Salt Lake Herald | 1908-05-24 | Page 1 | House Wins on Mail Subsidies

HOUSE WINS ON MAil SUBSIDIES Provisions Put Out of the Postoffice Bill by Action of the Senate May The today wrestled with the subject ct of or mail mall subsidies to steamship companies and once more mor recorded re itself against the tle pro proposition proposition position by b the vote of US Hii 14 to to The rite debate ran well into the night Having been overwhelmingly defeated yesterday e the conferees on the appropriation bill today came into the house with a new report agreeing with the senate on ow everything except ex ept the th sub subsidy subsidy sidy provision and that relating to the thes system s stEm for tor weighing the malls mails The Th por portion portion portion tion of the report on which there was no dispute was adopted unanimously unanimous I under und r ran an agreement to extend c tend the time of de debate debate debate bate on the subsidy question The senate amendment changing the standard of weighing the mails malls by reducing reducIng reducing ing the number of days das which the weigh weighing weighing weighing ing should be conducted was snowed un under under under der 94 to IS ISBy v By reason of or the action of ot the house in rejecting these amendments amend the bill again went back to conference for the tb third time although the senate already had agreed to the report As soon as the action of the house was announced in the senate Senator Penrose moved to recede from the remaining sen senate senate senate ate amendments and discharge the con conferees fereos fereOl The motion was carried and the congressional work on the postoffice bill was thus completed The effect Is to tole leave le ve the mall mail subsidy provision out of or orthe the bill and thus effectually dispose of it for the present session