Show FORTYNINTH CONGRESS the IlnUHC WASHINGTON May 18 Harris of Georgia from tho Committee on Ways ansI Means reported n bill amending Section 3M7 of the I Heviscd Statutes BO as to reduce the penal RuIn of the bonds of cigar manufacturers to Yhdso lf say 250 with an additional I f50 for each person proposed to be employed by them In making cigars Committee of Ibo Whole Sadler of Alabunii from the Committee on Territories reported adversely the bill to IftiY let I regulate tine manufacture amid sale of intoxicating intox-icating liquors In lbs lerritoiies Laid ont on-t l taule I Hatch of Missouri from the Committee on Agriculture reported u bill authorizing I rt flr f11i nb lIkn nn exhibition of California silk in the Cap hal building House calendar lllount of Georgia from the Committee on Postollices nnd Post bade reported Itt gl g hack he Postofflco Appropriation bill with Senate amendments and it hnving been referred hI ferred to the Committee of the Whole I tIne house went Into committee for tine purpose of considering l the amendments lllount addressed his remarks to that clause known ns the subsidy amendment and made an argument In opposition to it An appropriation of dOO000 bo contended would not secure any advantage in the way of obtaining I additional mail trips i but would have n contrary effect Under this clause the PostmasterGeneral would be required re-quired to contract If lie contracted at all tYeqO tn J for not less nor more than five yearn ansi this would act as on absolute inhibition upon any other company than the ono holding hold-ing the contract attempting traverse the same lino an Increase the number of days would be stopped and while the contract was in force any incrcnso of the foreign postal service would be prevented Ho quoted statistics to show the difference in pay which steamship companies received under the present Inwfor carrying the mails from that which thoy would receive if Ibo proposed legislation were enacted and ns nn instance of the evils which ho maintained would follow such an enactment he stated thnt the malls carried by the Oriental nnd Occidental linen nt a cost of 3500 would i have to be carried by tho Pacific Mall at a cost of 109G20 He denied the correctness of the declaration that the decline of American commerce was due to tho fact that the United States refused to pay subsidies to its steamship companies and asserted that to decline this waR attributable to narrow mindedness |