The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-24

Special TO The Tribune.
WASHINGTON. May 23.--Since the
opening OF the tariff session Of congress-
three extra mail carts have been detailed
to the house office building TO carry the
tariff literature sent out by members Of
the house OF representatives. 10 their In
tcrcstcd constituents.
Some idea Of the volume OF this may
be gathered from the fact that over 8.
600 900 copies OF speeches made In the
house have been frankcd back home by
those who made them, Had these
speeches been made TO carry one-ccnt
stamp they would have yielded the gov
ernment about $4,000. instead of having
cost the government something like 7l3,-
600 To carry and deliver
Following these speeches went letters,
clouds of letters, from tho congressman
To their friends calling attention 10 The
speech asking that il be read and dis
tributed for political effect. and inviting
comments. These letters have met with
responses in. large number, with the re-
suit that the return mails have been
nearly large as the outgoing. mails,
The citizens of Washington will be glad
when the tariff session is over, because
conditions at the local postoftice Will thcn
resume tho normal and there can bc
greater dispatch in the delivery of local
mails
AS an Illustration of the extent to
which the mails have been used by con-
gressmon to learn the sentiment of their
districts on the rival Aldrich and Payne
tariff bills. the case of Representative
Clarence Is. Miller of Duluth. Mimi,
might be cited. MI Miller sent out about
30. 900 letters 10 as many individuals in
his district, inviting criticism. lie has
received in reply about 5000 answers, and
they are Stil coming iu
Mr.. Miller says he does not regret the
work this gave him all is giving the
postal officials. His consideration OF his
constituents has brought forth gratifying
commenda lion OF his course in congress,
and for the most part confidence is eN-
pressed in his Judgment 10 vote for
tariff that will he in the interests OF tina
the burden OF nearly all tho letters beng
received by nSressmen-protection for
home industries,
But some OF the letters being received
go outside the field OF the tariff and in
vite the attention OF their recipients 10
other matters-many relevant, some en-
tircly irrelevant. one man writes 10 Mr..
Miller that he desires TO sec the eHtradi-
ton treaty with Russia abroeated so that
Russian refugees may have similar rights
in this country TO those they now enjoy
in France and Germany. and that per-
mission may bc. bad from the Russian
government that the body of Madame
Modjesila. the former famous actress,
may he intcrred in Warsaw. Poland, tho
city of her birth.
Another writer suggests That the tariff
is all right, but what he wants Is n coun
~ detective force 90 engage in uplift
work in his neighborhood and clean out
a number of Objectionable characters that
offend his vision as he seeks n place of
worship or trots to the postofficc TO mail
his complaint TO his congressman. The
latter is invited to return TO his homo,
investigate conditions, and get busy with
q remedy.
There is a letter from man who says
that he does not care about the tariff but
would like TO know If the Aldrich tariff
steal is to pass. and why? He sug-
gests that he would like TO see q duty on
liquor, beer and cigarettes so high that
the pmps can't use them
pessimst comes forward with the
statement that ''wc have arrived at such
a state OF privately owned articles that
it does not pay the common people TO do
anything TO help the manufacturers He
seems to think the country is in u bad
way generally, and that whatever may be
done with the tariff, he and all like him.
the common people, Will not benefit.
There is a lengthy COMMUNICATION from
national capitalization has killed the need
of any tariff at all. and that the support
OF the government now IS the work for
fhs co -opcrg two commonwealth. He IN