The Portland daily press., 1865-12-07
A False Statement of Facts.

The Boston Herald, edited by the President
ofthe Boston Associated Press, undertakes to
explain the facts in relation to the recent turn
of the telegraphic screw upon the papers of
this State; and without intending to be dis
courteous we pronounce the statement about
as bald perversion of facts as could be con-
veniently compressed into so small compass.
The Herald says: ~ 2 - E(E
The facts of the case are simply these: The
New York Association charge the New Eng
land Associated Press for the news which-th
New York press furnish them. The amount
not paid by the press out of Boston has been
paid by Boston publishers. All the papers in
Maine have heretofore had the same news
that the Boston press enjoyed, for which they
have paid little more than one hundred dol
lars per week, which amount was divided
among the several papers in Maine receiving
the news, and which sum did not exceed elev-
en- dollars per week for each paper; while the
Boston Herald paid for the same news one
hundred and twenty-four dollars, which is
more than the amount paid by all the press in
Maine. The press in Portland charge us with
expressing them, simply because they are now
charged twenty dollars week, or about that
sum; when the Herald will then pay over one
hundred dollars per week more than any pa
tolls on the wires from Boston to Maine in
cluded. There is no dis
position so far as we are concerned, to Cypress
or to injure the press of Maine; on the contra
ry, they are somewhat indebted to the Boston
press for the advantages which they have here
totore enjoyed, and for which they have paid
mere song.
The amount ofthe expense of the telegraph
ic news to New England, "not paid by the
press out of Boston, has been paid by the Bos-
ton publishers" Wonderful Who should
pay itP Should "the press out of Boston" pay
for the Boston publishers? 1t looks as though
that was the present intention, at least to a
limited extent.
The Herald says the papers of Maine have
paid only about ele1en dollars each a week.
The three morning papers In this city have
paid nineteen dollars each per week, and they
have had the benefit of the morning saeDs only,
while the Herald not only has the same morn
ing dispatches, but also publishes some three
or four evening editions, thus having the BEN
eft of all the Associated Press dispatches that
come over the wires by day or by night. guT
The Herald says the press of Portland COM
plain of extort.on because "they are now
charged tgenty dollars week, or about that
sum-" Instead of twenty dollars, the lowest
sum proposed to us is thirty-eight dollars a
week. Here is the vote of the Association, OF
which the editor of the Herald is President,
as communicated to us by telegraph: CA
Voted-That our full reports may 90 East,
provided the Maine papers will agree to pdy
double the sam aoeekty paid previous to Dec.
I'd Ii any paper declines or withdraws from
the Association, the sum apportioned to that
paper TO De made up by the Maine papers.
This is matter in which, so far as any,
thing has yet transpired, the morning papers
alone are concerned. There are five of these
in this state, to wit: three in this CITY. one in
Bath and one in Bangor The papers in this
city had been apportioned by the New York
Association, according to their notions of ms
tice and equity, nineteen dollars each. and the
Bath paper-we are told-ffteen; Bangor we
know nothing of in this regard. We are in
formed, therefore, that we can have the re-
ports if we will pay thirty-eight dollars EACH
provided Bath will pay thirty; should that
paper decline 1--we see by its last issue that 1t
does declinel then the thirty apportioned to
that to be assessed upon the other four, which
would make $3.50 each! er1rfl- tf..
The Herald has paid for morning and even
ing news $124 per week. We assume that
not much over one half of this has been for
the news We haye received. The Herald is