Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-05-02
NAH. SERVICE IN THE TERRIFIC
KIES.
Extracts From . Speech by Delegate
Mayinnis.

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j. Extracts From "a Speech by Delcga.
t. Mayinnis.
I We make the following extracts from
+ speech Of Delegate Martin Maginnis in tn
= House of Representatives April 18Th, 1875
the subject under consideration being til
) Post-office Appropriation bill:
: Mr.. Maginnis said: ''Mr. Chairman. if
: understood the gentleman from New Y or
; Mr.. Chittendenl correctly, lie said tina
e the Territories had a greatly dispropor
/. tionate mail service as compared with tn
: receipts of their pcst-ot1ices, and appealed
to Delegates and members representing tin
: western countries not to press for the es
f Enlistment or increase of service upoI
. routes until the business on such line:
should be self-sustaining. Now. sir. we il
, the far West do not have our mails delv
cred to us five or six times a day in oul
homes and offices like Our felloW-citiZen>
; in the great cities. On the contrary, the
border is only too glad of al opportunity
~ iibS AOtA sNNhtS W loiiN i'iNo w I"
post-oflice where mail is delivered once
a week from the hurricane deck Of the
mal-rider's mule. Laughter.] We do
not expect the privileges which can only
be afforded to thickly settled communities.
We recognize the fact that the mails must
bear some proportions to the business
transacted through them. Yet we may
fairly contend for such liberal extension
OF mail facilities as are properly demanded
by the settlement and growth of the coun-
! try, and which will be alike beneficial to
the new communities and to the great
cities which desire to extend their CORES
pondencc and trade to new points of en-
terprise.
In the latter respect we have equities that
have not been shown forth In this debate.
From tables read to-day it appears that on
ly in some half dozen States are the re-
ceipts of the post-oflices in excess of the
expenditures. Not only the Territories. |
but the Southern and Western states are in |
deficit. Therefore, gentlemen represent |
ing the few States named rest in the COM
Portable assurance that they are bearing
the mail burdens of the whole country.
and say to the rest of lis. If your con-
stituencies were like ours the service would
be selfsustainng.' This is not entirely
true. BY basing the business Of post-oili-
ces on the receipts and stamps cancelled. an
unfair showing is made against the West
md in favor of the large cities. In these
chosen States are New York. Boston,
all the large cities. where
magazines. and books are
printed, and life and fire insurance offices !;
coated. The seat of large number of |
which have their offices in these G
tiles, but depend on the whole country c
or their business. From these points let !!
ers, circulars. magazines. papers, books. :
o to all parts of the country. There is Il
OF a route running into any of the Terri II
Dries or Western States that does not car e
Y in three times, yes, ten times the mail it e
aries out. The stamps upon this mail "
latter are sold and Cancelled in the great Il
ties. But stamps sold and Cancelled in IA
reat cities do not represent the postal bus q
less of these cities only. but they repre- al
mt the business in that regard of the az
hole country. The receipts at city offices
more represent exclusively the mail III
'siness of those cities than receipts for
stoms-dues at the port Of New York
present exclusively goods consumed in n,
wv 1orl1 City, but, on tie contrary. rep ii.
sent goods consumed in every section of tb,
g country. g.
1.-The Southwestern States and the 1vc.t-ri an
4 Territories and the mining regions are bo
this Government what the colonies OF ii,
eat Britain are to her, the springs and W,
lrces and tributaries which make ND the GU.
Eat rivers of commerce and trade that ca
W to and from the great cities of the S,,
st. AS well m. ght you claim that the an,
nth of the Mississippi was the whole a,
er, ignoring its mountain sources and lin
its mighty tributaries, as to claim that for
mail business OF the New York or the nr,
stcn post-Ol1ice was the business OF ,,,,
W York or Boston alone. There is not tbo
lail route in the western States or Terri :,
les that New York and Philadelphia, .,oo
ston, Chicago, and st. Louis have not a ~,
tual interest in with the people living 1,rn
',o'0 eo.'iols VI ii'e country nave LaJ
ely applied for Increase Of mail facilities
ny Territory without having received
ltions from my constituents and also I
ing received letters from New York. Mo
cago, and st. Louis merchants. urging in
such increase as would give r
n more frequent communication with Loo
r correspondents. Mails are quite as d
essary for your merchants who wish to j
! out their circulars or their due-bills, +
or ours to send orders or drafts for j,
mcnt in reply. The benefit Of the mails {
lutual.'' r.
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