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Show TUB "iiAILV OVIiltLAU MAIL, I3f ,TI1E U0U3E. Whe.s the bill camp up, iii tlie lfpuss' for n daily mail overland, Mr. I'iieliiS, of Mo., spoke iit opposition, making an argument, ar-gument, tlio,scopu of which vill be understood under-stood by tho following able and pointed reply of the Hon. James Craig: 1 Mr. Craig, of Missouri. 1 hayo only a word to say -to .the IIouso on iljlssub-i jcclj and that word will be in reply to my friend nnd colleague, Mr. Phelps. 1 think It hardly fair that my colleague, who hps already an overland mail running right through the cpnter or his district, an overland mail tliat carries nothing but letters a mail line that has proved itself uucipial to tho want of tho people- n mail Hue costing the Government $W)(,-00b $W)(,-00b it year, and fastened on the. people mote by the influence of my colleague than of any other ten members 1 say it is hardly generous in him to get up here How, when, wo ask but the pitiful sum of $200,000 in, addition, to send to the peo-plbof peo-plbof thp Pacific States, thirty mails p monltr, laying down the mails of the Uni-ted Uni-ted Stales every ovcnifig in San J'rpticiiseoJ and rcceivfug them every eveniug in the Atlantic States and ou the pretext that the Treasury Is not in a condition to draw iljipti, to try to defeat this ovcrlaud mnllj bill. Jiuil to prevent a daily mail to the; Pacific 'coast, J Mr . Ph.clljs,. Docs my colleague mean to luiiniato that tho Treasury is not in a bankrupt! condition, and that that statement state-ment is a, mere pretest Mr, Craig, jpf Missouri. I did not mean tp-bo so understood. I admit the condition of the Treasury: but I could prove to any gentleman of tho intelligence of iny colleugue, who has not n rival line running through his district, that, thiais a matter of economy, and that it would Save f 350,000 n-ycar. I cau show any man, who knows as raueh as my colleague knows, that the reduction which would bp effected in our Indian expenses for the Crst year will more than cover tho additional addi-tional expenses this bill provides for incurring in-curring beyopd tho present cost of the overland maiL We send now a mail going go-ing through ray colleague's district, and Which, after it leayes tho westerr border of Missouri aud Arkansas, never sees anybody any-body and never serves anybody. vo propose to send this malt along tho whole lino of United States forts, nnd In, fact, to supply tho forts and army- Wo propose pro-pose to supply fifty or sixty thouspud American etuzens iu tho regtou of Pike's ; Peak., Wo propose to; supply sixty , or , ieveuty ..thpusand people in'Utah; and, i wo propose tcf supply pno hundred thou: I sand American citiMiis iu the Curson rnl-1 rnl-1 Icy region. . , j This line, it Is trnc; wilt cost n fraction ' moro'than ohd hundred thousand jlollar r beyond what wd' are now; paying for the overland s?rvico' bu. it- tends the mail dally anil it wilt irorcfitIadian,hostilUlca ; aud Indian troubles. It wilt curtail the expenses, of tho Ihdlaji departiiient morej tliiii threp hundred thoasaml dollars the first vinr. J ask mv cullcuiruo to takb thir history of tho comury in respect' to lis In dian' relations, since ho litis been In Con grew; I nsk him tt conwder the fact that no United. States .mail ivaggoii has, ever been attacked by the Indians, lie. may point the tp the: faet.tbnttlio Oreat'Salt Lake mail was once" attacked 6y tho Sibnx Indiausj liut, L rcpl lo.hlm ' that'the'eur tains of that mail wugott did liot have uji-on uji-on them ,the, magic letters "U. S. Mor it ntivcr wonld have b?en attacked; My. friend know that, prlviitc- g'cntleiuen lru yt-Iing over the'plains arti.Jui the habitfof pjaciug those, letters iipou their Wagoti-I pr carriac-es, knsw.ingjhat U is n siifp pro tcctloti from attack liy the Indians on thp route. ,jlj. ' .. ' 2Tovk "Sir. Speaker, I-say" to mj friehd Irptu phlo, fMn, Sherman, and to my, friend""Jfpti-M the Lancaster, district of Penpsylvanla, , (Mr. StevensJ one of whpmrbcllevej Went to Chicago, and th'crii solemnly' iledged the American pco-p4'thdtr;his pco-p4'thdtr;his .parly .Would send a daily overland maii;to the Pacific ,coast that I.nsVhimnow to; redcern, that pledge; aiid I nskjthe gentleman from Ohio to.re-i ihenibcrrfhaVfoiirycars ami a., half agy, ; the Pcmocrattii; party made a.-jilcdgeat the Cinciunati ' cpnvelitibu,- jhat . they would btiitd ft' Pacific railroad.. .Thcy did not stand io that pledge;. and jfiov warn my Republican friend, io remember tho fate of that.party iriJthe,last etectt.on,'ind. scb what willbecbme of thcm if:they also fujt to redeem their pledges.- iLaugh-ter.J iLaugh-ter.J ... '"'.. Now, if jth'c ge'ultctuia 'will figure up !the;cdst bf tliU prppbbd mail, nnd the cost of tho present service, if they will itako into, coiwlderalloti, the fact that the proposed Jlne irf nlCr hundred miles shorter short-er then, tho lino pnssiiig through the tlis jtrtetof my colleague; if they will take into consideration the fact that We, are compelled to -send the mall overland to Utah,, (lint wis. arc compelled to send the mail over and from oup cprtsd. to the other, tftrC'ror.VolJ-y j.-pi nil, tliaUweif iuai) wilgd'To'rU,-mnhc inmr'ti) Tike's' J'cnlc"; nnd! then take Into consideration Ihclii coniiderttble..nddittOuat cxpuso of send-iug send-iug the wails daily not only to ihchi, tjui to all oiir'peojiJe on the Pacific, linnigiiie; they cannot, look at this additional ji-ici)se ji-ici)se ns "utry, very great icarc-ero.iv,-?-Wjieft you .take nitd cbtiitdcratibu. the fact thal n riiry short IjiueS i'g,;$uOO,6oQ' was considered by Cpngrcs'-as. very iimall sum for cafrythgihe mail, coiulstfng-idf coiulstfng-idf hbthihjv Cut letlew, la-Pike's, Peak, and that it is now' proposed to - carry, all the, mail letter, newspapers, books, nlid plf for less than. two hundred iliOti-iaud dollars addft.iouar'cx jiencCj tljik. iipist ,cer-; tainfy be ndimtied by evpry gcittlemuu tui be an economical provision. T will ' not dctnlu the House longer on this subject. 6'. 'Jatqik V, Giiitllt. |