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Show mmsBmmmmassssvi .,.. i.i.'.a. THE PRANKINQ PRIVILEGE fbraa XddUa Who Vo Ilot llaro to liny I t iNiata Ikma There kre bnt three pafV 1 the Unlla J UUa.clhar.Uian thoaaXhekllnit publlo o: tee, whpVlldirefUa Wtit'o and aend ball matUf! fie ft trTllea a Wo V,- msittrrHqmmt. Thoee three peram VCtWtoa.'my&WfJbt the UU rreildatita lAiPetfieeiied Ormt. An act. i.f .6nittMki sulfed to grant thlt prl llcge oaiaj.eee.iHiA. It.tiaa been an granted c li''ttitfrr bf rrealdante alnco ISM, wlion havA aei-era paaaed Conferring tho Jl .liicHati aren'Kr. Dolly F. Madl:n .Aodordloghi tho tfnlted Htatoa Toatal Catveand Ragnlatlona, which la a eotn tllatreeo( the rain publlahed for tho In lonaeAloo and guidance of potmaltsanil illief iiffla'aU, Ura. Tyler waa not entitled a the benaSta of franking multmivUer, and t la truo (that no law waa crarii-iAnca n hor caio. Bht xu, In a apnio,"n rlctlra ol tineot thoae TullaroToralht of Congreta ivhlcb are,ief frorjucnt oconrrence. The ifoatrOf&M Department, hoovor, jftppro flUUngths faetUiatMra.TyUrwaa lnequllj tnllllrd to the aame prirllaf e nhleh hud b) avr bean grantod to Mra. Tolk, Mra Oar Vild and Mra. Grant, xy vted her frank In n of poktage and collected nothing upon tatter mailed to her addroee. TbereUaralher peculiar fact connected AtUi the eaae of Mra. Folk alio. The act ranting hor the privilege of freopoetegt waa paaaed In 1850. Blooethatdate all lain eooferrtoc the franking prlvtlego have been race or twloe repealed ,tha laet tamo Ic 1673, and. no act bee elam been paned in 'aror of Ifre. Folk. Tbore la no latr on the italuta booka to-day, therefore, enUtllngber lo the benefit of free poitge,butlt Is al towed bar, arbitrarily by tho departmont, md the Foetal Lawa and rUfrulaUoui name icr aa one of the pereona legally entlUod tc be beoefite of the franking Uw. 'Hie not generally known that tho Uw ex lending tho franking- privilege to tbcac 1 ladlea alio proridei explicitly that mail matter, mat-ter, Inoludlng letton, newepaperi and pavk agea adJreaaed to them, ia exompt from tb payment 6t poaUge. The only expUnatlon if thUeomewhatpooulUrprovlilonof Ia la that when Congreaa paated the first ol theae prlrate aeU It failed to notlco that tree poitage to the eendere of mail conferred no eort of benefit upon tho pereous ad ireaaed. Mra. Folk, for lnilance, Ii not seneflted In tho ellshteit decree became omo peraon. who wUhei to write ber a lot ter la not roqulred to'afflt a itamptolt Yet when the Uwa In favor of all tho Freal lent'i wldowa who came after Mn. Foil rere paaaed, the eame language was used tnd itandi upon tho lUtuto books to-dayr Aaortof fatality In. tbodlroctlon of mak ng mlitakee aeema to hare followed tht jonraeof law-making on the subject of the ZraAUogtArfleMMdtMraaitatupcndoiu blunder of eJKtietCoogi'eeaitWe U ar Srat general act pasied has never yot beou oorrected. Tblatatho failure to provlJon penalty f or. a rtolattenptthoUwi AUhougL there bave been w Rafty ee fifty franking privilege acta pasted try Congreaa ainct 1874, not one of them'peorldei anyponaltj for their Jnfrlngement1 or evailonv Thl Tf ry slngulsr oversight ta a cauee of, cm-' laoonveeienceamd'anneyanaeto thepoata ufllotali , and because of 1 1 very, t ew a rrea u hvre beea aaade, although the one o f f rankr unauthorised persons snd on unfranka (natter U of very f reoeeot occurrence |