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The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
t law regulating drop letters. He was opposed to charging as much for drop letters, or letters to be carried a few miles, as for others to be carried a great distance. There ought to be a discrimination as between distances. The result of this bill is to make the large cities contiguous to each other pay for the transportation of the mails to the almost total relief of the rural population. He preferred rather to abolish the postal system and employ private means of communication. Mr. Oldham, of Texas, spoke in favor of the bill of the committee, and advocated a uniform system of postage — because it simplified the postal arrangements, and would nearly, if not quite, make the department self-sustaining. Mr. Yanory, of Ala., offered an amendment to strike out ten cents on all distances to all parts of the Confederacy, and insert the words, charging five cents for all letters to be carried any distance under 100 miles; ten cents on all letters to be carried over 100 miles,