Chairman. I should not have taken any of the time of this committee upon the pending bill. except for the charges that have been made so freely that the Committee on Appropriations by the legislation which it proposes would endanger in some way the existing mail facilities of the West. Gentlemen on this floor have painted in glowing colors the effect of the star routes upon the West in carrying into those wild regions emigrants and all the facilities for and necessities of improvement and civilization. I. sir. in behalf of the Committee on Appropriations. insist that it has had no purpose to strike down the mail service or curtail it in the least in the limits of needs of people of the far West. I do not propose to strike down the necessary appropriation. and I do not believe there is any member of the Committee on Appropriations who desires to strike it down if the effect of it is to be in any sense to cripple the star service in the West.
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