Show FIGHT ON POSTOfFICE BILL Prospect That the Committee Wont Recognize Its Offspring When the House Finishes With It Washington March 12 The postoffice appropriation bill had rough sailing salling in inthe Inthe inthe the house of ot representatives today toda Its i progress was halted at every turn by bv amendments upon which there was lengthy discussion The attacks were begun on the section relating to the pneumatic tube service which was forced to undergo a change so that extensions of such service should not be confined to the several cities named in the bill but that they should be made wherever the postmaster general may think best The house was a unit for tor withholding a portion of ot the pay pa to railroads for transportation of or malls mails until a correct system of ot weighing should be established a provision to that effect being incorporated incorporated i in the measure Finally a vig vigorous vigorous orous but fight tight was made on ona ona ona a proposition by Mr Goebel Gobel Go bel of Ohio to increase by b two million dollars the ap appropriation appropriation for paying pa the expenses of railway mail mall clerks while traveling on business of the department The amend amendment amendment amendment ment was strongly advocated by Mr Mur Murdock Murdock Murdock dock of Kansas Still other amendments were in sight when the bill was laid aside fIT for the day and the house bouse at p m adjourned Five of the twentynine twenty pages of the tile bill remain to be considered I |