The New York herald., 1870-12-09
cation Of The ohio river ana praying for early action
| 10 requife modHcaton OF the plan.
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On motion OF M. ogTER the House agreed, "a 10
90, TO adjourn over from today unnl Monday.
On motion OF Mr. scHEScK lrepl OF ohio the Tariff
bill and Internal Revenue bill or last session were
taken rom the calendar or the Committee OF me
" hole and recommlited TO the Committee o. ways
and Means.
THE coprIcAros or rHE POSTAL LAWS.
The House theu resumed consideration OF the Diil
to revise and consolidate the postal laws, the pend
ing question be ng the amendment offered by Mr..
Farnswo tn just De.sre the adjournment yesterday,
aoolishing
,.s THE FRASKNG PRIVILEGE.
Mr.. POTTER, tdem.) o n. " advocated the amend
abuses Of the franking pr vilege without preventing
the publication OF Official documents, as would be
the case II the law Passed by the House At the last
sess Oh became u law, II was tile same proposition
as he had ouered IN the form OF d bill last session
Mr ,, Van WICK ,re. q n r.. Opposed pp tne y,
ITS most Objectionable feature the publication Of
documents o. no general interest and The cucumber
Ing OF the malls them and as taking out o the
Treasury $50 0W each session TO be paid 10 the mel
bers for Their own private correspondence.
ar MAYSARi,, trep.l OF Tenn, opaosed the aboli-
ton OF the frankng privilege, declaring 1t bis beier
that II would not save dollar TO the public Treasu
ry, as the same amount wJuld be paid TO the mail
contractors whether the mails contained rrauked
mat er or not.
hr. FARNswoRTH advocated ana expla ned the
amen nlnent. tie said the stamps for Senators aad
meal G. would not 20 Into their possession, but
wou,u an In the custody OF the secretary OF the
Senate and clerks OF the House, who woaid be re-
sponsiDe thsr proper use It's effect wolldpe 10
prevent the abuse Of III. ranking privilege. which
Was mainly through The G untcueitins OF members
autographs. the stamps could be used nowhere
ese tnan IN v as Ing ton, and there would he no
opportunity FOR csuncrleltng. He believed II Il e.
less 10 enact simple abolition or the llng pfiyi
ege, for II wOuld not be agree Il TO by the Senate,
and the question wod be al the close OIL the session
IN he same cold tion lhal IL now was.
Mr. DAWES uep OF Mass, 0ppo ei the amenl-
mcnt as preserving an that was oa Gus aud liable
20 abuse Ia .e lraAkng privilege - II existed ana
only depriviug the etlzen OF the light or commuLi-
cation free OF postage with the goyernlne do art
ments and with meMbera. He had voted hereto
fore and would vote again, Tor the absolute aboll.
tion 0. the franking Privilege; but the proposed
amendment retained everything in which there was
abuse. and only cut OF that IN which the people had
an interest ana ne n mid therefore vote against 1t.
M hILL, rer.) o. ~ j., opposed the amendment,
aud insisted on the pure ana simple aboi ion OF the
ranking privleg as oy the biil passed by the
Hoase last session, and which he was convinced
would be passed by the Senate at the present ses
sion.
ment except that sectlon OF allowing Senators and
IN mbers one hundred dollars each gr 'heir own
correspondence. .-.+aa ,&fta's14s.'. ~
thirteen members WHO had voted last session
agalnss the bill abollshlng The franking prvilele
because he thengnt the policy wrong, and because
he was not willing to vote under an artllclal ey-
opposed to Lie pn{h9 anenS@eni, wscn VIII suss was
from ihe members themselves to the Executive De-
partment Tie Idea OF keeping accounts OF the
postage an ana Stamped documents and charging them
s:s Sa2lHsSs + @9s2 0t whipping The devil round the
Mr, GlRFiEL0, (rep) OF Ohio, favored the amend
definite and known quantity certain item OF pub.u
expense, aud = saving t9 memoers the enor.n6us
Mr.. MCKENZIE. trep.l OF Va. arsl.ed against the
amendment. The South did noJ W mt the ranking
privilege abolished as 1t wanted 9dinformation tnere
Mr.. FERRY moved 10 strike ont the section allow.
ing Senators and members 500 FOR their c0rrespon
dence.
Mr.. FARNswoRTH reminded the House that
althOuul the amendment wguld allow 466 "a
session for the private correspondence of members
there was now $4,000 annua ~ appropriated for
the transportation OF free matter and that 1t vas
Estimated that one-thrd OF the franked matter pass
ing through the mails was frauduent. The amend
ment, he admitted, did net cut so deeply inI1 the
evii as he could wish. he was perfectly willing 10
cat the whole matter no By the roots, and to stop
the pr ntlng aid circulation OF pubic documents; ;
but lie had hope vi succeeding IN that ald the
question was whether they should adopt the ameud-
ment or let 'he law remain as 1t was. lie mad no
the Senator's and members.
TIE tRANkING PRIVILEGE TOTALLY ABOLISHED.
and lhe House rroceeded 20 vote. 4'e'''''
MIR. FtRRY'S amendment to strike out the hun
Mr.. VAN WYcx moved to strike ou, all after The
first section. Rejected.
amendment as amen0ed, and II was rejected-yeas
70, naYs l03.
Mr. HILL moved to strike ous all the sections o
eqni alent to It's abolition. Inc eso:ution was was
agreed io--yeas 70. nays e9-as follows:-
r1 Esasa sa es" aee Ts ATis Bailey
Gs,. psns03 sase9srd arie ssssaa Gharcs
Gulom pigklnsoq, pa.al Finkelnburg Fisher, Fitea,
HOLMES iasesoI, Johu.oa, Jones oi Judd Julian, Kei
logg kelsey Of n !. ke'c,nam; Knapp kno Lsain Law.
corgc1, Nccrsy Mc1irs, acce More o. Ohio MarpnI.,
sesey, NiRiacS Packard Packer Paine, Palmer, Peek,
don o. N y, cum, sma OF Onto ssrSweather, stevens
Mass, WsIEsT WiSIaaon, Wizard Williams, Wiuan.,
ssss AAss AspsT Ayssa
Darrell Dawes ncSey Dixon q \ g. Donsy duke ii Ella,
Haml, Hawkins, Hoar Hooper jsnckes, Jones Of N o.
Of j. Marey MSreal Of Pa aansen Msafs Se 0rh,
roree PHELPS Plat Posna Porter ro Reeves Roots,
Smith OF Team smith q VI stokes stoaghion
Wallace Wells, "htmcre, wilson OF Ohio, and Wooi-7s
Mr.. HILL moved an additional section, dec airing
that no person should hereafter exercise the frank
Nj. FARSswoRTH said that there was no necessity
Tor That, Us the sections regulating the ifanAing
privilege were srnck out aud as the last section OF
the bill repealed all o,her postal laws
Mr.. HILL preterroa 10 nave positive declaration
OF inc TACT embodied ia the bl
MI. WELLER moved an amendment allowing the
free inte change OF ncwsp Ders ana GlGgllnes and
the Circulation OF weekly papers within the county
oil their publ cation.
Pending the vote on IT, Mr. NfGLACS. tdeinl OF
Ind, introduced bill providing for the appoint
ment Of clerks OF the United states Cire It aud Dis
VIM tSulVS tO hNuhSNiis dHi NrN AiDtH1, iUH.
also q Dill to repeal the act 0 the 3ist OF May. 1870
10 emerge the rights o. citizens of the United States
10 vote III Inc several states
Mr. BUTLHR, OF Mass, gave notice that he would
on Tuesday Sexr ask the uouse to consider the
General Anlnesis pit
IN MEMORfAM.
The death OF Robert Ridgway, late member rom
vi gina, was announced ana remarks eul3Rsrlc OF
his character were made ~ aessrs. Mckenzie, May
nari, BROOKS. Of New York. AKA LOCKER.
The Heuse, then, at twenty minutes past three,
Adjourned TIL Monday.
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