Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-06


An important amendment to the bill
was one which will prevent star route
| contractors from sub-letting their con
| tracts. III order to get their money
they must be able to swear that they
performed the service themselves
Just before adjournment the Senate
| passed an important war measure au-
thorizins the President and general
officers Of the amy to supply the Gu
| han Insurgents With arms and NUM-
tons Of war and empowering officers of
the army serving in Cuba to supply the
needy inhabitants of the island With
medicines and subsistence.
Soon after the Senate convened.
! Money, Miss. save notice that. Thurs
| day at , =. Nj. he would present reso-
! buttons in memory of the late Senator
! Walthall.
| Consideration of the post office appro-
| lriation bill was begun at the instance
of Quay. Pa. in charge of the measure.
| The amount carried hy the bill as L
! passed the House Of Representatives
Was SCALE. 300 AS reported to the Sen
are II carried $4,000 more. When tht
committee amendment was reached
providing that no additional contracts
| should be entered into for pneumatic
tubes service unless authorized by law,
| PettigreW maintained that q provision
ought To be inserted making 1t the duty
Of The United States to purchase OF III
diVduals or corporations whatever "i
| rights they might have IN the pneu-
matte tube service.
Quay called attention TO the fact that
such right was already reserved to the
government PcttiGreW admitted that
he provision was in the law OF last
year lul no effort had been made T..
put ii in operation. In New York, TO-
dav. he said, the pneumatic tube scr
Vice WAS under control Of a corporations
The plant cost between $t00.o0Q and
$4,000 Yet the corporations c"mp"n
sation was more than per cent. on
$4,000 COO. He held shat it was an out
ra@e upon the people thus to fatten tn
corporations and build up mon"poli's.
The committee amendment was agreed
to.
An amendment offered Nv Cociu' i.
Mo. providing that the weight az
franked official letters might he in
creased from one ounce to two ounc
was adopted
Stewart Nev.. offered an AMENDING
to the star route section Of the biz.
which was agreed to. providing hat
part or the sum appropriated for sCef
> service 3huuld Do paid to any sub-ccn-
d tractor ana that The postmaster Gou-
eral must require &fidaVits from con
tractors that they themselves did the
work
The amendment Of the committee
striking from the bin the appropriation
81 $500 (0n for rural free delivery. Great
= "a considerable discussion. QUA. eH-
planned that in the opinion of the COM
mitie- the results of the experiment
: mus far scarcely warranted Congress
Ia going forward with the experiment.
Chandler thought the matter oualt
not to be. stricken out Rural free dc
livery was n boom to ncoole in III,
. rural districts throughout the country
Pettigrew inquired whether the eH-
tension Of free delivery meant the alb
E / ino Of The country post office.
0uav REPLIED that that would certai =
l.- be the effect Of it.
Pettiglew declared that the farmin
n.nuia sf the country Were not deman r
, Inc rfraI free delivery and he regarded
If AZ bllm6ug.
White Chandler was discussing tn
n-nstian. TtIlman S. c.. inquired ri
hin, VIII fhal. 5000 coo 00o a year would
! he sufficient to secure the delivery a.
, ,.,.ar,. 7,49.a,. and letter directed to any
iaI3ahifant of the country. Chandl II
r,.plied that il could doubtless be doi.-