The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-21

each state five examiners, not in the ser
j vice of the United States and not NOR
r than three of them belonging 10 th
same party, who shall examine apDli
cants residing in the state.
81 Blair Offered a resolution, which wa
agreed to, directing the secretary of th'
interior to furnish the latest and falles
: Information in the possession Of th'
bureau of education in relation K
technical education in schools endowed
IN whole or in part by the government
and also in certain other schools.
Adjourned.
THE PosroFFIcE BILL.
The house In committee of the whole
resumed the consideration of the post.
office bill, all debates being limited &c
two hours.
Calkins, of Indiana, was in the chair
Townsend, of illinois, delivered an ar
gument in favor of the ammendmenj
which he proposed to offer for the bill
ab9lishing postage on second-elass mat
Ter.
| Atkins of Tennessee, thought there
would be considerable danger in Great
| ing pretty large deficiency in the rev.
enue of the postoi1ice department if &c
duction should be made in the rates OF
| postage.
DunneIl, of Minnesota. did not think
any measure could be passed by con-
gress that would be received with more
appreciation than the one reducing the
rate OF postage.
Holman, Of Indiana, thought the
present plan of inland mail transporta-
ton by railroads was open to objection,
| and considered it a strange remedy for
its detects. AS 10 the lana grant roads.
| they should be required TO transport
l m nfI lis ON, hassS lNtro decision nj
the United States supreme court
| Reagan, of Texas, opposed the reduc-
ton, holding its effect would be to re-
move small tax from the persons best
able TO bear.
Robson, of New Jersey, closed the
discussion. He said the bill proposed
| to reduce the postage tax 3313 per cent
on individual people. II was reduc-
ton which the experience of the world
had shawn 10 be in the interest of the
spread of intelligence and of the dis
semination of knowledge. Whatever
danger there might be in the expert
ment, for himself and for those who
were associated with him, he accepted
| the responsibility before the American
people. This was a measure in the in.
terest of individual people, and, and if
additional tax was to be levied for It's
support, let ii fall on the aggregated
capital of the country. Another change
in the bill was the omission of provis-
ion for the benefit of certain sections
and in cerlaid interests, what is known
as special mail facilities. Instead of
spending the 100000 which had been
appropriated the postmaster general had
found 1t necessary TO spend $1S5, coo.
Yet at the last session there was great
clamor for special facilities. All
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special trains that left New York in the
gray of the morning, just after the met
ropolitan papers We're issued. and reach
ed the country in advance Of the local
press. he did not object to that, but he
did object TO paying for special facilities
/ for mail carried on regular passenger
trains. He had been directed by the
committee on appropriations to offer an
amendment to the bill providing for
compensation for carrying the mails to
railroad companies that receive govern
ment aid in bond subsidies, as well as
land grants, not TO exceed fifty per cent.
:. of the amount allowed by law as COM
pensation for the same service by the
railroads which had not received gov
eminent aid. Of course this amend
ment was for the benefit of the people
and when that was done at the expense
Iof power, the individual who took q
share in that benefit suffered at the
hands of that power. When man Ga-
! dertook to benefit individual interests
he must expect to receive blows from
the the consolidated whom be attacked,
but he (Robesou), for one, should be CON
tent in the records of history if il were
understood, that so long as he held the
key of the position he was neither over
ridden by power nor frightened by Oh
tloquy.
The bill was then read by sections
for amendment.
| Speaking in regard 10 formal amend
ment, Mills, of Texas, protested against
a reduction of the rate ofpcstnge. Like
all reduction of taxation since the war,
il was reduction which began az the
wrong end. What was all this talk
about superintendent treasury when
there was national debt OF fourteen
hundred million dollars 1t was not
the poor people but the commercial in
terests that paid the tax. These inter
ests demanded reduction, and congress
was going down on It's knees and taking
all the burdens off them and placing
| them on the poor people. How many
gentlemen on the other side who voted
| for the reduction would vote TO take the
tax from cotton ties?
springer, OF 1lHDO1Ss iasOEHu II De-
cause he believed the postal service
would be selEsuppnrting even after The
reduction was made.
Blanchard, Of Louisiana, moved 10 in
crease the appropriation Tor the trans
portation by steamboat routes from SIX
to seven millions. Rejected.
Caswell, OF Wisconsin,, on behalf of
the committee on appropriations, offer
ed an amendment increasing the appro-
pTiation for the star service from s., 900. :
600 TO $5,250.000.
Epson, of Texas, moved further in
crease of $25, 600. Rejected, 24to %.
Caswells amendment was adopted.
Robinson, of Massachusetts offered an
| amendment sppropriating $4,000 for
necessary and special mail facilities.
Hiscock. of New York, offered an
! amendment TO the amendment fer the
/ fixed amount Of 100000.
| Pending the action the committee
rose.
! Dunnell, of Minnesota, offered reso
luton reciting the allegations that some
of the collectors of customs along the
northern frontier, are in receipt of large
| fees from the sales of blanks, which are
not turned INTO the treasury, and that
said collectors are in the pay OF impor-
tiers and corporations and directing the
committee on ways and means 10 in
quire into the truth of these allegations.
4 Adopted.
1 Adiouraad