The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-03-18
VOLUME X. NO. IL.
who Killed the P. 0. Appropriation.


The Democratic papers are in great trio.
ulation as to who they shall charge with
having killed the post Office appropriations
bill. The facts are as follows The |
Senate passed the post Office appropriation
bill and the post route bill, providing for
new mail routes. On this bill the pro-
slavery majority fois;ed provision rails.
ing postage to five cents on letters, and
10 n much greater exteut on newspapers.
The House passed the post Office bill
with some uuobjecuouabe amendments,
which sent it TO the Senate for concur
renee, The Senate, 10 coeree the House
into raising the postage, then put the
same provision into the post Office bill,
calculating that although the House
than submit to an increase in price Of
postage, it would consent rather than de-
feat the postolfice appropriation.
On the temperance Of the bill in the
House, Mr.. Grow raised the objection that
the Senate had exceeded its constitutional
prerogatiyc in changing the bill into one
10 raise revenue, which was in conflict
with the following provision Of the con.
sii.ution:
CAN bills for raising revenue shall
originate in tie House of Representatives ;
but the Senate may propose or concur
with amendments as in other bills"
He moved that the bill be returLed to
the Senate with this objection, md the
House carried the motion by vote oi
III TO &c.
The Senate resolved to adhere to its
amendment at the risk Of defeating the
bill. A conference was held, and the
committee agreed TO report new bill
which was the original appropriation bill
as it first passed the Senate The House
suspended its rules and passed this bill
without opposition.
Then the Senate had the bill in its con
troll in precisely the shape that it haC
once passed it. The majority of the Sen
ate would probably have passed it, bu
Toombs OF Georgia, Bayard Of Delaware
aud Mason Of Virginia, objected. and unde
the rules Of the Senate were able to max,
. their objections fatal.
On motion of Mr.. Mason, the Senat,
uolifed the House that it had finished it
business and was ready to adjourn, leav
ing the post-ofice appropriation bill deaC
on its table.
The Washington Union hurls its ana
themas at Mr.. Grow, and accuses him c
killing the bill for the purpose of forcin
call for an extra session. II is safe t
do this in the latitude of Washington bu
at the North it will hardly do to give Nj
Grow the entire credit for a measur
which was the on ly way 10 prevent an III
crease Of postage being rather popular
both parties at the North ; and the'inju
tce Of levyng an onerous tax on norhei
correspondence, which now pays its oW
cost, and furnishes a large surplus
support southern mail and passeng
facilities, being something that northel
men of both parties would applaud NJ
Grow for defeating by any parliamental
tactics, as well as by the direc! and ia
means that he accomplished it,
70 charge Mr.. Grow with defeating IL
bill, is tc make him the champion Of chea
postage. This will do at the South, whic
has but little correspondence, and maj
unanimously wants to tax that Of the Nor
for the support of their owh; but at Il
North it will not answer, so democra
papers have actually perpetrated the u
paralleled audacity Of censuring a Sou'
Grn democratic Senator for defeating
appropriations Ohio STATE Journal.