Show The House I WASHINGTON February 12Jhe new legislation concernin the railroad mail compensation was stricken from the postoffice appropriation bill Horr then moved that the appropriation appropri-ation for inland mail transportation be fixed at 514010000 and that 1765 000 be appropriated for railway post office car service Horrs amendment was adopted Nicholls offered an amendment appropriating ap-propriating 266704 for necessary and special facilities on trunk lines After a brief and noisy debate by Nichols MCComas and Money in favor of the amendment and by Townshend in opposition it was adopted On motion of Horr the appropriation appropria-tion for railway postofficc clerks was increased in-creased 20000 I Townshend gave notfee that on 1 those three amendments he would demand a yea and nay vote in the House Townshcnd Offered an amendment providing that upon nil publications of the second class when sent by the I publishers thereof or from the office of publication to btmajido subscribers or 1 irons news agencies to actual subscribers subscrib-ers shall after July 1885 be entitled to I transmission through the mails atlcent i per pound or fraction thereof reed to Long offered an amendment providing provid-ing that any article or item in any I newspaper other publicationmay be marked for observation without increase I in-crease of postage Agreed to On motion Townshend an amendment amend-ment was adopted directing the Secretary 1 Secre-tary of the Treasury at the future lot tings of contracts for the manufacture of stamps etc to put in bids for the I bureau of engraving and printing I Pending further action the committe I arose I Townshend moved that the House take a recess until 8 but White Ky made anoint ol no quorum and a call ofthe House was ordered During the roll call White Ky being absent in one of the cloakrooms unanimous un-animous consent was asked and given to dispense with further proceedings under the call and the House took recess re-cess until 8 oclock House evening sessionNot more than two dozen members were present when the House met and proceeded in committee of the whole to the further consideration of the postofficeappro priatio bill Holman raised the point of order t against the paragraph allowing additional ad-ditional compensation for the transportation transpor-tation of ocean mail in American steamships Hewitt New York argued that the I proposed legislation did not change the existing laws The bill was really a retrenchment re-trenchment of expenditures Randall said the provision question greatly increased the expenditure of public money Dingley thought the provision clearly in order Bayne considered the proyisoion manifestly mani-festly changed the exicting law and i not only that but it was a departure from the policy of the government which was to pay a fair compensation and no more for carrying the mails and the theory of a subsidy entered into the question just so far as it was a departure depar-ture from that policy Pending a decision the committee arose and the House took a recess until 10 oclock tomorrow |