The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-11
OUR PoSTOFFICES.
APPROPRIATION BILL CAUSES TALK
IN THE HOUSE.
various Members Appear to Be Pull
ing For 81 Favored Section Rath-
err than For the Good of the Ma
ton, as n Whole.

WASHINGTON, March 1O.-On mo-
tion of Gillett Rep., Mass) bill was
passed by the house making one year
continuous residence" in territory
prerequisite to obtaining divorce. Inc
hill was aimed at Oklahoma territory
where but ninety, days residence is re
quired.
The house went into committee oA liie
whole on the postoftice bill.
Mr.. Bromwen (Rep., Ohio read let
ter from the second assistant postmas'
ter general stating that the appropr1-
alton of $15O,OOO was inadequate for the
fra nsportation of mail by electric and
cable cars on routes not exceeding
twenty miles in length.
Mn. Picker (Rep., S. ID inquired why
in the face of such statement IRON
the department, a requisite sum mao
not been provided. Mr.. Loud, chalI-
man OF the postoffice committee, re
nlied that the latter had not been laid
before the committee.
why" asked Mr.. Picker, was TINS
undigested bill brought before the
house,?
Tt had been ru1nored. he stated, that
there had been wide difference OF oplt-
ion in the committee. 1t had been sald
that the chairman bore down on the
committee on many occasions and car
ried his point. Mr.. Loud replied lha'
this
WAS UTTERLY FALSE,
and Mr.. Ogden Dem., Lao also enter
ed a protest against Mr.. Picker $
statements. The provision relating to
the methods of transporting mall by
street cars and providing Tor Tree
transportation of letter carriers on
street cars were stricken out as new
LEGISLATION. When the provision appro-
priating $4,000 for special mall 1acln-
ties on trunk lines from Boston VIA
New York and Washington to Atlanta
and New Orleans was reported, Chair
man Loud, who opposed this and the
two other mail subsidies in the bill
from Chicago to Council Bluffs and
from Kansas City to Newton, han),
but who was outvoted in the committee
raised a point of order against these
provisions.
MIR. Crisp termed this action of the
chairman of the committee "a complete
novelty" He called attention to the
fact that the bill of last year contain
ed the provision for the special mail
facilities from New York to New Or
leans.
Mr.. Bingham (Rep, Pa.) and Mr.. Set
tie (Rep.. N. C.) also vigorously opposed
the point of order. This item has al
ways
PRECIPITATED OPPOSITION.
Mr.. Dingley Rep.. Me.) went into an
elaborate review of the history of the
southern mail service which had been
in the postoffice department since 1872
This particular paragraph had been
held in order because it was the con.
tinuation of an object provided in the
then current law but as that object was
not authorized by permanent law ne
doubted whether the ruling had beer
correct. With regard to the new sub
sides provided for in the bill, If they
were held in order, he predicted that
every railroad in the United States
would be asking for q subsidy mex
year. He expressed the opinion thai
there was no necessity for the southern
subsidy. The regular compensation
was sufficient. The southern subsidy
originally had been given to expedite
the foreign mails to Havana It's pres
ent object was purely domestic.
MIR. Payne Rep.) of New York, in
J the chair, oyerruled the point of order,