New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-01

o.hs is special to the st. Louis Re2nb
o1sa:
WASHINGTON, y. c., November q From
present indications there will be a hotly
contested fight in Congress during the ap-
pgOaChing session between the advocates
Of the several postal telegraph schemes.
Che Postmaster General will bond every
effort to secure the adoption If his propo-
a4liOn, that the government own the lines
and that they be unGer the charge of the
g0st0tice department, to be operated by
government officials. The SUBJECT of postal
biography was last winter referred to the
House Committee of Appropriations, and
considered at great length.
At the closing hours of the session, by
unanimous vote OF the committee, Repre-
sentative Palmer, of Iowa. was directed to
report bill to the House. with the ap-
prGYal OF the committee. No opportunity
was then offered, and the measure was mot
made public. Mr. Palmer still has the bill,
and no will present it in the House during
abe first week Of the eessi, n, 1t provides
that the Postmaster General shall estab lish
telegraph offices, ms soon as practicable, at
all pOstuficCs or Geographic circuits and at
al postofficcs within ten miles of any Gig
cult the gross receipts of which for postage
are not less than $500.
The Offices to be increased from time 30
25rne and all to he divided into classes, ae-
oOrding TO Importance. The rate at which
messages are sent is fixed at one cent a
word for each circuit through which 1t shall
he transmitted to be computed as
follows: For distances not exceeding 500
mles, $50 miles shall be decreed a
circuit For greater distances 500
miles shall be deemed o circuit. For night
dispatches, 1000 miles or less shall be
deemed q circuit. All words to be counted
and no message sent for less sum thAn
twenty five cents for each circuit. Messages
ct government officers, ON official business,
shall have priority in the transmission.
without prepayment and at adVan-
aageous tsrms. The charges on kilograms
shall be prepaid by stamps, except govern
fnent dispatches. The stamps to he sold as |
postage stamp are sold The originals and |
ell copies to be destroyed at the end of a |
month, unless previously Withdrawn by |
the sender. The money order system, by |
Whioh money may be deposited at one Office |
and drawn at another, is provided for in a |
similar manner to the mail Eystem now in |
Gse Section five Of the bill fixes the rate
Tor special dispatches to newspapers at NOT
exceeding seventY-tive cents for the first |
hundred words for each circuit of 500 |
miles, if cent by night but il sent by dav.
III 70. When copies of the same dispatch
are dropped ut one or more offices, the rate
for each office shall not exceed fifty cents
Gy night and sevehty-fve cents by day, and
at the came rate for each word In excess
The rates for press associations shall not
exceed those now paid by the Associated |
or American Press. Contracts may be made
Vvith any company operating lines Of tele-
graph for the interchange of dispatches
and with any company organized for
laying and maintaining cables between the
United States and foreign countries. To
carry the law into execution the appoint
ment of 8 fourth assistant postmaster
general is provided for. Section seven
authorizes the Postmaster General to con
tract with the Postal Telegraph Company
for the transmission of correspondence by
telegraph, as his agent; for the company to
have the right 70 construct lines on all post
roads, and shall provide lines of telegraph
to every postal telegraph Office established
by the Postmaster General The Operstors.
lines and equipment, TO
be furnished al the expt nse of the company
Any person or company transmitting a teie-
gram contrary to the provisions of this act
FOR the first Offense shall be fined 500
The kilograms in all cases shall be regarded
d. privileged communications to the extent
ettcrs are now, The rates on messages
shall be reduced from time to tim, within
he discretion of the Postmaster General.
The names Of about thirty gentlemen are
Inserted as composing, with other stock
loiders, the BODY polite, under the name of
be name Of the Postal Telegraph Company,
The capital sturk to be 10000 shares Of the
sar value of SEQ