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I -do not think the suggestions that were made by the honorable Senator from Kansas have been quite met by the committee of which I am a member. I am very frank to say that. Take the Senato~rsown State and States that lic alongside and further on. the very season of the year to which this inhibition is to apply is the very season of the year at which immigration is the largest and settlement the most rapid. You propose to say tlipi rule hitherto existing in the .PostOffice Department without question. and hitherto exercised according to discretion. shall over the whole of that vast region be snspcnded and that where a route exists on which there has beena very sparse population last year. and now Jby the influx .of immigration there is a very large population. and there has been -euly a weekly trip heretofore. and in the judgment of the PostmasterGeneral andin the judgment of every impartial man those settler .are entitled to a semiweekly. or triweekly. or. it may be. a daily mail for three months of the year of grace 1880. that function of the .PostOffice Department shall remain suspended. It has been exercised from the inauguration of George Washington to this moment. it will be exercised after the 30th of June. aufwe sit here. and. for -some reason notknown to law nor to logic. so far as I have heard it. %we say-