The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-02-07
CONGRESSIONAL.

injuring all our great interests, especially
in the manufacture of cotton goods has in
creased since 1860 so per cent, but this is
not to the advantage of the laboring classes,
who have to pay rs per cent more than in
1860 for the expenses of living. The en-
HANGED cost of production has transferred
our entire trade in cotton goods with China
to British hands.
The House Appropriation Committee in
quired into the contingent fund of the
Departments, and alleged use Of horses
and carriages by officers at the public ex-
pense
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
after consultation with members of the
Civil Service and Ways and Means Com
mittees of the House, has reduced the cleri-
cal and other force Of his bureau, by tho
discharge of 81 persons, at an annual saw
ing of $21, $40.
The public debt statement for February
list shows decrease of $1,S45,211.
The postal bill reported by Representa-
tive Tyner in the House, amendatory of the
postal laws, provides that on newspapers
and periodicals not exceeding four ounces
in weight, sent from known Office Of pub
LEGATION to regular and bona fide subscrib-
ers, postage shall be charged a. the follow
ing rates per quarter pound, namely: On
publications issued less frequently than
once week, 2 cents; issued once a week,
3 cents; issued twice week, 6 cents; three
times week, cents; six times week, IS
cents, and daily, 81 cents; and an addition
al rate shall be charged for each additional
four ounces weight, provided that one copy
of weekly newspapers may be sent to each
subscriber thereof in the county where
they are printed and published free of post
age, and publishers Of newspapers and
periodicals may mutually exchange their
publications, not exceeding one copy in
each exchange, free of postage. All mis-
cellaneous matter of the third class, in
Guiding books, flexible patterns, samples of
ores, metals, minerals, and merchandise,
sample cards, Photographic paper, letter
envelopes, postal envelopes, and wrappers,
cards printed or imprinted, and on all mat
ter not chargeable with letter rates, or by
law excluded from the mails, tie postage
shall be one cent for each two ounces or
fractional part Of two ounces, and that the
maximum weight of all such packages
| shall not exceed four ounces. 1t shall be
lawful for any person to write in any book,
pamphlet, periodical, magazine, or other
matter of the third class, a brief form Of
presentation, or write his or her name on
the wrapper thereof, or the number and
name of the articles inclosed, without ad-
ditional postage.
1t is evident that the House is bent upon
restoring the frankins privilege. So i'm
patient are a large majority of the men,
bers, they would not wait until the Post
Office Committee could report its bill, when
called in regular order, but they suspended
the rules on Monday, and set apart Feb.
IS, for the consideration of the bill. An
effort was made to prevent a Yea and Nay
vote on the motion, but this failing, 1G4
would-be frankers faced the record. The
negative vote was only Sc The bill which
the House is in such hurry to pass, while
franking abuse, is ingenieusly given the
| form of a measure to disseminate informa-
ton by providing the people with the doc
uments printed by order of Congress.
8, ! bo &c
the United States has been reported ad-
versey from the Military Committee of the
Senate. The same Committee have agreed
to report bill for the equalization of
bounties. The measure, which is yet to he
framed, will probably be on the basis of
Senator Caldwell's bill introduced last
| year, which provides uniform bounty of
eight and one-third dollars per month to
every officer and private who served in the
regular or volunteer service between April
-, 1866, the bounty payments already
made to be deducted. The benefits of the
bill are to extend to the widows or other
heirs of deceased soldiers.
The new bounty bill which the Senate
Military Committee has agreed to report,
and which will probably be passed, provides
for the payment of eight and one-third
dollars per month to every soldier who
served in the Union army between April
Is, 1861, and April Is, 1865, deducting all
previous payment of bounties by the Unit
| ed States. This bill will not benefit the
soldiers vino enlisted for three years, for
they have already received bounty far in
excess of eight and one-third dollars for
each month of service, and the legal repre-
sentatives of the three year soldiers, who
died or were killed in the service. have re-
ceived the same. There are, however, a
great many three months soldiers who did
not re-enlisJ. Pennsylvania sent to the
field some thirty or forty regiments Of
drafted men, besides fifty or sixty thousand
who enlisted for one year. New York and
Ohio also furnished a number of one year
regiments. None of these soldiers received
any bounty from the United States, and
this bill is intended to put them on equality
with the rest. We believe that there are
some soldiers in Maryland who will be en-
titled to claim under this bill.
Is Our correspondent "M " furnishes
a timely article on Apple Trees, for the
agricultural column. which VIII appear
next week. His suggestion to obtain trees
which suit our latitude, is worthy of
adoption by every person who designs
plantin out Il younr orchard. Very fine
apples are raised in Ohio, about Cincinnati
and lower down, which would doubtless
suit our climate. Procuring CRAFTS from
favorite varieties grown i'll that locality
would be well worth trial.
s8~We have on hand, and will publish
next week an address delivered at meet
ing of the Teachers Association, on the
relative merits of the past and present in
an educational point Of view
OLD BUT GooD.-We have heretofore
noticed one OF our standard exchanges, the
senior of the agricultural press in America.
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