New-York tribune., 1872-01-29
xLI1D CoNGREsS-sEc0YD SESSION
HOUSE oF REPREsENrATIvEs.
WAsuINGTov, d. c., saturday. Jan.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Saturday. Jan 27, 1879.
The House met for general debate, Mr.
Palmer Gep, Iowa) in tic chair, and few members il
their seats.
Mr.. BECK Dem, Ky) made speech against the
Postal Telegraph scheme. He said he had been q mem
her OF the Select Committee last Congress the
subject He tnen opposed bOtn tie schemes reported,
and when neither party yentured to y their project be
abandoned Neither the President nor his Postmaster
General had recommendgd G9yernentai eona4l e % U
March !. Now it was urged 9s necessity. Inc
EnnvD "a the Hubbard bin. Witch a minority of
the House Committee had indorsed. The report 70 the
Senate claimed that all those who have investigated the
subject favored Government control in some way He
denied that the House Committee on Post-Otlces ana
Post Roads in the XLh Congress, had reported against
them ali that the House select Committee of the hast
Congress had repudiated the scheme which the Commit
had as a member OF that Committee opposed all these
schemes and 1t was because the silence OF the minority
sent to propositions TO which he utterly opposed
he proposed in advance OF the action OF the present
Committee to lay before the Committee ana me House
the results his investigation that they might 70 for
what they worth along WIN tne printed DHI5 tuu
report referred to the Committee. He cOntended that
the whole scheme an effort to still further ecu
ernmen officials at washngton that the present Post
was an nnt SI sqe m a
upon him. that his scheme would cost the country at
tax sustain it, that would add at least
25Ooo additional emp0yes to the G5CCO or IoOO now
that already in England censorship had been estab
that would be done here whenever political or other
purposes required It, He claimed that while the pro-
posed system might st in the personal government OF
Europe where railroads. stage coaches, and all the
machinery owned by the Government subseryency
to ard dependence upon the rulers required OF the
people, The true here, and must continue
to be so as long are a free people.
He said that while he regretted TO the growing power
OF the great monopoly known the Western Union Tee
graph Company he did not know any remedy for it, lie
did not think that the remedy proposed would do IT 1t
wa like jumping out OF the fryngpan into the lire The
Pennsylvania Central Railroad and other great monopo-
lies were equally dangerous but he did not propose be-
cause OF that 10 consolidate ali powers III great corrupt
OyershadOwing monopoly at Washington when had
already almost destroyed IL states, crippled ana econ
sructed the Supreme Court, aud II allowed 10 control
and regulate the political, commercial and private cor
respondouce the people would extingusA what re-
manned N Republican liberty In this country.
Mr. DAWES (Rep., Mass.), in replying to MT. BECK
said that while he dld not support the plan OF r tuO-
bard, he thought that it was one form OF RELIEF from
monopoly, though better might be found .
Speeches were also made by Mr. WELLS or MISSOURI IN
favor OF the organization OF the Indian Territory or OKLA
Lama; by Mr. TOWNSEND OF Pennsylvania on the pro
lection OF home industry; by Mr.. CHlPMAN, tie Dis
trct delegate favor Of grant OF land for SCHOOLS IN
The District OF Columbia by Mr. COGHLAN in support
of the policy of preserving the public lands for the toll
ing poor. and BY MI DUELL, for system OF bounty
land warrants 10 the soldiers ana sailors V tne %lo WAY
The House then adjourned