Speech #450039254

I move to insert after line 31 of section 3: For railway mail agents and postal clerks. $20.050. That is iu exact accordance with the recommendation of the PostmasterGeneral. contained in his report for last year. and I have his letter of this date reiterating the necessity of the appropriatiou and stating that it is necessary. partly for service now already provided for and partly for service which is constantly being required by the extension of railroad and steamboat service. The letter which I have is of the date of today. in which he says: The necessity set forth in this still exists. and it is actnally necessary that some provision be made for the service on new railroad and steamboat routes that are being constantly established. Ther re a number of routes at present upon which service should be placed. I will state that in my State and in the State of Nebraska and the State of Missouri the necessity already exists for the expenditure of a considerable portion of this money. and there is an actual delay in the distribution of the mails by reason of insufficient facilities for that purpose . and this necessity is increasing by reason of the large immigration now going into that country.