Show I LETTER TIER C CARRES RR RS IN i LUCK uc Bill Amended ih in the I House So as to Provide for forthe forthe forthe the 1200 Salaries Washington March II Determined and persistent assaults on the time postoffice fice nc appropriation bill in the house to today today today day resulted in amplification of that measure in many Important parts de despite despite spite the protests of Chairman Over Overstreet Overstreet street str et and the committee The letter leUe carriers finally won w n their lung long fight for 1200 salaries when an amendment by b Mr Ir Goebl Goeb l Ohio granting the same was adopted The house also allowed an additional for clerks in offices where the sala salaries salaries sam ries of the postmasters range from one thousand to twelve hundred dollars d and additional for contract sta sla stations The prohibitionists also had their innings when through uSi amendment ment by Mr Houston Tennessee there was In Incorporated Incorporated incorporated in the bill a provision pro prohibiting prohibiting the transmission tran through the th mails mail of or Intoxicating liquors which was later modified so as to include co tame taine ine and its derivatives Altogether the appropriations carried by the bill were increased to the extent of 1200 12 MO Consideration of ot the measure had not been concluded the house at 55 Ii adjourned |