transporting barrel
of -four from Troy to New-York was 12ic, during
navigation, a letter, carried by the Government in
the same boat, was charged Isl. Yet with this
exorbitant charge the Government has taken the
allow stase-route all winter and let the news come
through by Railroad half day to day and a half
hos yba hoa
curing despatch have been obliged to despatch
them by friends going over tho Railroad. Who
can blame them
If the Department will just take hold at the right
end, reduce its rates of Postage une.halt or more
on letters and ON newspapers sent less than 100
miles, and run the msils through on the quickest
routes 1--WE do ms ask that it hurry, only take care
rot to fall out of sight behnd) will have revenue
enough, and no trouble with Expresses. If it in
ssss on batting with vinegar instead of honey, and
Congress sees ut to -humor it, we must abide the
serioas injury twill infict upon u.s. with thousands
beside but the experiment cannot be Of any grea,
duration
10 The reception of HENRY CLAY at Mobile
was mos, enthusiastic and magnificent, although
the breaking down Of the Steamboat which con-
veyed him from NewOrleans had kept the People
in suspense whole day. We have full accounts
of the fsstivy Mobile papers but the letters
OF our correspondent will suffice. No party char
acter was given to the entertainment, but the Peo-
pile without distinction pressed forward to well
come tbs great American Statesman. The AID.
dress Of Gov. Gayle conveyed no party ausisn,
and the reply of MIR. Clay expressly deprecated