The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-28
FORTY.SECOND CONGRESS.
Second Session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

WASHINGTON, Jan. a. 1872.
Tho House met for genera Mr.. Palmer OF Iowa. In
The chair. and few members In their seats.
TuE POSTAL TELEGRAPH souEMR.
Mr. BEOk (dem) OF KY made q speech against the postal
telegraph scheme lie said he had been n the
select committee Of the last Congress this subject He
shen opposed both the schemes reported when
parry ventured TO lay their project before the
House be had though, that both had boon
abandoned Neither the President nor his Postmaste
General had recommended governmental control OF the
telegraph system when this Congress March
the Sa S Ue
minority OF the House COMMITTEES had endorsed. The report
The snolec, favored In way lie
dsnss that. o ns showed S. tho ioase sommttee Post
against them al; that the House select commttes OF
The comml,,ee OF the Senate and now
Sse Schemes. as and Of na committee opposed ali
VI ne was one was now being tortured Into 70
advance Of the action S's o opposed 'Ss he pro
70 ay before the committee aud the House The results OF b.,
worth aens With the printed bills report refere to Tie
effort 10 still further centra1 soo sod scheme was AZ
c c M washus the hands sSs Of The
General unit depository Of such enormous roer
that his would cost the couns tG sas 3d." s
Of outlay 10 begin with aud an annual tar Of soOGcoj to
Poves to The $4,000 10000 drawing sa~re. dr.s
to be saS.srven political s soo Se:e
the Postmaster 0enera ooey ali hts oreers ia, poht
charged that the Of the here In Other
counties had been missaicd and concealed by
confer This power coupled with great banking system upoo
been established Atom and CON
tended that would Ce done here whenever political other
tem might SUIT ~ the persona government In Europe
the railroads. stage coaches ana ali the machinery w.re
owned by the where -ubsev ency 10 and de-
peudence the rulers required the people The re-
verse was and SO long ~ we are Tree people always
be. true here lie contensed that the government mi
well take control Of The railroads espress compa
ME. as Of the Telegraph lnes os the abuses Great
mony Of Mr. oron Mr.. Hubbard and others the work
oosT or rnB SYSTEM IN guRorv
and showed that. wbsn July consoered very Iuls
our o
work lie instanced Belgium the best and
that while he uniform charge 10 Belgium was len
cents for an ordinary message, tbs average o
NIFTY meswas seventeen and half cents yet In Belgium
the e spaph usainng; while the annual excess
was only s4oooS II message was semi from pc,n
IN Ieg point In France, ten miles Distant Belgium
one Country 70 snoiner she charged twenty cents
charged ten cents for messages anywhere IN her
90 did the other counres lie ccpenced that u was
ignorance, or an attempt 10 deceive, which induced
could L. sen. from New YORK to San Francisco
for twenty without enormous taxation on the people
suetSin the the benefit not
dred aud ny thousand o our thirty nine millions OF people,
generally speculaIors or men able to psy lie in
using the telegraph That the service was generally well
performed thar the proposed change would break ny al the
~ buo ones Al enormous cost The railroads
all run ~ eiegrapnic orers and tneh lines could NOT
TIE SECRECY, MpCu BoAaTED OF
under the proposed sysem was TO be obtained all Amer
can operators read sound. that II government
line touched railroad station the message would be IN
sefsooa o tn. railroad empoye lie wted that the present
AAnRemens would all be broken up by The governments
sysem bankes, brokers' stJcs boards market reports, all
spesA interest,". nov accommodated would 70 ossHoyed 81