The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-05-04
FAST IS MAIL SECURE
Appropriation Is Retained In the
POstOfioe Bill.
WAS KEPT IN AFTER A HARD Fight
Underwood, Livingston and swanson Did
Valiant Service In Favor Of
The Measure,

A Washington special says: BY
vote of 80 to Al the house Of represen-
tatives decided Thursday to retain in
the postofiice bill the appropriation for
fast mail service from Boston and
New York to the south. This result
was reached after the usual fight,
which was led in this instance by Mr..
Little of Arkansas, Mr.. Williams of
Mississippi, and Mr.. Bromwell Of
Ohio.
The fight was, however, less bitter
than it it has been in some past con-
crosses, some men who have been
prominent in former fights having ev-
identity come to realize that the small
appropriation necessary to put the
mail service into cities in the
heart of the south on the same footing
with the service in the more densely
populated sections of the country IL
Just and right. Mr.. Underwood, Of
Alabama, led the fight for the appro-
priation on the floor, and was ably
assisted by Colonel Livingston, Mr..
Swanson, of Virginia, and the mem
bers of the postoffice committee who
had reported in favor of the appropri-
alton.
No one demanded a separate vote
upon the amendment striking out the
pneumatic tube provision and the
house by a large majority stood by the
amendment to give extra compensation
to letter carriers for work in excess Of
forty-eight hours a week, although the
carriers were said by Mr.. Cummings,
of New York, to be opposed to it. The
bill to increase the salary of the direc-
tor of the census to $1,000 and the
salaries of supervisors of census by 2
per cent of the amount received by
their enumerators was passed.
Without preliminary business the
house resumed consideration of the
postoffice bill.
Mr.. Tawney, of Minnesota, moved
to increase the salaries of 479 railway
postal clerks class five A from 81, 300
to 81, 400.
Mr.. Loud, chairman of the postofficC
committee, opposed the amendment
Mr., Loud had read a postal the writer
mad received from Mr.. Tawney urging
all rail way postal clerks to urge theil
congressman to vote for the Tawney
reclassifcation bill for the provision il
the bill. This, Mr.. Loud said, is on
~ part of the scheme of concerted at
tack being made by congress. TIL
amendment was adopted, 83 to 81
Two hours were devoted to debate 0
the provisions appropriating $17l, 28
for special mail facilities from Me-
York to Atlanta and New Orleans an
$25, 900 from Kansas City, Mo-, t
Newton, Kan.
Mr.. Little, of Arkansas, opened tn
debate in opposition. He declared this
they were relics of the most viciou
system of legislation that ever invade
congress.
} Mr.. Underwood, of Alabama, favol
. ed the appropriation for the souther
mail subsidy, which, he said, was me-
essary to keep up quick communic'
ton with the south. The particuli
4 train which carried the mail to IL
: south from New York would not
s run were the appropriation withdraw
All the boards of trade in the soutl
he claimed, had petitioned for a col
+ tinuance of the appropriation.
Mr.. Williams, of Mississippi, vigo
= ously opposed the appropriation.
1T was no benefit to the people of Il
h south, he said. It went into the poke
l. of syndicate thatresided partly in Ne
- York, partly in England and partly
: Germany. He denominated it as
u 'iob, ;" part of the scheme in which t
IL pneumatic tube people were intereste
5, The people who supported one,
N said, as a rule would support the OF
= err. All these 'iobs," he declare
- should be defeated.
s. Mr.. Little, of Arkansas, moved
an strike out the appropriation for spec
ed mail facilities from New York to n
"a Orleans The motion was defeatt
i Al to 80.
81 The motion to strike out the app
nd priatioa for special mail facilities fir
ial Kansas City, Mo-, to Newton, Ka
st. was also defeated, 80 to 81.
nd STATES SHOULD CONTROL