The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-15
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-
DISTRACT AND posroFF1c1
 BILLS UP.
Patterson of Harnesses Eulogizss Ex. President Cleveland and TeIis What He Did for the
 Southern States.

Washington, March il.--Iegislsaion for the District of Columhia and the post ofice bill occupied the attention ot sho House to-day. The rural freq delivery \ servtce received most attention. Credit ' for the estabIiahmenf og this sarvica waa claimed by speakers for both paFtieas
 and both sides declared thesr fFiendehip for ft
 MT. Patterson (rsnn.l, suggested HIT. Williams. the minority floor leader for the presidency. but he also coupled t with the names of Carlisle and Senator Bailey i of Texas aS good Southern candtdatea Mr. Powers salds amid applause. that the, time had come whan the righta Of members ana theif relation to the eH- i eenfive depa Etnlsnf1 should ns aatnnll4l,s ea and that thesr xialsls eIlpula not ng inffineRa thrcn@n tne a1entlen pf secret rekqi fipnA QF hy me fE'srasS MstiFn 0kr. Moon Grentss1s inc fnnKlne nifoFlig member of the pastofsIca committed. re- viewed the action of the cornulttes in bringing the report before the Hoshae, and said the committee was not author. fzed to sit in Judgment and could not have made any change in the report a.
 submitted to the committee.
 The House appiauded c political euioEy of President Cleveland by Mfr Patterson (Tenn.). and a moment later q eulcgy of the late President Mckinley. also by Mr. had not hesitated to llsten to political and other advice from the South. and Prcsi- dent Mckinley had done much to heal tho breach between the North and the South l Although President Cleveland made mistakes" declared Mir. Patterson. she certainly did not make them against tho interests of the South, and whatever nais- takes he made. were like specks upon the sun as compared to his great character.
 his true Americanism and his unblemish- | ed honor"
 Tho blight of the Fifteenth amendment
 to the constitution had reversed the pre- vious great record of the South in pro | ducing Presidents. but Mr. Patterson ex- | pressed the belief that Democratic ! nominee from the South would not lose
 6 single electoral vote 10 the party. In | this connection he mentioned as possible candidates. John q. Carlisle. Representa-
 tive Williams. the minority floor leader. and Senator Bailey of Texas. The latter | two names were applauded.
 Mir. Crumpacker Rep-. Ind-l, read a Iet-
 ter from F. H. Cunningham. president of
 the National Letter Carriers' Association. urging rural delivery carriers to telegraph | immediately to their members of Con gress to vote to increase the salaries of
 rural free delivery carriers. The letter to carriers gives form of telegram to be sent to members. and says:
 '1 believe we have got things our way.
 and will succeed if you do your part I
 understand the situation and the de-
 pertinent, will take no notice of any work you do in regard to pushing our bill. Mir. Crumpacker said he was not oppos-
 cd to increasing the salaries of carriers
 but he believed this a fulhllment of the
 prophecy of ex-7epresentative Loud that
 these carriers would organize a great po-
 lltical machine and dictate to Congress
 Mir. Maddox (Dem., Gal. demanded to
 know where Cunningham was and when told that he was carrier in Omaha, Neb., he wanted to know if the civil service
 regulations did not prohibit them inter- fefing in legislation. Mr. Crumpacker Semarxed that his purpose was to aavtse the proper authorities tn the matter
 Mr. Maddox declared that he had re- eeived number of such telegrams. as did Mir. Lind tdinnl)
 Al 5;o5 the House adjourned until to. morrow. g1s-Te