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Show ! China Mail Service. Washington, 17. The. postofRco appropriation bill being under con-lideralion con-lideralion in the bou site committee on appropriations this 'morning, Sargent moved to non concur in :he action of the house repealing trie !:w authorizing author-izing a contract for a rtiui -monthly niaU service by the China mail line, urging that the interests of American commerce on the Pacific were of supreme importance and there was danger that a repeal would destroy the credit of the company and cause this business to pass to foreign lines. Tne committee, however, resolved to i report the bill with the house provision provi-sion retained, it being thought best to leave the question to come up in the senate after the reports ef thejudi- ' ciary committee and house waya and means committee shall have been presented, and thrown additional light upon the subject in important particulars. ( At the instance of Luttrell, mail 'j servi e baa been ordered between ' Etna Mill and Black Bear, California Bix times a week in the summer Be- ' son and tri-weekly in the winter. f |