Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-21

assths rate Of S, e92, $50 per aunum, an in.
cfeass over the cost of service during the
preceding year Of $l26,995. The. report
continues: The effort Of the department
Q establish fast mail service via Cedar
Keses and Key West, Ia order to meet the
demands OF commerce have failed for
several years on account Of the INSULT
cheney Of compensation allowed
BY Law for such service. II the postmaster.
general were authorized to contract for SER
vice between Havana and the Uoited States
mentioned ata srf1cient rate of pay to 90.
tcommerca 81, the country would DO greatly
benefited. I believe that . general law
should be psssed authorizing contfacts for
carrying mails between the United States
and West Indian and South American ports
Ia American built steamers, carrying Amer.
tcensdset, ata liked minimum and maximum
piace, the amouot to BE- expended regulated
by annual appropriations, or the service
might DO thrown open to competition tho
same ~ tho star service. Such Q result
would enable this country to control the
profitable commerce with South Anerica
and tho Wsst Iudiss, which 10 now almost
monopolfzed by Great Britain. Ia regard
to the use Of the mails BY lottery companies.
the acknowledgement suggests that sec
lions 1920 and 404l of the revised statutes DO
revised 70 have the word fraudulent" pre-
cediDg the weFd slottery" insv each section,
which Will make legislation moro harmoni-
Gus and effective. 1t would aid the depart
lew If tho provision of section $3.50 In re-
morN IN pom{otAeoA LATHAM aNAeoaaoA m oNoh
names were in terms extended to include all
letters 90 addressed. The circulars recently
issued up0n this subject had reference made
to the case pending inthe Uaited States cir.
cult court At Louisville. which, when de.
cided, says Gen. Key. I will avail myself of
the occasion to communicate q further view
of this question. Whether an individual
may forfeit his right TO use the mails for 10.
gitimate purposes bv voluntarily mingling
such correspondence With prohibited mat.
ter, SO that the department must carry both
or neither. Is Q question upon which addi.
tional legislation might render the purpose
of the statute altogether unquestionable.
The carriage by mail of newspapers contain.
ing lottery advertisements soliciting viola.
lions Of the postal laws, renders successful
enforcement ofthe statute now In force still
more difficult.
Gen. Key reports that the law providing
for the new classification of mail matter and
adjusting the rates Of postage thereon, passed
by the forty fifth congress. has gwen UNI.
versal satisfaction.
Under the heading of protection to post
masters in personal property, the report
says: desire respectfully to call your al.
tention to the fact that there is no United
States statute imposing q penalty on anyone
for asssiling . postmaster In the dischsrge
of bis official duties as in the case of revenue
officials. and l earnestly request that con.
gress be urged to pass such statute.
In connection with the suit recently de-.
cided against Postmaster James of New
York for alleged infringement Of letters
patent in the use Of canceling stamps, Gen.
Key says: An account of the case is now
being taken, as other postmasters are liable
to be subjected to expense in the same man
ner. because these stampe have been in use
at all the principal postof6ces Of the country
for the last ten years. He desires to call
attention to the fact that there is no provision
of the federal law to secure certificates of
probable cause to the United States officials
other than treasury officials in cases of ad.
verse judgments for acts done in their Off
cial capacity. In the present instance Mr..
james IS postmaster uses the cancelling
stamps furnished BY. this department and
the court adjndges him to have infringed a
patent by such use. The judgment for dam
ages is against him personally. In like
cases the property of treasury officials is
protected BY law from levy. I submit that
similar protection is due to all government
employees when acting in the line of their
duty.
1Nho pA~nvk onC Alok AL -.a-s.
ions of section II of the act of March 5,
1870, authorizing the secretary Of the trea.
su.y and the postmaster.general to adopt
regulations for delivery to addresses in the
United States of dutiable books with the
extended to embrace all articles of dutiable
matter received in the mails from
foreign countries. The postmaster-gen-
eral recommends legislation to enable
the department to adopt the general
the payment Of limited indemnity for regis.
tered articles lost or destroyed in the postal
service.
The other recommendations Of interes,
made are in brief that congress should pro.
the earliest possible date the mail locks nov
terms, for which purpose an estimate o
$4,000 is submitted that the public prin
ter be authorized to print . new edition o
the codiied postal laws and regulations te
. be sold to the public at cost, and that au.
; thority be given for the publication Of 3
monthly poetal guide for a term of five
years.
II FEMININE FASHIONS.
New gray gloves are blue tinted.