The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-06-20
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Postomce Bill.


WASHINGTON, June l4.-The house to
day concluded action On the report of tn
conference committee on the postofic
appropriation bill. Of twenty-five amend
ments to the bill adopted by the senate, tn
conference committee agreed to accept bu
five, namely, to increase the appropriation
for the payment of letter carriers and th'
incidental expenses of free delivery; tt
strike out the section of the bill which au-
thorizes the postmaster general to readjus
the compensation to be paid railroad com
panies for mail transportation, by reducing
the compensation per cent. per annum; tt
increase the appropriation for inland mai
transportation from $ll, 700, 900 to $l2, 900,
600; to provide for necessary and special
facilities on trunk lines, $lS, 900, 600, and to
increase the appropriation for the payment
of railway postofice clerks from $4,000, ,OOC
to 81, 800, 900.
The amendment which created the most
discussion was the appropriation for contin
uing the fast mail. As the bill passed the
house no appropriation was made for that
purpose, but in the senate an amendment
was adopted appropriating $lS5,OOO for
special facilities on trunk lines, This the
conference members, on the part of the
house, refused to agree to. The house,
however, took different view of the matter
from that taken by the committee, and not
only accepted the senate amendment but
increased the appropriation to $3.50, 900, and
southern and western members voted solidly
in favor of this provision of the bill. By its
adoption the postoffice department will be
enabled to continue the fast mail service,
which is of great use to the west and the
south, as they have direct mail communi
cation with New York, Philadelphia, Boston
and other large cities at least twelve hours
faster than they would have were the sys-
tenn of fast mails discontinued.
Budd Declines REORGANIZATION
WASHINGTON, June l5.-Some days be.
fore the recent meeting of the California
democratic convention at Stockton, Rep
Budd, of the second congression-
al district, by letter, declined denomination
During the session of the convention he de-
clined by telegraph, but it appears he was
by acclamation, and that no at
tention was paid to his reported refusal to
make another canvass of the second district
In conversation to-day, and in response to a
question whether he should insist on his
declination, Budd said: cat present 1 don't t
think anything will induce me to accept
this nomination. Of course 1 feel grateful
for the favor of the nomination by acclama-
tion, and for the confidence which the peo-
pie thereby show in me, but in the present
of my health could not serve, if
l could be elected without an effort to the
next congress. I have asked the second
district convention to appoint committee
to confer with me, and then will explain
that cannot possibly accept the place on
the ticket. If I did accept should have to
work, and l cannot work.
The truth is Mr. Budd, in his now famous
canvass of two years ago, nearly
destroyed his health, and it is Doubtful if
he will ever recover, being under a. doctors
care ever since he came to Washington. He
has been advised by several physicians to
quit politics at once. Henley, who regrets
Budd's declination, had advised him to take
such a course, on the ground, as he said
some days ago, that he probably would not
-, I,<,% p,,1J J3a
idea is that the Second district convention,
believing Blaines> nomination would require
some extra work this year, and recollecting
his desperate fight against Page two years
ago, put him Oh the ticket. to secure rep
etitiou of that performance.
1t is stated privately by other members of
the delegation that Budd is greatly
chagrint d at the defeat of Sumner and Tully
in San Francisco. He, as we'll as they, re-
CARDS the failure to nominate them as a
reflection on their course by large body of
the party in California, as they have been
practically united on all questions. Several
free trade papers in the east point to Sum
ner's defeat as an indication that California
is not united on the tariff question, and
that the recent vote ON the Morrison bill
would seem to indicate the party having
refused to nominate prominent followers of
Randall. Sumner has explained to, the
democratic leaders what the influences really
were that defeated him.
Iron Mills Closing Down.
EAsToN, Pa, June l6.-The depression in