Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-09
POSTAL MATTERS.
Aetion Of the Senate committee on
the POsiOmca Appropriation Bill
amendments Involving
General ReRdiuStmcnt OF
the Service.

WASHINGTON, June S.-Tne senate
cCmmiJlee on appropriations to-day took
setiOn On the p 'stOff1ce appropriation
bill, and sgrs.d to report it with a 4
amendment striking out all the legisla
tive sections by which the house pro-
vidad new rates OF cOmpeL sation for
railway mail service, and proposed re-
adjustment of pcstmss tells throughout
the country on new system, anu pr =
vided for rtain changes in tue rates Ct
postage on tn1Id Class matter. the COM
mIJtee st k9 out these sections on the
general ground that their duty Is con-
fl led to reporting appropriations in
accordance with the existing law,
and that the questions involved
in these legislative provisions are
] now before another committee Of the
senate, specially chsIg I'd with their
consideration. The appropriation com.
mjttee subsequently reported the bill t.
the senate. Tne other important amend
meuts recommended by the committee
provide for increasing the approprla-
tlOns for the inland mail transportation
20 nineteen hundred thousand dollars
for letter carriers, two hundred thou
sand dollars; for special agents and mail
depredatiOns, four hulaTed thousand
dollars, and fOT compensation to post
MASTER, seven hundred thousand dol
lars. The additional apprOpFja ions for
letter carriers Is designed to secure con-
tinuance of the present service, the
house having provided less than the
u.ual amount, although it rejected its
committees proposition to limit the free
delivery system to cities having popu
Iation of forty thousand and upwards,
and thus dc away with q portion OF the
present expense. The additional apprO-
.pTiations Tor postmasteTs' salaries and
inland mail transportation represent
amounts which the house estimated
would be saved by the enactment of the
proposed new system Of compensation.
rhe senate committee retains in the
bill the house prOvisO that stamped en-
velopes and newspaper wrappers shall
not be sold at less than their average
cost, including clerk hire and other eX-
peDses connected Herewith.
The committee also recommended an
increase OF the item for railway postoffi g
clerks, from one million one hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars TO one
million three hundred thOUs and dollars; !;
for route agents, from nine hundred and
forty-tive thousand dollars to one mil.
lion dollars; for transportation OF for.
eign mails, from two hundred and
twenty Thousand dollara to two hundred
and twenty five thousand doltara; for
advertising, from twenty-five thousand
dollars to forty thousand dollars, and for
miscellape1 e1us purposes, from fifty thou
sand dol ers TO one hundred thousand
dollars. The committee entirely strike
cut the appropriation Of eight hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for Off cial
postage stamps to be used by the post
Office departments. The amounts voted
by the house for the con- p9nsation OF
pOstmssters, fer inlsnd mail transpor-
tattoo, and for the pay Of letter carriers,
hundred thousand dollars, fifteen mill
lion six hundred thousand dollars, and
one million eight hundred thousand
dOllara