The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-31
FORTY. NINTH CONGRESS-.
LOGAN'S ARMY BILL IN THE
SENATE.
Bills for the Admission or Washing.
ton Territory and Montana
In the House.

tion Of privilege, sent to the clerks
desk and had r ad an article from the
Oshkosh Northwestern, stating that il
was said that Mr.. Guenther's defense
of the postmaster few days ago was
in fulfllment of promise obtained
from Mr.. Guenther in return for his
appointment on the Committee on
Postoffices and Postroads.
This article, said Mr. Guenther, re-
fected not only on his integrity but
on that of the Speaker and the Post
master-General. He had never init
mated, directly or: indirectly, that he
was held TO be appointed on the Com
mittee on Postoffices and Postroads.
He had never approached the Speaker
regarding his appointment on any
committees, and up to ten days ago he
had not seen the Postmaster-General
during the present session OF Congress.
In saying what he had about the car
rying OF the foreign mails he had
acted consistently with his course in
the Forty-Eighth Congress, when he
had voted against the Pacific Mails
subsidy. He was Of the opinion that
the Po6tmaster-General had done right
in this matter. No matter what his
politics were He (Mr. Guenther)
was q Republican He had never
Greeleyized or never mugwumpized.
While he had undoubtedly made mis-
takes he hoped that no gentleman
would think that his course had been
an, thing but honorable, just and up
right. Referring to an article in the
same paper, declaring that he had re-
hected upon Germany and Germans,
Mr.. Guenther said that in abiding to
"happy Germany" he had uttered the
honest convictions OF his heart. He
loved the people of Germany but he
had no sympathy with those who
tyranny5ed over hem. He loved the
land where his father and brother and
sisters lay buried, but he would not
exchange his proud title of an Ameri-
can citizen for all the titles, honor and
wealth that the Emperor of Germany
or his iron Chancellor could bestow
upon him Applause. He had
come to this country TO better his con
dition and when his German fellow
citizens here would learn that Mr..
Kasson had called their former home
happy Germany" they would smil-
ingly shrink their shoulders and thank
providence they lived in "happy Ger
many" no more, but were citizens of
free, great and prosperous republic.
Mr.. Rogers Ark. from the Com
mittee on the Judiciary, reported a
bill for the servic of civil and Grim
inal processes issued by territorial
courts within military and Indian re-
servations and the Yellowstone park.
House Calendar.
The house then went into COM
mittee of the whole (Mr. Hammond
[Ga. in the chair on the postofiice
appropriation bill
J NJ. Taylor Tenn. defended the
ostmaster-General from the criti-
cism made upon him'by Mr.. Burrows
Mich. end said that the subject of
increase had been left by Congress to
the discretion OF the Postmaster-Gen
eral.
Mr.. Dingley me. r said chat the
question involved was not one of sub
sidizing American steamship lines but
OF giving fair pay for mail services
We paid the British Cunard and
White Star Line 3S cents per mile for
mail service on their outward trips
last year, but American steamships
were paid only cents per mile one
way, and even sea and inland postage,
the maximum which our laws al
lowed, would give s cents per mile.
The last Congress appropriated a SUI
6cient amount TO enable the Post
master-General TO pay existing Amer
lean steamship lines as much per mile
as he paid the Cunard Line, and to
secure the establishment Of a new line
to Buenos Ayres, but that official de-
clined to execute the law and it was
denounced as subsidy" If this pol
icy was to be continued we would
in due time see the last of
American steamships in the
foreign trade. To fill the chapter
Of injustice to American steamship
lines, it was now pro osed to compel
them to carry our mails for whatever
compensation the Postmaster-G General
might be pleased to give. A British
steamship could come and go as it
pleased; but an American steamship
in the foreign trade was to be detained
until it consented TO carry our mails
for sum insufficient to pay expenses.
Mr.. Blount LGa.l defended the
action OF the Postmaster General in
refusing to use the 100000 appropri-
ated by the bill of last year to COM
pensate American vessels for the for
eign mail service. This subject, he
said, had been considered at a Cabinet
meeting, and whatever OF error or
crime. attached to a failure TO use this
fund, attached not only to the Post
er-General, but to the President
and his Cabinet. But he argued that
the Postmaster General had commit.
ted no error, but had only exercised a
Just and wise discretion. Do
Mr.. Springer I'M. ] thought that the
Postmaster General, instead OF receiv-
ing criticism, should receive the
ecOmiums of Congress and would re-
ceive the plaudits of the American
speople. The Postofficc Department
was hereafter TO be administered in
the interests of the people of the
United States. o
Mr.. D0ekery Mo- pointed out that
the Postmaster General had prece-
dents for the exercise of his discretion
in the action of Secretary of the Navy
Hunt in ref sing to establish coal sta
tons on the, Isthmus Of Panama, and
Of SecretaTyof the Treasury Sherman
ip refusing to eIpend the appropria-
ton for the payment OF certain South.
Z ern mail contractors
Mr.. Houk Tenn. ] criticised the ad,
ministration, and declared that the
President has assumed an attitude be.
fore the country which would not be
tolerated in any but two other coun
tries, in the word. Russia or Persia
might tolerate his course, but neither
the Sultan Of Turkey nor the Queen o.
England would have occupied theil
positions twenty four hours after hav
ing taken the position which the Pres
ideflt has assumed. He then went on
to denopnee the action of the FRS
Assistant Post L aster-G General in re
moving postofIices in Tennessee from
villages N which they had been stu
atad Tor vpara and lnaatiur them in thf