Mr. Watson urged that the paragraph proposed to be amended “provides for the expenditure of $11,254,943 for free delivery service. The amendment reduced the amount of that expenditure and simply directed that the Postmaster-General should apply $10,000 of the appropriation to experimental free delivery in rural communities.” The following discussion followed: _Mr. Watson_—“Mr. Chairman, the present law provides for an experimental free delivery in rural communities; but as I understand it—and the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Henderson), makes the same statement to the House—_the law has been construed to mean cities, towns and villages_, and there are now in operation experimental free deliveries in certain towns and villages. “The law expressly provides for ‘rural communities,’ and it seems to me where the general laws make such provision there is no hardship in taking a small amount from this appropriation, only $10,000, and appropriating it for _experimental free delivery in absolutely rural communities_, that is to say, _in the country pure and simple, among the farmers, in those neighborhoods where they do not get their mail more than once in every two weeks, and where these deserving people have settled in communities one hundred years old and do not receive a newspaper that is not two weeks behind the times_. “The amendment proposes not to increase the appropriation; it actually diminishes it by a nominal amount, but takes $10,000 of it to be provided for _experimental free delivery in absolutely rural communities, instead of towns and villages, which the authorities construe to mean ‘rural communities.’_ In other words, I think that part of the money ought to be spent _in the country_, where the law provides it shall be spent, and having made this statement, if we can have another division, and the committee is against my amendment, I will yield to its will.” _Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina_—“Mr. Chairman, the only law on the subject at all is in the very language used in this appropriation bill: “‘For free delivery service, including existing experimental free delivery offices.’ “That is all the law now on the statute-books in regard to this question. “_I do not want the statement of the gentleman from Georgia in regard to there being a law on the statutes as to rural free delivery to go without correction._” _Mr. Watson_—“Mr. Chairman, _this delivery in the small towns and villages is called ‘rural free delivery.’_” _Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina_—“But as a matter of fact _there is no law_ except that stated here in this appropriation bill.”