New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-20
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE MONAIAY JANOAkY ~ 1856:

legal authority Itappears the Feasons for the regu
; ations have either been msundergtOo1, or bis INC
tives not known, in requiring Members of Congress
to procure passes from the President Of the Senate
or Speaker Of the House. II WAS 10 facilitate, rattle
than obsruct their entrance into that heretofore III
attractive institution BY thus making known to The
prison guards the official standing Of tue visitors and
securing their prompt admission.
Err. COLFAX on NEWSPAPER CARRYING.
To ne E1ifsy Of The ~ Y. Tribune
SIR: have just read your emphatic dissent in
ye,erdbys poper the bill reported from the House Post
ofce Committee requiring postage to be psid all news
paperS and periodicals carried post route whether IN
side Of mail bog or IN express car You say ut IL
step owey from the lights upon progress" &C. WEI
you spare In your paper to explain why think Is
not
Tie law forbds any carrying latter any post
route outside ct tho mail except in stamped envelope
which cannot again be used the Government thus obtain
tho postage Though 1t may be matter Of life CT death
and sen, st time when the Government not running mail
(which parallels your illustration Of evening paIers the De-
pamert says You shall not, under penalty, unless
ceiye three ceu,s' And the whole country acque.ces.
Bu, the law allows nsppqpo' to be outside Of the
mail and the Poolce Department Is every year losing
and more by this permission and the express
companies gaining what 1t thu, loses. Nearly the whole Of
the Immense circulation OF The ker. York Ledger Il thus
carried and large portion Of yours well other wide
lcrcuiated pspss and this too, to great extent in the
very same railroad trains which the Department l. paying 20
heavily Tor carrying the mails. II msy be equitable 10 re
qure people to pay postage letters carried accom-
moda,ion Inside Of the msis when their csrer (.
mail train and to allow newspapers to be carried
outside of the mails mail tIsin without the Depart
meut receiving postage OH them but confess / cannot
81.
In the present condition Of finances when the people
to be heavily taxed for years support the Gov
eminent, the PssOce Committee have felt f. duty to
dsayor to make the Pos..Ofce Department If possible self
sustaining and thus relieve the Teaury fom the burden
lie millions Of annual deficit Thus reported bl quite
d.,as,eful maoy OF felow-m.mber abolishng the
fsnkng privilege, which b. at last passed the House. And
also part Of the system for swelling
reported hi. BILL di.stefu 10 many ew.paper deal
leaving the peoples representatives to do with It they
see ft
1t does not you prohibit pepers from being
carried outside Of the mails 1t only says, pay heavily
for those very posoues to supply the people with Letters
aud papers and all letter. that 90 them inside on,
side Of the mails required 70 pay postage newspaper
should aop II ia this least the tide Of
postal uniformity, which you nsiston the side Of Cove
revenue, which sadly need rogre, that II Is
follow the convictions Of duty. II the House thinks the
change radical land know how potential will be the nfu
against it, shall, Of course submit bot II oogh;
not In. law a. to letters 70 be changsd Il 1fa much
rirogsde from the free tendencies Of toward ,he
days Of monopoly aud stringent Government corro you
insist that hIsl
Your own editorial on Frsnsing in the very sne column Of
yesterdays TRIBUNE ssys; "he Pos0fce ia currently
affirmed aud believed ia heavy on the Federal Treasury
hara oft 81
and let see" "Ereyyttiag be done
' n, yseep and diminish the ougoe' of the Federal
Treasury" l. it grossly aayeasonaMe to attempt to swell
the receipts BY requiring that papers carried postous
Outside cf the MALL. shah pay the pos;age
those carried the train inside Of the nnl''
Your. truly SCHUYLER COLFAx
Hoai, # ReYr,'sntafrs' W.slng,ou, Jan. 10. 1914.
WORD ON COLFAx.
! To ne E1to,( The y. Y Tribune
Sin: | sm glad to see you pitch into the Hon.
Schuyler Coxs clumsy attempt TO make SCENTS patron
ise Uncle Sam. so-cau.
Under the rs,en. rule p.pe leave New foFk early n
tie morlu. ps'.ins through Nswlsyen aHd Ne"'London
they get Norwich a. $50 afternoon. At 5j hey lave Nor
alh ADD arrive ats In three minute, after ne train
stop, Jepo, begin delivering Ihem to subscrber,
WIKI nc proposel change they Jrd aaive Al Now Lon
loa It p. M, and res. there TN morains Tho neat
morning the so-cart you'd carry them to Norwich nfiy
ng there hour after the mail The rs1t morning
they leave Norwich, ard arrive here At 7:l5sm.
Instead Of getting Monday mornuss TRIBUNE on Monday
afternoon should get II early edlesdsy morning.
IN bet $50 that Icsn produce that viii start from
Newly tie time thu mail does walk the entire de
tance aud act here ak hoau before it.
selling rom COO TO $50 daily papers each week, aud
weekly papers ard magazines in proportion. II such law T.
passed wouldn't give Continental ,Or al could sell
Yours &c, NJ. 7. DOVE. |
Wat RAinglp. Conn, Jan. II, 1852.
Ifb your custom 20 Pot In notes.-the 'hs following please
do 90:
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