Franking Privilege February 11 1861 Resolved That There Be Printed for
Franking Privilege February 11 1861 Resolved That There Be Printed for
United States Congress House Select Committee O
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Assuming, then, that the abolition of franks is to be limited really to congressional communications or intelligence, while all other gov- ernment mail matter is to be carried free or have the postage upon it paid out of the public treasury, your committee proceed to consider whether, in the nature of our system of government, or in any peculiar or accidental circumstances, there exists any reason why a discrimina- tion should in this respect be made against the legislative department and its m...embers, and in favor of the executive and its officials. In a majority of countries where postal systems exist there is no legislature at all ; in others it is but a shadow ; in some, merely an office wherein to register the decrees of royalty. If in any such the right to transmit through the King's mails any matter free is con- ceded to the semblance the legislature, it is strictly a privilege or possibly a sort of badge of office or distinction. It is a matter of grace, like the license to kill deer in the royal forests — "blowing a horn if the forester be absent, so that the King's venison may not seem to be taken by stealth.
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