Mr. PRICE. I wish to call the attention of the House to one or 2 items which have not been noticed in this discussion. So far as this bill is concerned it only sets forth that this package has been lost and that the postmaster gave a receipt for the package. These men allege that there was $60,000 in compound interest notes in the package. Now, the House will remember very distinctly the case to which attention has been called by the Gentfrom Illinois where it was certified conclusively, by all the evidence necessary, and by some that was almost unnecessary, that certain bonds had I have no particular t !. one down beyond hope of recovery in the Holden Gate, and the House passed a bill to reimburse the owners of those bonds, when it subsequently turned out that the bonds had not so gone down in the Golden Gate. I wish the House to pay particular attention to this fact; these notes are legal tender in the hands of the holders, they may be in the hands of 50 or 100 parties, and when they are presented at the Treasury for payment they must be paid. " Now, I suggest to gentlemen that we will have established a precedent, if we pass this bill, by which we will open a door against which I know of no safeguard that can be raised. Every man throughout all this country, for the present and the future, as long as it remains the law of the land, can sue and recover against the Government for every greenback, every legal tender note placed in the mail, every 5 or ten dollar bill sent by mail to any part of the country, if it shall be lost during the transmission; and all that the party will be required to establish will be that on a certain day he placed a package in the hands of a postmaster, taking his receipt therefor, in wo package he alleges he placed a legal tender or other note of the Government. If the Government is bound to pay $60,000, with the accrued interest thereon, upon such evidence as is presented in this case, then it must pay for every 5 or ten dollar note under like circumstances. I hope the House will consider well before it passes such a law as this.