Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-06
The HO7ERp.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-The Senate resolution
was concurred in for printing 5000 copies of
the report of the board to test iron, steel and
other metals.
Mr.. Atkins, chairman of the committee on
appropriations. reported bill approp priating
$26O,OOO for carrying on the public printing
office for the current fiscal year. Mr.. Atkins
stated the sum was the same as appropriated
by the bill vetoed by the President. The bill
passed without division.
The morning hour having been dispensed
with, Mr.. King called mp The JOINT resolutions
reaffirming the Monroe doctrine.
MIR. Blackburn raised the question of consid-
Grafton, stating he desired to proceed with the
postofice appropriation bill. The House. by a
decisive vote, refused to consider the Monroe
doctrine resolutions and went into committee
of the whole, Mr.. Carlisle in the chair on the
postofice appropriation bill. An amendment
was adopted authorizing the postmaster general
to use $450, 600 of the SO, ,490, 600 appropriated
for railway mail service in securing necessary
aud special facilities.
Aa amendment increasing the appropriation
for railway mail service to SO, 100000 was re-
Jected. Vote 76 to so.
Mr. King submitted an amendment increas-
ing from $S25, 900 to $3.50, 900 the appropr ia
tion for inland transportation by steamboat
routes. Adopted.
The clause relative to transportation by star
routes having been reached. MIR. Blackburn pro-
posed various amendments to the proviso and
modifying it so as to read as follows Pro-
vided, that on all star mail routes upon which
increased compensation for increased expedi-
tion beyond ten per cent. over
price and cost of service for additional trips has
been allowed during the years ending June
so, 1879, and June 80, 1880, such services shall
be decreased. curtailed or discontinued, and
| hereafter such rate of compensation for in
creased expedition shall not be in excess of SO
| per cent. of the sum of the original contract
| price and cost of service for additional trips.
| Mr.. Blackburn explained that the pro-
vise proposed to take the con-
tracts on seventy-three routes and
put them exactly on the dead level on which
| the late law of Congress had put all future
contracts upon which the department might
thereafter enter.
Mr.. Esing moved to strike out the proviso.
1t proposed roughly and rudely to say that the
contractors on seventy-three great routes of the
| West should be. thrown back to so per cent. H.
crease He was in favor of economy, but be
would rather have public expenditures reduced
in any other department than the postal SER
vice. He would vote TO reduce the expendi
lures anywhere rather than among the hard
pioneers of the frontier. Let Congress
economise by putting salaries, etc., bach
to where they had been before the
war. and by catching rogues In
the internal revenue service, bat let it not at
tempt to do SO by impairing the progress Of
civilization by breaking down the mail servic.
of the West.
Without coming to vote the committe.
rose.
The bill was passed granting the Memphis &
Vicksburg railroad company the right of wa,
through the United States cemetery tract O.
land for Vicksburg.
Mr.. Frost offered resolution for the an
pointment of standing committee on th,
Mississippi river and its tributaries. Re
ferred.
The Senate amendment to the House bill fo
the sale of Fort Logan and the establishment
or a new fort on the frontier was concurred in
The House then took recess, the evening ses
sion to be for consideration of the district
code bill.