The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-02-19

II road from Sioux City, Iowa. to GRANGER,
Wyo. The senate bill regarding Jurisdiction over
the Yellowstone National Park passed. The post
afice appropriation bill was considered The
shair overruled point Of order AGAINST para
Kraph allowing additional compensation to
American steamships carrying ocean malls and
IN an appeal the decision was sustained. After
ward, by vote Of los to 81. tho house struck
out the paragraph In question. An evening ses-
zion WAS held for the consideration Of private
pension bills. "a II, 4 d. X \ 4. w
There was an animated discussion,
Turing which the scandal over
ihe Pacific mail subsidy in the
Forty third congress was referred to by Hol-
man, Mills and Blount as warning against
Affirmative action. Bayne of Pennsylvania
made the decisive attack on tho clause,
charging the Democrats with utter incompe-
;ency and with being led by the agents Of
lay Gould hen the vote WINS taken on the.
motion 70 strike out the subsidy advocates
were paralyzed by the discovery that they
wore defeated and that their pet scheme was
punched out Of the bill Iy:!; y;
Indian appropriation bill The provision for
the payment Of claims for Indian depredationB
was struck out y, ,ss&@7 sl.s W
The nomination of E. A. Knedler,
to be marshal Of Montana, was
taken up, and, at the request of Senator
Cameron of Wisconsin, was laid over till
Monday. n ~ Il
The house passed the postoface appropria-
don bill today. The advocates of the steam
ship subsidy clause made the most de-
termined efforts to overcome the adverse
vote Of yesterday in committee Of the whole,
but their efforts were unavailing. The prin-
cipal objection to this clause was that the en-
tire amount of the appropriation 100, 900
would be absorbed by the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, in whose special inter-
est it was charged the clause was drawn
This allegation was given color by the fact
that Mr.. Louderback, o prominent director
of the company, has been here most Of the
winter nursing this scheme, and twas given
further confirmation to-day by his presence
In the corridor, surrounded by professional
lobbyists and notorious strikers, all of whom
were actively working for: the subsidy clause
under Louderback's orders Considering
=, the persistent and bare-faced operations of
this Pacific Mail lobby it Is credltable to the
house that the action Of yesterday in elm
mating the subsidy clause was confirmed by
an increased vote to-day. Many Of those
who voted against this clause are favorable
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compensation for carrying the United States
mails, but in the case under review no BEN
] eft would have followed to the commerce Of
the country, and no add itonal facilities
would have been Furnished the postal ser
vice. ~ rs ,5s
The paragraph Of the bill which provides
for the reduction Of postage on letters, as
passed by the house, reads as follows: @
/ Upon all matter Of the first class as defined by
tho laws Of congress declared subject to postage
ut the ratio Of three cents for each half ounoe or
/ fraction, postage shall be charged on and after
the LIST day Of July, 1885. Of tho rate, Of two
drop letters shall be mailed at the rate Of two
cents per ounce or fraction thereof, including
aha one Hsnt
4 livery by carrier Is not established. 49,
The paragraph providing for the reduction
Of the rate on newspapers reads as follows,
land forms part Of the paragraph above
j quoted: n W:
That upon all publications of the second class,
except as provided in section 25 OF the said not,
the office Of publication 70 bona fide subscribers
or when sent from news agency to actual subs
j scribesa thereto or to other news agents, shall
on and after July I, 1885, be entitled TO trans.
or fraction thereof, postage 70 be prepaid rs now
provided by law; provided, however, that pub
fishers Of second class publications may mail
one cent III each four ounces Of s par
i thereof, to be prepaid by ordinary stamps az
i fixed therefor and all acts, 80 far as they fix o
ubon snoh first and second .olaas matter. are 70
that, extent repealed on and after July i 1885.
4 and my article or item in any newspaper or
other publication may be marked for SobserYa-
Increase Of postage