New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-30


week to be exclusively devoted TO the business O
the District Of Columbia.
resolution was adopted to print extra mum
bers OF the Pacific Railroad Reports.
Ihe Hon. Anson Burlineame and lady left here
tbis evening. His lady, accompanied by her
orother. Mr.. Lvermore, returns to her home in
cambridge, and Mr. Burlingame proceeds to Day.
to-, Ohio to attend mass gathering on tho Goth
inst. Mr.. b. will speak at other points in Indi.
ana Iowa and Ohio. He has paired of with Mr.
| Clinemsn OF North Carolina.
Mr.. Burlibeame's card in The InteLigencer this
morning, has been the principal theme Of conver.
saton to-day, in and out Of Congress. It Is con.
ceded on all hands that Brooks has shown the
white feather. H.
BORDER RUFFIAN ELECTIONEERING
Couesp<rdsDes Of The N. Tribune.
WAsHINGToN, Monday, July %, 1885,
Are the friends Of Freedom fully organized FOR
this campaign, and in communication with every
district You have scarce an idea Of the per.
lection Of the party machinery here at the capital
former letter informed you of the Estate Clubs"
formed by tie Clerks here, to correspond with all
the Congressional Districts in the Union. If the
"unterried" win the battle for Plst-
it will be in consequence Of their better
management. The fraud and crime carried
on BY our assembled wisdom" here 10 oon.
nection with the POst-O would, if half told,
open the eyes of the unsophisteated. Not content
with covering the country with electioneering
documents under their OWE fraRks, the members Of
Congress employ clerks to write their names on
envelopes and packages to the tune Of hundreds of
thousands After being employed" while, they
then do it on their own hook. You remember year
or two since quite fare up took place here in con-
seauenee of discharged clerk being detected in
counterfeiting franks, snd selling them by the
thousand to an advertising patent agency. saw
clerk the other day with an immense parcel of
envelopes-ten or fifteen thousand-eoing to bis
lodgings and as he told me, to I" frank" them for
his member! l once asked Col. Benton if that
was right fright! No, Sir! Forgery Sir
"Direct forgery, Sir! They have no more rightto
"dO it than you have to forge my name to note,
"Sir" Tbis party machinery at this time is 10
it's glory, and it may well to quote the laws aud
regulations Of the POst-Ofice Department on the
subject In the Post Office Regulation after
speaking of the penalties, section 223 gees on to
say, that prOct edDgs Should be instituted " no
only against those who abuse the frank, but alst
against those rho procure it to be DONE" 1.-THE
italics as in the Regulations].
"SEcTIos 226 Ii any person shall counterfeit the
handwriting or frank Of any or cause tds same
each person 80 offending shall pay for every such Of
f,rse, FIVE hundred dollars. Act Of 1852. Sec. 2s.
"SEc. 227. No postmaster other privileged per.
authorize his assistant eerk or any other per.
son. to wIte his name for the purpose Of thanking any
letter, public or private.
"Src a2s. The personal privilege of fr.nking
travels with the persOn possessing It. and can be exer
els. in but on- place at the same time.
"SEc. 229. No postmaster or privileged person can
leav. his frank behind him upon envelopes to cover
his correspondence III his absence.
CSC. 230. If letters or papers be put into Post
Office, bearing the frank Of privileged person who
nooiOu.ly has not been in that vicinity for several
days, it is the ,duy Of the postmSsters to
charge them with postage"
"SEc. 232 One half Of the penalties collected for the
violation Of the frark'ng privilege go to the prose-
cutor, and the ohI half to the United States, and
to be paid over and accounted for TO the Postmaster
General. They may be sued for before the Circuit and
District Courts Of the United States"
Now, what a glorious chance there is here for
the Hon. James Campbell Postmaster General of
the United States, to replenish his exhausted cOf-
fers Let prosecutions be commenced at once, aud
have every offending NJ. C. complained Of for
"proeuring the framking to be done unlaefuLy, aud
have all the Government clerks here summoned as
witnesses. Each OfeDse" being liable to the
penalty of $780, aid one half going to the COM
plainant, the documents being franked (unlaw-
fully) BY the hundreds of Thousands. the profits
would be many millions
Of course, every thing like law and legal observ.
aDce is out OF The question here. Law'makers Oh
course, are privileged law-bIeakers. Not one
single session of Congress has passed since Judge
Campbell filled the Office Of POstmaster-Geuera
but that be has done his best to increase the bur-
deDs of the people, and raise the rates of postage
First be tried to have law passed raising the rate
on letters to FIVE cents but in that scheme he was
magnificenty beaten not twOscore Members in
full House voting for it. Then he tried it on for
printed matter, and no one took the trouble to re-
mort q bill. This year he comes out again with
strong recommendation to double the postage on
papers, books and pamphlets. Deipot.like, he
seems to have grudge against the circulation OF
intelligence. Undoubtedly. he would like to thank
the Lord and all tie authorities Ike the Old Colo
pial Governors of Virginia. if we had "no news.
papers," Newspapers are an eyesore to him. and
40, / presume, are newspaper correspondents:
But never once, in all the mania for economy that
possesses the Postmaster Ct neral, does be attack
that monster nuisance and chronic abuse, the
FrankiDg Privilege.