| Show AN OBNOXIOUS LAW in a letter rec ree recently eally written from washington by hon iron W H hooper to hon ron nond hond D H wells he states that he had lad introduced a bill into congress rep repealing eal eai the obnoxious provisions iii in the postal laws whereby pre p paid aid aia letter postage is chargeable on printed matt whis thia law was waa iw passed parsed march murch Z 5 W law e the becu bucu on which contains kou kno 1 and HOO biens alluded to la is aa foil tue sue jue povl provi all ail ampt last ws conveyed by mai mal ter ten tc which may be vestern western bour bout tw ad biond yond the vard ward werd fro fron rot basy f kati Kali aas aag and easl east fortia tito eastern boundary f cail call y t baldt ahal bei sUbject to prepaid leuer eustage r etca ates itus provided however that thal tills thia rol nut bo be held to extend to the llie by ty mail of imers periodicals magazines and ex 4 12 ch changes anges angea birom a known of office jaee jace of pub pull li cation to t bona bonando fide subscribers not exceeding one copy to each subscriber subscribe rt nor non nr to franked matter to and from the tho immediate points betwee between ri the bou boundaries indar above named at the usual rates provided further that such franked matter shall shail ba subject to such regul regulations a as to tolls toils its transmission and delivery as the postmaster general shall prescribe 11 amon amone among g the reasons assigned for the passage of this objectionable and unfair jaw law were that the overland mall was loaded down with articles which properly ought to have been sent gent by parcel express or freight train books sent by mail under the old law cost sixteen cents per pound other miscellaneous matter was transmitted at the rate of two cents each four ounces it is asserted that these low rates induced numerous parties to make heavy im through the united states mails malls loading them down with extraneous smatter matter wo have heard it stated instated also aiso that parties in the east who were interested inthe isthmus route anxious to break down the tho overland mail sent old books in large quantities from Ithe east to california whether all these reasons were correct or not we can not say there probably was some foundation for fur them and there may have been some exaggeration about them but it is sufficient lelent for our purpose to say that a bill was crowded through congress and became a law which cut off all ail the tho territory lying to the westward of the western boundary of kansas and eastward of tho the eastern boundary of california fornia from flom all the benefits of the law lawi regulating the postage on books as enjoyed by the tho citizens of the other portions of tho the un union ion lon by tile tho provisions of this new law the people of this territory have been subjected to great inconvenience and loss eora for a considerable period even magazin es cs were stopped at the frontiers they being viewed as coming within the provisions of this law A gentl gentlemen emeri of our acquaintance in this city dadack send to the east for a small quantity of books which lie he needed ina in a great hurry he wished them to be sent to him by mail the house to which he sent does doea an extensive publishing business the head of the firm nirm wrote to him in reply it seems beems a terrible imposition on theeart the part oft 1113 government 30 to charge s even seven dollars and 6 eighty nine cents for conveying to you books for which I 1 charge you only seven dollars and sixty five cents isyou if you lived in california or oregon half as far again I 1 the postage on those books would be less than one dollar this brief extract shows up the glaring inconsistency of the law in a few words no person who examines it can lake take any other view than tha of it itis it is u unfair and oppressive and granting that there were wrongs practiced of which however we know nothing greater evils and injustice than those which it assumes to correct enose evils can be corrected in some other way thail than by precluding hundreds of thod thousands sands fro frd from th privileges to which they them are clearly ell bli entitled titled and of which they tiley should not be deprived because there thorre are some come who have abused the liberality of the government we WL have groaned under this law long it now time that it be repealed lin liu and d we hope that our ofir nele vele 1 i rate gate may be successful in ili obtaining its it s repeal t I 1 11 l it |
