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Show HOUSE. After the presentation of some committee reports and the passage of two three unimportant bills and the introduction of others, nioaliy of a private character, the postoUico appropriation ap-propriation bill was taken up and considered in committee of the whole. Myers introduced a bill supplementary supplemen-tary to the acts in relation to immigration. immi-gration. Referred to the committee on foreign affairs. The bill h-.w reference re-ference especially to the Coolie trade. It provides that when immigrants have entered into a contract or agree ment for a term of service within the United Stales either for labor or lewd and improper purposes, such immigration immi-gration shall not be deemed voluntary and the United States consul shall not deliver the required permit or certificate. certifi-cate. It makes it a penal offence for .Anuuimuu. to Angg in euch tritilo, forbids the importation of women for purposes of prostitution, invalidates all contracts in relation thereto, and makes the importation or holding of women for such purposes a felony punishable by fine and imprisonment. imprison-ment. It also makes immigration of the following classes unlawful : Persons whe are undergoing sentence for felonies and crimes other then political, or whose sentence has been remitted on account of their immigration, immi-gration, and women imported for purposes of prostitution. i Dawes, from the committee on ways aad means, reported new tariff and wished to make the bill the; special order in the house, but Ward, ! of Illinois objected. Saylor said it was a proposition to kill the goose which laid tho golden egg, and ho woul i throw every obstacle ob-stacle in its way. , Randall said there was no disposition disposi-tion on his side of the house to inter fere with the immediate consideration considera-tion of the bill which was to raise the revenue The bill wns then referred to tho commiitco of the whole and made the special order for to-morrow. The house then went into committee commit-tee of the whole on Hie post office appropriation ap-propriation bill. The total amount appropriated by the bill is$.S7,524,;itil, of which amount $29,158,156 it is estimated will be received from the revenues of the department. Tyner, who had charge of the bill, explained it. The expense of the department was 5 per cent, less than last year, while the annual increase of business is froaa S to 10 per cent. Hotman moved to add to the item for inland mail transportation a proviso pro-viso that no part of that money should be used to increase the compensation com-pensation of railroad companies beyond be-yond the rate now received by them. Rejected 45 to 103. A proviso was added to the item of $100,000 for advertising the mail lettings, requiring the postmaster-general postmaster-general to cause the advertisement of mail letting to be posted up conspicu- i ously in each postoffice for sixty days, i Piatt, of New York, member of the j postal committee, orlered an amend-: ment to fix the salary of the post-1 master of New Yorc at S8.000: nf i Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and St. Louis at $i'i,000 each; Brooklyn, Baltimore, Cincinnati and San Francisco Fran-cisco at $.1,000 each. Cox o tiered an ameudment to fix the salary of the postmaster at New York at" $10,000, but withdrew it, saying it evidently would not p:iss. Merriam oflered an amendment forbidding any assessments for political polit-ical purposes hereafter in postofnees. Rejected n paint of order. Several 1 members proposed to add their cities lo the $'j,000 list, but all amendments amend-ments were rejected, as was then Piatt's original propositicn, only 31 voting for it. Several amendments were orlered to appropriate money for the payment of claims of southern contractors before the war, all of which were ruled out on points of order. Smith, of Ohio, moved an amendment amend-ment repealing the law of 1S72 for an additional mail steamship lo Japan and China, and annulling the contract con-tract made under it. Agreed to with-out with-out discussion. Coburn moved an amendment for the free carriage of public documents and seeds sent by members of congress. con-gress. Pending action the committee roee, and the house took a recesa till the evening session, to be for debate only. |
