The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-06
AGAINST PNEUMATIC TUBES.
The House Considers the PoStofiicc,
ApDrnIIrintion ELL

The House withoLt preliminary business
today resolved itself into Committee Of
the Whole for the further coas. deratfon
Of the PostoGfce Appropriation bill Mr.
Loud addressed the committee. saying
that it was his purpose to discuss as
briefly as possible some Of the questions
considered by the commission apo nted
to investigate the postal service if he
could have the respectful attention Of a
small number OF the House or even the
attention Of a small number of respe-ta-
bic gentlemen This was taken as a re
preach TO the disOrderliness of the com
mittee when Mr. Loud began to speak.
Repeated demands for order were made.
and Mir Hopkins. in the chair. vigorously
pounded with his gavel till quiet could
be restored, and the gentleman from Cal
ifornia could be beard. Mr.. Loud went
briefly over the report of the Postal
Commission Thai commission repor, eG
against the ACCESSIBILITY OF an extension or
the utility of the continuance of the pnue-
matte tube service Mr. Loud endorsed
this report. arguing both against the nee
esSity or even the desira biIlty Of that ser
vice. He said that when Congress al first
appropriated $40, 900 for governmental
service no member OF the House Ee.ierei
that the cost would probably be sweIlad
10 the sum Of S25a.CgJ q year The chair
man of the Committee on POstCffces ana
Post Roads, in speaking OF the pneumatic
tube service as applied TO New York Cit.
declared that 1T vas conceived in sin
and born in iniquitv." The continuance
OF that service would be. said Mr. Loud
d waste CT public money. He asked that
this service should be abandoned that
Congress might BE given chance to look
around and start afresh-
MI Loud then turned his attention to
the matter of special railroad facilities,
disappearing Of IL He cited as a fact
ih1t the subsidized mail train which
leaves New York t0r The South al
o'clock il the morning is essentially a
special newspaper train bringing very lit
tie mail and making no connections not
made ~ other traias sourhbound from
New ork ard which trains receive 10
subsidy.
Turning his attention 10 The payments
made 10 railroads Ter carrying 1he mails
ID the ordinary range of business. Nr.
Loud took issue with these persons who
cIaG0r for cheaper postage without q re-
classification Of mail matter. Replying 10
the argument that because express com
panies carry newspapers for ] cent q
pound the mails may also be carried az
that rate with profit 10 The railroads.
the gentleman from california said that
D2ih railroads and express companies do
seoa deal OF bus ness IN which there is 10
pr7ht- Express Companies made no money
ont OF the carriage CT newspapers. 1t is
reciprocal arrangement They want the
good viii Of the press Just as we do It
used to be th1i the railroads carried
newspapers for nothing
In discussing the question CT The con
solidati0n Of second and fourth-clays mat
ter Mr. Loud said tbs ought 10 be dcne.
'bu5 il can't The newspapers don't want
it. They Hhe 'newspapers) have got as.
You go 20 work and subsidize these
fast trains. when tEey are practically
only newspaper rrairzt You put the news
papers ahead Of this letters because the
newspapers have she influence