Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-18
The inefficient Mail Service Discussed
In the Senate.
The Union Pacific Contract with West
ern Union Null and Void.
Railroad Selections OF the Northern
Pacific Suspended.
Seizure Of the Rocky Fork & Cooke
City Ties, Etc, Done Inadvertently.

WARRINGTON, February 14.-AmoDg the
bills introduced and referred were the fol
lowing:
By Mr.. CuIlom: For compensation for
services OF female nurses during the rebel.
lion.
BY Mr.. Mitchell: To amend the laws re-
lating to the drawback on duty on manu-
featured tin.
Mr.. Blackburn offered q resolution de-
claripg it not in order Except by unani-
nous onsent) for the Committee on Appro-
priation to report a bill without having
had it under consideration for ten days or
more. Referred to Committee on Rules.
The resolution for inquiry into the causes
of the inefficient mail service was taken up
and Mr.. Plumb said that il the Reagan
argument in defense of the Postmaster
General meant anything it was that that
officer had pleaded the baby act-tbat he
was burdened with Republican clerks.
There was no restraint on the Postmaster
General as to the dismissal of clerks. No
Republican asked him to have them re-
tanned. As to the fact that the service was
ine1cusably bad, bad beyond any previous
record, there was no question at all.
4xC cCuU ~ OuC ClCIh . uC6A NV Anu AVoO
several extracts from Kansas newspapers,
showing the defective condition OF the mail
in that state.
Mr.. Platt said that the trouble was not
confined to the West, and that scarcely a
day passed without his receiving letters
Connecticut making similar com
Mr.. Plumb, resuming, said that the ques- /
ton was not a partisan one. What the
people OF Kansas wanted a a faithful
Mr.. Reagan said that if the complaints
were sent to senators were sent to
the Post Office Department they would be
investigated and correctives applied. But
were intended for political effect, and
the speech OF the senatorfrom Kansas was
10 the same direction.
Mr.. Plumb disclaimed any intention to
introduce any partisan matter into the
Mr.. Henderson expressed his surprise at
Mr.. Reagan's suggestion that the desire was
'ather to make political capital thar TO
correct, earnestly and honestly, au existing
vii. As to the statement that the COM
should be made, not to Congress,
Tut to the Postoffice Department he said
hat complaint had been made to the de-
,artment without effect. After furtherdis
uSslOn inc RESOLUTION WeQU over WlCnOuC
Lction.
The Senate bill to provide for an Indian
chool at Carson City, Nevada, was
The bill to provide for compulsory educa-
OF Indian children was taken from
he calendar and discussed at much length
y Dawes, Teller, Cockrell and Vest.
Mr.. Teller, who had introduced the bill,
eclared lin opposition to a popular idea)
hat there was no instancein history where
indian aborigines were treated so literally
8 American I~nnians had been treated. No
here else had their right to the soil been
ecognized. Here their lands had been
ought and paid for, but the American
had not been wise in their dealings I
onld II 6a ,~ na nnc;; i l thsaY had been there ,
be Indians would nave been Incorporated
the body polite. /,
Without disposing of the bill, the Senate
diourned.