CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



The Presiding Officer: " Certainly it ha< 

 Mr. Morrill: "Then I offer it again, to bo 



inserted as a proviso." 

 Mr. Conkliug and others: "Oh, no " 

 The Presiding Officer: "The Senator from 

 V erinout oners an amendment : '' 

 Pniided, That no compensation or allowance 



shall now or hereafter be made to Senators or men 



bers and Delegates of the House of Kcpreseiitutivus 



on aeeount of postage. 



Tlie amendment was agreed to. 



Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, said : " I think it 

 pretty certain that an equal amount of hum- 

 buggery has never connected itself with any 

 matter that ever came before Congress as is 

 connected with this proposed abolition of the 

 Irankmg privilege. It has been a joke pretty 

 much for the last hoar in the Senate, perhaps 

 a serious one for the people of the country 

 and, in order that the Senate may take time to 

 consi 



'., ^ senate ma./ lUKtf nine to 



consider this matter a little more discreetly 

 m ,? ve that the Senate do now adjourn." 

 The motion to adjourn was not agreed to. 



bill was reported to the Senate as 

 nended; and the amendments made as in 

 Committee of the Whole were concurred in: 



Ihe amendments were ordered to be en- 

 grossed, and the bill to be read a third time 

 On its passage the yeas and nays were or- 

 ed; and, on being taken, resulted as follows: 

 . V "r; SIe ^ rs - Alcorn, Anthony, Bareman, Cas- 

 p *' Dandier, Cole, Conkling, Cragin. Fenton 

 Hamli Con " tctic ? t ' Ke "7 o{ MichigaH, Flana-an,' 

 Lewis Pratt, Bamsey, Saw'yer, Sehurx, Scott, s'l,,-r- 

 man, Sprague Stewart Stockton, Thurman, West, 

 Wilson, Wmdom, and Wright S3 



"7' M 1T- ^'/ U ' s ' ?"- 7ard ' Buckingham, Car- 

 ier, i^oroett, hdmunds, trelin*w> 'i:ii 



ABSENT ' 



! 



. 

 Blair 



149 



Last summer, shortly after the Philadelphia 

 Convention, I reported this bill from the Com- 

 mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads It 

 passed the House and went to the Senate, the 

 day on which it was to go into effect being the 

 1st of December The Senate have altered that 

 to the 1st ot July next. The Senate have 

 cut off the provisions of the bill which were 

 tnea in it, providing for the stamping of offici-il 

 documents, and have sent us back the bill 

 abolishing the franking privilege, and contain- 

 ing nothing else. 



" I propose now to ask the House to take the 

 enate at their word, adopt the amendment 

 and pass the bill m accordance with the plat- 

 forms of all political parties, and with what 

 tne House has professed its willingness to do 

 so many times. Hereafter Congress may 

 make such provision by supplementary legis- 



f'S ", lt , may deem best fbr tlld transmission 

 of official documents. But for the present I 

 dawre to have a vote agreeing to the Senate 

 amendments and adopting the bill in the form 

 in which they have returned it to us " 



Mr. Farnswortb: "I call for the' yeas and 

 nays on the motion to suspend the rnles." 



The yeas and nays were ordered 



follows ? Ue8ti n WaS tak n> Bnd ' resnlted 1 s 



n~ > v v > ^ODO, uoourn, Coir ilan 



Conger, Cott,,n, Cox, Creb, Crossiand, I>avis,0,,' 

 Donnan, Dox, Duell Duke. Eames, Ely 

 SrSr^J^nwS FiukelnWg, ChVlu 

 S,'i , n i' s r ' ?7 e ' Garfitlt V Garrett - 



T linrJr, ^r'l R bl u""', **W, Hrpe, o 



' w xi Bl , H wI 7. JoPh R. Hawley, 

 er J7 " Hnzelton, Hereford, Hibbard Hill 



' ' etoh mr 



bury, Sumner, Tru'mbull, and" Vicker^-24. 06 ' ' 



f<>i the bill was passed 



Mr. Ramsey: " The title of the hill should 

 be amended so as to read, 'A bill to abolish 

 the franking privilege.' " 



Mr. Carpenter: "I suggest to my friend 

 from Minnesota that it should be, 'A bill to 



riuh the franking privilege, and not to tninx- 



t othcial documents and other public matter 

 tnrougn the mails of the United States ' 

 -t that to him." 



The Presiding Officer: "The question is on 

 amendment to the title proposed by the 

 Senator from Minnesota." 

 The title was so amended. 



, the ahore- 



Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, said: "The bill 

 i amended by the Senate abolishes the fr.ink- 

 r prn-.lege pure and simple. We passed such 

 a bill once, and the Senate did not act npon it 



am, Memck Benjamin F. Meyers, Mitahefl 

 Monroe Moore, korgan, Morphis, Niblack, Orr 

 Packard, Packer, Palmer I 8aac C. Parker, Pcndlel 

 Rea'd E?wfd l"^ ' Porter . Eainey, Randall, 

 Sio'n I?'Ro bert R Willia ' m R ' Roh ets, fcobinso'nl 

 Sessions Shanks Shellab'arger, Shoemaker, SUter! 

 Slocum, II Boardman Smit/,, John A. Smith, Sneer 

 Spraguo, Starkweather, Stevens Stevenson, Worm 

 Stn, lt rhton Tnffe, Terry, Tvner, bpson, Van Trump 

 Vau^-han, Voorhees, Waddell Wakeni.m, Walden 

 Waldron Warren, Wells, Wheeler, Wiliard WiU 

 hams of Indiana, John T. Wilson, and Winchester 



NATS Messrs. Adams, Arthur, Averill, Barber, 



irry, Erasmus W. Beck, Boarman, Roderick R. 



n i,, ,* , c11 ' f:o ""np", Critchcr, OuBose, Dun- 

 nel . Eldre, g e , Elliott, Henry D. Foster,' Getz 

 G.ddmgs Hancock, Hanks, rfarmcr, George E 

 Harris, Hays John W. Ilazelton, Herndon, Hoar, 

 K,ll,.y, Kenda 1 King, Leach Lewis, Maymird 

 Morey Leonard Myers, Platt Price, Sawyer, Shel- 

 don Shober, Worthington C. Smith. Snapn.Stowcll, 

 St. John, Turner, Tutmll, Wallace, Whiteley, Whit- 

 thorne, and Wood 49. 



NOT VOTIKO Messrs. Archer, James B. Bck 



hy, James G Blair Boles, Brooks, Benjamin F.' 



il C am J >lie " A Clarke, Conner, (Jreely, *Cn>ekr 



Darrali, Dickey, Dodds, Forkcr, Golladay, Goodrich 



