Mr. RAMSEY. I. hope, the Senate will not agree to reconsider this bill. It disposes of a matter that we cannot well avoid taking care of. The postoffice Dept have urged the measure upon us, and it has been well and thoroughly considered by the ComPostOffices of the Senate, and there is nothing in the bill which would justify this action on the part of the Senate. Sir, the postoffice Dept has grown with the growth of the country till its annual revenues now amount to between 14 and 15 million dollars. Is it strange that in the lapse of years modifications of its own organization should be required? This bill is intended to adapt the machinery of the postoffice Dept to the Present condition of things. ne provision of the bill to which objection has been made provides for a super intendent of the dead letter office. What is there extraordinary in that? In the dead letter office there are now some 85 clerks. The Dept ask that over that large number of clerks in that responsible bureau there shall be a superintending clerk, with a salary of $2,000. The bill does not increase the number of clerks there, but it allows the selection of the most responsible and capable man for the purpose of being put in i.of that particular bureau. Then again, the bill provides for a superintendent of the foreign mail branch of the postoffice Dept. The negotiation of postal treaties is effected by the postoffice Dept without reference to the Senate. By an act of Congress of 1863, the executive dept is allowed to enter into postal nego tiations with foreign States. That has got to be a highly responsible and important branch of the business of the postoffice Dept, and the PostMGenl asks that that bureau shall be placed in charge of some one officer who is specially fitted for it. This bill creates the bureau, so to speak, of foreign postal service, and gives to the head of that bureau an adequate salary, a salary commensurate with the character and capacity of a man fitted to fill the place. Surely there is nothing extraordinary in this. Then again, there are in the U.S. 3 blank agencies, one in the city of Washington, one in the city of NewYork, and one in the city of Buffalo. The business of these blank agencies is to distribute to the various postoffices the blanks, the wrapping paper, and the twine they need. It is a very important branch of the service. The amount of matter distributed is large, and its money value is large. The postoffice Dept here believe they can economize and make more efficient this branch of service by bringing these 3 agencies here to the center at Washington and combining the 3 into one. They have asked the privilege to do that. The expense will probably be about 1,000 dollars more than is now paid to these 3 agents; but it is believed there will be a large saving by the greater economy that will be effected in the distribution of the blanks, twine, and so on. These, sir, are the principal provisions of this bill, with which the Senfrom NewYork finds so much fault. You would suppose there was some extraordinary and hidden trick in it; some great plot to destroy the Government or to increase its expenditures immensely. It contains the few simple provisions which I have narrated, and in addition to them a section conferring power on the PostMGenl to increase the compensation of letter carriers in the city of NewYork. The maximum now allowed to this meritorious class, who perform a valuable service in all seasons, without regard to the inclemency of the weather, often occupying many hours of the day, is $900. This bill allows them to be paid $1, 200, which the committee thought to be reasonable, and which the merchants of NewYork, neighbors of the honorable Senator, in great numbers have asked the Government to allow. Beyond these provisions which I have thus stated, there is nothing of consequence in the bill, according to my Present recollection.