The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-16
MORE SARCASM
IN LOWER HOUSE
Members Still Feel Sore Over
POstOffice Disclosures.
REPUBLICANS GET SHORT END
LETTER CARRIERS MAY GET
MORE SALARY.


terror 10 segregate certain coal and
asphalt lands in the Choctaw and the
Chickasaw nations, Indian Territory
The house then went into committee
of the whole Tor the consideration OF
postofice appropriations bill
Mr. Burton. of Ohio, gave a historical
account of increases in national eN-
penditures. He urged the adoption of
a policy of conservatism and OF the ut
most care. Citing the large sums an
nually appropriated for pensions. Mr.
Burton said no one will hesitate TO pass
any measure which gives due regard
to the soldiers of the~civil war in their
old age But" he continued ''the
question arises under what rule should
the appropriation be made He in
quired if congress was willing TO es-
tablish in this country the standard
that for patriotism and devotion TO
country the chief reward must be IN
Attacked the Tariff.
tective tariff system of the Republican
party. The Republicans and the
trusts. he declared, have a majority in
the house and, he added amid Demo-
cratic applause. the largest majority
I you viii ever have IN the white house
( Mr.. Rucker spoke of the trusts and
referred to them as those hideous mon
/ sters, the handiwork of genius. inspired
/ and directed by the devil"
Mr.. Wilson IN. " made plea for in
| creased pay for letter carriers.
Boom For Parker.
Mr.. Fitzgerald IN. " discussed L.
! Dor legislation enacted in his state
Mr.. Fitzgerald dwelt on what he de
! ciared were the universal decisions
! reached in behalf of labor. organized
and otherwise. by Judge Alton B. Par
ker of the court OF appeals Of New
| York
The claim OF the letter carriers for in
creased pay also was espoused by Mr..
I Cromer Qnd.). He spoke of the in
sUficiency of the pay of the rural mail
| carriers. and said they should not be
denied the privilege of acting as agents
for newspapers.
AT whose suggestion was it?'' in
Quired Mr.. Mann, that this privilege
has been denied?"
Praise For Bristow.
Mr.. Cromer said it came from Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bristow
first and then from the postofice COM
mittee. He had, he said, no criticism
TO offer against General Bristow I
/ think he said, he has been honest
in the administration of postal at
fairs and he received Republican APP
plause when he added:
L am so we'll satisfied with the in
vestigation he has made in the post
Office department that / believe no
fraud or corruption remains to be ex-
posed to the people"
Until the status of rural letter car
riers should be fixed and their pay in
creased, he thought they should be al
lowed TO serve newspapers to the pa
irons of the rural routes.
Mr.. Gaines (Tenn) was in favor OF
the proposition il the rural mail car
riers were given the right To solicit
subscriptions of newspapers, and not
for any one publicatiO and To trans
act for pay any other business for the
patrons of the route.
Debate Gets Interesting.
Discussing the prohibition in the bill
against rural carriers after July l. 1904
soliciting business or receiving orders
of any kind from any person, firm OF
corporation, Mr. Griggs, a member of
| the committee. said if carriers were
permitted TO act as agents. he wanted
the law so framed that the carrier
would not become a dictator as 10 what
newspapers he shall carry or the
]
1 assailed the letter carriers Organiza
ton for the manner of making its de-
mands on congress. and said the car
Tiers had made an effort 10 intimidatt
congress In acceding i'm the demands
He was interrupted by Mr.. BurIesOT
! (Tex). who asked if the executive or
der prohibiting government empIoye.
from lobbying before congress was a
Jest"
L always have thought So Mr.
, CiIiggs replied, and he said further tina
If be were representing the present Oc
cupant of ire White House as attor-
ney he would enter a plea Of guilty an,
stop further Investigation.
Indictment Report.
During his remarks Mr. Griggs re
ferred to the recent report of the post
5 office department as the ''Bristow re
port" and this opened up fresh dis
= cUssion Of that document which hat
Z brought forth such 4 storm of indig
. nation from members of the house. n,
said that as a member of the commit
7 tee he did not sec how the COMMITTEES
could have done otherwise than T.,
make the report public
WAS there anything in IL which
caused the committee 30 print tina
data under the heading Charges con
corning members Of congress - - in
quired Mr.. Cooper (Wis).
Mr.. Griggs said he did not endors
that aud il was unfortunate. whereupol
B Mr.. Overstreet, chairman Of the com
, mittee. explained that as soon as h.
saw the heading he notified the govern
b ment printing Office that il was no
, justified by the manuscript.
E Cooper Was Sarcastic.
Mr.. Cooper sarcasticaiiy remarke
that he never had known the govern
ment printing Office to print anything
that was not in the copy.
Il understand the heading was writ
ten in the postoffice department. NJ,
GriSgs said, in reply.
Mr.. Bartlett of Georgia said the hous
soon would find out who was respon
sible for it.
General GrosvenOr suggested that
would be wise To wait until the nous
knew more about the matter. but Nj
: Cooper insisted that the report shoul
: not be accredited TO General Rristow
Mr.. Griggs. however. maintained tina
. il was Bristow's report. Continuing. h
D said it had leaked out prior 20 the re
s port that the committee was in posses
I sion of information that would cOndem
members Of congress. In the commit
tee he had contended that if there wer
10 be leaks Il was the committees out
to make It public, which they had done
Honest Men Not Afraid.
! The United STATES" he said. SIS TO
: powerful and too great TO convict an
Z man by suppression of facts. But
/ Z