Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — Parcels Post Legislation May Go Over Until Next Fall. [ARTICLE]

Parcels Post Legislation May Go Over Until Next Fall.

Washington, D. C., April s.—lndiana democratic members of congress are boosting a plan that may enable congress to sidestep the vexatious parcels post issue. How to dodge that issue and get away from a vote on it before the November election is a problem that is making a heavy draft on the ngenuity of members of congress from the close districts of the north. Several Indiana members are particularly distressed over the prospect that they may have to vote on it, as they say that a vote either way would be likely to retire them from Congress. They are fearful that if they vote for a general parcels post the merchants and business men of the towns and cities in their districts will combine to slaughter them at the polls. On the other hand, if the vote against it, the farmers will hold a carnival over theii political remains. Under these circumstances the prudent thing to do is to devise a way to shunt the issue over until next winter. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that law is held in high reverence in the Indiana delegation. It is proposed to bring into the house of representatives on a favorable committee report the new proposition, which is nothing more nor less than a plan to thke over the express companies of the United States and all their rights and franchises and conduct them by the government as a new form of. public service, to be called “the postal express.” No subject that has come before congress within their periods of service has given the Indiana members, generally speaking, as much worry as the general parcels post. Several members of the delegation feel that their fate hinges on getting it out of the way.