Abolition of the Franking Privilege.
The franking privilege has been abolished. The House of Representatives Monday passed the bill as it came from the Senate, and it will, of course, be approved by the President. The act is as follows: “Be it enacted, etc., That the franking privilege be, and the same hereby is, abolished from and after the 1st day of July, 1873, and that henceforth all official correspondence of whatever nature, and other mailable matter sent from, or addressed to, any officer of the Government, or to any person now authorized to frank such matter, shall be chargeable with the same rates of postage as may be lawfully imposed upon other like matter sent or addressed to other persons; provided that no compensation or allowance shall now or hereafter be made to Senators, members and delegates of the House of Representatives on account of postage.” Thus has another principle enunciated in the Republican national platform been carried into effect, and all the people will say amen.