Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-03-30
WORK OF CONGRESS.

1 master general jurisdiction of the free de
livery and rural delivery services, WHIT
effort to punish Mr.. Brlstow for discovering
frauds in another bureau of the depart
ment. An amendment. agreed to prohibits.
the postmaster general from ordering out
of postofices telephone companies other
than the. Bell company. Another amend
ment prohibits the further renting Of can
ceiling machines An amendment allowing
.$75. 600 annually for the lease Of a post
office building on the Pennsylyania terminal
nation of Charles Dick (Ol to take effect
at noon tomorrow was read resolution
was passed fixing March 25 after the dspo-
tion Of the bill providing for the election OF
delegate from the territory of Alaska and
making the bill privileged thereafter. at
$40 p. NJ. the House adjourned.
The House on the 23d disposed of only six
pages of the postoff1ce appropriation bill, al
thu ugh it made considerable progress In
reading the bill for amendment. The APP
preparation for inland mail transportation
by star routes was scaled from So, 100000
to $7,S5OOOO. An amendment by Mr.. Taw-
ney Of Mime Minnesota fixing the life of postal
be retained in the service after ha ring been
used SO long, was agreed to- An unsuccess-
lions for special mail facilities over trunk
lines south of Washington and west Of
Kansas City The un House ACCEPTED an
that in future the postoftice department
shall make no contract for supplies made
by convict labor laying aside the post
bill extending to Feb. %, 1907, the time
for completion of bridge across the Mis-
souri, river at Kansas City, and at $40 ad-
journed.
The House on the oath again put itself on
record against any investigation Of the post
office department, an amendment by Mr..
Williams providing for select committee
Of five members of the House and three
members of the Senate being voted down,
1873 to 80, on point Of order. A provision
appropriating $4,000 for carrying mails
from San Francisco to the Island of Tahiti
was stricken from the appropriation bill.
An amendment was passed making it man
datory on the postmaster general to enter
into contract for marine postal service
at Detroit, Mich, for period Of five years
at not to exceed $4,000 year The chair
against the provision in the bill that rural
carriers after July 1, 1904, shall not solicit
business or receive orders of any kind dur
ing their hours of employment or carry
merchandise for hire. Mr.. Overstreet de
clared he would apply to the committee on
rules to bring in rule tomorrow allowing
the subject TO be further discussed. He
then made a point of order which was sus-
tanned against that part of the same para
graph providing that rural carriers shall re-
ceive a salary not exceeding S72O per an
num- This leaves the salaries at 5000 per
year, as now. The section appropriating
$1,000 for the salary of the purchasing agent
of the pOstOfice department, thus consoli-
dating the several supply divisions of the
department, was stricken out of the bill.
AT go the House adjourned.
The House the 10Th passed the postof-
fee appropriation bill. after prolonged de
bate on the paragraph affecting rural letter
carriers. This was stricken out yesterday,
but restored under q special order Of the
committee on rules. 1t increases salaries
to $500 a year and prohibits the soliciting
of business the reception of orders by
carriers from any person, firm or corpora
ton, but permits the carriers, under GER
tain restrictions, to carry merchandise for
hire for and upon TIE request of patrons
,a-i1 no t,n av,1
proprating $1,000 for the salary of pur-
chasing agent for the postcffice department
restored and passed. The Notifications
appropriation bill was sent TO conference.
Messrs. Littauer, Marsh and Taylor being
appointed conferees the part OF the
House. At 5:27 p. m. the House adjourned
The House on the 26th began consdera-
ton of the sundry civil appropriation bill.
committee estimated the expe T1es for
1905 at 1894, ,324. to which must be added
the interest on the public debt, estimated
at $S4. 81. 800 The revenues for the year
are estimated at $704, 2060. Several minor
and special orders were made for the con
sideration Of pension bills which had the
right of way today. It was decided that
after the sundry civil bill shall have been
follow a special order. Mr.. Pou OF
North Carolina attacked the. Republican,
press all trusts and said the party had
broken its promise in failing to build up
the merchant marine and to ratify recipro-
city treaties. Mr.. Baker OF New York spoke
in opposition to ship subsidies. Continue
ton of the bill suspended and at $40
O'Clock p. NJ the House adjourned.
The sundry civil bill was before the
House on the 2Sth but the debate took Il
wide range Mr.. Gillett (Mass) devoted
considerable time to answering some of the
Mr.. SDfght (Miss) regarding the race ques-
ton. Mr.. Clark MO- made a speech on the
tariff and declared in favor of the tariff
outlined recently by Mr.. Williams the lead
er of the minority. A strong plea for the
tobacco growers was made by Mr. TrmbIe
(Ky), who urged the removed of the tax Of
cents a pound on raw tobacco In order
that the producer might sell directly to the
consumer. AT $40 p. m the House al
journed.