The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-22
THE POSTAL SERVICE BILL.

1t really looks as if the Forty-sccond
Congress- were destined to go out of ex
istence in the midst of so much of blaze
Of giory as will be LIMITED upon the hill
tops of fame in honor of that Legislative
body which shall distinguish itself by
passin Al Act whereby the Electro Mag
nesie Telegraph is to ce placed within,
practical reach of the people. As is to
be expected at the b ands of the Associated
Press AGENT. NJ. Simonton, (who is one
Of the principal owners in the San Fran
cisco Btsietia) any statements of opinion
E regarding this Postal Telegraph which
may reach US l.y telegraph must be taken
with many grains of allowance; and the
assertion that the Bill now before Con-
gress provides for "a monopoly sounds,
comm, from the source whence 1t ema-
Mates, very like a catchpenny bugbear-
for of course the Bulletin and its partici-
pants in the associated press of the Pa
cific States are not disposed to favor
Law which will practically destroy their
monopoly of the more important news
dispatches. But if the measure described
il the following has any chance OF PASS
ing. certainly the newspaper proprietors
Of moderate means and the people in
general lre deeply interested in its pass
age certainly ire are: for We are quite as
readers with the telesrarhic reports as q
sauce ior the ma:utinal meal as the break
fas: eaters who take the APPEAL are to
have US do that same. Here is the Bill
IS reported:
.l- WASHINGTON, December 20.
The Postal Telegraph bill reported yes |
serdl " IN the Senate by Ramsey, from |
the Committee on Postofhces, Is the Hub |
bari bill with sundfy notifications. The |
Postmaster General Is required, rs soon |
IS practicable. to establish telegraph Of |
fees at all the postofices on the telegraph |
Circuits AID at others within ten miles |
thereof where the s;,la : is at least $3.50 |
per annurl. and at other places where the /
wants of business require. The Charge |
for transmission not. to exceed one cent |
per word for circuits of $50 miles, count
ing address and signature, with no rate
leRs than twenty-five cents, except III case
of LII ,ht messages for which one thOus-
and miles may he q circuit. The dis
patch is to be prepaid by stamps, and de-
ivr-ei within o.le mile of the Office free,
and above one mile the rate shall be fixed
by the % ,tm,ster. The General Govern
ment messages are to have u priority
and are to he sent at rates to be fixed by
the Postin ,ster General. Press reports,
se-ent--ive cents per hundred words. not
exceeding five hundred miles, at night,
and 81 per day with drop rates at inter
medi:t: Offices Of fifty cents ut night and
YeveIIty-firt cents in day. The rates for
pres, associations shall not exceed those
now pail. Five cents postage shall be
paid on each press dispatch. The Fuurth
Assi,tau: Postmaster General shall be
appointed to supervise tie ad.ninistra-
t:o.i o. he teleg- .ph. The Postmaster
G-nar1l is also authorized to contract
vita Inc Postal Telegraph Company for
the transmission of correspondence by
eeis..:r,p.. As his agent fu: ten years, az
coralns TO the provisions Of this Act, with
the II II. 10 construct and provide lines
On 81. post routes and to all postal tele-
graph Offices, and may take Possession OF
the s.,.ue in case of Il failure to perform
the servic,. and essn:rsct with other par
ties therefor, charging said company W tn
the loss The capital stock of the COM
pany 81 j! consist of N, Oi'J shares of the
par v,ile of 500 cash, paid M, to be in
creased ny AN amount equal at plr value
70 the cost of the lines purchased or con-
str ,c;ed thereafter. Telegraph compan-