Show Foreign Mails Washington 16The amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill reported today by Senator Miller authorizing the postmastergeneral to make contracts for ocean mail service in American ves ses is practically the same proposition which passed the Senate in 1877 and 1879 but which was defeated in the House by the tatics of Speaker Randall Its friends are confident it will fare better in the present House They count much on the favorable impression made upon the naval committee which lately visited the ship yards at Chester Philadelphia and New York and generally to the more liberal temper of members of the present House |