Show BILL CARRIES Postal Appropriation Measure Reported Re Yesterday Yest Breaks Br ks Former I Records Re 4 i CALLS FOR TO DEBATE IN COMMITTEE C M OF THE WHOLE V Washington ashington ton Feb F b 16 The house to day da Itself into committee of ot the whole hol for the of f the he postal appropriation bill biU F Mr 11 Overstreet of Indiana chairman of tile the committee explained that the lle bIU bill carries the largest appropriation namely ever ehr brought into the house hios and that the increase had been made necessary by the t e Increased compensation for clerks carriers In city delivery offices and rural delivery car carriers carriers riots In making provision for increase of ot compensation to the several classes of postal employee Mr Ir said that a of clerks cirks and ana carriers was vas necessary so as as to ta put em plo es of f both services s upon a common footing interchangeable hi service and eligible equally equall fur for advancement nt Reduction Necessary Mr said the committee had reached the conclusion that a re In the railway raI wR mail mall pay was ab absolutely absolutely absolutely necessary The Th railroads are trying to stampede the house he said yet et there is not a 1 scintilla of or evidence to fo show that the ther reduction r Is excessive The postal service will not be Im tin Impaired Impaired paired In the slightest degree and net nt neta nta a train will wUl be cut off notwithstanding th the threats of ot the thc railroad companies There has not been bren a telegram nm re rc received by b the members of this house from m a 11 business concern or a commer commercial vial cial body bOlI Which has not been bOen b en prompted by the railroads and for one I refuse to 10 be he stampeded d by b their threats or de do deflected fleeted by their entreaties Power of the Press PressA A united press Is more powerful than congress raid Fald Mr lIr Overstreet in his dis discussing cussing ing the tho report of the tho postal com coin commission mission on matter but butI I ho hc h added it was with wl h great regret he had hild observed an absence of fair fall Investigation on n the tIle of or certain peru pors In Criticising t the e of the commission ye We e will never nover bo b able In my m judgment to reach ap apy kind of satisfactory ht of the great problem of If matter of ot maP mall unless we can have tile cooperation of ot th Ln great grOat gr at press dally daily and periodical It ItIs Ii Is in the interest of those enterprises that legislation is needed The rhe lint anti antiquated laws Jaws of today to ay are ata scarcely en enforceable for A strict enforcement of ex cx existing 0 I laws relative e to the matter of or mall might easily ls 11 result in great gr at harm and loss to publishers but butis butas butas as is long pf os the newspapers and periodIcals period periodicals of the country Insist on wholesale criticism without fair r ai a aid d reasonable cooperation on their part I fear rear we will wilt always hae have an unfortunate en on entanglement and a q i contest ont t which will bring about abou no fair fal fai results Much mis been abroad With wl h Tf re SST e t com fl 1 4 t Two of Routes R tes Representative Murdock furdock of or Kansas declared d clart d that th t the railroad mail routes could COll 1 be le Into tto to classes s the large targe Und 1111 small More than 90 poi cent Of pt I he lie said is J carried over er erth the th I Tg utes Small Sm rout not he declared d r d be affected by 1 a chance ha In ar 1 In computing tile tho average dath dull ht Ieh to six sis days day per service General debate on the bill was not concluded con when the tho house |