The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-26

III SHEET.
TIE TELEGRAPH AND TIE Press. -Hvr
since TIE TELEGRAPH system was established in
this county deere has always been some din
Guilty going ON between the companies and tho
press This arose no doubt from the sudden
wsy In which the telegraph sprang into exist
eDce, and from the fact that new set of
men were using an entirely new instrument,
AID 1t required some time to get things proper
IL ore ,uized and to decide as to rates of charge
and csAe. regulations to govern the lines.
For tan o. twelve years these controversies
and dis.ereeme>ots between tho telegraph con
NAMES and the new spspers had been brewing
but when the companies were consR'ldated
few months ago it was thought that there would
be an end to them, and that everything would
bS conducted in uniform and impartial way
between the companies, the public and the
press. And, as far as the New York press Is
concen,ed, II has been so; but it appears that
the provincial press Is still dissatisfed with the
arrangements Of the companies; and the papers
of New England are now engaged in q difficulty
with the telee -aph company which promises
to be war. II has already gone 90 Tar Is to
cause two strong Auanifestoes to be issued, and
we understand that a convention OF newspaper
proprietors was helA in Springfield, Mas,
yesterday, to take steps to obviate the troubles
now in existence. The A,ct Is that Tor long
time the provincial press had been furnished
with news BY telegraph at very cheap rate
indeed, one company, for . Yong time, In op-
position to the Associated PrAv, gave cer-
tain amount of news to the Bosss, n and Phila.
dciphia journals for nothing; ana an attempt
to establish uniform rate Of cha rges to all
newspapers, upon principle which certainly
seems quite correct, has created mueA discon'
tent among the rural journals
We publish to day the statement the
American Telegraph Company, and srcR y to
1t by Mr.. Craig, in behalf of the New \ ag-
land press, from which our readers can ee
for themselves how the quarrel stands SetascA
them.
Perhaps the best way for the telegraph
companies to- manage would be to ostab
iish q regular price for all newspapers on
q sliding scale that is to say so much for
tu0 uAbs tCA WOxucs ~ muCu lCx TIC HcAt
hundred, 90 much for the next ive hundred,
and so on. On thin scale, papers wishing to pro-
cure long speecA"or document by ightnings
could get as much Of it as they liked, or could |
afford to pay for. The company, moreover, in |
fixing the prices, should take into considers |
ton that the time at which newspapers employ |
tbs hnes-mostly In the evening and night
is just the time when-other parties do not use |
them, and they should make the charges more
light on that account We understand that |
tho telegraph companies now make profit of |
twenty per cent per annum on their capital, and
they can, therefore, afford to be liberal, and
should be so, If they want to maintain their
position. The Boston merchants and New EGG |
land newspapers are already threatening to
construct line from that city to Washington,
in order to provide themselves with the news
and tho telegraph companies may rely upon |
it that the best way to avoid competition is to |
estabnsh fair, uniform and impartial regula- |
tons. !